Biathlon: Les Bleues off the podium in Brezno-Osrblie
Early on Friday afternoon, theIBU Biathlon Cup in Brezno-Osrblie (Slovakia) included a men’s sprint on its programme. A few hours after Paula Botet ‘s success on the women’s side, Italy’s Christoph Pircher was delighted to claim his first victory on the B circuit.
With 10/10, he won by a margin of 8.5 seconds over Austrian Magnus Oberhauser (10/10) and 17.3 seconds over Czech Petr Hak (10/10). Overall leader, Norway’s Vetle Paulsen (9/10) had to settle for fourth place ahead of Jakub Stvrtecky (8/10) and Oscar Andersson (10/10).
Gaëtan Paturel (9/10) took seventh place, some twenty seconds off the podium, while Léo Carlier (9/10), in ninth place, scored his first top ten finish in the IBU Cup. Damien Levet (7/10) was nineteenth, Antonin Guigonnat (7/10) twenty-first and Valentin Lejeune (7/10) twenty-second. Further back, Corentin Jacob (6/10) is sixty-seventh.
Full results
C73B_v1-30IBU Cup general ranking
C78B_v1-53The overall sprint ranking
C78A_v1-53- The full programme for the IBU Cup in Brezno-Osrblie, the fifth round of the 2025/2026 B circuit season
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- IBU Cup in Brezno-Osrblie: Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Sophie Chauveau, Gaëtan Paturel and Damien Levet second in the mixed relay
- IBU Cup Brezno-Osrblie: Antonin Guigonnat and Gilonne Guigonnat sixth in the mixed singles relay won by Sweden ahead of Finland and Italy
- Brezno-Osrblie: another IBU Cup success for Paula Botet, winner of the sprint just ahead of Gilonne Guigonnat, flowers for Sophie Chauveau
