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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Norway's Ole Einar Bjorndalen won his second straight gold medal at the biathlon world championships Sunday after an appeals jury reversed a decision to strip him of the victory for skiing off course.
The race jury punished Bjorndalen and several other athletes for mistakenly crossing a small bridge instead of skiing around it at the beginning of the 12.5-kilometer pursuit. The one-minute penalty would have put Bjorndalen in third place, but an appeals jury reversed the decision after protests from several national teams, giving biathlon's all-time great a final time of 31 minutes, 46.79 seconds.
The world championships also double as World Cup meet, and the win means the 35-year-old Bjorndalen equaled alpine skiing great Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories. The biathlon World Cup is run independently of the International Ski Federation, however, which organizes the alpine, Nordic and snowboarding circuits.
Maxim Tchoudov of Russia won the silver, finishing 41.6 seconds behind Bjorndalen. The Russian had started with a 29.1-second deficit following Saturday's 10K race, and missed three shots. Norway's Alexander Os won bronze, 52.7 seconds behind after missing three targets in strong wind.
In the women's 10K pursuit, Sweden's Helena Jonsson secured her first world title by making up a 55-second deficit on Saturday's winner Kati Wilhelm of Germany to finish in 34:12.39 after missing two shots.
Wilhelm had six misses in the tough wind conditions to finish second, 18.3 seconds behind Jonsson. Russia' Olga Zaitseva was third, 24.1 seconds back, after also missing six targets.
"I was really nervous on the last lap because Kati is such a strong runner," Jonsson said. "I was also afraid that I might fall in the last downhill stretch."
Wilhelm said it was tough to focus when entering the first shooting range ahead of all her competitors.
"I don't like being on my own at the shooting range, with space and time to muse. I was already annoyed because of all the stuff that went though my head," Wilhelm said.
Marie Laure Brunet of France was the only competitor to hit all her targets, but finished seventh.
Defending pursuit world champion Andrea Henkel was disqualified before the race for accidentally firing a live round during training. The bullet went through a wall but caused no injury and little damage, organizers said.
The doping controversy that plagued the opening of the championships continued Sunday, as the International Biathlon Union announced that Dmitry Yaroshenko of Russia also tested positive for a banned substance at January's World Cup event in Oberhof.
Yaroshenko was barred Friday from the world championships along with two teammates, world champion Yekaterina Iourieva and Albina Akhatova, after the three tested positive at an event in Ostersund, Sweden.
Yaroshenko waived a B-sample analysis of the Oberhof test, making the matter a positive doping case, the IBU said.
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