The Norwegian champion scores for victory number 88 and precedes two Frenchmen, Eric Perrot and Emilien Jacquelin, for a valuable podium. Giacomel is eleventh with five errors, Lukas Hofer is twentieth with three errors.
Saturday 21 December, 1pm
Martin Uldal and Johannes Thingnes Boe, wearing yellow-red bib, start together with the aim of not letting Sebastian Samuelsson get close, as he has to make up for the seconds lost in the Sprint. The two Norwegians maintain a 13-second advantage at the entrance to the first shooting range from which they emerge without errors while the Swede has to complete a penalty lap and finds himself about thirty seconds behind Jacquelin and Laegreid. Giacomel makes two errors and slips to one minute and twenty seconds while Lukas Hofer is impeccable, tenth at just over a minute.
Johannes Boe and Uldal continue their duo race in the lead on the second lap. The Norwegian champion is perfect at his shot while the winner of the Sprint makes two errors and finds himself 41 seconds behind by the precise Jacquelin, Samuelsson and Laegreid who are 25 seconds behind Boe. With Uldal are Perrot and Horn, both with 100% on the ground. Giacomel makes another mistake and is sixteenth at a minute and a half while Hofer makes two errors at almost two minutes.
Johannes Boe is not intimidated by the first shooting range while his pursuers make mistakes. Jacquelin is second at 44 seconds, Perrot and Laegreid are at 53 seconds. After two laps of penalties, Samuelsson is at 1 minute and 7 seconds. Giacomel makes another mistake and slips to two minutes, Hofer is two and a half minutes away.
In the fourth lap Boe's monologue continues as he has a 46 second advantage at the entrance to the last shooting range, misses the first target and after a penalty lap maintains a 35 second advantage over a 20/20 Perrot. Jacquelin is at 43 seconds after a penalty lap.
At the finish line Johannes Thingnes Boe (0-0-0-1) seals his eighty-eighth victory with an advantage of 27.6 seconds over Eric Perrot (0-0-0-0) and 47.5 seconds over Emilien Jacquelin (0-0-1 -1). The Norwegian Soerum (0-2-0-0) is fourth at 57.5 while Samuelsson (1-0-2-2) overtakes Laegreid (0-0-1-2) in the last lap and is fifth at 1.03.6 . Seventh at 1.07.9 the German Riethmueller (0-0-0-1), eighth at 1.10.8 Horn (0-0-1-1).
Tommaso Giacomel (2-1-1-1) is eleventh at 1.40.8 while Lukas Hofer (0-2-1-0) is twentieth at 2.04.4. Didier Bionaz (0-2-3-1) is forty-fifth at 3.39.2 while Daniele Cappellari (2-0-0-0) is fifty-fourth at 4.49.3.
