Biathlon: the 2025/2026 World Cup starts in 50 days’ time
While the world’s top biathletes are busy preparing for the 2025/2026 season, the D-50 mark before the start arrives this Friday. In exactly 50 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 start of January, the sequence will be classic with Oberhof (Germany) and Ruhpolding (Germany), followed by Nove Mesto (Czech Republic).
End of season at Oslo-Holmenkollen
TheAntholz (Italy) venue 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).
The international season officially opens on 19 October with the IBU’s new event: the Loop One Festival, a show organised in the streets of the Olympic Park in Munich (Germany) in the format of a super sprint , bringing together the world’s 60 best biathletes.
The entire 2025/2026 Biathlon World Cup programme
Östersund 🇸🇪
Saturday 29 November
- 1.30pm: Women’s 4×6 km relay
- 4.20pm: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
Sunday 30th November
- 2.15pm: Mixed singles relay
- 16:30: mixed relay
Tuesday 2nd December
- 3.40pm: Women’s 15km individual
Wednesday 3rd December
- 3.40pm: Men’s 20km individual
Friday 5 December
- 16:00: women’s 7.5 km sprint
Saturday 6 December
- 3.30pm: Men’s 10 km sprint
Sunday 7 December
- 1.30pm: women’s 10 km pursuit
- 3.30pm: Men’s 12.5 km pursuit
Hochfilzen 🇦🇹
Friday 12 December
- 11.20am: 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 10 km 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
- 2.15pm: 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
- 2.1pm: 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
- 2.30pm: Mixed singles relay
- 16:30: mixed relay
Sunday 25 January
- 2.15pm: men’s 15km mass-start
- 4.40pm: 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
- 5.05pm: Men’s 20km individual
Saturday 7 March
- 1.30pm: women’s 12.5 km mass-start
- 3.45pm: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
Sunday 8 March
- 1.30pm: Women’s 4×6 km relay
- 4.15pm: 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
- 15:30: Men’s 10 km pursuit
Sunday 15 March
- 12.35pm: Mixed single relay
- 2.40pm: Mixed relay
Oslo-Holmenkollen 🇳🇴
Thursday 19 March
- 4.20pm: women’s 7.5km sprint
Friday 20 March
- 4.20pm: 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
- 4.15pm: 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 exact 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
