KONTIOLAHTI, Finland -- Martina Glagow of Germany won the women's World Cup biathlon season opener Thursday, beating Tatiana Moiseeva by 6.7 seconds.
Glagow had a clean sheet in shooting at 20 targets and finished the 15-kilometer event in 46 minutes, 28.8 seconds. It was her 11th World Cup individual victory. Moiseeva, a Russian, also shot clean.
Simone Denkinger of Germany had two misses and was 1:02.7 behind in third place.
Two Swedes, Anna-Carin Olofsson and Helena Jonsson, were fourth and fifth.
Glagow, 28, was a triple silver medalist at the Winter Olympics in Turin last year and won the World Cup overall title in 2003.
Kati Wilhelm, the defending overall champion from Germany, finished 21st after missing four targets.
The meet ends Sunday.
