Biathlon: French triumph in Östersund
Les Bleus are on their own planet at the world youth and junior biathlon championships in Östersund (Sweden). Late on Monday morning, just a few minutes after Louise Roguet won the women’s U19 mass-start 60, the boys ran the perfect race.
In this format, in which the top thirty finishers complete two laps of cross-country skiing before their first shot, Flavio Guy from Doubt was on the offensive from the outset. Breaking away from the pack with Poland’s Grzegorz Galica, he took the lead in the first run. Unfurling his biathlon on his two shots in this position, the Franc-Comtois took a lead of almost 50 seconds over his pursuers.
It was then that he cracked on his first pass at the standing shot, missing three targets. However, in the Swedish wind, his opponents were also making mistakes and, before the final pass behind the rifle, Germany’s Lukas Tannheimer (15/20) was first… followed by three Frenchmen: Flavio Guy, Léo Carlier and Camille Grataloup-Manissolle.
Faulty four times on this shot, the German opened the doors of the saloon wide and the Tricolores entered easily, despite some mistakes. Mortuacian Léo Carlier (16/20) came out on top and went on to win his first world youth title , while Flavio Guy (14/20) and Camille Grataloup-Manissolle (14/20) followed on the podium to give the French team a fabulous treble.
Léo Carlier, the seventh French youth biathlon world champion
For the record, Léo Carlier succeeds Kasper Kalkenberg as the seventh French youth world champion after Simon Fourcade (individual in 2003), Ludwig Ehrhart (individual and pursuit in 2008, individual in 2009), Aristide Bègue (individual in 2012 and 2013), Fabien Claude (sprint in 2013), Emilien Claude (sprint and pursuit in 2017) and Antonin Guy (individual in 2024 and 2025).
The latter took eleventh place in this race at 13/20. It should be noted that Grzegorz Galica (13/20), fourth in the ranking, crossed the finish line much further back, but was credited with 65 seconds after being hampered at the first standing shot, with Norway’s Leo Gundersen shooting at his targets.
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 big Junior Cup 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
