Sturla Holm Lægreid won again: – I felt like training

Sturla Holm Lægreid came in alone on the last shot, but remained calm and confident since the second consecutive World Cup victory, and third overall.

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The Norwegian biathlon kite held the lead that it took with it from Thursday’s sprint throughout the race and was left alone in qualifying in the last tier after Johannes Dale’s crack on the third shot.

He remained calm, fired steadily, quickly and accurately, and failed to threaten the last round of the start of the manhunt at Hochfilzen.

– It was a bigger test today than Thursday. It was great to go out first at the beginning of the hunt, and it felt like training, the sensational man tells the organizer.

Thus, Lægreid won for the third time this season, and in his career overall. In 14 World Cup starts, he has won 21.43 percent of the races in which he has competed.

– It’s completely unbelievable. What he does on the shooting range is fantastically good, said Ola Lunde on NRK.

Émilien Jaquelin took second place after parking Johannes Thingnes Bø on the final lap, and referred little brother Bø to third place.

– Tarjei and I have probably been role models for Sturla for many years, but now we are the ones who sit down to dinner and ask him how he is so relaxed when he shoots, Thingnes Bø tells NRK.

Five Norwegians were in the top seven on what was another Norwegian Jubilee day in Austria.

The Norwegian quartet Lægreid, Dale, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Johannes Thingnes Bø had an approved starting point where they came out in a row after the success of Thursday’s sprint.

But where three out of four Norwegians shot full on the first shot, little brother Bø had to pass two rounds of penalty after a little crack, all on the first shot.

Lægreid and Dale showed no signs of letting their rivals into the battle of victory and also rounded out others such as Sjåstad Christiansen, Thingnes Bø and their older brother Tarjei Bø.

At first it got worse. The Tet duo were tough in the third round, especially punishing Dale, who had to go three times in the penalty round.

Lægreid maintained the lead with a single barrier, but let the field in.

But it was never enough to be able to deprive the Bærum tabloid of his third world champion.