Norwegians again completely conquer the podium in the sprint, the French tried, but lost a little

Quentin Fillon Maillet showed the first result, that claimed victory, despite even one miss. But the Norwegians had their own plans. Tarjei Boe and Johannes Dale, despite two mistakes, were able to gain about 15 seconds from the Frenchman on the last lap. First, Dale surpassed Quentin's result by 2 seconds, and then Tarjei Boe became another 0.7 faster.

Emilien Jacquelin again failed in the last kilometers. He went into the 3rd lap with an advantage of 17 seconds over Tarjei Boe, and ended up losing another 18. But it didn’t matter, because none of the above ended up on the podium.

Eric Perrot had a real chance of even winning, but for this he had to do 10 out of 10, which the Frenchman failed to do. After the second shooting, he gained 2 seconds over Samuelsson, and 15 over Fillon Maillet.
The Swede lost a lot on the last lap and did not qualify for the podium. But the Frenchman had to do the impossible to get bronze.

After all, if Tarjei and Dale failed the shooting, then Johannes Boe, Lægreid and Christiansen were fine. Sturla Lægreid gained only 8 seconds from Johannes Boe after the standing, while Perrot and Christiansen lost 17-19 seconds. Two questions, can Sturla hold on to 1st place, and can Perrot get ahead of Christiansen?

At the 9.6 km cut-off, Laegreid was already 1 second behind Johannes, but his coaches pushed him forward so much that he reached the finish line with a clear advantage, and eventually became the World Champion in the sprint, 3 seconds ahead of Johannes!

Sturla Holm Laegreid just went and DID THAT!

What an incredible last 800 meters to likely claim the Sprint World Champion title #biathlon #NMNN24 pic.twitter.com/ZZ8yOS9SS1

— International Biathlon Union (@biathlonworld) February 10, 2024

Vetle Christiansen dealt with Perrault without any problems and left the Frenchman out of the podium.

		Name	Shooting	-	Time
1		Sturla Laegreid	0+0	0	25:23.9
2		Johannes Boe	1+0	1	+3.5
3		Vetle Christiansen	1+0	1	+18.6
4		Eric Perrot	0+1	1	+28.9
5		Sebastian Samuelsson	0+0	0	+36.6
6		Tarjei Boe	1+1	2	+37.5
7		Johannes Dale-skjevdal	1+1	2	+38.2
8		Maillet Fillon	0+1	1	+40.7
9		Emilien Jacquelin	1+0	1	+55.4
10		Martin Ponsiluoma	2+0	2	+1:03.3
11		Campbell Wright	0+0	0	+1:07.9
12		Andrejs Rastorgujevs	0+0	0	+1:16.9
13		Benedikt Doll	2+0	2	+1:41.2
14		Johannes Kühn	0+1	1	+1:41.9
15		Tommaso Giacomel	1+0	1	+1:43.4
16		Philipp Nawrath	1+0	1	+1:44.8
17		Adam Runnalls	0+0	0	+1:47.3
18		Lukas Hofer	0+0	0	+1:48.0
19		Michal Krcmar	0+1	1	+1:52.6
20		Endre Stroemsheim	1+1	2	+1:53.8
21		Dmytro Pidruchnuy	1+0	1	+2:05.0
22		Niklas Hartweg	1+0	1	+2:06.3
23		Jesper Nelin	0+1	1	+2:08.3
24		Victor Brandt	0+0	0	+2:09.1
25		Philipp Horn	1+1	2	+2:11.5
26		Fabien Claude	1+2	3	+2:13.5
27		Jakov Fak	0+1	1	+2:18.9
28		Didier Bionaz	1+1	2	+2:20.1
29		David Komatz	0+1	1	+2:24.9
30		Timofey Lapshin	0+1	1	+2:27.3
31		Tero Seppala	1+2	3	+2:29.4
32		Florent Claude	1+1	2	+2:29.6
33		Tomas Mikyska	0+1	1	+2:31.5
34		Lovro Planko	1+1	2	+2:48.5
35		Alexandr Mukhin	1+1	2	+2:50.9
36		Rene Zahkna	1+1	2	+2:52.8
37		Pavel Magazeev	1+1	2	+2:56.2
38		Jake Brown	1+2	3	+2:57.0
39		Anton Dudchenko	0+0	0	+2:59.8
40		Konrad Badacz	0+1	1	+3:01.2
41		Jakub Stvrtecky	2+1	3	+3:04.1
42		Maksim Makarov	0+0	0	+3:06.7
43		Tomas Kaukenas	0+0	0	+3:08.1
44		Sean Doherty	1+2	3	+3:10.1
45		Vladislav Kireyev	1+1	2	+3:11.1
46		Jeremy Finello	1+2	3	+3:17.1
47		Anton Vidmar	0+2	2	+3:17.7
48		Coltea	1+0	1	+3:21.9
49		Felix Leitner	0+1	1	+3:23.8
50		Sebastian Stalder	0+1	1	+3:25.0
51		Raido Raenkel	1+3	4	+3:26.6
52		Braunhofer	1+0	1	+3:28.3
53		Patrick Jakob	0+2	2	+3:28.8
54		Otto Invenius	2+2	4	+3:29.9
55		Heikki Laitinen	2+0	2	+3:30.5
56		Vytautas Strolia	1+1	2	+3:31.5
57		Joscha Burkhalter	1+2	3	+3:33.0
58		Jonas Marecek	2+1	3	+3:35.2
59		Dmitrii Shamaev	0+0	0	+3:36.0
60		Artem Pryma	1+2	3	+3:37.4
61		Olli Hiidensalo	1+1	2	+3:39.1
62		Simon Eder	0+2	2	+3:39.5
63		Maxime Germain	2+2	4	+3:41.7
64		Kristo Siimer	2+2	4	+3:43.0
65		Miha Dovzan	0+1	1	+3:47.0
66		Mikito Tachizaki	0+0	0	+3:50.7
67		Taras Lesyuk	1+2	3	+3:53.4
68		Asset Dyussenov	1+2	3	+3:58.4
69		Andrzej Nedza-kubiniec	0+2	2	+4:01.6
70		Renars Birkentals	2+1	3	+4:03.2
71		George Buta	1+0	1	+4:16.1
72		Tomas Sklenarik	2+1	3	+4:23.3
73		Jan Gunka	1+2	3	+4:24.2
74		Blagoy Todev	0+3	3	+4:32.0
75		Alexander Starodubets	1+1	2	+4:32.6
76		Anton Sinapov	0+2	2	+4:42.0
77		Edgars Mise	0+2	2	+4:42.5
78		Christian Gow	2+1	3	+4:46.9
79		Maksim Fomin	1+2	3	+4:48.1
80		Marek Mackels	0+2	2	+4:55.6
81		Kresimir Crnkovic	2+3	5	+4:56.8
82		Jokubas Mackine	1+0	1	+5:08.3
83		Cornel Puchianu	1+2	3	+5:19.2
84		Mihail Usov	1+1	2	+5:20.5
85		Rasmus Schiellerup	0+2	2	+5:27.0
86		Logan Pletz	0+2	2	+5:28.5
87		Damian Cesnek	0+3	3	+5:48.3
88		Masaharu Yamamoto	0+4	4	+5:49.3
89		Roberto Piqueras	2+1	3	+5:51.6
90		Dujin Choi	1+1	2	+5:53.1
91		Noah Bradford	0+2	2	+6:01.7
92		Matej Badan	0+4	4	+6:06.2
93		Marcus Webb	1+1	2	+6:19.7
94		Haldan Borglum	1+2	3	+6:20.2
95		Kiyomasa Ojima	2+2	4	+6:22.7
96		Nikolaos Tsourekas	2+1	3	+6:24.1
97		Apostolos Aggelis	3+2	5	+6:25.7
98		Jacob Rosbo	3+2	5	+6:31.2
DNS		Vladimir Iliev		0
DNF		Thierry Langer	3+2	5