Sweden's Hanna Oeberg made all 20 shots to pull off a shock victory in the women's Olympic 15-km individual biathlon on Thursday, holding off Germany's double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier, who had to settle for third after a costly early miss.

Oeberg shot clean and skied brilliantly to finish in a time of 41 minutes, 7.2 seconds, which was 24.7 seconds ahead of Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia who missed two shots but still managed to add another silver medal to the one she won in Monday's pursuit race.

It was a stunning victory for the 22-year-old Swede, who was awarded the International Biathlon Union's rookie of the year honour in 2017 and is ranked 58th in the World Cup standings.