Biathlon: a double for Antonin Guy at the World Youth Championships
For a long time this season, Dauphin’s Antonin Guy struggled to put things right at the shooting range. After his incredible winter of 2023/2024, marked by titles at the YOG and the World Youth Championships, the GUC Grenoble Ski biathlete had a crisis of confidence. He was experiencing the first bumps in the road of his budding career.
Serious about it, he got back to work in January and little by little everything fell into place. As a result, he qualified for the world youth championships in Östersund (Sweden). Late on Wednesday afternoon, he kicked off his competition in the individual event, the format in which he was crowned champion in 2024.
Starting in the first bibs, he had few points of reference and finished with a very good 19/20. However, we had to wait for all his rivals to pass before we could find out his final ranking. Especially as the Polish scarecrow of the race, Grzegorz Galica, started with number 112. With an 18/20, he put Antonin Guy in danger right to the end, but had to bow out by 4 sec 5.
Léo Carlier in bronze, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle fifth, Flavio Guy ninth
In doing so, the Frenchman won and became double world youth champion in the individual event. A feat that only his compatriots Ludwig Ehrhart (2008, 2009) and Aristide Bègue (2012, 2013) had managed to achieve in the past.
Another Frenchman was on today’s podium, with Léo Carlier (18/20) from Doubt. Guilty of two errors on the first dismount, he finished the race with a full ball and secured his first individual international medal.
Germany’s Korbi Kuebler (19/20), Camille Grataloup-Manissolle (18/20), making her first ever start at the U19 World Championships, and Ukraine’s Taras Tarasiuk (19/20) complete the flower ceremony. Next in the top 10 were Italy’s Manuel Contoz (17/20), Norway’s Leo Gundersen (17/20), Franc-Comtois Flavio Guy (15/20) and Germany’s Lukas Tannheimer (16/20).
Full results
- The full programme for the World Youth and Junior Championships in Östersund
- With Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, Amandine Mengin, Gaëtan Paturel and Anaëlle Bondoux: the French team selection for the 2025 World Youth and Junior Championships in Östersund.
- Östersund: despite a ruptured ulnar collateral ligament in her left thumb, Anaëlle Bondoux will be lining up at the start of the World Junior Championships
- After a difficult start to the season, Antonin Guy has bounced back to secure his place at the World Youth Championships: “It’s like a reward for all the work we’ve put in since mid-January”.
- “We had to fight right to the end to get this ticket”: how Alice Dusserre qualified for the World Youth Championships in Östersund by the skin of her teeth.
- “I’m going there with the desire to take responsibility for my biathlon”: at the Junior Worlds in Östersund, Corentin Jacob returns to international competition two years after his last selection
- Östersund: Ilona Plechacova individual world youth champion, Lola Bugeaud sixth
