Biathlon: the Antholz World Cup comes to an end this Sunday
This Sunday, the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz (Italy) draws to a close with two final races contested on the site of the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. First, at 12.05pm, the start of the women’s relay.
France, with Jeanne Richard, Lou Jeanmonnot, Océane Michelon and Julia Simon, will be looking to win for the first time this winter in this speciality. They will be up against Germany(Marlene Fichtner, Sophia Schneider, Julia Kink, Selina Grotian), Norway(Karoline Knotten, Ragnhild Femsteinevik, Maren Kirkeeide, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold) and Sweden(Johanna Skottheim, Ella Halvarsson, Anna Magnusson, Hanna Oeberg).
The men’s pursuit will then get underway at 2.45pm. Tarjei Boe, who won the sprint on Friday, will be leading the way… but Sturla Holm Lægreid will start at the same time. Tommaso Giacomel will be at 3 seconds, Martin Uldal at 21, Dmytro Pidruchnyi at 22, Jakov Fak at 27, Vitezslav Hornig at 28, Eric Perrot at 29 and Johannes Thingnes Boe at 36. In all, there will be seventeen of them in one minute at the gun.
Further back are Sebastian Samuelsson at 1 min 17, Endre Stroemsheim and Emilien Claude at 1 min 26, Emilien Jacquelin at 1 min 28, Quentin Fillon-Maillet at 1 min 31, Vebjoern Soerum at 1 min 34, Fabien Claude at 1 min 39, Antonin Guigonnat at 1 min 47 and Campbell Wrightat 2 min 0.
The complete start lists
Women’s relay – 12.05pm
Men’s pursuit – 2.45pm
- 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.
- “With Kitzbühel? Why is the Antholz World Cup weekend so bizarre, with relays and pursuits staggered?
