Early one for tomorrow
11 January
Start time : 13:00 CET
Biathlon - Women: World Cup 12.5km Mass start Oberhof -Matchups
Oksana Khvostenko (UKR) vs Kati Wilhelm (GER)
My pick is Kati Wilhelm (GER) to finish ahead
Odds : 1,70
Where : betandwin
2.94 units to win 2.06 units
Khvostenko will lose atleast 1 minute in running to Kati Wilhelm who is in great shape this means Kati will be able to make up 2 extra penalty loops if she needs to and still finish ahead .
Course time in sprint ( 7.5 km )
Wilhelm 20:01.1
Khvostenko 21:18.8
Which means Wilhem was 1.17 min faster than her tomorrow's h2h opponent in just running , it will be worse for Khvostenko when to those 7.5 km you add 5 km more as they have a 12.5 km mass start tomorrow . In sprint Wilhelm had one error and still finished 38 seconds ahead of Khvostenko .
Khvostenko is very good in shooting most of the time but Wilhelm will afford to make 2 errors more and still be ahead if not 3 with the poor running of Khvostenko .
Last season in the mass start here Wilhelm had 3 errors and Khvostenko 4 , Wilhelm finished 1 min 26 sec ahead of her .