Biathlon | Pokljuka: mass start start lists

Biathlon: time for mass starters in Pokljuka

This Saturday, the Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka (Slovenia) resumes with the mass-starts, the penultimate of the season. At 13:35, the women will be the first on deck for a new episode in the duel between Franziska Preuss and Lou Jeanmonnot for the crystal globe.

Julia Simon, Océane Michelon, Jeanne Richard and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet will also be at the start, as will reigning world champion Elvira Oeberg and Maren Kirkeeide, Hanna Oeberg, Anna-Karin Heijdenberg, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Selina Grotian.

Then, from 3.45pm, it’s the men’s race. Without the competition of Johannes Thingnes Boe, who is ill, Sturla Holm Lægreid will try to make up the gap in the general standings. He will be up against the Swedes Sebastian Samuelsson and Martin Ponsiluoma, as well as the Frenchmen Emilien Jacquelin, Eric Perrot, Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Emilien Claude, Antonin Guigonnat and Oscar Lombardot.

Above all, he will have to watch out for competition from his compatriots Tarjei Boe, Endre Stroemsheim, Vebjoern Soerum, Martin Uldal, Johannes Dale-Skjevdal and Isak Frey. Tommaso Giacomel will also be watching closely, as will Jakov Fak and Campbell Wright.

The complete (provisional) start lists

Women’s mass start – 1.35pm

Men’s mass start – 3.45pm

• The full programme for the Pokljuka World Cup, the eighth stage of the 2024/2025 season
• Corinne Niogret: my best memory of… Pokljuka
• Lou Jeanmonnot vs Franziska Preuss and Johannes Thingnes Boe vs Sturla Holm Lægreid: in Pokljuka, a high-risk individual race in the race for the big crystal globe
• Pokljuka: Julia Simon follows up her victory by winning the individual short at 20/20, all the French women in the top 10
• Julia Simon tells Nordic Magazine after her success in the Pokljuka individual short: “I’m very happy to have built up this race in such a beautiful way”.
• Pokljuka: Lou Jeanmonnot wins the small crystal globe in the individual event, a first for a Frenchwoman
• Pokljuka: third in the individual short, Franziska Preuss claws back points from Lou Jeanmonnot in the race for the big globe
• “I’m not going to give up”: Lou Jeanmonnot tells Nordic Magazine after the individual short in Pokljuka
• Pokljuka: Océane Michelon takes command of the U23 rankings and will be wearing blue for the mass-start
• Océane Michelon, fifth in the Pokljuka individual short: “I’m copying and pasting from Kontiolahti”.
• Pokljuka: Jakov Fak wins the individual short on home soil, his first success since… 22 March 2015, Quentin Fillon-Maillet with the flowers
• “I’d love to grow old like him”, “I don’t have enough words to describe it”: Emilien Jacquelin and Eric Perrot impressed by Jakov Fak’s victory in Pokljuka at the age of 37
• Pokljuka: Sturla Holm Lægreid takes over the overall lead from Johannes Thingnes Boe after the individual short race
• Pokljuka: the small individual crystal globe for Sturla Holm Lægreid, as in 2021
• Pokljuka: reactions from Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Eric Perrot, Emilien Jacquelin, Oscar Lombardot, Emilien Claude and Fabien Claude after the individual short race
• Surprise for the French team: Antonin Guigonnat will start the mass start in Pokljuka
• Johannes Thingnes Boe withdraws for the end of the Pokljuka stage

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