According to recently received information, Fourcade started from the eighth position, overcame the distance in 32 minutes 51.7 seconds, allowing one miss on four firing lines.

By the way, for the Frenchman this gold Olympic award was the third in his career.

Silver won the Swede Sebastian Samuelsson with a lag of 12 seconds and one miss. The troika of winners was closed by the representative of Germany Benedikt Dolle.

Ukrainian Dmitry Pidruchny finished 34, losing 13 positions. Artem Prima won 2 positions and showed 38 results, Sergei Semyonov - 49, losing 3 positions.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, the organizers of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang spent less than half of the budget for the opening ceremony of the competition.