22.09.2011 г.   Injury during the Russian championship

Today, on 22nd of September, Russian summer biathlon championship started in Ufa. During the men individual race Ivan Tcherezov fell in the distance and suffered serious injuries.
“Ivan had completed three laps, he was going downhill when he fell,” Valery Polkhovsky, Russia’s coach, told the Russian Biathlon Union’s official website. “Ivan said he did not understand what had happened. He was immediately put into the ambulance and taken for an x-ray. According to the preliminary diagnosis, Ivan has broken his fibula and tibia and dislocated his ankle as well. The Russian Biathlon Union’s management is now urgently deciding how Tcherezov is going to be transferred by plane to Moscow. It is hard to talk about the terms of the recovery at the moment.”