In the absence of Johannes Boe, Tarjei Boe and Sturla Legreid, the men's biathlon sparkled with new colors, and it even became interesting to watch.
So, Benedikt Doll joins the elite club of this season's non-Norwegian winners. Before that, there were Martin Ponsiluoma and Sebastian Samuelsson.
Perfect shooting, 20 out of 20, German victory in the individual race. Benedict hadn't rivals, because none of the real contenders managed to close all 20 targets.
The second place, well-deserved, and incredibly long-awaited, belongs to Tomasso Giacomel. The fast Italian has been in the prizes twice at this World Championship - both times in mixed relays. But he didn’t have a personal award, and now he does!
Vetle Christiansen didn't drop the honor of the Norwegian, taking 3rd place. The Small Globe went to the Norwegian, although Hartweg and Ponsiluoma had good chances before the start of the race. But Martin finished 8th with two penalty minutes, and Hartweg ran the race far from the pace of the leaders and finished 26th with few points.
Philip Nawrath could have made the podium without the Norwegians, but, alas, he missed the last shot and lost his medal, he is 4th. Roman Rees is in 5th place, with one penalty minute. We have a lot of Germans in the top 6.
| Name | Shooting | - | Time | ||
| 1 |  |
Benedikt Doll | 0+0+0+0 | 0 | 48:43.4 |
| 2 |  |
Tommaso Giacomel | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +1:09.1 |
| 3 |  |
Vetle Sjastad Christiansen | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +1:11.5 |
| 4 | |
Philipp Nawrath | 1+0+0+1 | 2 | +1:51.4 |
| 5 | |
Roman Rees | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +2:02.1 |
| 6 |  |
Eric Perrot | 1+0+0+0 | 1 | +2:07.8 |
| 7 |  |
Sebastian Stalder | 1+0+0+0 | 1 | +2:23.1 |
| 8 |  |
Martin Ponsiluoma | 1+0+1+0 | 2 | +2:28.9 |
| 9 |  |
Simon Eder | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +2:32.0 |
| 10 | |
Aleksander Andersen Fjeld | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +2:33.8 |
| 11 | |
Johannes Dale | 0+1+1+0 | 2 | +2:35.0 |
| 12 |  |
Anton Dudchenko | 1+1+0+0 | 2 | +3:03.4 |
| 13 |  |
Michal Krcmar | 0+0+1+1 | 2 | +3:05.4 |
| 14 |  |
Sean Doherty | 0+1+1+0 | 2 | +3:11.6 |
| 15 | |
Jesper Nelin | 0+1+0+2 | 3 | +3:24.2 |
| 16 | |
Endre Stroemsheim | 2+0+0+1 | 3 | +3:36.0 |
| 17 | |
Didier Bionaz | 0+1+0+1 | 2 | +3:38.8 |
| 18 | |
Johannes Kuhn | 0+1+0+2 | 3 | +3:39.3 |
| 19 | |
Braunhofer Patrick | 0+0+1+0 | 1 | +3:48.3 |
| 20 | |
Jakub Stvrtecky | 0+2+0+1 | 3 | +3:54.0 |
| 21 |  |
Andrejs Rastorgujevs | 0+0+1+2 | 3 | +3:57.6 |
| 22 |  |
Adam Runnalls | 0+0+0+2 | 2 | +4:04.6 |
| 23 | |
Fabien Claude | 2+1+1+0 | 4 | +4:08.4 |
| 24 | |
Malte Stefansson | 0+2+0+1 | 3 | +4:13.9 |
| 25 | |
Denys Nasyko | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +4:17.0 |
| 26 | |
Niklas Hartweg | 1+0+0+0 | 1 | +4:24.8 |
| 27 | |
David Komatz | 0+2+0+0 | 2 | +4:27.8 |
| 28 | |
Justus Strelow | 0+1+0+2 | 3 | +4:45.2 |
| 29 |  |
Mikito Tachizaki | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +4:47.9 |
| 30 | |
Antonin Guigonnat | 1+1+1+1 | 4 | +4:54.5 |
| 31 |  |
Rok Trsan | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +4:59.7 |
| 32 | |
Jonas Marecek | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +4:59.8 |
| 33 |  |
Florent Claude | 0+1+1+1 | 3 | +5:04.2 |
| 34 | |
Miha Dovzan | 0+0+0+2 | 2 | +5:08.1 |
| 35 | |
Thierry Langer | 1+1+0+1 | 3 | +5:10.5 |
| 36 |  |
George Buta | 1+0+0+1 | 2 | +5:12.7 |
| 37 | |
Christian Gow | 0+0+3+0 | 3 | +5:13.8 |
| 38 | |
Oscar Lombardot | 0+0+2+1 | 3 | +5:14.4 |
| 39 | |
Bogdan Tsymbal | 0+0+1+0 | 1 | +5:14.6 |
| 40 | |
Elia Zeni | 2+0+0+0 | 2 | +5:28.6 |
| 41 |  |
Alexandr Mukhin | 0+1+1+1 | 3 | +5:29.0 |
| 42 | |
David Zobel | 1+1+1+2 | 5 | +5:30.1 |
| 43 | |
Aleksandrs Patrijuks | 0+0+0+2 | 2 | +5:30.9 |
| 44 |  |
Karol Dombrovskij | 0+0+0+1 | 1 | +5:32.3 |
| 45 | |
Vebjoern Soerum | 1+0+2+1 | 4 | +5:32.8 |
| 46 | |
Artem Pryma | 0+0+2+1 | 3 | +5:34.1 |
| 47 | |
Victor Brandt | 0+1+0+0 | 1 | +5:34.4 |
| 48 | |
Adam Vaclavik | 1+1+1+0 | 3 | +5:46.8 |
| 49 | |
Dominic Unterweger | 0+1+1+1 | 3 | +5:51.7 |
| 50 | |
Trevor Kiers | 1+2+1+0 | 4 | +5:58.4 |
| 51 |  |
Tuomas Harjula | 0+1+0+1 | 2 | +5:59.1 |
| 52 | |
Maksim Fomin | 0+1+1+0 | 2 | +6:13.1 |
| 53 | |
Harald Lemmerer | 0+1+0+2 | 3 | +6:21.3 |
| 54 | |
Artem Tishchenko | 2+0+1+1 | 4 | +6:33.6 |
| 55 |  |
Michal Sima | 0+0+1+0 | 1 | +6:39.4 |
| 56 | |
Tomas Mikyska | 1+1+1+1 | 4 | +6:40.8 |
| 57 | |
Olli Hiidensalo | 0+1+2+1 | 4 | +6:50.1 |
| 58 | |
Otto Invenius | 2+2+0+1 | 5 | +6:54.0 |
| 59 |  |
Raido Raenkel | 0+2+1+2 | 5 | +7:03.9 |
| 60 | |
Tomas Kaukenas | 1+2+0+1 | 4 | +7:05.1 |
| 61 | |
Vytautas Strolia | 0+2+1+2 | 5 | +7:09.1 |
| 62 | |
Dmitrii Shamaev | 2+0+0+1 | 3 | +7:10.0 |
| 63 | |
Asset Dyussenov | 2+1+0+2 | 5 | +7:35.4 |
| 64 |  |
Andrzej Nedza-kubiniec | 0+2+0+1 | 3 | +7:47.2 |
| 65 | |
Raul Flore Antonio | 2+1+0+1 | 4 | +8:22.9 |
| 66 | |
Serafin Wiestner | 1+2+0+2 | 5 | +8:23.8 |
| 67 | |
Beauvais Cesar | 0+1+1+1 | 3 | +8:27.5 |
| 68 |  |
Anton Sinapov | 0+1+0+2 | 3 | +8:36.8 |
| 69 |  |
Dujin Choi | 2+1+0+0 | 3 | +8:45.5 |
| 70 |  |
Pavel Magazeev | 2+2+1+1 | 6 | +9:00.1 |
| 71 | |
Mihail Usov | 1+1+1+1 | 4 | +9:05.3 |
| 72 | |
Anton Vidmar | 2+2+0+2 | 6 | +9:23.2 |
| 73 | |
Peppe Femling | 2+2+0+2 | 6 | +9:45.2 |
| 74 | |
JONNI Mukkala | 0+2+2+1 | 5 | +9:54.1 |
| 75 | |
Joni Mustonen | 2+1+1+3 | 7 | +10:00.4 |
| 76 | |
Tomasz Jakiela | 0+0+2+3 | 5 | +10:05.4 |
| 77 | |
Edgars Mise | 1+2+0+2 | 5 | +10:27.3 |
| 78 | |
Logan Pletz | 0+1+1+4 | 6 | +10:33.3 |
| 79 | |
Vaclav Cervenka | 1+2+0+1 | 4 | +10:33.5 |
| 80 |  |
Xingyuan Yan | 0+2+1+3 | 6 | +10:59.4 |
| 81 | |
Robert Heldna | 0+2+1+2 | 5 | +11:00.9 |
| 82 | |
SkorUSA Wojciech | 1+2+1+2 | 6 | +11:08.3 |
| 83 |  |
APOSTOLOS Aggelis | 1+1+1+1 | 4 | +11:18.4 |
| 84 | |
Vincent Bonacci | 0+2+0+3 | 5 | +11:24.3 |
| 85 | |
Keita Nagaoka | 0+1+2+2 | 5 | +11:26.4 |
| 86 | |
Juri Uha | 1+0+2+1 | 4 | +11:40.9 |
| 87 | |
Marten Aolaid | 0+1+1+2 | 4 | +11:41.0 |
| 88 | |
Oskar Brandt | 4+2+0+3 | 9 | +11:58.6 |
| 89 | |
Guoqiang Ma | 2+1+2+3 | 8 | +13:22.3 |
| 90 | |
KIYOMASA Ojima | 3+1+2+3 | 9 | +14:48.5 |
| 91 | |
Kiril Bauer | 1+3+1+3 | 8 | +16:04.1 |
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