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Posted at 5:54 a.m., Saturday, January 24, 2009

Biathlon: Boulygina of Russia wins 10km pursuit

Associated Press

ANTERSELVA, Italy — Anna Boulygina of Russia rallied to win the 10-kilometer pursuit in a biathlon World Cup event today.

Boulygina won in 32 minutes, 49.8 seconds. Kaisa Makarainen of Finland was second, edging Darya Domracheva of Belarus in a photo finish.

Domracheva had a poor start, but managed to recover and finished on the podium for the second time in two races.

Ekaterina Iourieva of Russia was eighth and took the World Cup lead from Svetlana Sleptsova of Russia, who missed the race because of illness.