Second sprint masculin in Nove Mesto and second French victory ! Quentin Fillon-Maillet won after a perfectly controlled race from start to finish. Fillon-Maillet (28), author of a perfect shooting, signed his second victory of the season, the fifth of his career, by beating the Norwegian Tarjei Boe and the Italian Lukas Hofer.
Unhappy at the Pokljuka Worlds (no title, only one medal) and left behind in the race for the big crystal globe, his main goal of the winter, the Jura finds his smile and puts pressure on Tarjei Boe to win the 3rd place of the general classification.
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Behind Fillon-Maillet, two other French people also shone. Emilien Jacquelin, crowned world champion in the pursuit for the 2nd time in a row at Pokljuka, failed at the foot of the podium (4th) while Antonin Guigonnat, gold medalist in the mixed single relay at the Worlds (with Julia Simon) , took 6th place, his best result of the season.
The fight for the big crystal globe remains as uncertain as ever. The Norwegian Sturla Holm Laegreid, revelation of this 2020-2021 exercise (24 years old), finished 5th and grabbed 8 points from the leader and double title holder Johannes Boe, only 9th. Laegreid returned to 25 lengths of Boe with four races to go.
According to the regulations of the International Biathlon Federation (IBU), however, it will be necessary to subtract at the end of the season the four worst results of each biathlete.
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