Wins Olympic bronze medal
Garanichev wins the Olympic bronze medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Individual event. He makes the podium with fellow Olympians Martin Fourcade and Erik Lesser with a final time of 50:06.2 minutes. President Vladimir Putin shortly posts a congratulations on the Kremlin website:
You demonstrated character and skill, deservedly went up onto the Olympic pedestal and wrote another bright page in the history of domestic and world biathlon