Biathlon: the triumph of queen Lou Jeanmonnot, alone in the world in Hochfilzen
In the wake of the podium finish achieved by Sophie Chauveau from Bornand in the biathlon world cup sprint in Hochfilzen (Austria), it was another Frenchwoman who shone in the Tyrol on Saturday. As the sun gave way to clouds on a day reserved for pursuits, Lou Jeanmonnot lit up the Austrian stadium with her class.
Fourth at the start, she quickly climbed back into second place behind Germany’s Franziska Preuss (17/20). When Preuss made two errors on her first standing shot, the Olympic Mont d’Or member filled the gap to take control of the race. Solid on her last run over the mats, she finally scored a magnificent 20/20 to triumph in this Hochfilzen pursuit.
She came second in the overall rankings
With her second victory of the winter (at 20/20)after the individual short in Kontiolahti (Finland), Lou Jeanmonnot has once again made her mark and is now, if she still had to be, a contender for the supreme title at the end of the season. With this victory, she also secures the right to wear the red pursuit leader’s bib next Saturday in Le Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie).
On the day’s podium, the Frenchwoman was joined by the Germans Vanessa Voigt (20/20) and Franziska Preuss, who retained the lead in the overall rankings. Ella Halvarsson (19/20), Marketa Davidova (18/20) and Julia Simon (18/20), after a masterful start to the race, enter the flower ceremony.
Gilonne Guigonnat (19/20), with the day’s comeback, is ninth, while Sophie Chauveau (16/20) is eleventh. Next up are Jeanne Richard (18/20) in fourteenth place, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (14/20) in sixteenth and Océane Michelon (16/20), still in blue, in nineteenth.
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20/20 shooting and victory at the end for Lou Jeanmonnot… What a pursuit from the Frenchwoman in Hochfilzen ⚡️🤩
📸 Nordic Focus pic.twitter.com/VHjfmzMnhY– FFS – Fédération Française de Ski (@FedFranceSki) December 14, 2024
Full results
- The full programme for the Hochfilzen World Cup, the second stage of the 2024/2025 season
- Corinne Niogret: my best memory of… Hochfilzen
- “It’s like stepping out of the shadows into the light”: between Kontiolahti and Hochfilzen, the World Cup leaves the darkness behind to find the sun again
- “I just feel super happy to have achieved this”: how did Eric Perrot digest his victory in the Kontiolahti mass-start and his assumption of power in the general standings?
- “It’s like one last shot at victory, until you experience it, you don’t know what it’s like…”: during the Hochfilzen sprint, Eric Perrot will experience his first race with the yellow bib on his back.
- “There’s the Dominik Landertinger climb, which is really hard and long…”: Austria’s Anna Gandler describes the track and shooting range at Hochfilzen
- Hochfilzen: Sophie Chauveau, beaten only by Franziska Preuss in the sprint, takes her second World Cup podium finish
- “A mixture of pride, relief and recognition”: Sophie Chauveau, the podium that came just at the right time in the Hochfilzen sprint
- Hochfilzen: Franziska Preuss takes the yellow number from Elvira Oeberg thanks to her sprint success
- Hochfilzen: after the sprint, Océane Michelon once again wears the blue bib as the best U23 player
- More than four years after his last World Cup podium, Fabien Claude finishes third in the Hochfilzen sprint
- “I didn’t win, but for me it’s a great victory”: after 1,463 days without a win, how Fabien Claude returned to the World Cup podium
- “I’m still hungry for victory”: Johannes Thingnes Boe won the Hochfilzen sprint for the first time this season
- Hochfilzen: the photo album of Eric Perrot’s day with the yellow bib
- “It makes you want to go back to him”: Eric Perrot looks back on his Hochfilzen sprint in the yellow bib
- “I really don’t know how I managed to do that…”. when Greenland’s Sondre Slettemark, number 1 in the Hochfilzen sprint, fell on mondovision
