Anna Magnusson's unexpected and first victory at the World Cup

Denise Herrmann is clearly determined to win the championship. From race to race, she squeezes everything out of herself, and doesn't fall below 6th place, except for a small failure in the pursuit of Kontiolahti, where she was 16th.

So in this sprint, Herrmann had bib №6, and one of the first to set the pace, and finished in first place. True, she had one miss on the prone, but even with it, it seemed that she had a chance to win. And indeed, Hanna Oberg and Julie Simon blundered at the ranges, where they earned two penalties loops for each, Lisa Vittozzi lost her best form, and the rest were just random guests in this fight for the BCG.

But just the middle peasants made this race interesting. Linn Persson, after the first shooting, confidently became the leader, and although she missed on the standing, she was still ahead of Herrmann by a second. But the race was even better for Anna Magnusson, who was almost as fast in the first two laps, but also managed without penalty loops, and her advantage before 2.5km to finish, was 9 seconds.

It seemed that now Herrmann and Persson were just eating Anna, but no. Magnusson save all her stamina for the last segment of the race, which she had the strongest. She won 3-5 seconds from both the German and the teammate. Even the fast-footed Elvira Oberg lost 6 seconds to her, Magnusson's last lap was so powerful.

This is the first victory, and in general the first podium for the Swede. Prior to that, her best result was 7th at the Beijing Olympics.

For Linn Persson, this could also be the first victory, but alas, only the second place. Two weeks earlier, she already had a podium in Kontiolahti.

The content of this news could have been somewhat different if the young Frenchwoman Sophie Chauveau had had enough power for the last 500 meters of the race. With a kilometer to go, Sophie was in second place, gaining 1-2 seconds from Persson and Herrmann, then there was a descent and a gentle part of the track, where she could not lose much. But on the last bunch of small climbs, she no longer had any strength left, and as a result, she remained behind the podium, showing only the 4th time.

Marie Eder reaches 5th place. It's been 5 years now that Marie hasn't had a podium at the World Cup.

Lisa Vittozzi shows the 6th result, and bypasses Ingrid Tandrevold, who performed worse - 18th.

World Cup leader, Julie Simon, 15th.

		Name	№	Shooting	-	Time
1		Anna Magnusson	34	0+0	0	21:04.7
2		Linn Persson	37	0+1	1	+12.8
3		Denise Herrmann-wick	6	1+0	1	+15.2
4		Sophie Chauveau	86	0+0	0	+19.9
5		Mari Eder	29	0+1	1	+21.3
6		Lisa Vittozzi	45	0+0	0	+31.8
7		FIALKOVA Bartovska Paulina	17	0+1	1	+33.4
8		Elvira Oeberg Karin	26	0+1	1	+33.6
9		Lou Jeanmonnot	72	0+0	0	+35.2
10		Anais-Bouchet Chevalier	8	0+1	1	+36.8
11		GROSS Haecki Lena	55	0+1	1	+41.8
12		Milena Todorova	44	0+0	0	+48.5
13		Dorothea Wierer	35	0+1	1	+48.7
14		Ida Lien	9	0+1	1	+48.8
15		Julia Simon	14	0+2	2	+49.2
16		Marketa Davidova	33	0+1	1	+51.5
17		Karoline Knotten Offigstad	31	0+0	0	+54.1
18		Ingrid Tandrevold	11	0+1	1	+54.4
19		Elisa Gasparin	13	0+1	1	+56.9
20		Anna Gandler	42	0+1	1	+57.5
20		Chloe Chevalier	53	1+0	1	+57.5
22		Hanna Oeberg	3	1+1	2	+1:00.2
22		Lisa Theresa Hauser	23	1+1	2	+1:00.2
24		Franziska Preuss	36	0+1	1	+1:01.4
25		Baiba Bendika	7	1+1	2	+1:01.5
26		Jessica Jislova	24	0+0	0	+1:02.7
27		Dunja Zdouc	32	0+0	0	+1:03.8
28		Sophia Schneider	43	0+1	1	+1:04.3
29		Olena Bilosyuk	5	0+0	0	+1:10.1
30		Vanessa Voigt	1	0+0	0	+1:11.8
31		Suvi Minkkinen	47	0+0	0	+1:13.3
32		Polona Klemencic	22	0+2	2	+1:15.9
33		Ragnhild Femsteinevik	91	0+1	1	+1:16.8
34		Lotte Lie	49	0+1	1	+1:19.6
35		Caroline Colombo	10	1+2	3	+1:25.1
36		Karoline Erdal	80	1+0	1	+1:25.7
37		Tuuli Tomingas	16	0+1	1	+1:28.5
38		Anna Weidel	39	1+0	1	+1:29.9
39		Amy Baserga	75	0+0	0	+1:31.4
40		Emilie Kalkenberg Aagheim	57	0+1	1	+1:33.2
41		Lea Meier	92	1+0	1	+1:36.6
42		Natalia Tomaszewska	93	0+0	0	+1:37.3
43		Kamila Zuk	2	0+0	0	+1:38.4
44		Samuela Comola	4	0+1	1	+1:40.9
45		Aita Gasparin	21	1+1	2	+1:42.5
46		Tamara Steiner	82	0+0	0	+1:44.4
47		Hannah Auchentaller	81	0+0	0	+1:45.8
48		Janina Hettich-walz	20	1+1	2	+1:47.1
49		Joanna Jakiela	40	0+1	1	+1:47.9
50		Alina Stremous	54	2+0	2	+1:49.5
51		Fuyuko Tachizaki	28	0+1	1	+1:50.8
52		Ekaterina Avvakumova	27	1+0	1	+1:51.1
53		Stina Nilsson	78	1+1	2	+1:51.2
54		Darya Blashko	59	0+0	0	+1:56.4
54		Anastasia Tolmacheva	95	0+0	0	+1:56.4
56		Julia Schwaiger	69	1+1	2	+1:59.1
57		Anastasiya Merkushyna	30	0+0	0	+2:01.9
58		SUSAn Kuelm	58	0+1	1	+2:02.5
59		Natalia Ushkina	25	0+0	0	+2:07.0
60		Nadia Moser	12	1+1	2	+2:12.5
61		Joanne Reid	15	0+2	2	+2:18.9
62		Anna Maka	61	0+1	1	+2:19.1
63		Johanna Taliharm	90	0+1	1	+2:20.5
64		Ivona Fialkova	50	2+2	4	+2:21.3
65		Emma Lunder	19	0+3	3	+2:27.0
66		Deedra Irwin	18	1+2	3	+2:29.6
67		Lucie Charvatova	38	2+2	4	+2:31.8
68		Nastassia Kinnunen	64	0+3	3	+2:35.2
69		Johanna Skottheim	51	2+1	3	+2:43.5
70		Venla Lehtonen	89	1+0	1	+2:46.9
71		Rebecca Passler	41	2+1	3	+2:47.6
72		Gabriele Lescinskaite	52	0+1	1	+2:50.5
73		Anna Kryvonos	87	0+1	1	+2:52.5
74		Yuliia Dzhima	46	1+2	3	+2:55.2
75		Asuka Hachisuka	66	1+0	1	+2:56.4
76		Chloe Levins	63	0+2	2	+3:11.7
77		Natalija Kocergina	62	2+1	3	+3:16.5
78		Eliska Vaclavikova	67	0+2	2	+3:17.6
79		Zuzana Remenova	94	1+2	3	+3:29.4
80		Maria Remenova	70	1+3	4	+3:33.5
81		Emily Dickson	79	2+0	2	+3:35.9
82		Eunjung Ko	73	2+0	2	+3:36.9
83		Benita Peiffer	48	2+1	3	+3:40.6
84		Elena Chirkova	65	0+4	4	+4:03.2
85		Kelsey Dickinson Joan	56	1+1	2	+4:19.6
86		Anika Kozica	74	1+3	4	+4:20.3
87		Alla Gylenko	77	0+3	3	+4:23.0
88		Lyudmila Akhatova	76	1+2	3	+4:31.4
89		Maria Zdravkova	60	1+2	3	+5:08.5
90		Anastassiya Kondratyeva	71	0+3	3	+5:12.4
91		Tara Geraghty-moats	84	2+3	5	+5:16.8
92		Alina Skripkina	88	2+1	3	+5:17.8
93		Hikaru Fukuda	83	1+2	3	+5:30.9
94		Annija Sabule Keita	68	2+2	4	+6:00.6
95		Daniela Kadeva	85	1+3	4	+6:04.1