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HOCHFILZEN, Austria (AP) Lowell Bailey upset the pre-race favorites in the men's individual competition Thursday to become the first American biathlete to win gold at the world championships.
Bailey hit all 20 targets and finished the 20-kilometer race in 48 minutes, 7.4 seconds to edge Ondrej Moravec of the Czech Republic, who also shot cleanly, by 3.3 seconds.
Three-time world champion Martin Fourcade of France missed two targets and finished 21.2 behind to take the bronze medal.
Bailey's gold is the fourth medal at the worlds for an American biathlete, and the first since Tim Burke won silver in the same discipline four years ago.
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