Biathlon: the gap is closed for Sturla Holm Lægreid
On Saturday, Sturla Holm Lægreid finished third in the mass start of the Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka (Slovenia) , won by Eric Perrot ahead of Quentin Fillon-Maillet.
In the absence of Johannes Thingnes Boe (967), who is ill, the Norwegian (1,071) takes a 104-point lead in the overall rankings with three races to go. He is now more than a race clear.
Eric Perrot (797) moved up to third place, followed byEmilien Jacquelin (755), Sebastian Samuelsson (732), Quentin Fillon-Maillet (706), Tommaso Giacomel (690), Tarjei Boe (663), Vebjoern Soerum (563) and Fabien Claude (549).
Elsewhere in the mass-start rankings, Sturla Holm Lægreid (260) remains in the red, but Eric Perrot (239) is not far behind. Quentin Fillon-Maillet (218) and Tarjei Boe (193) are also still in the running.
The overall World Cup standings
The overall World Cup mass-start rankings
- 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
- Pokljuka: no mass-start for Dorothea Wierer either
