18:41. In three days’ time, the first Loop One Biathlon Festival will take place at the Olympic Park in Munich (Germany).
In Bavaria, as Nordic Magazine has learned, there will be five representatives from the Baltic countries: Estonians Mark-Markos Kehva, Rene Zahkna and Regina Ermits, and Lithuanians Maksim Fomin and Lidiia Zhurauskaite.
The Latvians, for their part, have decided not to appear at the start of this show set up by the IBU to open the 2025/2026 season.
Estonians Susan Kuelm, Johanna Talihaerm, Jakob Kulbin, Kristo Siimer and Tuuli Tomingas and Lithuanians Natalja Kocergina, Karol Dombrovski and Vytautas Strolia are also skipping this event.
Estonia’s selection for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Men
- Mark-Markos Kehva 🇪🇪
- Rene Zahkna 🇪🇪
Ladies
- Regina Ermits 🇪🇪
Lithuania’s selection for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Men
- Maksim Fomin 🇱🇹
Ladies
- Lidiia Zhurauskaite 🇱🇹
The programme for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Saturday 18th October
- 10.30am-10.50am: seated shooting trials
- 10.50am-11.10am: standing shooting trials and visually impaired people
- 11.15am: Para biathlon seated relay
- 11.55am: Para biathlon single mixed relay for the visually impaired
- 12.35pm: men’s para biathlon standing mass start
- 3.15pm-3.45pm: Young men’s and women’s shooting trials
- 16:00: young men’s mass-start
- 16:30: young women’s mass-start
- 17:00: Para-biathlon and youth prize-giving ceremonies
Sunday 19 October
- 10:20-10:50: Men’s shooting trials
- 11.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 11.20am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 11.40am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 12.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 12.20pm-12.50pm: Women’s shooting trials
- 13:00: Ladies’ super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 1.20pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 1.40pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 2.00 pm: women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 3.42pm: men’s super sprint final
- 4.23pm: Women’s super sprint final
- 5.00 pm: men’s and women’s prize-giving ceremony
- The full programme of the Loop One Festival in Munich, the show organised by the IBU to open the 2025/2026 season.
- TV rights: Munich’s Loop One Festival broadcast on France Télévisions’ digital channels
- The IBU launches the Loop One Festival, the opening event of the 2025/2026 season in Munich
- “Stéphane Bouthiaux regrets the late announcement of the Loop One Festival, the IBU’s urban showcase at the start of the season.
- The IBU’s urban show at the start of the season has changed the Summer Tour schedule: the first stage will take place in Arçon in September, the second in La Féclaz in October.
- France has nine quotas for the Loop One Festival, an urban show organised by the IBU on 19 October in Munich.
- The crème de la crème: the names of the nine French riders selected for the Loop One Festival, the season-opening show organised by the IBU in Munich.
- The Summer Tour of La Féclaz rather than the Loop One Festival in Munich for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- Germany with Franziska Preuss, Justus Strelow, Selina Grotian and Janina Hettich-Walz for the Loop One Festival, Vanessa Voigt absent
- Great Britain with Shawna Pendry and Matthew Chronicle at the Loop One Festival in Munich
- “They’re going there to give it their all”: Karl Tabouret and Benjamin Daviet at the start of the Loop One Festival in Munich on 18 October
- Tendinitis, illness: France’s Benjamin Daviet and Karl Tabouret forced to withdraw from Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: Belgium with Maya Cloetens, Florent Claude, Lotte Lie and Thierry Langer
- Finland, led by Suvi Minkkinen, six for the Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: Italy in Munich with Lisa Vittozzi, Tommaso Giacomel and Dorothea Wierer
- Loop One Festival: the Czech Republic without Marketa Davidova, but with Tereza Vobornikova, Michal Krcmar and Vitezslav Hornig
- Australia represented at Munich’s Loop One Festival
- Munich: Slovenia with Anamarija Lampic, but without Jakov Fak for the Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: Sweden selects Ella Halvarsson and Martin Ponsiluoma, the Oeberg sisters and Sebastian Samuelson stay at home
- Loop One Festival: three Americans to take part in Munich show, no Canadians
- Without Sebastian Stalder and Niklas Hartweg, with Lena Haecki-Gross: Switzerland’s selection for the Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: Austria led by Simon Eder and Lisa Theresa Hauser, Anna Gandler also selected
- Maren Kirkeeide, Sturla Holm Lægreid, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Martin Uldal or Karoline Knotten: Norway with its best at Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival: still unable to shoot standing up after hand surgery, Franziska Preuss cancels Munich show
- Dorothea Wierer also withdraws from Loop One Festival
- Loop One Festival in Munich: France guaranteed to have a biathlete in both the men’s and women’s finals
