Biathlon: start of the Bessans selections this Thursday with a sprint
It’s time for the French biathletes to get back into the swing of things. This Thursday morning, from 9.50am, the first sprint of the FFS selections in Bessans (Savoie) will take place on the snow of Haute Maurienne Vanoise.
For this competition, which opens the week of selections for the first two IBU Cup of the season, it is the men who will open the hostilities. Then, from 10.20am, the women will take to the track.
For this first sprint, Julia Simon, Lou Jeanmonnot, Jeanne Richard, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, Gilonne Guigonnat, Sophie Chauveau and Océane Michelon, who will be starting their winter in the World Cup, will not be at the start, but will be taking part in the weekend’s races.
Caroline Colombo is also absent, having told Nordic Magazine in recent days that she was still feeling the symptoms of the neuropathy she contracted at the end of summer 2023. Emilien Claude, Oscar Lombardot, who is in Norway with Group A, and Anaëlle Bondoux are also absent, as all three are pre-qualified for the start of the IBU Cup.
The complete start list for the first FFS biathlon selection sprint in Bessans (Savoie)
The full programme of selections from Bessans (Savoie)
Thursday 14 November
- 8.50am-9.20am: weapons check, then men’s and women’s ski drop-off
- 9.00am-9.40am: Men’s and women’s shooting trials
- 9.50am: Men’s 10km sprint
- 10.20 am: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Friday 15 November
- 8.00-10.45am: official training
Saturday 16th November
- 8.50am-9.20am: men’s and women’s skis off (no weapons check)
- 9.00am-9.40am: Men’s and women’s shooting trials
- 9.50am: men’s 10km sprint, then women’s 7.5km sprint
Sunday 17 November
- 8.20am-8.50am: men’s and women’s skis off (no weapons check)
- 8.30am-9.10am: Men’s and women’s shooting trials
- 9.20am: men’s 15km mass-start
- 10.10 am: women’s 12.5 km mass-start
- IBU Cup: the full programme of selections in Bessans on 14, 16 and 17 November
- Three places up for grabs for the women and up to five for the men: Stéphane Bouthiaux explains what’s at stake and all the details of the IBU Cup selections in Bessans.
- “Doing specific work at race pace”: the French women’s team launches its final training camp of the preparation period on the snow at Bessans on Friday.
- Julia Simon, Lou Jeanmonnot, Jeanne Richard, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, Gilonne Guigonnat, Sophie Chauveau and Océane Michelon training on the snow at Bessans: photo album
- “We already made this choice last year”: why the French women’s team decided to finish their preparations in Bessans and not in Sjusjøen with the boys.
- The names of the six French players pre-qualified for the start of the 2024/2025 IBU Cup
- The full schedule for the arrival of the French team groups for their training camp on the snow at Bessans
