Ruhpolding, Germany - Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen clinched his first biathlon World Cup win of the season with victory Saturday in the men's 10-kilometre sprint in Ruhpolding, Germany.

It was an 83rd victory for record World Cup winner Bjoerndalen who had a comfortable advantage over Austrian Dominik Landertinger and overall leader Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway.

Bjoerndalen made no shooting errors on his way to a time of 23 minutes 25.8 seconds, 33.4 seconds ahead of Landertinger (no errors) and 35.3 seconds up on Svendsen
(one error).

"I haven't had such a good race in a long time," Bjoerndalen said.

"The form is coming back. All the hard training over Christmas is beginning to pay off."

Svendsen continues to lead overall on 406 points, with Poland's Tomasz Sikora on 393 and Bjoerndalen on 348. (dpa)