The double Olympic champion signed his sixth success of the season and is getting a little closer to winning the big crystal globe with only six races left to go.
The Frenchman is now 157 points ahead of his runner-up Emilien Jacquelin, 6th in the Kontiolahti sprint, before the last two stages of the World Cup in Otepaa in Estonia (March 10 to 13) and Oslo (March 17 to 20) .
If we subtract the two worst results of the biathletes, as required by the regulations to determine the final general classification of the World Cup, the advantage of Fillon Maillet is 127 lengths over his compatriot.
Fillon Maillet (29), author of a clear shot, was 18.3 seconds ahead of Norwegian Filip Andersen and 29.7 seconds of German Johannes Kuehn.
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