A great start for Paula Bothe - she shot cleanly in the first prone, and only Maren Kirkeide was less than a minute behind her, the rest were far behind.
But already in the second prone she missed two times, and Julia Simon immediately reduced the gap from one minute, and became the leader. Another Frenchwoman, Jeanne Richard, was still 8 seconds behind. Jeanmonneau and Todorova were only 20 seconds behind.
And after the first standing, Lou Jeanmonneau took the lead. Botet and Michelon missed each, and were 17 seconds behind her. Ahead of them was Bulgarian Todorova, with a chance of another medal. But Julia Simon was forced to run 4 penalty loops, and was no longer in contention for anything.
The race was going amazingly for Elvira Oberg, she had already made up 31 positions, and was losing to the leader by only 36 seconds!
And at the last shooting Lou Jeanmonnot made 5 out of 5, leaving no chance for her rivals. Of the stretched group of pursuers, only Maren Kirkeide was as accurate, and she also had a fairly comfortable advantage of 15-20 seconds over Todorova, Grotian, Minkinnen, Michelon, Richard and Oberg, who still missed one shot.
But the Swede was not embarrassed by such a number of rivals, she quickly overtook everyone in the first 500 meters, and ran for silver - Maren Kirkeide was already only 10 seconds ahead, but no, she no longer had enough strength.
Michelon became 4th, and Grotian and Richard determined 5-6 places in the photo finish.
Franziska Preuss improved her position slightly, but remained only 20th.
| Name | № | Shooting | - | Time | ||
| 1 |  |
Lou Jeanmonnot | ▲ 6 | 1+0+0+0 | 1 | 31:14.9 |
| 2 |  |
Maren Kirkeeide | = | 0+2+0+0 | 2 | +18.1 |
| 3 |  |
Elvira Oeberg Karin | ▲ 34 | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +26.2 |
| 4 | |
Oceane Michelon | ▲ 2 | 0+1+0+1 | 2 | +28.9 |
| 5 |  |
Selina Grotian | ▲ 5 | 1+0+1+0 | 2 | +33.6 |
| 6 | |
Jeanne Richard | ▲ 5 | 0+0+1+1 | 2 | +33.7 |
| 7 |  |
Milena Todorova | ▼ 4 | 1+0+0+1 | 2 | +34.5 |
| 8 |  |
Suvi Minkkinen | ▼ 3 | 0+2+0+0 | 2 | +39.9 |
| 9 | |
Justine Braisaz-bouchet | ▼ 5 | 1+3+0+0 | 4 | +57.0 |
| 10 | |
Julia Simon | ▲ 2 | 0+0+4+1 | 5 | +1:09.7 |
| 11 |  |
Amy Baserga | ▲ 9 | 1+0+0+0 | 1 | +1:10.7 |
| 12 | |
Julia Tannheimer | ▼ 3 | 1+1+0+1 | 3 | +1:13.1 |
| 13 |  |
Lisa Theresa Hauser | = | 1+0+0+1 | 2 | +1:16.6 |
| 14 | |
Paula Botet | ▼ 13 | 0+2+1+2 | 5 | +1:25.9 |
| 15 | |
Ingrid Tandrevold | = | 1+0+0+2 | 3 | +1:29.9 |
| 16 |  |
Dorothea Wierer | ▲ 3 | 0+0+1+2 | 3 | +1:31.1 |
| 17 | |
Venla Lehtonen | ▲ 6 | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +1:37.0 |
| 18 |  |
Anamarija Lampic | ▲ 4 | 1+0+2+1 | 4 | +1:41.9 |
| 19 | |
Michela Carrara | ▼ 3 | 1+2+0+0 | 3 | +1:44.3 |
| 20 | |
Franziska Preuss | ▲ 8 | 1+0+1+1 | 3 | +1:51.3 |
| 21 | |
Ida Lien | ▲ 5 | 2+0+1+0 | 3 | +2:14.5 |
| 22 | |
Karoline Knotten Offigstad | ▼ 1 | 2+0+2+0 | 4 | +2:31.5 |
| 23 | |
Aita Gasparin | ▲ 4 | 0+1+1+0 | 2 | +2:36.4 |
| 24 |  |
Lotte Lie | ▲ 1 | 0+2+0+2 | 4 | +2:38.2 |
| 25 | |
Gro Randby | ▼ 1 | 0+2+1+2 | 5 | +2:51.5 |
| 26 | |
Maya Cloetens | ▲ 8 | 0+2+0+1 | 3 | +2:53.0 |
| 27 | |
Sophia Schneider | ▲ 8 | 0+1+1+1 | 3 | +3:02.9 |
| 28 |  |
Tereza Vobornikova | ▲ 11 | 1+1+0+0 | 2 | +3:08.2 |
| 29 | |
Sonja Leinamo | ▼ 21 | 1+0+3+2 | 6 | +3:15.1 |
| 30 |  |
Kristina Dmytrenko | ▲ 10 | 0+0+1+0 | 1 | +3:25.3 |
| 31 |  |
Anastasia Kuzmina | = | 1+0+2+2 | 5 | +3:40.3 |
| 32 | |
Julia Kink | ▲ 4 | 2+0+0+1 | 3 | +3:51.4 |
| 33 | |
Jessica Jislova | ▲ 14 | 1+0+1+1 | 3 | +3:54.3 |
| 34 | |
Martina Trabucchi | ▲ 10 | 2+1+0+0 | 3 | +3:57.0 |
| 35 |  |
Johanna Taliharm | ▲ 7 | 0+0+2+1 | 3 | +3:57.2 |
| 36 | |
Inka Haemaelaeinen | ▼ 6 | 3+2+0+0 | 5 | +3:57.5 |
| 37 | |
Tamara Steiner | ▼ 5 | 1+0+2+0 | 3 | +4:10.4 |
| 38 | |
Samuela Comola | ▲ 13 | 1+1+0+1 | 3 | +4:25.0 |
| 39 | |
Hanna Oeberg | ▲ 16 | 1+2+2+2 | 7 | +4:28.9 |
| 40 |  |
Alina Stremous | ▲ 9 | 2+0+2+0 | 4 | +4:30.7 |
| 41 |  |
Kamila Zuk | ▲ 7 | 1+0+2+1 | 4 | +4:34.7 |
| 42 | |
GROSS Haecki Lena | ▼ 13 | 2+3+0+2 | 7 | +4:37.7 |
| 43 | |
Regina Ermits | ▼ 26 | 1+3+3+0 | 7 | +4:38.8 |
| 44 | |
Elisa Gasparin | ▲ 6 | 0+1+1+2 | 4 | +4:47.2 |
| 45 | |
Anna Magnusson | ▲ 14 | 2+0+2+0 | 4 | +4:55.4 |
| 46 | |
Anna Gandler | ▼ 13 | 0+3+3+1 | 7 | +4:57.9 |
| 47 |  |
Emma Lunder | ▼ 9 | 1+2+1+1 | 5 | +5:06.2 |
| 48 | |
Anna Juppe | ▼ 2 | 2+1+2+2 | 7 | +5:17.0 |
| 49 |  |
Lidiia Zhurauskaite | ▼ 6 | 1+1+1+2 | 5 | +5:23.0 |
| 50 |  |
Sanita Bulina | ▲ 4 | 1+1+2+1 | 5 | +5:25.1 |
| 51 | |
Lena Repinc | ▼ 33 | 3+5+0+1 | 9 | +5:25.9 |
| 52 | |
Polona Klemencic | ▲ 5 | 2+0+2+1 | 5 | +5:33.1 |
| 53 | |
Ella Halvarsson | ▲ 7 | 5+0+2+1 | 8 | +6:20.9 |
| 54 | |
Pascale Paradis | ▼ 9 | 1+2+2+3 | 8 | +6:53.3 |
| 55 | |
Joanna Jakiela | ▼ 2 | 2+1+2+2 | 7 | +7:35.0 |
|
Judita Traubaite | 41 | 3+2+2 | 0 | ||
|
Sandra Bulina | 52 | 2+2+3 | 0 | ||
|
Daryna Chalyk | 56 | 2+4+1 | 0 | ||
|
Yuliia Dzhima | 14 | 0 | |||
|
Natalia Sidorowicz | 58 | 0 |
