The best blue biathlete was Fabien Claude, finally ninth with an 18 out of 20 shooting, just over two minutes behind the winner, Sweden's Martin Ponsiluoma.
Fillon Maillet, five-time Olympic medalist in Beijing and winner of the big crystal globe last winter, also made two mistakes but was slower on skis (+2:42.) Ponsiluoma, author of a single error on the shooting, won in 49 min 36 sec 5/10th ahead of the Swiss Niklas Hartweig and the German David Zobel, who both signed a 20/20.
Disappointment also for Johannes Boe, who finished only twelfth, almost two and a half minutes behind: even very fast, the Norwegian three times winner of the big crystal globe could not completely compensate for his inaccuracy on the track behind the rifle, with four faults.
