Biathlon: a world title for Les Bleues in Östersund
On Wednesday morning, to round off their junior biathlon world championships in Östersund (Sweden), France’s Célia Henaff, Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Anaëlle Bondoux and Amandine Mengin had one objective for the relay: to win the gold medal.
“We’ve got an incredible team and, frankly, I think we can go there with a lot of ambition. We’ve got four very strong players, so all four of us are really looking forward to this relay. We’re going to have to do some really good things to get out in front, but we’re more than capable of it,” the Grenobloise native told Nordic Magazine two days ago.
During the race, Les Bleues showed that they were indeed the boss. Although Célia Henaff had a scare at the start with 3 spikes on the downhill, the rest was a long, quiet river for the French team. La Beaufortaine handed over to Voldiya Galmace-Paulin with just a few seconds to spare.
The sixth world title for the women’s relay
The Montblanc native, currently leader of the IBU Cup, put on a bit of a festival on the skis and missed just one target. This allowed France to gain a foothold in the rankings and Anaëlle Bondoux took off with a lead of no less than 49 sec 2. Although the end of the race was a little less immaculate for Les Bleues, with 3 picks used by the Dauphinoise and then 6 more by Amandine Mengin from the Vosges, the main thing was safe thanks to the many mistakes made by the other competitors: France’s lead continued to grow.
In the end, it was with a lead of over a minute that the Bressaude crossed the finish line to hand France the world junior title in the women’s relay. Célia Henaff, Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Anaëlle Bondoux and Amandine Mengin become the sixth French women to win the world title, following gold medals in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Germany(Charlotte Gallbronner, Lea Zimmermann, Alma Siegismund, Lotta De Buhr), with 2 rounds and 13 picks, took silver, while Norway(Ann Kristin Aaland, Siri Skar, Guro Ytterhus, Silje Berg-Knutsen), despite 3 rounds and 12 picks, were bronze medalists.
Full results
- The full programme for the World Youth and Junior Championships in Östersund
- With Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Amandine Mengin, Gaëtan Paturel and Anaëlle Bondoux: the French team selection for the 2025 World Youth and Junior Championships in Östersund.
- Östersund: despite a ruptured ulnar collateral ligament in her left thumb, Anaëlle Bondoux will be lining up at the start of the World Junior Championships
- After a difficult start to the season, Antonin Guy has bounced back to secure his place at the World Youth Championships: “It’s like a reward for all the work we’ve put in since mid-January”.
- “We had to fight right to the end to get this ticket”: how Alice Dusserre qualified for the World Youth Championships in Östersund by the skin of her teeth.
- “I’m going there with the desire to take responsibility for my biathlon”: at the Junior Worlds in Östersund, Corentin Jacob returns to international competition two years after his last selection
- Östersund: Ilona Plechacova individual world youth champion, Lola Bugeaud sixth
- Östersund World Youth Championships: Antonin Guy in individual gold for the second year running, Léo Carlier in bronze
- “A real achievement”, “It feels great”: Antonin Guy and Léo Carlier, gold and bronze medallists in the individual event at the World Youth Championships in Östersund, talk about their race.
- Östersund: Célia Henaff becomes world junior individual champion, silver for Amandine Mengin
- Junior Cup: Bresse’s Amandine Mengin, second in Östersund, wins the individual globe
- Célia Henaff, new world junior individual champion: “A first victory, a first medal, a first 20/20”.
- “I’m really shocked”: Amandine Mengin, silver medallist in the individual event at the Junior Worlds and winner of the small globe, wasn’t expecting this…
- Östersund: Sivert Gerhardsen individual world junior champion, Edgar Geny eighth
- Östersund Youth World Championships: Louise Roguet, Lola Bugeaud, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle and Léo Carlier bronze medallists in the mixed relay won by Norway
- Östersund: despite four penalty laps and a fall, Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Amandine Mengin, Gaëtan Paturel and Edgar Geny are runners-up in the junior mixed relay.
- “Even with four laps to go, we’re capable of going for a medal”: the words of Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Amandine Mengin, Gaëtan Paturel and Edgar Geny, silver medallists in the mixed relay at the World Junior Championships.
- Östersund Youth World Championships: Louise Roguet takes silver in the sprint, Norway’s Martine Skog takes gold
- “I tried to be more relaxed in the downhill, doing the opposite of the mixed relay where I was so stressed…”. How Louise Roguet picked up the gauntlet to become runner-up in the world junior sprint championship.
- Östersund: Léo Carlier wins silver in the sprint at the Youth World Championships, Germany’s Lukas Tannheimer takes the title
- “I never thought I’d start the World Championships this way”: three medals in three races in Östersund for Léo Carlier, silver in the sprint
- Östersund Junior World Championships: Amandine Mengin takes bronze in the sprint, the title goes to Austria’s Anna Andexer
- “I didn’t even know there were globes”: three-time medallist at the Junior World Championships in Östersund, Amandine Mengin will be competing for the Junior Cup’s big globe in the Mass-Start 60.
- Östersund: Norway’s Haavard Tosterud world junior sprint champion, Axel Garnier ninth
- Östersund: Louise Roguet world youth champion in the Mass-Start 60
- “When I cross the line, there’s a lot of joy”: Louise Roguet tells Nordic Magazine how she became World Youth Champion in the Mass-Start 60 in Östersund.
- Östersund Youth Worlds: Léo Carlier crowned world champion in the mass-start 60 ahead of Flavio Guy and Camille Grataloup-Manissolle
- “We couldn’t have imagined it”: Léo Carlier, Flavio Guy and Camille Grataloup-Manissolle talk about their fabulous triple in the mass-start 60 at the Östersund World Youth Championships
- In the wind of Östersund, Anaëlle Bondoux is runner-up in the Junior 60 mass-start, Sara Andersson takes gold on home soil
- Junior Cup: second in Östersund, Anaëlle Bondoux wins the small mass-start globe
- “It was a complete ordeal, it even crossed my mind to stop racing…”: Anaëlle Bondoux tells Nordic Magazine about her Mass-Start 60 in Östersund, which ended with a silver medal and the small globe.
- Top athlete at the Junior World Championships in Östersund, Amandine Mengin wins a quota for the World Cup finals in Oslo-Holmenkollen
- Östersund Junior Worlds: Kasper Kalkenberg golden in the Mass-Start 60, Gaëtan Paturel sixth
- Östersund: Germany’s young relay world champions, Alice Dusserre, Coralie Perrin and Louise Roguet ninth
- Östersund: Camille Grataloup-Manissolle, Antonin Guy and Léo Carlier crowned world youth relay champions
- “A title with my mates, it’s crazy and just incredible”: Camille Grataloup-Manissolle, Antonin Guy and Léo Carlier tell us how they became world youth relay champions in Östersund.
