It was almost a start-finish victory for the French quartet: Already Julia Simon was able to escape from the others together with Dorothea Wierer (ITA), Anais Bescond extended the lead, while the Italians fell far behind later. Norway and Germany emerged as the first pursuers, but Denise Herrmann always needed more spare rounds than the Norwegian. She always had to try to close the gap to Marte Olsbu and despite her first class skiing performance, it was not enough to catch up with Norway. In the stadium, Herrmann was celebrated for third place, as had previously done Chevalier and Olsbu. Fourth place went to Sweden's Anna Magnusson, Mona Brorsson (both SWE), Linn Persson (SWE, Fischer skis and bindings) and Hanna Öberg (SWE, Fischer skis, bindings and boots) with a lot of gap to the podium and also to the Russians Anastasiia Morozova (RUS, Fischer skis and bindings), Svetlana Mironova (RUS, Fischer skis, bindings and boots), Irina Starykh (RUS) and Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht (RUS, Fischer skis, bindings and boots) in fifth position.
