Overview
- ZDF begins free-to-air coverage at 15:45 for the 16:00 start, with Eurosport also airing the race and streams on Discovery+ and DAZN plus live tickers from SPORT1.
- The sprint covers 7.5 km with two shooting bouts, and each miss adds a roughly 25-second penalty loop.
- Germany looks to respond after 39 team shooting errors in the individual, where Franziska Preuß placed 29th.
- DSV sports director Felix Bitterling urges patience and stresses steady form-building in an Olympic year.
- Overall leader Dorothea Wierer enters as a top contender alongside Lisa Vittozzi, Lou Jeanmonnot, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, and Sweden’s Hanna and Elvira Öberg.