Italy’s Dorothea Wierer went from 24th to 17th to 9th to IBU 15 km Individual World Champion in the span of just 43:07.7 this afternoon, taking her second Gold medal of these Championships. Wierer had two penalties in the first two stages on her way to becoming the first Italian woman to win his title. “You have to fight; you have to win.”

Wierer, usually full of chatter seemed almost speechless for a moment, hesitating before saying, “It is really great for me. I did not see this (coming) because I had one, one and I was not sure if I could make some zeroes, because I was shaking a lot especially in the standing shooting. The last loop was really hard. One moment I was thinking Silver; it would be great for me. And then I was thinking, ‘you have to fight; you have to win.’”