Biathlon: after the heartbreak of losing the race for the big globe, Lou Jeanmonnot starts on Tuesday with the World Military Games in Lucerne

Biathlon: no time to dither for Lou Jeanmonnot

After the thrill of last weekend’s Biathlon World Cup in Oslo-Holmenkollen (Norway), Lou Jeanmonnot is moving straight on to the 2025 World Military Games in Lucerne (Switzerland).

Beaten to the punch by Germany’s Franziska Preuss in her quest for the big crystal globe – we’ll remember for a long time those 2 bloody tenths in the sprint and that crash in the final of the mass-start – the Doubiste rider will be heading to Switzerland this Monday. The opening ceremony of the event, at which she will defend the colours of the French army, is scheduled for late afternoon.

Then, on Tuesday afternoon from 2.30pm in Goms (Switzerland), Lou Jeanmonnot will be at the start of the sprint before taking part in the mixed relay on Thursday (9.30am) and then the patrol race on Friday (9.30am).

Great competition

Her most serious medal contenders include her compatriots Paula Botet, Chloé Chevalier and Sophie Chauveau, as well as many foreigners.

Austria’s Lisa Theresa Hauser has been announced, along with Switzerland’s Lena Haecki-Gross, Lea Meier and Amy Baserga, Bulgaria’s Milena Todorova and Italy’s Samuela Comola, Linda Zingerle, Rebecca Passler and Beatrice Trabucchi, Slovenia’s Polona Klemencic, Sweden’s Anna Hedstroem and Annie Lind, Poland’s Natalia Sidorowicz, the Americans Deedra Irwin and Tara Geraghty-Moats, Ukraine’s Yuliia Dzhima and Finland’s Erika Jänkä.

The full programme of the Lucerne Military World Games 🇨🇭

Tuesday 25 March

• 9.30am – Cross-country skiing/Para cross-country skiing: individual women’s 10 km FT
• 11.00 – Cross-country skiing/Para cross-country skiing: individual 15 km FT men
• 2.30pm – Biathlon: women’s sprint
• 16:00 – Biathlon: men’s sprint

Wednesday 26th March

• 9.30am – Cross-country skiing/Para cross-country skiing: men’s and women’s FT team sprints

Thursday 27 March

• 9.30am – Biathlon: mixed relay

Friday 28 March

• 9.30am – Biathlon: patrol

• Eighteen Frenchmen took part in the World Military Games in Lucerne from 25 to 28 March, including Chloé Chevalier, Lou Jeanmonnot and Eric Perrot…
• “She closed the door on me in a very conventional way”: Lou Jeanmonnot looks back on the fall that may have cost him the big globe at the Oslo-Holmenkollen mass start

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