[2] Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle took an early lead in the event, after missing one target in the standing shooting.

Soon, her result was improved by four seconds by Anaïs Bescond, also with one missing target.

Dorothea Wierer, who was third after the standing shooting (behind Kuzmina and Vilukhina) finished sixth.

[3] On 27 November 2017, Russian biathlete Olga Vilukhina was stripped of her olympic medal due to doping violations.

[5] On 24 September 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport removed the sanctions from biathletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, but upheld them on their teammate Olga Zaitseva.