Biathlon: Oscar Lombardot not far from the podium in the IBU Cup
TheIBU Biathlon Cup in Brezno-Osrblie (Slovakia) was back in action on Friday after a rest day. It was a men’s sprint that kicked off the hostilities at the end of the morning. At the Narodne Biatlonove Centrum, a Frenchman came within a whisker of the podium.
It was Haut-Doubiste Oscar Lombardot. Back in competition this week after treating an irritating compartment syndrome, he clocked 9/10, the fourth fastest ski time… and fourth place at the finish.Third place was very close, with Norway’s Sivert Guttorm Bakken (8/10) just 8 tenths of a second ahead of him.

It was his compatriot Isak Frey (10/10), the overall leader with the perfect shot and the best time on the track, who took the day’s victory. First podium in the IBU Cup for Austrian Fabian Muellauer (10/10), second at 45 sec 2.
The flower ceremony was completed by Italy’s Marco Barale (10/10) and Norway’s Joergen Sæter (9/10), with American Paul Schommer (10/10) in seventh place ahead of Olli Hiidensalo (9/10), Vetle Paulsen (7/10) and Nicola Romanin (8/10).
The other French riders were Rémi Broutier (8/10) in sixteenth place, Edgar Geny (7/10) in nineteenth, Gaëtan Paturel (7/10) in twenty-ninth, Jacques Jefferies (7/10) in forty-second and Théo Guiraud-Poillot (7/10) in fifty-fourth.
Full results
IBU Cup general ranking
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