* Results of the men's 15km mass start: 1 Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) 36:21.5 (1) 2 Benedikt Doll (GER) +10.0 (1) 3 Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) 10.3 (2) 4 Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen (NOR) 10.6 (1) 5 Martin Fourcade (FRA) 10.8 (1) 6 Erlend Bjoentegaard (NOR) 21.4 (2) 7 Johannes Dale (NOR) 39.8 (2) 8 Simon Eder (AUT) 42.8 (0) 9 Tarjei Boe (NOR) 43.5 (2) 10 Lukas Hofer (ITA) 1:05.4 (2) ... 21 Jakov Fak (SLO) 1:56.1 (3) ... - Overall standings (13 out of 24 events): 1 Martin Fourcade (FRA) 601 pts 2 Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) 532 3 Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) 482 4 Simon Desthieux (FRA) 479 5 Tarjei Boe (NOR) 461 6 Alexander Loginov (RUS) 436 7 Benedikt Doll (GER) 415 8 Emilien Jacquelin (FRA) 401 9 Johannes Dale (NOR) 398 10 Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen (NOR) 372 ... 15 Jakov Fak (SLO) 286
STA, 26 January 2020 - France's Quentin Fillon Maillet is the winner of the men's 15km mass start event of the Biathlon World Cup meet at Slovenia's Pokljuka on Sunday. He finished the race ahead of Benedikt Doll of Germany and Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Boe.
Fillon Maillet missed only one shot and was very quick in the running part, as was Doll (+10.0), who also missed one shot. Boe was even quicker but missed two shots to finish 10.3 second behind the winner.
"I didn't have any particular strategy. I gave my best in the last lap in order to stay in the first place," said Fillon Maillet after the race.
This compatriot Martin Fourcade is still in the overall lead in the World Cup with 601 points, with Fillon Maillet trailing by 69 points and Boe by 119 points.
The best Slovenian competitor was Jakov Fak, who finished 21st, as he missed three shots in the process while battling cold. He crossed the finish line 1 minute and 56 seconds after Fillon Maillet.
"It was very difficult ... but it nevertheless paid to appear in front of this audience," Fak said, adding that the "current situation and form are not such that I could be a match to the competitors at the top."
Women's mass start at Pokljuka won by Sweden's Oeberg
STA, 26 January 2020 - Hanna Oeberg of Sweden won the women's 12.5km mass start event at Slovenia's Pokljuka on Sunday, finishing ahead of Italian Lisa Vittozzi and France's Anais Bescond in what was the last Biathlon World Cup meet ahead of the world championships in Italy.
Oeberg missed one shot but was better in the running part than Vittozzi (+6.5) and Bescond (27.6), who were perfect in shooting.
This is the fourth individual career victory for the 24-year-old Swede, who won the world champion title in the individual race in Östersund in 2019.
* Results of the women's 12.5km mass start: 1 Hanna Oeberg (SWE) 34:14.4 (1) 2 Lisa Vittozzi (ITA) +6.5 (0) 3 Anais Bescond (FRA) 27.6 (0) 4 Monika Hojnisz-Starega (POL) 37.5 (1) 5 Justine Braisaz (FRA) 44.1 (3) 6 Marte Olsbu Roeiseland (NOR) 48.4 (3) 7 Lisa Theresa Hauser (AUT) 59.9 (1) 8 Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (NOR) 1:09.0 (3) 9 Dorothea Wierer (ITA) 1:09.6 (2) 10 Marketa Davidova (CZE) 1:22.5 (2) ... - Overall standings (13 out of 24 events): 1 Tiril Eckhoff (NOR) 524 pts 2 Dorothea Wierer (ITA) 509 3 Hanna Oeberg (SWE) 456 4 Denise Herrmann (GER) 419 5 Julia Simon (FRA) 385 6 Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (NOR) 384 7 Marte Olsbu Roeiseland (NOR) 381 8 Justine Braisaz (FRA) 380 9 Paulina Fialkova (SVK) 353 10 Lisa Vittozzi (ITA) 325 ...
