Biathlon: start of the Oslo-Holmenkollen World Cup finals this Friday
The finals of the 2024/2025 Biathlon World Cup kick off this Friday in Oslo-Holmenkollen (Norway) with the sprints. The day kicks off at 1.30pm with the start of Oscar Lombardot from Doubt, number 1 in the men’s race.
Next up are David Zobel (2), Maxime Germain (3), Lovro Planko (6), Viktor Brandt (9), Michal Krcmar (10), Thierry Langer (11) and Johannes Dale-Skjevdal (14). Johannes Kuehn (16) will launch the blue group, followed by Jesper Nelin (18), Philipp Horn (20), Niklas Hartweg (22), Justus Strelow (24), Dmytro Pidruchnyi (26), Lukas Hofer (27) and Antonin Guigonnat (28), Vitalii Mandzyn (30), Emilien Claude (32), Isak Frey (33), Vitezslav Hornig (34), the blue bib Campbell Wright (36), Tero Seppälä (38), Roman Rees (39) and Danilo Riethmueller (40) will be at the start.
In the red group of favourites, Philipp Nawrath (42), Sebastian Samuelsson (44), Quentin Fillon-Maillet (46), Tommaso Giacomel (48), Tarjei Boe (50), Martin Uldal (52), Endre Stroemsheim (54), Vebjoern Soerum (56), the red bib Johannes Thingnes Boe (58), Emilien Jacquelin (60), Martin Ponsiluoma (62), Eric Perrot (64), Jakov Fak (66), Florent Claude (67), the yellow bib Sturla Holm Lægreid (68), Simon Eder (69) and Fabien Claude (70).
At the end of the race, we’ll be keeping an eye on Malte Stefansson (73), Emil Nykvist (77), Felix Leitner (80), Simon Kaiser (81), Nicola Romanin (84), Petr Hak (85), Paul Schommer (86), Artur Iskhakov (92) and Kasper Kalkenberg (107).
Franziska Preuss on the track before Lou Jeanmonnot
Then, at 16:20, the women’s sprint gets underway, with the start of Italy’s Samuela Comola, bib number 1. Darcie Morton (2), Eve Bouvard (3), Anastasiya Kuzmina (4), Ukaleq Slettemark (7), Chloe Levins (8), Elisa Gasparin (9), Olena Horodna (10), Ida Lien (11), Natalia Sidorowicz (12), Polona Klemencic (14) and Sophia Schneider (15) will then take to the track.
Ukrainian Khrystyna Dmytrenko (16) will kick off the hostilities in the blue group, followed by Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (18), Anamarija Lampic (20), Amy Baserga (22), Sophie Chauveau (23), Aita Gasparin (24) and Julia Tannheimer (26), Lena Haecki-Gross (28), Anna-Karin Heijdenberg (29), Karoline Knotten (30), Yuliia Dzhima (32), Lea Meier (33), Lotte Lie (34), Emma Lunder (35), Maya Cloetens (36), Anna Andexer (37), Tereza Vobornikova (38), Ragnhild Femsteinevik (39) and Anna Magnusson (40).
In the red group of favourites, we find the yellow and red Franziska Preuss on 42, Lisa Theresa Hauser on 44, Selina Grotian on 46, Lou Jeanmonnot on 48, Johanna Puff on 49, Dorothea Wierer on 50, Hanna Oeberg on 52, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet on 54, Océane Michelon on 56, Suvi Minkkinen on 58, Julia Simon on 60, Paula Botet on 61, Elvira Oeberg on 62, Maren Kirkeeide on 64, Milena Todorova on 66 and the blue bib Jeanne Richard on 68.
In the last bibs, Marthe Kraakstad Johansen (72), Baiba Bendika (75), Camille Bened (76), Sara Andersson (77), Juni Arnekleiv (79), Stefanie Scherer (80), Lora Hristova (83), Linda Zingerle (85), Amandine Mengin (87), Paulina Batovska Fialkova (89), Rebecca Passler (91), Tuuli Tomingas (92), Johanna Skottheim (93), Karoline Erdal (94), Lara Wagner (95), Gaia Brunello (98), Heda Mikolasova (100), Ilona Plechacova (107), Noora Kaisa Keränen (110) and Shawna Pendry (113).
The complete start lists
Men’s sprint – 1.30pm
Women’s sprint – 4.20pm
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