 A perfect score in the final range would have brought Fak a gold medal, however after one miss Fak had to battle very hard for at least some medal and in the end beat Simon Fourcade by less than a second to win the bronze.Thus Jakov Fak won Croatia their first-ever World Championship medal in biathlon.After his success in the World Championships, the expectations were high, but Fak's World Cup race performances in the 2009–10 season were substandard.