The double Olympic champion now has 225 points in advance in the overall standings after its victory at the Sprint of Otepää, Estonia.
Le Monde with AFP
The French Quentin Fillon Maillet won, Thursday, March 10, the sprint of Otepää (Estonia), the penultimate stage of the Biathlon World Cup, and could win for the first time in his career the big Crystal Globe From the next race, scheduled Saturday.
At four trials of the season, Fillon Maillet now has 225 points ahead of the general standings on his Dauphin, Emilien Jacquelin, only thirty-second.
French dominated his race
So it will be enough for the double Olympic champion to finish at least twenty-third of the mass start Saturday to be sacred and become the fourth French to finish the season in the world number 1 position, after Patrice Bailly-Salins (1994), Poirée Raphael (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) and Martin Fourcade (from 2012 to 2018).
Author of the Sprint-Prosecution Last Week in Kontiorahti (Finland) Just after the Beijing Olympics, Fillon Maillet continued on his throws by dominating the race with a very beautiful ten out of ten shooting, signing his eighth victory Winter in World Cup. French (29 years old) ahead of 7.2 seconds the Norwegian Sturla Lægreid and 11.1 seconds German Benedikt Doll.