Biathlon: Maëlle Achoui wins the U19 pursuit ahead of Rosalie Odile
On Saturday, Montblanc’s Maëlle Achoui won the women’s U19 sprint at the Summer Tour biathlon in La Féclaz (Savoie). Starting the pursuit on Sunday lunchtime with a narrow lead over her Savoie rivals Bambou Pallud and Rosalie Odile, she could not rest on her laurels.
Yet she managed to hold her nerve. With an 8/10 on the prone shots, she was even alone in the lead… until she shot a very poor 1/5 on her first standing shot. At that point, she was more than a minute off the lead, but recovered on the last pass behind the rifle with an excellent 5/5.
Taking advantage of Rosalie Odile ‘s 2/5 (14/20), Maëlle Achoui (14/20) regained first place and managed to break away in the final kilometres to claim a fabulous double. Second-placed Rosalie Odile was crowned French U19 summer biathlon champion , while Adèle Ouvrier-Buffet (16/20) rounded off the podium at 19.6 seconds.
Juliette Oliva (15/20) climbed no fewer than eleven places to take fourth place at the finish, while Matilda Dodos (17/20), Romane Ouvrier-Buffet (12/20), Rose Marguet (14/20), Fiona Laurent (13/20), Bambou Pallud (11/20) and Marie Hericher (14/20) made it into the top 10.
Full results
Officiels-POURSUITE-U19-DAMES- The full programme for the Summer Tour de La Féclaz, taking place this weekend at the Alexis Bœuf stadium.
- Namou Candau-Armand explains the Alexis Bœuf stadium in La Féclaz, where the second stage of the Summer Tour takes place this weekend: “I really like the undulating profile of the track”.
- “Ten months and two operations later, Camille Coupé will be lining up at the start of the Summer Tour de La Féclaz.
- The Summer Tour of La Féclaz rather than the Loop One Festival in Munich for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- On home soil, Nans Vercueil wins the opening U17 men’s sprint of the Summer Tour at La Féclaz
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: Janie Picard triumphs in the U17 women’s sprint
- La Féclaz: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet beaten by 7 tenths of a second by Germany’s Mareike Braun in the Summer Tour sprint
- At the Summer Tour in La Féclaz, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet put her little Côme on the sprint podium
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: at the end of the suspense, Maëlle Achoui wins the U19 sprint ahead of Bambou Pallud and Rosalie Odile
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: after a supersonic final lap, Oscar Lombardot beats Gaëtan Paturel in the sprint, with Nathanaël Peaquin third
- La Féclaz: Grandvallier Tom Bouillet dominates the U19 sprint, Marius Thiriat and Victor Lainé take the podium
- La Féclaz: Martin Minazzi wins the U17 Summer Tour individual and becomes French summer biathlon champion
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: Lana Moreira takes the individual and national U17 summer biathlon title
