Para biathlon: Germany’s Marco Maier wins the Loop One Festival mass-start standing event solo

12:48. The third and final para biathlon race at the Loop One Festival inMunich (Germany) this Saturday lunchtime was in the standing category. In a men’s mass-start in which Frenchmen Karl Tabouret and Benjamin Daviet had to pull out at the last minute, it was local hero Marco Maier who came out on top.

Scoring 8/10 against the targets, he finished 22 sec 0 ahead of Austria’s Stefan Egger-Riedmueller (10/10) and Canadian legend Mark Arendz (8/10) 38 sec 4 behind Kazakhstan’s Alexandr Gerlits (5/10) and Germany’s Max Long (5/10).

Full results

• 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
• The Norwegians will be flying by helicopter from the Lavazè Pass to Munich and back to take part in the 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
• Three Estonians, two Lithuanians, no Latvians: the Baltic countries’ selections for the Loop One Festival
• Loop One Festival: Greenland at the Munich show with Ukaleq Slettemark
• “Let’s make this first edition an unforgettable one”: Brazil’s Gaia Brunello is thrilled to be taking part in Sunday’s Loop One Festival in Munich.
• Milena Todorova, Natalia Sidorowicz and Dmytro Pidruchnyi: the selections from Ukraine, Bulgaria and Poland for the Loop One Festival
• Loop One Festival in Munich: France guaranteed to have a biathlete in both the men’s and women’s finals
• Photo album: Munich’s Olympic Park prepares to host the Loop One Festival
• “If all four of us make the final, it’ll be great! Fabien Claude, Emilien Jacquelin, Eric Perrot and Quentin Fillon-Maillet on the Loop One Festival in Munich
• Format, penalty round, course, distance, rules: how the super sprint at the Loop One Festival in Munich will work
• Loop One Festival: Brazil’s Aline Dos Santos Rocha and Kazakhstan’s Yerbol Khamitov win the mixed single seated relay
• Loop One Festival: the visually impaired mixed single relay for Germany’s Johanna Recktenwald and Nico Messinger