The Tyrolean shot clean on Thursday, after 7.5 kilometers she was 24.9 seconds behind Norwegian Marte Olsbu Röiseland, who was 15.4 seconds ahead of French Anais Bescond and 16.1 seconds ahead of Swede Elvira Öberg prevailed. The latter recorded two mistakes in shooting.
Hauser did not mourn the missed podium on her 28th birthday. “I felt good on the track, but I’m particularly happy about my performance at the shooting range today. Mainly because I had a few problems in Hochfilzen. Getting through two zeros today is really good. I was eight years ago I ran my first individual World Cup here, with zero mistakes back then, “said the mass start world champion. To do this again for my birthday and to run such a cool race, with that she gave herself the best present.
Dunja Zdouc as 70th and Katharina Innerhofer as 71st did not make it into the top 60, which will contest the pursuit on Saturday.
Source: Nachrichten
