In the women's 10 kilometre pursuit, Eckhoff won by just half a second over her compatriot, Marte Olsbu Røiseland, still claiming gold despite two penalty laps.

It was Eckhoff's second victory of the weekend after winning the sprint yesterday.

Røiseland's clean shooting record was not enough to win gold, but she was clear in front of Austria's Lisa Theresa Hauser, 43 seconds behind Eckhoff for the bronze.

The Austrian, who made the podium for the first time as an individual yesterday in the sprint, made it two from two in Germany.

She was clear ahead of the rest of the field, with fourth-placed Russian Svetlana Mironova nearly 30 seconds behind. 

Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet of France was fifth, marginally ahead of Poland's Monika Hojnisz-Staręga and Italy's Dorothea Wierer of Italy in sixth and seventh.

Sweden's Hanna Öberg, Belarus' Elena Kruchinkina and Sweden's Linn Persson completed the top 10.

Öberg suffered four penalty laps, costing her a chance of making the podium.

In the second event of the day, the men's 12.5km, Lægreid led home an all-Norwegian podium ahead of team-mates Johannes Dale and Tarjei Bø.

Clocking a time of 36min 01.8sec, Lægreid finished ahead of Dale by 15.6 seconds, with Bø being a further 10 seconds behind, having had to take an extra penalty lap.

His younger brother and overall World Cup leader, Johannes Thingnes Bø, had a disastrous day, finishing eighth with seven penalty laps - five more than the top two.

Despite the number of penalty laps, he finished just 21 seconds off the podium.

The closest to the podium was France's Fabien Claude, who was just five seconds behind Tarjei Bø, finishing fourth ahead of Italy's Lukas Hofer, who had to take four penalty laps.

Slovenia's Jakov Fak and Sweden's Sebastian Samuelsson were just ahead of Johannes Thingnes Bø in sixth and seventh, while Simon Desthieux of France was ninth.

Germany's Arnd Pfeiffer was 10th, and the only one of the top 10 to have a clean shooting record.