Overview
- Tommaso Giacomel completed a sprint–pursuit double in Oberhof to take the World Cup lead at 611 points, 51 ahead of the absent Johan‑Olav Botn.
- The Italian sealed the pursuit despite six misses by cleaning his final five shots, holding off Norway’s Martin Uldal and Sweden’s Sebastian Samuelsson by 4 and 9 seconds.
- French men fell short in the pursuit as Quentin Fillon Maillet slipped to sixth on the last loop and Éric Perrot, hampered by five misses and a rifle issue, placed eighth.
- France’s women—Lou Jeanmonnot, Océane Michelon, Justine Braisaz‑Bouchet, Julia Simon—won the relay with zero penalty loops and eight spares, finishing nearly a minute clear of Norway in frigid, windy conditions.
- Julia Simon’s return gathered pace with a sprint podium before she anchored the relay, with the quartet set for a final rehearsal in Ruhpolding about a month before Milan‑Cortina.