No punishment round, but right behind the top ten

Polish biathlonists finished their participation in the winter games at number 11. Staff 4 × 7,5 km – composed of: Konrad Badacz, Grzegorz Galica, Sr. Jan Guńka and Sr. Marcin Zawół – no 34 s to the top ten. White-Reds avoided moving a punishment round. The gold was won by the French, the silver by the Norwegians, and the bronze by the Swedes.

The Polish relay started competing very well for medals in 20 teams. After the first shooting, the White Reds took eighth position. The differences between the different relays were, however, insignificant at the time and increased after the second shooting and the section leading to the change zone. Szer. Konrad Badacz, who ran on the first shift, was flawless on the scope and during both shootings he did not gotta choose any extra cartridge. He finished his 15th run with a failure of 56.6 s to Norwegian lead Martin Uldal.

At the end of the second shift, on the White-Red half-point they took 13th place. To the leaders, which were already French, they lost 1 min 5.8 pp. The rival Grzegorz Galica on the second shift selected 2 bullets. On the another hand, the another 2 Polish biathlonists had to usage them jointly and severally after 4 additional ones. Jan Guńka on 3rd and wide. Martin Zawół at four. The Poles, who put out the youngest squad for the Olympic race, finished competing for 11th position with a failure of 3 min 37.3 s to the winning French. With the 10th squad of Austria lost by 34 s and the 12th in the squad classification from Bulgaria ahead by 10 s. Unfortunately, the start in the relay race was goodbye with the games for Polish biathlonists, as no of them managed to qualify for the last elite race – the run from the common race.