Biathlon: Grand-Bornand’s big week kicks off this Thursday with the women’s sprint
After three days of training, the biathlon World Cup in Le Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie) kicks off on Thursday with the women’s sprint. According to the draw, Austria’s Anna Andexer has inherited bib number 1 and will be the first to go at 2.15pm.
Ahead of the start of the favourites are Natalia Sidorowicz (2), Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (3), Eve Bouvard (4), Sara Andersson (6), Julia Simon (7), Paulina Batovska Fialkova (9), Milena Todorova (11), Ukaleq Slettemark (12) and Venla Lehtonen (14).
In the blue group, then, Lotte Lie (16), Anamarija Lampic (17), Vanessa Voigt (18), Lea Meier (19), Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (20), Baiba Bendika (21), Julia Tannheimer (22), Deedra Irwin (23), Polona Klemencic (24), Tereza Vobornikova (25), Anna Weidel (26), Janina Hettich-Walz (28), Franziska Preuss (29), Marthe Kraakstad Johansen (30), Maya Cloetens (32), Regina Ermits (34), Joanna Jakiela (36), Lena Haecki-Gross (37), Sonja Leinamo (38) and Marit Oeygard (42).
Switzerland’s Amy Baserga (44) will open the red group, followed by Anna-Karin Heijdenberg (45), Suvi Minkkinen (46), Lisa Vittozzi (48), Julia Kink (49), Océane Michelon (50), Elvira Oeberg (52), Aasne Skrede (53), Camille Bened (54), Lou Jeanmonnot (56) and Ella Halvarsson (58), Aita Gasparin (59), Hanna Oeberg (60), Karoline Knotten (62), Dorothea Wierer (64), the yellow and red Anna Magnusson (66), Paula Botet (67), the blue Maren Kirkeeide (68), Lucie Charvatova (70), Lisa Theresa Hauser (72) and Anna Gandler (73) will follow.
Finally, in the last bibs, Lena Repinc (76), Marketa Davidova (78), Pascale Paradis (84), Chloe Levins (88), Coralie Langel (90), Chloé Dupont (98), Elza Bleidele (99) and Shawna Pendry (102) will be keeping an eye on.
The complete start list
Women’s sprint – 2.15pm
C51A_v1-18- The full programme for the Annecy – Le Grand-Bornand World Cup, third leg of the 2025/2026 season
- Caroline Colombo: my best memory of… Annecy – Le Grand-Bornand
- Le Grand-Bornand: Belgium unveil their squad for the French leg of the World Cup
- Le Grand-Bornand: Norway stays with seven boys, women’s group unchanged
- Le Grand-Bornand: Slovakia without Anastasiya Kuzmina, but with Paulina Batovska Fialkova
- Paula Botet and Valentin Lejeune retained, Jeanne Richard only on the mass-start: the French team selection for the Grand-Bornand World Cup
- Premiere for Oscar Andersson, Anna-Karin Heijdenberg retained, Linn Gestblom returns home: the Swedish selection for Le Grand-Bornand
- Le Grand-Bornand: nine Austrians selected for the French round of the World Cup
- Franziska Preuss back, not Selina Grotian: Germany unveil their squad for Le Grand-Bornand
- Le Grand-Bornand: Marketa Davidova and Lucie Charvatova lead the Czech team
- Estonia, led by Regina Ermits and Jakob Kulbin, eight for Le Grand-Bornand
- Le Grand-Bornand: Ukaleq Slettemark and Sondre Slettemark to perform in the Aravis mountains for Greenland
- World Cup debut for Jacques Jefferies: British selection for the Grand-Bornand stage
- Grand-Bornand World Cup: Croatia represented by Anika Kozica and Kresimir Crnkovic
- Grand-Bornand World Cup: Switzerland’s full selection
- Andrejs Rastorgujevs back, Baiba Bendika in the squad: Latvia with six at the Grand-Bornand World Cup
- First selection of the winter for Otto Invenius, Suvi Minkkinen as leader: Finland unveils its team for Le Grand-Bornand
- Anamarija Lampic back competing after illness: seven Slovenians selected for Le Grand-Bornand
- Le Grand-Bornand: Poland with eight athletes for the French leg of the World Cup
- Grand-Bornand 2025 World Cup: the teams and stars who will be rocking Le Grand-Bornand this week
