the world championship on biathlon which passes in the Italian Anterselva, Wednesday, February 19, held the individual race among men 20 km with four firing lines. The victory was won by Frenchman Martin Fourcade.
He covered the distance in 49 minutes by 43.1 seconds back with one penalty. The second was the Norwegian Johannes Bø (+57.0 – 2 penalties), rounded out the top three in the Austrian Dominik Landertinger (+1:22.1 – 1).
For the 31-year-old Frenchman this medal was 12th at the world Championships, he won three individual races at the world Championships in 2013, 2015 and 2016, respectively.
the Best of the Russians became Nikita Porshnev (+3:53.3 – 2), which showed 11-th result. Evgeny Garanichev (+3:59.9 – 3) – 14-second, Alexander Loginov (+4:06.9 – 5) – 15-th, Eduard Latypov (+6:14.9 – 4) – 42-th.