The French biathlete covered the distance in 41 minutes and 1.4 seconds, making two misses at four firing lines.
Second place went to the German Arnd Piffer. Three closed the Frenchman Simon Child.
Russian Matvey Eliseev, with four misses, finished tenth. Alexander Loginov, who made five mistakes, is the 17th.
RT led the online text broadcast of the race.