The Norwegians decided not to participate the strongest in this race, meaning the Boe brothers. The Norwegians had only 3 ladies for the event, so there was no choice.
At the first leg, Lisa Vittozzi became the fastest, as expected, but Lou Jeanmonnot lost to her quite a bit. Knotten, Hettich, Gasparin, Dzhima, Klemencic, Gandler and Magnusson lost from 17 to 33 seconds.
The second leg began very unsuccessfully for Italy. Samuela Comolla fell on one of the descents, losing 10 seconds on this, and spent quite a long time shooting, dropping her team back to 9th place.
In the meantime, Anamarija Lampich decided to remind herself. She escaped with just one extra bullet on the prone (a miracle, no less), and already on the standing, she came very close to Ingrid Tandrevold, the leader of the race. But then a miracle didn't happen, everyone was wrong, but Lampic generally went for 5 penalty loops. Stated well.
Colombo became the leader after the 4th shooting, and Tandrevold, barely managed 8 rounds, but still came out second. By the time the leg was passed, 3 more teams were only 12 seconds or less behind: Ukraine, Switzerland, Sweden. Germany was 35 behind, Austria and the Czech Republic 40. Comolla disappointed, lost 30 seconds on the last lap, and Italy was already 48 seconds behind. The rest of the teams were one and a half minutes behind or more.
On the 3rd prone, all athletes from the top 5 used 7-8 bullets to close all the targets. But Nawrath and Komatz, who approached later, were more fortunate with the wind, and they coped without extra bullets. Thus, on 5 out of 9 laps, 7 teams went at once in 17 seconds!
Martin Ponsiluoma, immediately decided to catch up with the Frenchman Eric Perrot, who had left as a leader. But the pursuers crowded together and spent this lap together.
At the counter, although everyone was in approximately equal conditions, it was the Frenchman who left the leader. More or less coped with the rack Artem Pryma, 22 seconds behind. Barely managed Martin Ponsiluoma, he went to the final round after the Ukrainian.
Philippe Nawrath and Sebastian Stalder went into the penalty loop, and Johannes Dale shot for a very long time. And the backlog of this trio was already about a minute. David Komatz unexpectedly took 4th place, however, by the time the leg was passed, they caught up with him.
Ponsiluoma and Dale played back 25 seconds in the last lap at Perrot. Even David Komatz got 10 seconds closer to the leader.
At the last leg, the struggle for victory was supposed to be between Fabien Claude and Sebastian Samuelsson. But the Frenchman coped much better with the prone, and the Swedes again fell behind. In the pursuit group, Anton Dudchenko coped best with shooting. Endre Stremsheim narrowly avoided the penalty loop, but the Austrian Lemmer went to the penalty loop and dropped out of the fight for the victory. Benedikt Doll pulled himself up a bit, and kept a good chance, at least for the fight for bronze.
But at the last standing, Fabien Claude worked flawlessly, and Samuelsson could only look sadly at the departing Frenchman.
No luck for Dudchenko, who with a slight advantage over Doll and Stromsheim approached the shooting, but the shooting went wrong for the Ukrainian, and he went to the penalty loop. But the Norwegian was impeccable, and left alone for the final lap.
| Click on the flag to select team | № | Shooting | Time | ||
| 1 |  |
france | 1 | 0+7 | 1:06:32.3 |
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Lou Jeanmonnot | 0+0 0+0 | |||
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Caroline Colombo | 0+3 0+1 | |||
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Eric Perrot | 0+3 0+0 | |||
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Fabien Claude | 0+0 0+0 | |||
| 2 |  |
sweden | 3 | 0+18 | +33.6 |
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Anna Magnusson | 0+0 0+3 | |||
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Hanna Oeberg | 0+3 0+2 | |||
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Martin Ponsiluoma | 0+3 0+3 | |||
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Sebastian Samuelsson | 0+2 0+2 | |||
| 3 |  |
norway | 6 | 0+16 | +38.3 |
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Offigstad Knotten Karoline | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Landmark Tandrevold Ingrid | 0+1 0+3 | |||
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Johannes Dale | 0+3 0+3 | |||
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Endre Stroemsheim | 0+3 0+0 | |||
| 4 |  |
germany | 5 | 1+13 | +1:07.7 |
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Janina Hettich-walz | 0+1 0+1 | |||
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Vanessa Voigt | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Philipp Nawrath | 0+2 1+3 | |||
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Benedikt Doll | 0+0 0+3 | |||
| 5 |  |
italy | 2 | 0+6 | +1:13.3 |
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Lisa Vittozzi | 0+0 0+0 | |||
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Samuela Comola | 0+2 0+0 | |||
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Didier Bionaz | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Tommaso Giacomel | 0+0 0+1 | |||
| 6 |  |
ukraine | 10 | 1+8 | +1:35.5 |
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Yuliia Dzhima | 0+0 0+1 | |||
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Olena Bilosyuk | 0+1 0+0 | |||
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Artem Pryma | 0+2 0+1 | |||
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Anton Dudchenko | 0+0 1+3 | |||
| 7 |  |
Republic czech | 7 | 1+15 | +2:05.4 |
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Tereza Vobornikova | 0+2 0+3 | |||
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Marketa Davidova | 0+0 0+2 | |||
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Michal Krcmar | 1+3 0+1 | |||
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Tomas Mikyska | 0+2 0+2 | |||
| 8 |  |
austria | 9 | 1+7 | +2:14.2 |
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Anna Gandler | 0+0 0+3 | |||
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Tamara Steiner | 0+0 0+0 | |||
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David Komatz | 0+0 0+0 | |||
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Harald Lemmerer | 1+3 0+1 | |||
| 9 |  |
switzerland | 4 | 3+15 | +3:03.4 |
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Elisa Gasparin | 0+0 0+2 | |||
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Lena Haecki Gross | 0+1 0+3 | |||
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Sebastian Stalder | 0+2 1+3 | |||
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Serafin Wiestner | 2+3 0+1 | |||
| 10 |  |
finland | 14 | 1+10 | +3:30.4 |
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Nastassia Kinnunen | 0+1 0+3 | |||
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Erika Jaenkae | 0+0 1+3 | |||
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Olavi Ranta Jaakko | 0+0 0+1 | |||
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Otto Invenius | 0+0 0+2 | |||
| 11 |  |
estonia | 16 | 2+12 | +3:47.1 |
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Susan Kuelm | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Johanna Taliharm | 0+0 1+3 | |||
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Kristo Siimer | 0+0 0+2 | |||
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Raido Raenkel | 0+1 1+3 | |||
| 12 |  |
slovenia | 11 | 8+15 | +5:31.6 |
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Polona Klemencic | 0+0 0+3 | |||
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Anamarija Lampic | 0+1 5+3 | |||
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Alex Cisar | 0+0 0+2 | |||
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Anton Vidmar | 0+3 3+3 | |||
| 13 |  |
bulgaria | 15 | 2+13 | +5:32.9 |
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Daniela Kadeva | 0+2 0+3 | |||
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Milena Todorova | 0+0 2+3 | |||
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Vladimir Iliev | 0+3 0+0 | |||
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Anton Sinapov | 0+0 0+2 | |||
| 14 |  |
slovakia | 13 | 1+13 | +5:33.0 |
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Paulina Batovska Fialkova | 0+2 0+2 | |||
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Maria Remenova | 0+2 1+3 | |||
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Michal Sima | 0+1 0+1 | |||
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Matej Kazar | 0+1 0+1 | |||
| 15 |  |
poland | 8 | 0+14 | +5:59.1 |
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Natalia Tomaszewska | 0+1 0+1 | |||
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Kamila Zuk | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Wojciech Skorusa | 0+3 0+1 | |||
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Tomasz Jakiela | 0+3 0+2 | |||
| 16 |  |
romania | 20 | 1+11 | |
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Elena Chirkova | 0+1 0+1 | |||
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Anastasia Tolmacheva | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Antonio Flore Raul | 1+3 0+3 | |||
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Coltea | ||||
| 17 |  |
lithuania | 19 | 4+9 | |
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Gabriele Lescinskaite | 0+0 0+2 | |||
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Natalija Kocergina | 2+3 2+3 | |||
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Vytautas Strolia | 0+1 0+0 | |||
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Tomas Kaukenas | ||||
| 18 |  |
usa | 12 | 0+8 | |
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Chloe Levins | 0+3 0+2 | |||
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Joan Dickinson Kelsey | 0+2 0+1 | |||
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Vincent Bonacci | 0+0 0+0 | |||
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Vaclav Cervenka | ||||
| 19 |  |
japan | 22 | 0+7 | |
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Aoi Sato | 0+1 0+2 | |||
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Hikaru Fukuda | 0+1 0+3 | |||
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KIYOMASA Ojima | ||||
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Keita Nagaoka | ||||
| 20 |  |
Korea south | 18 | 2+10 | |
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Ekaterina Avvakumova | 1+3 0+1 | |||
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Eunjung Ko | 1+3 0+3 | |||
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Timofey Lapshin | ||||
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Dujin Choi | ||||
| 21 |  |
kazakstan | 21 | 4+11 | |
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Lyudmila Akhatova | 0+3 0+2 | |||
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Anastassiya Kondratyeva | 0+3 4+3 | |||
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Kiril Bauer | ||||
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Asset Dyussenov | ||||
| 22 |  |
china | 23 | 4+6 | |
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Ying Wen | 1+3 0+0 | |||
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Yuanmeng Chu | 3+3 0+0 | |||
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Guoqiang Ma | ||||
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Xingyuan Yan | ||||
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moldova | 17 | |||
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Alla Gylenko | ||||
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Alina Stremous | ||||
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Mihail Usov | ||||
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Pavel Magazeev |
