Biathlon: gold for Louise Roguet in Östersund
The big day of the Mass-Starts 60 got off to the best possible start for the French biathlon team at the World Youth and Junior Championships in Östersund (Sweden).
In the women’s U19 race, which opened the programme on Monday morning, Louise Roguet from Haut-Savoie really shone. Since missing her mixed lying relay with very long shots due to tetanic stress, the biathlete from the Ski club nordique du Praz-de-Lys/Sommand has (almost) never missed a ball in this position.
This is what enabled her to take silver in the sprint two days ago. In the mass start, Louise Roguet did even better: at 18/20, following a 10/10 on the dismount, she quite simply became world youth champion in the mass start 60, taking over from Ukraine’s Oleksandra Merkushyna.
The Montblanc native is also only the sixth Frenchwoman to be crowned world champion in this category after Marion Blondeau (individual in 2004), Laure Bosc (individual and sprint in 2007), Marie-Laure Brunet (pursuit in 2007), Lou Jeanmonnot (individual in 2017) and Jeanne Richard (individual in 2021).
A solitary victory
The scenario for the race was a little crazy, as the future medallist was not at the front until the first standing shot. It was at this point on the mats that Sara Tronrud, Alice Dusserre and Heda Mikolasova, who were in the lead, each missed at least three times.
As a result, the race was completely restarted and Louise Roguet took advantage to take sole control of the race. She never relinquished this position, despite making a mistake with her last shot. Germany’s Lena Siegmund (19/20) won the sprint ahead of Czech Ilona Plechacova (17/20).
The day’s flower ceremony was completed by Melina Gaupp (17/20), Lena Baumann (18/20) and Sydney Wuestling (16/20), aged just 16. The other French girls finished a long way back, with Coralie Perrin (14/20) seventeenth, reigning world runner-up Lola Bugeaud (12/20) twenty-seventh and Alice Dusserre (13/20) thirty-third.
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 on the bench, 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
