Biathlon: Lou Jeanmonnot and Quentin Fillon-Maillet in the French Cup this weekend
This weekend, the French Biathlon Cup makes a stopover in Prémanon (Jura). For the third stage of the 2025/2026 season, the national circuit welcomes two stars of the French team: Lou Jeanmonnot, competing this Saturday in the first sprint of the programme, and Quentin Fillon-Maillet, at the start of the Sunday sprint.
With less than a week to go before the World Cup in Oberhof (Germany), this participation is part of a strategy to build up momentum following the end-of-year festivities.
A training time was on the programme to get back into the rhythm of the competition before setting off again [on the World Cup],” Cyril Burdet, coach of the women’s group, explained to Nordic Magazine. Lou [Jeanmonnot] has the opportunity to do it with a race number, so it’s all the better.
Intensity at home for the other Blues in the World Cup
Her team-mates will do it at home over the weekend… like Quentin Fillon-Maillet’s colleagues.
The rest of the group won’t be going up [to the Jura] and doing the road, but producing their own intensity,” confirms Simon Fourcade, the French national team coach. As for Quentin [Fillon-Maillet], he’s on site, so it’s no big deal.
For the two Frenchmen, this outing on the slopes of the Tuffes stadium in Prémanon will have nothing to do with results. ” There’s no objective,” says Simon Fourcade. It has to be said that the dreams of the two Francs-Comtois are made of gold in a month’s time in Italy.
Lou Jeanmonnot training this Friday in Prémanon
The full programme for the French Biathlon Cup in Prémanon (Jura)
Saturday 3 January
- 8.15-9.00: rifle check and ski deposit U17/U19 men
- 8.45am-9.50am: Men’s U17/U19 shooting trials
- 10.00: U17/U19 men’s 7.5 km sprint
- 11:15-12:00: rifle check and removal of women’s U17/U19 skis
- 11.30am: U17 and U19 men’s prize-giving ceremony
- 11.30am-12.20pm: U17/U19 women’s shooting trials
- 12.30pm: U17/U19 women’s 6 km sprint
- 1.30pm-2.15pm: Rifle check and removal of U21/Senior men’s and women’s skis
- 1.45pm: U17 and U19 women’s prize-giving ceremony
- 1.45pm-2.35pm: Shooting trials U21/Seniors men and women
- 2.45pm: U21/Senior men 10km sprint and U21/Senior women 7.5km sprint
- 16:00: U21 and senior men’s and women’s prize-giving ceremony
Sunday 4 January
- 8.15-9.00: rifle check and ski deposit U17/U19 men
- 8.45am-9.50am: Men’s U17/U19 shooting trials
- 10.00: U17/U19 men’s 7.5 km sprint
- 11:15-12:00: rifle check and removal of women’s U17/U19 skis
- 11.30am: U17 and U19 men’s prize-giving ceremony
- 11.30am-12.20pm: U17/U19 women’s shooting trials
- 12.30pm: U17/U19 women’s 6 km sprint
- 1.30pm-2.15pm: Rifle check and removal of U21/Senior men’s and women’s skis
- 1.45pm: U17 and U19 women’s prize-giving ceremony
- 1.45pm-2.35pm: Shooting trials U21/Seniors men and women
- 2.45pm: U21/Senior men 10km sprint and U21/Senior women 7.5km sprint
- 16:00: U21 and senior men’s and women’s prize-giving ceremony
- A place for men at stake in the IBU Cup: the full programme for the Coupe de France in Prémanon, the third stage of the 2025/2026 national circuit
- Coupe de France de Prémanon: Lou Jeanmonnot on the start line on Saturday, Quentin Fillon-Maillet in Sunday’s race
- Coupe de France de Prémanon: the start lists for Saturday’s sprints… with Lou Jeanmonnot bib number 75
