Sebastian Samuelsson took Olympic silver at the start of the 2018 hunt after going out as twelve.

Today, the Swede was 1.04 after leading Alexander Loginov, at a eleventh place, before the start.

But there was no replay of the Olympic success.

The Swede shot three bars and dropped eight placements instead and lost almost 1.30 minutes out in the track.

Nelin best Swedish

We can find a reason for the weak effort from the insertion. Then the 22-year-old's gun stopped working.

- It was then that when Sebastian was about to shoot in, it became jittery with the rifle, more specifically the diopter. That's the part of the rifle Sebastian looks in. It was that some debris had settled in the diopter, so he saw nothing when aiming. The Swedish leaders unscrewed, blew clean and then it worked. It should be resolved, SVT Sports Tobias Jonsson reported before the competition.

The best Swedish instead became Jesper Nelin in a eleventh place.

- It was a good hunting start, the shooting worked very well today. Overall a well executed race, he tells SVT Sport.