Biathlon: the 2025/2026 World Cup kicks off in just 10 days’ time
While the world’s top biathletes are currently putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the 2025/2026 season by getting back on their skis and putting on their bibs, the D-10 mark before the start arrives this Wednesday. In exactly 10 days’ time, on Saturday 29 November, the World Cup winter season kicks off in Östersund (Sweden).
It’s worth remembering that the first stage of the competition will consist of gender-specific relays, followed by mixed relays the next day. This first stage will continue the following week with individuals, sprints and pursuits.
There will then be a series of races before the Christmas holidays in Hochfilzen (Austria) and Annecy– Le Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie). At the beginning of January, the sequence will be classic with Oberhof (Germany) and Ruhpolding (Germany), followed by Nove Mesto (Czech Republic).
End of season for Kontiolahti, Otepää and Oslo-Holmenkollen
TheAntholz (Italy) site will be used in February for the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games.
Finally, after the prestigious quadrennial competition, the World Cup will conclude in Kontiolahti (Finland), Otepää (Estonia), which returns to the calendar a year before hosting the World Championships, and Oslo-Holmenkollen (Norway). It is in the Norwegian capital that the crystal globes will be awarded.
The entire 2025/2026 Biathlon World Cup programme
Östersund 🇸🇪
Saturday 29 November
- 1.15pm: Women’s 4×6 km relay
- 4.55pm: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
Sunday 30th November
- 2pm: Mixed singles relay
- 4.40pm: Mixed relay
Tuesday 2nd December
- 15:30: women’s 15 km individual
Wednesday 3rd December
- 15:30: Men’s 20 km individual
Friday 5 December
- 16:00: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 6 December
- 4.30pm: Men’s 10 km sprint
Sunday 7 December
- 1.15pm: Women’s 10 km pursuit
- 3.20pm: Men’s 12.5km pursuit
Hochfilzen 🇦🇹
Friday 12 December
- 11.25am: Men’s 10km sprint
- 2.15pm: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 13 December
- 12.00: men’s 12.5 km pursuit
- 2.15pm: Women’s 4x6km relay
Sunday 14 December
- 12.00: Men’s 4×7.5 km relay
- 2.45pm: women’s 10km pursuit
Annecy – Le Grand Bornand 🇫🇷
Thursday 18 December
- 2.15pm: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Friday 19 December
- 2.15pm: Men’s 10km sprint
Saturday 20th December
- 12.15pm: Women’s 10 km pursuit
- 2.45pm: Men’s 12.5 km pursuit
Sunday 21 December
- 12.15pm: women’s 12.5 km mass-start
- 2.45pm: men’s 15km mass-start
Oberhof 🇩🇪
Thursday 8 January
- 2.10pm: Men’s 10km sprint
Friday 9 January
- 2.25pm: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 10 January
- 12.00: men’s 12.5 km pursuit
- 2.25pm: Women’s 4x6km relay
Sunday 11 January
- 11.00am: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
- 2.30pm: women’s 10 km pursuit
Ruhpolding 🇩🇪
Wednesday 14 January
- 2.30pm: women’s 4×6 km relay
Thursday 15 January
- 2.30pm: Men’s 4×7.5 km relay
Friday 16 January
- 2.30pm: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 17th January
- 2.30pm: Men’s 10 km sprint
Sunday 18 January
- 12.30pm: women’s 10 km pursuit
- 15:00: Men’s 12.5 km pursuit
Nove Mesto 🇨🇿
Thursday 22 January
- 6.15pm: Men’s 15km individual short
Friday 23rd January
- 6.15pm: Women’s individual short 12.5 km
Saturday 24th January
- 1.15pm: Mixed singles relay
- 3.10pm: Mixed relay
Sunday 25 January
- 3.15pm: men’s 15km mass-start
- 6.15pm: women’s 12.5km mass-start
> Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games 🇮🇹 : CLICK HERE to access the calendar
Kontiolahti 🇫🇮
Thursday 5 March
- 5.05pm: Women’s 15km individual
Friday 6 March
- 5.10pm: Men’s 20km individual
Saturday 7 March
- 1.40pm: women’s 12.5km mass-start
- 3.40pm: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
Sunday 8 March
- 1.30pm: Women’s 4×6 km relay
- 4.55pm: men’s 15km mass-start
Otepää 🇪🇪
Thursday 12 March
- 3.15pm: Men’s 10km sprint
Friday 13 March
- 3.15pm: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 15 March
- 1.30pm: Men’s 12.5 km pursuit
- 16:00: Men’s 10 km pursuit
Sunday 15 March
- 12.35pm: Mixed single relay
- 2.40pm: Mixed relay
Oslo-Holmenkollen 🇳🇴
Thursday 19 March
- 4.15pm: Women’s 7.5km sprint
Friday 20 March
- 4.15pm: Men’s 10km sprint
Saturday 21 March
- 1.45pm: Women’s 10 km pursuit
- 4.15pm: Men’s 12.5km pursuit
Sunday 22 March
- 1.45pm: women’s 12.5 km mass-start
- 4.30pm: men’s 15km mass-start
- Relays by gender on the opening day, Le Grand-Bornand before Christmas, the return of Otepää a year before the World Championships: the full 2025/2026 World Cup programme
- Once again a combination of sprint, pursuit and mass-start: the programme for the 2025 World Cup in Annecy – Le Grand-Bornand is already known.
- The full programme for the 2025/2026 World Cup, with the precise timetable for each event, has been released.
- Why there will be no mass-start in Östersund for the first stage of the 2025/2026 World Cup
- The IBU changes its rules: a nominative quota for Franziska Preuss and Sturla Holm Lægreid on the first two stages of the 2025/2026 World Cup.
- The countdown is on: 100 days to go until the start of the 2025/2026 World Cup in Östersund
- Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…: 50 days to go until the start of the 2025/2026 World Cup in Östersund
- The big show returns in a month: 30 days to go until the 2025/2026 World Cup kicks off in Östersund
- Canada unveils its selection for the Östersund, Hochfilzen and Grand-Bornand World Cups
- Grete Gaim’s comeback: after the Idre Fjäll races, Estonia unveils its selection for the Östersund World Cup
- Germany announces men’s squad for Östersund World Cup
- With Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen, Marit Oeygard, Johan-Olav Botn and Isak Frey: Norway’s selection for the World Cup in Östersund
- Kazakhstan announce squad for Östersund World Cup
- Ten-man Finnish team led by Suvi Minkkinen for the Östersund and Hochfilzen World Cups
- Natalia Sidorowicz in the lead, Grzegorz Galica must start with the IBU Cup: Poland’s selection for the Östersund World Cup
- Belgium’s team for the Östersund World Cup revealed
- Without Julia Simon, who is suspended: the full French team selection for the Östersund World Cup, the first stage of the Olympic winter season
