14:59
Shooting quickly doesn’t pay off
Johannes Thingnes Bø comes to the shooting range first and immediately leaves the first two targets and has to go into the penalty loop twice. His compatriot Laegreid took advantage of Johannes Thingnes Bø’s mistakes and took the lead with a clean shoot.
14:58
Johannes Thingnes Bø continues his race
Johannes Thingnes Bø is gaining more and more time on his two pursuers and, shortly before the third shooting, he is already 33 seconds ahead of Kühn and Laegreid. Will the Norwegian now remain error-free?
14:56
Bø clearly ahead
Johannes Thingnes Bø continues to extend his lead over Laegreid and Kühn and is now almost 30 seconds ahead in the timing at 5.8 kilometers. After the second shooting there were still 23 seconds. By the way, the Norwegian Johannes Dale-Skjevdal worked his way up to fourth place with two error-free shots. Horn is now fifth and Doll eighth. Strelow is now in eleventh place.
14:53
Doll has to spin twice – Kühn makes no mistakes
Doll can’t take advantage of Bø’s mistake and even misses twice. Laegreid and Kühn do it better. They also remain error-free like horn. Nawrath also has to run 250 extra meters.
14:52
Bø with the first mistake
Johannes Thingnes Bø once again takes his time with the prone position and hits the first three slides safely. The fourth hit is a bit too deep and so the Norwegian also has to spin around.
14:51
Bø continues to increase the pace
The Norwegian and the dominator of the past few years is putting more and more time between himself and his pursuers. Shortly before the second shooting, there are now 31 seconds on Doll.
2:49 p.m
Bø pushes the pace
The Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Bø increases the pace again on the lap and gains almost ten seconds on Doll by the next split time at 3.3 kilometers. Laegreid and Kühn also lose to the leading Norwegian.
2:48 p.m
The pursuers also stumble
But Horn and Nawrath also leave one disc standing and also have to spin. Doll comes out of the penalty loop 17.7 seconds behind and is second. Laegreid and Kühn made no mistakes and took to the track around 30 seconds behind. Nawrath and Horn are now fifth and sixth, around a minute behind.
2:46 p.m
The first shooting
Doll and Bø arrive at the shooting range at the same time and Doll lies down on the first lane. Doll fires the fourth shot and has to turn away. Bø takes more time and hits all the targets and leaves the track as the leader.
2:44 p.m
Nawrath comes closer
Doll and Bø now take turns in the lead at the front, but Nawrath continues to catch up to the front and goes through the timekeeping in third place with 28.1 seconds.
2:42 p.m
Nawrath immediately picks up the pace
Nawrath initially breaks away from Horn and Laegreid and goes through the timekeeping at the first intermediate time at 0.8 kilometers 30 seconds behind Doll.
14:41
The next biathletes are also on the track
Behind the first two athletes, a group of four formed around Nawrath, Horn, Kühn and Sturla Holm Laegreid. Johannes Thingnes Bø catches up with Doll within the first few meters.
2:40 p.m
Let’s go!
Benedikt Doll has started and is now on the track. Johannes Thingnes Bø is the first pursuer.
2:35 p.m
Zobel and Strelow are also there in pursuit
In addition to Benedikt Doll (1st), Philipp Nawrath (3rd), Philipp Horn (5th) and Johannes Kühn (6th), two other Germans also qualified for the pursuit race. Justus Strelow took 18th place in the pursuit with a mistake in the prone position and starts today 1:22 minutes behind Doll. David Zobel is also there. He made two mistakes in the standing position and fell back to 39th place. Today he goes into the trail 2:05 minutes behind the leader.
2:30 p.m
Simon Eder is the first Austrian to start
The best Austrian in the sprint was veteran Simon Eder in 17th place, 1:20 behind Benedikt Doll. David Komatz starts just nine places behind, 1:37 minutes behind his pursuer. In addition, the young Austrian Dominic Unterweger made it into the pursuit competition in 50th place. The 24-year-old takes to the track 2:30 minutes behind.
2:25 p.m
Hartweg best Swiss at home World Cup
But the Swiss Niklas Hartweg also still has a chance to attack at the front today. He made a mistake in the standing shooting during the sprint and starts the pursuit today in eleventh place, 1:12 minutes behind. Joscha Burkhalter (35th, +2:00 mins) and Sebastian Stadler (42nd, +2:12) also made it into the pursuit. Jeremy Finello narrowly missed the pursuit race this Saturday in 61st place with five shooting errors and 0.9 seconds.
2:20 p.m
Will there be the next German victory today?
Yesterday, Benedikt Doll showed a perfect race with his error-free shooting and won the sprint with 5.4 seconds ahead of the Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Bø and his compatriot Philipp Nawrath, who, like Bø, also made a shooting error. Doll celebrated his fifth World Cup victory. Two other Germans also completed the strong team result. Philipp Horn, who now had his chance in the World Cup sprint after strong performances in the IBU Cup, came fifth with one shooting error. Johannes Kühn took sixth place. They have a chance of winning again today. Nawrath is 37 seconds behind, Horn 39 seconds and Kühn 44 seconds.
2:15 p.m
Good day
At 2:45 p.m. the biathletes start their pursuit competition. Four German athletes, among others, have a good chance of winning.