In the 4x6 kilometres mixed relay event, Russia edged out Norway for the gold medal by just 0.7 seconds.

After the first women's leg, Uliana Kaisheva had Russia far off the pace, 30.5 seconds behind early leader, France's Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet.

Norway, Germany, the United States, Poland, Sweden, Latvia and Finland were all ahead of Russia after that first leg.

A clean shooting record from Svetlana Mironova turned the competition completely on its head, taking the lead after the second leg.

France, Germany and Norway were all close behind with Poland and the Czech Republic still in the mix.

Alexander Loginov kept Russia in the lead, but was closed down by Norway's Johannes Dale, who narrowed the gap to only 3.6 seconds.

Belarus were brought back into medal contention thanks to Sergey Bocharnikov, with Germany and France also still in the fight for the gold.

Little could separate Russia's Eduard Latypov and Norway's Sturla Holm Lægreid, but the Norwegian could not bring his side into the lead, settling for silver instead.

France secured the bronze by a clear margin thanks to a clean shooting record from Quentin Fillon Maillet, finishing just 12.1 seconds behind Russia.

Belarus and Germany finished fourth and fifth; while Sweden were plagued with penalties - serving 16 in total - meaning they could only finish 13th.

In the single mixed relay, the French pairing of Julia Simon and Emilien Jacquelin were dominant in the final race of the weekend.

With both biathletes completing two legs alternatively, the duo won gold ahead of Sweden by 38.7 seconds.

Three of the four legs for France had clean shooting records, with Jacquelin having a perfect record over both of his legs.

Sweden secured silver thanks to consistency from Hanna Öberg and Sebastian Samuelsson, who maintained second place after the third leg.

Norway's Tiril Eckhoff and Johannes Thingnes Bø would have been the favourites for the win, but had to serve 11 penalty laps between them; compared to three for France and five for Sweden.

Both had won their respective sprint races on Friday (January 8), but struggled with the shooting, particularly on their second runs.

A fair distance off the top three were Germany in fourth, Belarus in fifth and Canada in sixth.

The next leg of the IBU Biathlon World Cup is also due to take place in Oberhof from Wednesday to Sunday (January 13 to 17)

Sprint and mass start individual races are set to take place, as well as men's and women's relays.