World ski orienteering gold for neutral athlete Kiselev in Estonia Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Russia’s Vladislav Kiselev, competing as a neutral athlete in accordance with the recent World Anti-Doping Agency sanction against the country, won sprint gold on the opening day of the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Otepää in Estonia today.
Kiselev, who in 2019 on the home snows of Krasnoyarsk won gold in the first ski orienteering race to be part of the Winter Universiade, recorded a winning time of 16min 59sec at the Kääriku Sports Center.
Silver and bronze went respectively to the Norwegian competitors Audun Heimdal, timed at 17:16, and Jorgen Baklid, who finished a second slower.