Sunday’s WC gold is the 30-year-old’s third gold in Nove Mesto and his 20 WC gold in his career. – It’s been a row with WC gold in the last two years and I’ve had a lot of fun. Getting to 20 is a kind of mini-dream, says Thingnes Bø to TV 2. Stryingen has won eight WC golds and taken 14 out of 14 possible WC medals in the last two championships. – The king of the championship does it again, when he has to on the last, exclaimed news commentator Jann Post when Thingnes Bø shot flawlessly on the last standing and went out on top in the last round. Stryningen entered the race alone in Nove Mesto in front of a packed World Cup stadium with 40,000 spectators and bowed to the crowd before crossing the finish line for his tenth individual World Cup gold in his career. WC KING: Johannes Thingnes Bø took the 20 WC gold of his career at Sunday’s joint start. Photo: BILDBYRÅN Thus Thingnes Bø writes himself into World Cup history in gold. Now the 30-year-old has as many World Cup golds as biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjørndalen. No one has more WC gold in biathlon on the men’s side than the Norwegian duo. Bø tactics from the start World Cup leader Thingnes Bø has his greatest strength in the cross-country track and immediately accelerated from the start and ensured that there was a large stretch in the field of 30 runners. Only big brother Tarjei Bø, Martin Ponsiluoma, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Émilien Jacquelin managed to keep up with the pace of Thingnes Bø, who thus got a gap down to the rest of the field until the first shooting. – It is quite clear that Johannes and Tarjei have spoken. They take turns going, says news’s biathlon expert Torgeir Bjørn about Bø’s move in the first round. CHEERING: The Norwegian women’s national team cheered on the Norwegian men’s runners during Sunday’s joint start. Nevertheless, French Quentin Fillon Maillet went out in front after the first shooting after a lightning-fast and flawless shooting. Only Tarjei Bø delivered flawlessly of the Norwegians and went out in second place, while both Thingnes Bø, Sjåstad Christiansen and Sturla Holm Lægreid received a penalty round each. Thingnes Bø finished in 15th place, 24 seconds behind leader Fillon Maillet after the first shooting, but had a strong second round and entered the standings almost at the same time as the close group. In the second shooting, the Bø brothers shot flawlessly and thus came out fourth and sixth after two out of four shootings. Latvian medal Thingnes Bø then took a long step towards WC gold after a full house on the first standing and went out alone in the lead, while both Tarjei Bø and Fillion Maillet had to go through a penalty round. Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs followed almost five seconds behind, but had a strong third round and shot for a medal in the last shooting. There, Thingnes Bø shot flawlessly and had no problems entering the WC gold. – It was a dream. I had envisioned shooting alone at target one on the last one standing. I thought this was going to go well and it did, says Thingnes Bø to TV 2. Rastorgujes persevered with another flawless series and went on to a sensational silver medal. The 35-year-old has only two podium finishes in his career before. THE PODIUM: Johannes Thingnes Bø is at the top of the podium in front of Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujev and Quentin Fillon Maillet. Photo: BILDBYRÅN French Fillon Maillet took bronze when Tarjei Bø missed once on the last stand. – I’m not really disappointed with my own performance, it was just that the two in front had their best day in maybe the whole year, says Tarjei Bø to TV 2.
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