Biathlon: the Swedish selection for the Loop One Festival has been announced
On Tuesday afternoon, theSwedish Biathlon Association announced the list of athletes it will be sending to Munich (Germany) on Sunday to take part in the first ever Loop One Festival.
For this new event supported by theInternational Biathlon Union (IBU), the Swedes will be represented on the women’s side by Ella Halvarsson, Anna Magnusson, Johanna Skottheim and Johanna Nordqvist. Hanna Oeberg, Elvira Oeberg, Anna-Karin Heijdenberg, Linn Gesblom and Sara Andersson will remain in the country.
In the men’s race, Martin Ponsiluoma, Oscar Andersson, Jesper Nelin and Victor Brandt have been selected. Sebastian Samuelsson has also been excused.
Sweden’s selection for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Men
- Jesper Nelin, Biathlon Östersund 🇸🇪
- Oscar Andersson, Älvdalens SKG 🇸🇪
- Martin Ponsiluoma, Tullus SG 🇸🇪
- Viktor Brandt, I 2 IF 🇸🇪
Ladies
- Anna Magnusson, Piteå Skidskytteklubb 🇸🇪
- Ella Halvarsson, Biathlon Östersund 🇸🇪
- Johanna Nordqvist, I 21 IF 🇸🇪
- Johanna Skottheim, Lima SKG 🇸🇪
The programme for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Saturday 18th October
- 11:00: 4 all biathlon
- 12.15pm: seated para-biathlon relay
- 12.55pm: Para biathlon single mixed relay for the visually impaired
- 13:35: men’s para biathlon standing mass-start
- 16:00: young men’s mass-start
- 16:30: young women’s mass-start
- 17:00: Para-biathlon and youth prize-giving ceremonies
Sunday 19 October
- 10:20-10:50: Men’s shooting trials
- 11.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 11.20am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 11.40am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 12.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 12.20pm-12.50pm: Women’s shooting trials
- 13:00: Ladies’ super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 1.20pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 1.40pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 2.00 pm: women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 3.42pm: men’s super sprint final
- 4.23pm: Women’s super sprint final
- 5pm: prize-giving ceremony
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- The Summer Tour of La Féclaz rather than the Loop One Festival in Munich for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- Germany with Franziska Preuss, Justus Strelow, Selina Grotian and Janina Hettich-Walz for the Loop One Festival, Vanessa Voigt absent
- Great Britain with Shawna Pendry and Matthew Chronicle at the Loop One Festival in Munich
- “They’re going there to give it their all”: Karl Tabouret and Benjamin Daviet at the start of the Loop One Festival in Munich on 18 October
- Loop One Festival: Belgium with Maya Cloetens, Florent Claude, Lotte Lie and Thierry Langer
- Finland, led by Suvi Minkkinen, six for the Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: Italy in Munich with Lisa Vittozzi, Tommaso Giacomel and Dorothea Wierer
- Loop One Festival: the Czech Republic without Marketa Davidova, but with Tereza Vobornikova, Michal Krcmar and Vitezslav Hornig
- Australia represented at Munich’s Loop One Festival
- Munich: Slovenia with Anamarija Lampic, but without Jakov Fak for the Loop One Festival
