At the end of day 7 Norway’s lead over Russia closes again in what was a relatively quiet day for all of the top six nations. China and Switzerland leap up the table whilst Croatia and Spain are new to the list.

The scoring table is as follows;
1st 8 points
2nd 7
3rd 6
4th 5
5th 4
6th 3
7th 2
8th 1
If countries are level on points their single best result is the tiebreak

[table]
Rank, Nation,Points,Tie breaker
1, NOR, 156,
2, RUS, 140,
3, USA, 136,
4, CAN, 124,
5, GER, 120,
6, NED, 108,
7, CHN, 78,
8, SUI, 77,
9, ITA, 73,
10, SWE, 70,
11, JPN, 69,
12, AUT, 66,
13, FRA, 52,
14, CZE, 44,
15, SLO, 36,
16, BLR, 30,
17, AUS, 29,
18, GBR, 26, 1st
19, FIN, 26, 2nd
20, POL, 24,
21, KOR, 22,
22, KAZ, 19,
23, SVK, 15,
24, UKR, 13,
25, LAT, 12,
26, CRO, 7,
27, BEL, 5, 4th
28, ESP, 5, 4th
29, HUN, 2,
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