The glutton! Norwegian Johannes Boe won the pursuit of the Nove Mesto stage (Czech Republic) on Saturday, counting for the Biathlon World Cup, thus equaling his record of individual successes in a season (16), established in 2018-2019.
Starting in first position after his victory in the sprint on Thursday, Boe overtook his older brother Tarjei and Sweden’s Martin Ponsiluoma. The French Fabien Claude and Antonin Guigonnat took fifth and sixth place respectively, decided at the photo finish.
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After a clear round with his two shots lying down, Johannes Boe made an error on each of his two shots standing up. Without consequence for the 29-year-old Norwegian, imperial since the start of the season, in the World Cup as well as at the Oberhof Worlds in February (three individual titles, seven medals in total).
After this 16th individual success this season, the triple World Cup winner will be able to improve his record during the stage in Oestersund (Sweden) next weekend and then the finals in Oslo in mid-March. Both positive for Covid, the Norwegian Sturla Laegreid, second in the general classification of the World Cup, and the French Quentin Fillon Mailletfifth, were absent from this race.