The Frenchman had two penalties and finished in 36 minutes 48.3 seconds.

Second place went to Sebastian Samuelsson of Sweden, 9.9 seconds back.

The top three was closed by the Norwegian Tarja Boe (+15.6).

The best of the Russians was Alexander Loginov, who finished fifth with four penalties (+18.5).

He won the sprint the day before.

Anton Babikov became 10th, Daniil Serokhvostov - 11th, Maxim Tsvetkov - 12th, Karim Khalili - 20th, Alexander Povarnitsyn - 36th.

Earlier it was reported that the Norwegians took the entire podium in the sprint at the IBU Cup stage.