Biathlon: a well-deserved collective globe for Les Bleues at the IBU Cup
This Saturday, at the end of the mixed events to close the 2024/2025 season of the IBU Biathlon Cup, the French women’s team lifted the crystal globe of the Nations Cup.
Having dominated this hierarchy for many weeks, Les Bleues have effectively crushed the season with their talent and class, claiming no fewer than 12 individual victories.
In all, ten women have contributed to the globe: Paula Botet, Chloé Chevalier, Camille Bened, Fany Bertrand, Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Gilonne Guigonnat, Amandine Mengin, Sophie Chauveau, Célia Henaff and Léonie Jeannier.
This is only the second time after 2022 that the French have won the IBU Cup Nations’ Cup.
The final ranking of the IBU Cup Women’s Nations Cup 2024/2025
- The full programme for the second IBU Cup in Otepää, the ninth and final leg of the 2024/2025 B circuit season
- “We’ll have a full quota”: Cyril Burdet confirms that France will be sending nine girls to the World Cup finals in Oslo-Holmenkollen
- Camille Bened, overall leader of the IBU Cup with two small globes already in her pocket, ahead of the final stretch of the season: “We’re going to have to race hard”.
- “I just want to enjoy myself”: how Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, second overall, is approaching the final stretch of the IBU Cup season.
- Otepää: Sivert Guttorm Bakken wins the IBU Cup individual short, Gaëtan Paturel excellent fifth
- Otepää: Susan Kuelm wins the IBU Cup individual short, Camille Bened, third, takes a big step towards the big globe
- IBU Cup: at just 19, Voldiya Galmace-Paulin wins the small globe in the individual event
- “I’m really proud”: Voldiya Galmace-Paulin’s joy at winning her first career IBU Cup Petit Globe
- IBU Cup Otepää: Johan-Olav Botn wins the sprint, Damien Levet and Théo Guiraud-Poillot in the top 10
- IBU Cup Otepää: Voldiya Galmace-Paulin dominates the sprint ahead of Camille Bened and Paula Botet, Gilonne Guigonnat fifth
- Camille Bened becomes the third Frenchwoman to win the IBU Cup crystal globe
- “It’s an immense source of pride”: Camille Bened reflects on her IBU Cup overall victory, synonymous with the Crystal Globe
- A fall at the hands of a Ukrainian woman, a trip through the mud, covered in bandages and a visit to an Estonian physiotherapist: the secret story of Camille Bened’s conquest of the IBU Cup globe.
- IBU Cup: the small globe in the sprint for Paula Botet, as in 2023
- Otepää: the Germans win the IBU Cup mixed relay, France’s Damien Levet, Gaëtan Paturel, Célia Henaff and Paula Botet second
