Biathlon: the yellow bib on Sturla Holm Lægreid’s shoulders during the mass-start in Pokljuka
Second in the individual short race at the Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka (Slovenia) this Thursday afternoon, Norway’s Sturla Holm Lægreid regains the lead in the overall rankings.
Although he lost the yellow bib last weekend in Nove Mesto (Czech Republic), the Scandinavian took advantage of Johannes Thingnes Boe’s tenth place, who was ill, to pick up some precious points and now has a 39-point lead with four races to go before the end of the winter.
Emilien Jacquelin (724) remains third ahead of Eric Perrot (707), Sebastian Samuelsson (703), Tommaso Giacomel (670), Quentin Fillon-Maillet (631) and Tarjei Boe (626). The day’s winner, Jakov Fak (503), is ninth. Eighteenth, Campbell Wright (356) keeps his blue bib as best U23.
The overall World Cup standings
- 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”.
