Triple Olympic champion Michael Greis made it two wins in as many days on home snow in Ruhpolding as he claimed pursuit victory.

The German started 20 seconds clear of Maxim Tchoudov after winning Saturday's sprint and came home a further eight seconds ahead of the Russian after missing just one target at the final standing shoot.

The 31-year-old is now fourth in the overall World Cup standings with his seventh career victory never really in doubt after a perfect performance with the rifle in the prone.

Emil Hegle Svendsen climbed from 15th to third after going 19 of 20 with the rifle with the Norwegian just edging out Bjorn Ferry for the final podium slot.

Overall World Cup leader Ole Einar Bjoerndalen finished where he started in fifth after missing three shots at the first standing effort but he extends his advantage over Dmitri Yaroshenko to 58 points.

Norway's Solveig Rogstad shot clear to earn her first-ever World Cup victory and relegate Olympic champion Kati Wilhelm to second in the women's pursuit.

The 25-year-old Rogstad beat her previous best-ever finish of fifth-place as Germany's Wilhelm, the Olympic champion in the discipline from the 2006 Torino Games, missed two shots.

The 2006 World Cup champion Wilhelm was still able to improve on her fourth-place showing in the sprint ending up just 12.6 seconds slower than Rogstad's leading time of 33 minutes and 43.2 seconds.

Finland's Kaisa Makarainen moved up from tenth onto the podium after missing one shot, finishing 30.9 seconds off of the winning pace.

Finnish sprint winner Kaisa Varis was relegated to 11th place, while Martina Glagow - the World Cup leader coming into Sunday's race - was 15th.

German Andrea Henkel was fifth despite missing four shots, finishing in front of French number one Sandrine Bailly and behind Norwegian number one Tora Berger.

Jeremy Stahl, Lee Walker / Eurosport