Biathlon: Sturla Holm Lægreid’s demonstration
The new boss of the biathlon is Sturla Holm Lægreid. While his illustrious compatriots Johannes Thingnes Boe and Tarjei Boe have announced in recent days that they will end their careers in March, the reigning world sprint champion has taken on the mantle of world number one. After a magnificent start to 2025 with a number of individual podium finishes , including victory in the pursuit in Oberhof (Germany), he went one better this Sunday afternoon in Antholz (Italy).
Also in a pursuit, he started in second place… but at the same time as Tarjei Boe, the winner of the sprint by 4 tenths of a second. A situation, incidentally, that had not occurred in a World Cup race since 2014. In this race, with 20/20, he led from start to finish.
Phenomenal comebacks for Quentin Fillon-Maillet and Antonin Guigonnat
However, Sturla Holm Lægreid was challenged by Tarjei Boe (19/20) and Tommaso Giacomel (18/20). On fire in front of his home crowd, the latter spared no effort in trying to crack the yellow bib. His attempts were unsuccessful and it was even he who made a mistake on the last run up to the targets. As a result, he finished third behind his two Norwegian rivals.
Martin Uldal (19/20) was fourth, ahead of the indefatigable Jakov Fak (19/20) and Johannes Thingnes Boe (17/20), who was too much at fault on the mats to join the battle for the podium.
Then came the red-white-and-blue with Eric Perrot (18/20) in seventh place and Quentin Fillon-Maillet (19/20) in eighth, having climbed twenty places in the pursuit. Antonin Guigonnat (19/20), twelfth, made up thirty-one places. Emilien Jacquelin (16/20) is seventeenth, Fabien Claude (18/20) nineteenth and Emilien Claude (16/20) twentieth.
🇫🇷 @eric_perrot1 finishes 7th in the pursuit at Antholz-Anterselva. The Savoyard consolidates his place on the overall podium. 💪🏼
Good comeback by @quentinfillon who started 28th and finished 8️⃣e, and@antoguigo who started 43rd and finished 12th! 👏🏼
🔜 Off to the championships… pic.twitter.com/IKn3Kd8nmr– FFS – Fédération Française de Ski (@FedFranceSki) January 26, 2025
Live data from the women’s relay and the men’s pursuit
Full results
- The full programme for the Antholz-Anterselva World Cup, the sixth stage of the 2024/2025 season
- Corinne Niogret: my best memory of… Antholz-Anterselva
- An Oslo-Holmenkollen finish: images of the new configuration of the Südtirol Arena in Antholz-Anterselva
- “I was lucky at the start of my career to race against a legend”: Eric Perrot pays tribute to Johannes Thingnes Boe a few days after announcing his retirement.
- Antholz: Elvira Oeberg (very) doubtful for the sprint
- Elvira Oeberg to skip all Antholz competitions
- This week, Dorothea Wierer will experience her last races at the Antholz World Cup.
- Antholz: fifth success of the winter for Lou Jeanmonnot, winner of the sprint at 10/10
- “I focused on the fact that I wanted to shoot well”: how Lou Jeanmonnot won the second sprint of his career in Antholz.
- “I’ve never experienced anything like it”: Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold’s strange misadventure in the Antholz sprint
- “I found myself again”: in the Antholz sprint, Julia Simon made her comeback at the flower ceremony
- Franziska Preuss takes her first podium in Antholz: “It’s very satisfying”.
- Antholz: Tarjei Boe wins the sprint by a whisker ahead of Sturla Holm Lægreid and Tommaso Giacomel, Eric Perrot in the top 10
- Antholz: second in the sprint, Sturla Holm Lægreid takes the yellow bib from Johannes Thingnes Boe
- A few days after his brother, Tarjei Boe announced the end of his career at the end of the winter.
- “I promised myself that the next time I was at the top, I’d stop”: in tears, Tarjei Boe chose to announce the end of his career after his fifteenth World Cup success.
- Antholz: with a demonstration performance, Lou Jeanmonnot wins the pursuit ahead of Julia Simon and Franziska Preuss, flowers for Jeanne Richard and Océane Michelon
- Antholz: before the World Championships break, Franziska Preuss maintains her 92-point lead over Lou Jeanmonnot in the overall standings
- “I would have liked to have made 20/20 to dominate from A to Z”: Lou Jeanmonnot, the almost perfect masterpiece on the pursuit of Antholz
- Antholz: Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Eric Perrot and Emilien Jacquelin win the relay and give France a historic four in a row.
- “We’re no longer the best in the world”: the Norwegians hail France’s magnificent performance in the Antholz relay
