Biathlon: Doubiste Oscar Lombardot gains confidence at La Féclaz
In less than a month’s time, Oscar Lombardot will have his mind made up. Competing with Antonin Guigonnat and Gaëtan Paturel for the last World Cup place, he will have to beat his compatriots in the opening Norwegian races in Geilo (Norway).
With four weeks to go before this major event, the Doubiste native showed his strength in the Summer Tour biathlon sprint at La Féclaz (Savoie).
After coming out of the last shoot (9/10) 11 sec 3 behind Gaëtan Paturel (10/10), he really let his horses loose in the final wheel-skiing lap to win by a margin of 12 sec 2 over his rival from Haute-Savoie.
At 25.6 seconds, Nathanaël Peaquin (9/10) from Savoie completed the day’s podium, just ahead of Léo Carlier (8/10) from the Franc-Comtois region, fourth overall and winner in the U21 category in which he is now guaranteed to be crowned French summer biathlon champion in 2025.
Antonin Guigonnat (8/10) finished in the top 5, while Martin Botet (8/10), Axel Garnier (6/10), Damien Levet (10/10), Clément Pirès (9/10), second U21, and Benjamin de Grimaudet de Rochebouët (9/10), third U21, all finished in the top 10.
Newcomer Jacques Jefferies (9/10) was eleventh, Mathieu Garcia (8/10) twelfth, Flavio Guy (8/10) thirteenth, Théo Guiraud-Poillot (9/10) fourteenth and Guillaume Poirot (7/10) fifteenth, Antonin Guy (10/10) in eighteenth, Antonin Delsol (7/10) in twenty-second, Corentin Jacob (7/10) in twenty-fifth, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle (7/10) in twenty-ninth and Rémi Broutier (6/10) in thirty-eighth.
Full results
Officiels-SPRINT-U21-SEN-HOMMES- The full programme for the Summer Tour de La Féclaz, taking place this weekend at the Alexis Bœuf stadium.
- Namou Candau-Armand explains the Alexis Bœuf stadium in La Féclaz, where the second stage of the Summer Tour takes place this weekend: “I really like the undulating profile of the track”.
- “Ten months and two operations later, Camille Coupé will be lining up at the start of the Summer Tour de La Féclaz.
- The Summer Tour of La Féclaz rather than the Loop One Festival in Munich for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- On home soil, Nans Vercueil wins the opening U17 men’s sprint of the Summer Tour at La Féclaz
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: Janie Picard triumphs in the U17 women’s sprint
- La Féclaz: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet beaten by 7 tenths of a second by Germany’s Mareike Braun in the Summer Tour sprint
- At the Summer Tour in La Féclaz, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet put her little Côme on the sprint podium
- Summer Tour de La Féclaz: at the end of the suspense, Maëlle Achoui wins the U19 sprint ahead of Bambou Pallud and Rosalie Odile
