Lou Jeanmonnot made an interesting start, the Frenchwoman immediately increased the pace, and only Anna Magnusson maintained her speed. The rest of the peloton approached the first shooting range 10 seconds behind. The last time this happened was during the times of Domracheva and Makarainen.
Be that as it may, both leaders managed without mistakes, but the Swede began to fall behind a little on the second lap. And in the standing shooting, Lou Jeanmonnot showed her class again. Before anyone had to stand on mat No. 4, Lou Jeanmonnot had already run away.
By the time to end of Leg1, she won 16 seconds from Karoline Knotten, 20 from Regina Ermits, and another 5 from the group of Hettich, Magnusson, and Vobornikova. Incredible, stunning stage performed by Lou Jeanmonnot.
Italy without medals, Samuela Comolla - two penalties, and two and a half minutes behind.
Sophie Chauveau also didn't slow down and immediately increased the tempo, bringing her advantage over the group of pursuers to 30 seconds, but failed in the shooting. The Estonian Tuoli Tomingas became the leader, with Linn Persson sitting behind her, and Arnekleiv, Charvatova, and Chauveau lost from 8 to 15 seconds. The following group seriously approached the leaders: Gandler, Dzhima, Maka, Grotian and Cloetens were only 30 seconds behind the leader.
But the Swede immediately fell behind the Estonian, and then barely held on with the Charvatova-Arnekleiv pair. Chauveau caught up with them at the line. And Tomingas’ advantage was already 17 seconds!
During the shooting, she made 2 mistakes, and it seemed that she was about to lose the lead, but no! The other ladies shot even worse. Arnekleiv and Persson managed with three spare rounds, but Chauveau and Charvatova went to the penalty loop. Meanwhile, the second group of pursuers continued to remain calm in unison and did not experience any problems during the shooting.
Mid distance. Estonia is in the lead, Norway, Germany and Sweden are 20 seconds behind. Austria +33, Belgium, Ukraine, France and Poland +40-46, Czechia a minute behind. But then Estonia had weaker athletes, while Sweden, France and Norway, on the contrary, had trump cards.
Already by the time of shooting, the Estonian had lost half of her advantage, and besides, she had been aiming for a very long time. In the end, she and Hanna Öberg left together, with Lien, Braisaz, Voigt and Hauser 16-24 seconds behind. Eve Bouvard was 40 seconds behind the leaders, and Merkushina was 51 seconds behind.
Hanna Oberg immediately broke away and approached the standing shooting with a minimal advantage over Braisaz, Lien and Kuelm. Oberg immediately closed 4 targets, but thought about the last one, and in the end she needed 2 more spare cartridges to close it. But no one managed 5 out of 5. In any case, France was in the lead again, Oberg and Kuelm were 8 seconds behind. But Ida Lien shocked the audience with 2 penalty loops. Looks like, she cried after that.
Justin Braisaz is incredible. She started her leg with a lag of 45 seconds, and finished with an advantage of 18 over her closest rival, Swede Hanna Oberg. Susanne Kuelm +30, Lisa Hauser +35, Vanessa Voigt +50. The rest lost for more than a minute. Norway was in 8th place, 1:40 back.
In the prone, Julie Simon and Elvira Oberg managed the shooting, and a gap of 20 seconds remained between them. But the pursuers made a bunch of mistakes. Talihaerm needed 3 additional rounds to cover all the targets, and Anna Juppe took 2 penalty loops, alas. Thus Talihaerm and Schneider were side by side at 1:18 behind the leader.
Julie Simon, not without problems, but closed all the targets, using 8 rounds, but Elvira Oberg could not achieve this, she had a penalty loop. However, this did not affect anything, she has an ironclad second place.
Sofi Schneider and Talihaerm were caught in a gust of wind, both barely managed, but the Estonian spent a little more time on this matter, and she reached the line later than the German, so she was already 20 seconds behind her, and unfortunately, there was no sensation. Wanted to see Estonia on the podium!
The rest of the ladies were also caught in the gust of wind. Tandrevold and Haecki - 3 penalties, Jislova - 1.
France has gold, Sweden has silver, Germany has bronze.
| Name | Shooting | Time | ||
| 1 |  |
France | 2+11 | 1:15:00.8 |
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Lou Jeanmonnot | 0+0 0+0 | ||
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Sophie Chauveau | 1+3 1+3 | ||
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Justine Braisaz-bouchet | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Julia Simon | 0+1 0+3 | ||
| 2 |  |
Sweden | 1+12 | +38.3 |
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Anna Magnusson | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Linn Persson | 0+1 0+3 | ||
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Hanna Oeberg | 0+1 0+2 | ||
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Elvira Oeberg | 0+0 1+3 | ||
| 3 |  |
Germany | 0+9 | +1:14.2 |
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Janina Hettich-walz | 0+0 0+0 | ||
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Selina Grotian | 0+3 0+0 | ||
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Vanessa Voigt | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Sophia Schneider | 0+1 0+3 | ||
| 4 |  |
Estonia | 0+11 | +1:40.1 |
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Regina Ermits | 0+1 0+0 | ||
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Tuuli Tomingas | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Susan Kuelm | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Johanna Taliharm | 0+3 0+3 | ||
| 5 |  |
Ukraine | 0+10 | +2:08.8 |
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Iryna Petrenko | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Yuliia Dzhima | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Anastasiya Merkushyna | 0+2 0+3 | ||
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Kristina Dmytrenko | 0+0 0+3 | ||
| 6 |  |
Poland | 0+3 | +2:14.6 |
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Natalia Sidorowicz | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Anna Maka | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Kamila Cichon | 0+1 0+0 | ||
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Joanna Jakiela | 0+0 0+0 | ||
| 7 |  |
Czech Republic | 2+12 | +2:22.7 |
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Tereza Vobornikova | 0+0 0+0 | ||
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Lucie Charvatova | 0+2 1+3 | ||
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Marketa Davidova | 0+2 0+2 | ||
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Jessica Jislova | 0+0 1+3 | ||
| 8 |  |
Austria | 2+9 | +2:34.4 |
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Tamara Steiner | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Anna Gandler | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Lisa Hauser | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Anna Juppe | 2+3 0+2 | ||
| 9 |  |
Switzerland | 3+6 | +3:29.3 |
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Elisa Gasparin | 0+0 0+0 | ||
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Amy Baserga | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Aita Gasparin | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Gross Haecki | 0+1 3+3 | ||
| 10 |  |
Norway | 5+16 | +3:42.8 |
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Karoline Knotten | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Juni Arnekleiv | 0+2 0+3 | ||
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Ida Lien | 0+1 2+3 | ||
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Ingrid Tandrevold | 0+2 3+3 | ||
| 11 |  |
Italy | 2+9 | +4:49.9 |
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Samuela Comola | 0+1 2+3 | ||
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Dorothea Wierer | 0+1 0+2 | ||
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Rebecca Passler | 0+1 0+0 | ||
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Lisa Vittozzi | 0+1 0+0 | ||
| 12 |  |
Canada | 0+13 | +5:08.0 |
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Emma Lunder | 0+3 0+2 | ||
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Nadia Moser | 0+2 0+0 | ||
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Benita Peiffer | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Emily Dickson | 0+1 0+3 | ||
| 13 |  |
Slovenia | 3+12 | +5:36.4 |
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Lena Repinc | 0+3 0+0 | ||
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Polona Klemencic | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Ziva Klemencic | 0+0 1+3 | ||
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Anamarija Lampic | 0+1 2+3 | ||
| 14 |  |
Belgium | 1+13 | +6:08.0 |
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Lotte Lie | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Maya Cloetens | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Eve Bouvard | 0+1 0+3 | ||
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Marine Debloem | 1+3 0+3 | ||
| 15 |  |
Latvia | 0+8 | |
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Sanita Bulina | 0+2 0+0 | ||
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Baiba Bendika | 0+2 0+2 | ||
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Annija Sabule | 0+1 0+1 | ||
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Sandra Bulina | |||
| 16 |  |
Bulgaria | 0+11 | |
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Lora Hristova | 0+2 0+1 | ||
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Valentina Dimitrova | 0+3 0+0 | ||
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Maria Zdravkova | 0+2 0+3 | ||
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Stefani Yolova | |||
| 17 |  |
Finland | 2+10 | |
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Suvi Minkkinen | 0+0 0+0 | ||
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Daria Virolaynen | 1+3 1+3 | ||
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Venla Lehtonen | 0+1 0+3 | ||
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Noora Keranen | |||
| 18 |  |
Kazakstan | 0+6 | |
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Galina Vishnevskaya-sheporenko | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Olga Poltoranina | 0+0 0+1 | ||
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Polina Yegorova | 0+1 0+3 | ||
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Alina Skripkina | |||
| 19 |  |
South Korea | 0+7 | |
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Ekaterina Avvakumova | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Yoonah Choi | 0+0 0+2 | ||
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Eunjung Ko | 0+1 0+2 | ||
|
Jumi Jung | |||
| 20 |  |
Slovakia | 4+13 | |
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Zuzana Remenova | 2+3 0+1 | ||
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Anastasia Kuzmina | 0+3 2+3 | ||
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Julia Machyniakova | 0+0 0+3 | ||
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Maria Remenova | |||
| 21 |  |
USA | 3+9 | |
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Chloe Levins | 0+2 2+3 | ||
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Deedra Irwin | 1+3 0+1 | ||
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Jaquelyn Garso | |||
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Tara Geraghty-moats |
