Winter sports news - Home Biathlon World Championship gold for Dorothea Wierer
BySportsbeat
Updated 18/02/2020 at 17:19 GMT
There was success on home soil for Dorothea Wierer as the Italian secured Biathlon World Championship gold in Antholz-Anterselva.
Wierer finished the 15km event in a time of 43m07.7s to emerge 2.2 seconds clear of her nearest challenger Vanessa Hinz who took the silver medal.
Norway's Marte Olsbu Røiseland completed the top three to take home a bronze medal from the contest.
In truth she was someway short of matching the pace of the top two however, and finished 15.8 seconds behind Wierer.
Hanna Oeberg and Franziska Preuss completed the top five.
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