At 25, the French offered her first Olympic title for the last race of her Games. This is the fourteenth medal for the tricolor delegation, the fifth in gold.
This mass start (group start) was the last chance for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, Julia Simon and Anaïs Bescond to shine solo. After several mixed races, the three attacked this revanchist mass-start on the Zhangjiakou launch pad.
The first cited did more than take her revenge: carried by an almost perfect shot after a first delicate session on the prone shot, and a regained physical condition, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet thwarted still complicated weather conditions to afford her first Olympic title, ahead of the two Norwegian stars, Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, who won a historic fifth medal at these Games, including three gold.
His fourth career win at 25. The 7th in the world ranking, already bronze medalist in Pyeongchang in the relay, becomes the second French titled in individual, sixteen years after Florence Baverel-Robert at the Turin Games. The French brings a fourteenth medal to the tricolor delegation, the 7th arrival of the biathlon.
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