Biathlon: bronze for the French U19s in the mixed relay at the World Championships
Crowned world youth champions in the mixed biathlon relay last year in Otepää (Estonia), the French team was aiming to make it two this Friday lunchtime in Östersund (Sweden). Unfortunately, from the very first relay run by Louise Roguet, the race took a wrong turn as the Montblanc native, although she didn’t turn on the penalty ring, stayed on her mat for a long time.
So, with four picks, she gave the lead to Lola Bugeaud in ninth place, 1 min 10 sec 5 off the lead. From then on, Les Bleus began a fantastic comeback. Taking advantage of their opponents’ cracks, the Haut-Savoyard, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle and Léo Carlier enabled the French team to claw back placesslowly but surely.
In the end, Léo Carlier from Doubt, who was last on the rope, came in fourth, some twenty seconds from the medal. Norway(Martine Skog, Bjoerg Eide, Tov Roeysland, Leo Gundersen), crowned champions, were untouchable, as were Germany(Lena Siegmund, Melina Gaupp, Lukas Tannheimer, Korbi Kuebler), silver medallists.
The Czech Republic, on the other hand, got off to a bad start with Jakub Bouska. Just as Heda Mikolasova, Ilona Plechacova and Simon Hurta had managed to put the Czechs in the lead, he largely failed to fire and even finished fifth. France, with twelve picks in total, took advantage of the situation to snatch bronze ahead of fourth-placed Canada.
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
