Two Time Olympian Duncan Douglas (Western NY Biathlon)\u00a0and 1998 Olympian Deb Nordyke (Saratoga Biathlon)\u00a0captured the Men’s and Women’s open titles at the 2010 Empire State Games Sprint. The silver medal in the men’s race was won by Eli Walker (Saratoga Biathlon). It was a close battle for third with Eric Seyse (Saratoga Biathlon) nipping Tom Moffett (Saratoga Biathlon) by two seconds to claim bronze.<\/p>\n
In the Women’s race, Ann Jardin (Syracuse Biathlon) won the silver and Jill Koziol (Saratoga Biathlon) took the bronze.<\/p>\n
Rene Harde (Saratoga Biathlon)\u00a0won the gold in the Master’s Men division, followed by Gary Brackett (Saratoga Biathlon) and Brian Wieghaus (Saratoga Biathlon). In the Grandmaster’s division, Darwin Roosa (Saratoga Biathlon)\u00a0continued his strong season taking a gold\u00a0 medal. Russ Myer (Syracuse Biathlon) won the silver, and Bill DeBois (Saratoga Biathlon) captured the bronze.<\/p>\n
The closest race was in the Scholastic Boy’s division, with the top three athletes all within one minute of each other. Christian Borger Jr. (Saratoga Biathlon)\u00a0outshot his competition to take the gold. Brian Halligan (Saratoga Biathlon) was second and Will Fieroh (Lake Placid Biathlon) was third.<\/p>\n