With the exception of Benedikt Doll, the German biathletes shone with brilliant shooting performances at the World Championship relay race on Saturday. There was nothing to be seen 24 hours later. Arnd Peiffer, Benedikt Doll, Philipp Horn and Johannes Kühn produced a total of 20 mistakes in the mass start race over 15 kilometers and clearly missed the medal ranks.
Gust with 20 direct hits to gold
The Norwegians could cheer again. Three hours after Marte Olsbu Röiseland’s victory in the women’s category, Johannes Thingnes Bö snatched the last gold medal WM, For him it was the first single title in Antholz. “Such a conclusion on the last day – that’s terrific”, pleased Gö.
Bö laid the foundation stone for victory at the shooting range. He was the only one of the 30 starters to be clear and won by 42 seconds over Quentin Fillon Maillet from France. His team-mate Emilien Jacquelin won bronze and cooked Tarjei Bö (Norway) in the finish sprint.
Martin Fourcade was also left empty-handed. With three mistakes, the Frenchman was only seventh. If he had won, he would have made history and would have been one after individual wins WM pulled past the great Ole Einar Björndalen.
Only Kühn in the top ten
The best German in the mass start race was Johannes Kühn. Displaced by Erik Lesser in the season, he finished tenth in the World Cup. The man who had already scored 20 goals in 20 attempts this year had to do four extra laps this time. “Today I was not that bad. The rest was suboptimal”Kühn commented on his result, who openly admitted that his non-nomination in the season was extremely upsetting.
Doll wobbles while standing
At Doll, the main question before the race was: How did he cope with his relay miss disaster? The German team had gold in mind and had to be satisfied with bronze in the end because Doll had to go into the penalty loop once. The Bavarian was initially well recovered, remained clear on the first prone stage and remained in the top ten with a miss on the second stage. Three more tickets were added to the standing stop. In the end it was twelfth.
Peiffer fights at the shooting range
Peiffer, the otherwise stable shooter, was again unable to manage the shooting range. With three mistakes in prone shooting, his hopes for a good placement burst early. And even in the last two shooting tests, a total of two targets remained. That was only enough for rank 21.
Horn very far back
Squadron surprise man Horn caught a used day at the shooting range. In his wobbly discipline – the prone stroke – he hit only five of the ten targets and was halfway through the 30s field. He fought his way up to 24th place after brilliant standing positions (2 mistakes).
After doping raid – Loginow refuses to start
Moved over the sunny Antholz during the WM just a dark cloud – and that lay over Alexander Loginow. The Russian world champion’s room was raided during a doping raid. No results are known. Loginow took his personal decision and canceled the mass start race. This was with “a less than optimal psychological state” founded.
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