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Laegreid’s final loop wins Otepää sprint
The Norwegian overturned Jacquelin’s shooting-range advantage after ten clean targets.
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Sturla Holm Laegreid won the men’s ten-kilometre sprint in Otepää in 23:28.5, finishing 10.7 seconds ahead of Emilien Jacquelin. Both shot clean, but the Norwegian overturned a 2.8-second deficit after standing through a powerful last loop at the Tehvandi stadium.
Philipp Nawrath also hit all ten targets and finished third, 17.8 seconds behind. The German’s season-best result was his first individual podium since the Kontiolahti sprint in December 2024. Isak Leknes Frey placed fourth, narrowly ahead of Quentin Fillon Maillet.
Laegreid started sixty-eighth in a field of 107 on a warm, cloudy day. His second victory within four days followed the Kontiolahti mass start, while Johan-Olav Botn completed three Norwegians in the leading six.
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