Biathlon: the new queen of the sprint is Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
On Friday afternoon, in the wind and snow of Lenzerheide (Switzerland), the biathlete from Les Saisies (Savoie) Justine Braisaz-Bouchet won the sprint of the 2025 World Championships. She scored 9/10 on the mats after missing her very first ball, and came out on top in the final round to claim this prestigious title.
“I didn’t expect it at all. I really wanted to win, like all the other competitors, but I didn’t believe I could win until the top of the last climb, when Simon Fourcade told me I was 9 seconds ahead of Franziska Preuss”, she explained to Ski Chrono afterwards in the mixed zone.
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet continued to make her mark on the history of French women’s biathlon, watched by her daughter Côme, whom she says she heard crying at every one of her runs, and her husband Julien Bouchet. First of all, she won her fourth world gold medal, her second in the individual event.
Only eight French women are individual world champions
Above all, a year after winning the mass-start title in Nove Mesto (Czech Republic), she became the fifth French sprint world champion after Anne Briand (1995), Sylvie Becaert (2003), Marie Dorin-Habert (2015) and Julia Simon (2024), whom she succeeded.
Last but not least, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet is one of only eight French women to have won the individual biathlon world title, alongside Corinne Niogret, the first of them all, Emmanuelle Claret, Anne Briand, Sandrine Bailly, Sylvie Becaert, Marie Dorin-Habert and Julia Simon.
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