Biathlon: time for the individual men’s race in Lenzerheide
The 2025 Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) continue this Wednesday with the individual men’s race. The day after Julia Simon won the women’s race, the Czech Tomas Mikyska, bib 1, will have the honour of kicking off the event at 3.05pm.
Anton Dudchenko (2), Sebastian Stalder (3), Arttu Heikkinen (7), Paul Schommer (9), Sondre Slettemark (12) and Fredrik Muehlbacher (14) will start in the first group. Next up in the blue group are Niklas Hartweg (16), Lukas Hofer (18), Johannes Kuehn (20), Vitalii Mandzyn (22), Daniel Riethmueller (24), Campbell Wright (26), Martin Ponsiluoma (28), Andrejs Rastorgujevs (30), Thierry Langer (32), Vitezslav Hornig (34) and Philipp Horn (36).
The red group of favourites will be opened by Tarjei Boe (38), followed by Eric Perrot (40), Sebastian Samuelsson (42), Emilien Jacquelin (44), Fabien Claude (46), Endre Stroemsheim (48), Simon Eder (49), Vebjoern Soerum (50) and Maxime Germain (51), Johannes Thingnes Boe (52), the title holder with the gold bib, Tommaso Giacomel (54), Michal Krcmar (55), Quentin Fillon-Maillet (56), David Zobel (57), Jakov Fak (58), Sturla Holm Lægreid (60), Martin Uldal (62) and Jesper Nelin (63) will take to the track in succession.
Finally, the last starters include Didier Bionaz on 64, Blagoy Todev on 65, Adam Runnalls on 68, Florent Claude on 71, Tero Seppälä on 72, Jan Gunka on 74, Olli Hiidensalo on 75, Enkhsaikhan Enkhbat on 86, César Beauvais on 90 and Artur Iskhakov on 95.
The complete start list
- The full programme for the World Championships in Lenzerheide, the highlight of the 2024/2025 season
- Léna Arnaud: my best memory of… Lenzerheide
- Swiss biathlete Arnaud Du Pasquier presents the Roland Arena, the Lenzerheide stadium used for the 2025 World Championships
- Delphyne Burlet on the challenges of the Lenzerheide world championships
- Lenzerheide: France, with Julia Simon, Lou Jeanmonnot, Eric Perrot and Emilien Jacquelin, retain their world mixed relay title
- “We couldn’t have got off to a better start than this”: the perfect start for the French team, which won gold in the mixed relay at the world championships in Lenzerheide.
- “It was fun”: during the mixed relay at the World Championships in Lenzerheide, Britain’s Shawna Pendry was surprised to ski with her idol Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold.
- Lenzerheide: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet’s day of glory, crowned world sprint champion ahead of Franziska Preuss and Suvi Minkkinen
- “The wheel turns”: how Justine Braisaz-Bouchet became world sprint champion in Lenzerheide after a difficult January
- “I’m very proud”: Maya Cloetens tells Nordic Magazine how she made Belgian biathlon history by finishing eighth in the sprint at the Lenzerheide World Championships.
- Lenzerheide: Johannes Thingnes Boe crushes the sprint to win a fourth world gold medal in the discipline, Quentin Fillon-Maillet gets a tan
- Lenzerheide: Johannes Thingnes Boe wins the sprint to become the most gold medal-winning biathlete in the history of the World Championships
- “Winning a first medal feels great”: bronze in the Lenzerheide sprint, Quentin Fillon-Maillet kicks off his World Championships in style
- 65th in the Lenzerheide sprint, Gaia Brunello achieved Brazil’s best result at the Worlds: “A dream come true”.
- Lenzerheide: untouchable at 20/20, Franziska Preuss wins the world pursuit title, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet takes bronze
- “I was three metres too short”. Justine Braisaz-Bouchet was close to silver in the pursuit at the world championships in Lenzerheide.
- Lenzerheide: Johannes Thingnes Boe pursuit world champion ahead of the astonishing Campbell Wright, Eric Perrot in bronze
- The greatest of all time: gold in the pursuit at Lenzerheide, Johannes Thingnes Boe is the most successful individual biathlete in history
- Lenzerheide: Eric Perrot, the eleventh French medallist in an individual World Championship race
- “I had to fill it up and I filled it up”: how Eric Perrot climbed twelve places to win bronze in the pursuit at the World Championships in Lenzerheide
- Lenzerheide: what do they say about Campbell Wright’s exploits in New Zealand?
- “He had to change his shooting line because of a mistake by another biathlete”: why did the jury reclassify Jakov Fak in sixth place in the pursuit at the World Championships in Lenzerheide?
- Franco-British Chloé Dupont, currently competing in the world championships in Lenzerheide: “It’s very motivating”.
- Lenzerheide: Marie Dorin-Habert reviews the first week of the World Championships
- Five medals in five races, including two golds: Les Bleus get off to a flying start at the world championships in Lenzerheide
- Thanks to the title won by Justine Braisaz-Bouchet in Lenzerheide, the French women’s team will have five quotas for the sprint at the 2027 World Championships in Otepää, unless…
- Lenzerheide: Tiril Eckhoff and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen sound the alarm after Norway’s poor performances in the first week of the World Championships
- “She’s a metronome”: Lou Jeanmonnot, undefeated this winter in the format, is the great favourite for the individual at the World Championships in Lenzerheide.
