Biathlon: happy bronze for Lou Jeanmonnot
At the start of the individual women’s race at the Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) on Tuesday afternoon, the big favourite was Lou Jeanmonnot. Winner of the first two races contested in this format this winter without missing a target, the Doubiste native had high hopes of winning her first solo world title in the canton of Grisons.
But if she didn’t feel any negative stress or particular pressure during the warm-up, she dropped a target on her first pass over the shooting range.
“I can’t see the ball I miss when I’m lying down. Usually, I can feel the balls I miss on the ground, they’re visible errors, she lamented to La Chaîne L’Equipe. This time, I imagine it was my stress that came out at the time, and maybe it’s a blessing in disguise because I told myself it was the only one I could afford to miss if I wanted to do well.”
France’s ninth individual world medallist
The start of the race wasn’t ideal for Lou Jeanmonnot, who was only fortieth in the rankings with a quarter of the distance to go. “I wasn’t too happy about missing the first shot, she admits. I didn’t have a great time at the start of the race, so I’m happy with what I did at the end to get this medal. […] I got the better of myself on all the other shots and something very cool came out of it.”
It was quite simply a fine bronze medal at 19/20, her first individual medal of the Swiss fortnight.
It also makes Lou Jeanmonnot the ninth French woman to win an individual medal at the World Championships, after Corinne Niogret (gold in 1995 and 2000, silver in 1999), Emmanuelle Claret (gold in 1996), Florence Baverel (silver in 2007), Marie-Laure Brunet (silver in 2012), Marie Dorin-Habert (gold in 2016), Anaïs Bescond (silver in 2016), Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (bronze in 2019) and Julia Simon (gold in 2025, bronze in 2024).
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