Women. 7.5 km, sprint. 1. Olga Pyleva - 23.07.8 (0 penalty loops). 2. Albina Akhatova (both - Russia) - 23.10.1 (0). 3. Kati Wilhelm (Germany) - 23.11.5 (1)... 6. Anna Bogaliy - 23.28.8 (0)... 10. Svetlana Ishmuratova (both - Russia) - 23.52.4 (1). 12.5 km, mass start. 1. Wilhelm - 39.43.4 (2). 2. Martina Glagow (Germany) - gap 19.0 (2). 3. Ekaterina Dafovska (Bulgaria) - 22.4 (2)... 5. Ishmuratova - 40.6 (2)... 10. Akhatova - 1.26.3 (3). Overall standings. 1. Dafovska - 521 points. 2. Sylvie Bekar (France) - 463. 3. Glagov - 423. 4. Akhatova - 412. 5. Pyleva - 376.
Men. 10 km, sprint. 1. Alexander Wolf (Germany) - 26.27.5 (0). 2. Sergey Chepikov (Russia) - 26.32.0 (0). 3. Alexey Aidarov (Belarus) - 26.33.8 (0). 4. Nikolay Kruglov (Russia) - 26.37.2 (0). 15 km, mass start. 1. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norway) - 40.42.9 (3). 2. Oleg Ryzhenkov (Belarus) - gap 2.0 (2). 3. Halvard Hagnevold (Norway) - 4.8 (0). Overall standings. 1. Bjoerndalen - 524 points. 2. Raphael Poiret (France) - 496. 3. Chepikov - 413.

Newspaper “Kommersant” No. 22/P dated 02/10/2003, p. 23

Biathlon World Cup stage in Lahti (Finland)