Biathlon: Tarjei Boe raises his arms in Antholz
Early on Friday afternoon, Johannes Thingnes Boe competed in the last sprint of his career in Antholz (Italy). Retired at the end of the winter, as he announced last weekend, the Norwegian was one of the favourites for victory in the Südtirol Arena , where he has won a handful of times in the past.
However, the king of biathlon made one mistake on each of his shots and was not at his best in the final cross-country lap. So, in ninth place at the finish, he left his compatriots to fight it out for victory under the sun of Trentino-Alto Adige.
His older brother Tarjei Boe, who scored 10/10, drove a strong race and took victory… 4 tenths ahead of Sturla Holm Lægreid (9/10), the new overall leader, and 2 sec 6 ahead of Tommaso Giacomel (8/10).
He announced his retirement in the mixed zone
Speaking live to NRK, Tarjei Boe, in tears, took the opportunity to announce that he would be ending his career in a few months’ time, on the same day as his younger brother. “ Throughout the winter, I felt it was the right time to stop”, he explained. In March, a huge page in Norwegian and world biathlon will be turned.
The day’s flower ceremony was completed by Martin Uldal (9/10), Dmytro Pidruchnyi (9/10) and Jakov Fak (10/10), while Vitezslav Hornig (10/10), Eric Perrot (9/10), eighth and best Frenchman of the day, Johannes Thingnes Boe (8/10) and Jonas Marecek (10/10) made it into the top 10.
The results of the other French riders were not so good, with Emilien Claude (8/10) twenty-fourth, Emilien Jacquelin (7/10) twenty-fifth, Quentin Fillon-Maillet (6/10) twenty-eighth, Fabien Claude (7/10) thirty-seventh and Antonin Guigonnat (8/10) forty-third.
With a 9/10 behind the rifle, Eric Perrot 🇫🇷 finished 8th in the sprint at Antholz-Anterselva 🇮🇹, future site of the 2026 Winter Olympics!
📸 Nordic Focus pic.twitter.com/DSPN7GPsZR– FFS – Fédération Française de Ski (@FedFranceSki) January 24, 2025
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”.
