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Sunday, 21 February 2021 Norways Sturla Holm Lægreid cemented his status as a future star as Austrias Lisa Theresa Hauser secured her first Biathlon World Championships gold medal on the final day of the event in Pokljuka. Lægreid won the mens 15 kilometres mass start to seal his fourth title at the Championships, adding to his triumphs in the individual, mixed relay and mens relay races. The 23-year-old, who had not earned a World Cup victory until this season, pulled away on the last loop ...

Thursday, 18 February 2021 Julia Simon and Antonin Guigonnat of France caused an upset as they beat Norways Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tiril Eckhoff to secure the single mixed relay gold medal at the Biathlon World Championships in Pokljuka. Simon and Guigonnat produced a fine shooting performance to edge out Bø and Eckhoff, the respective mens and womens overall International Biathlon Union World Cup leaders. The French pair completed the course in a time of 36min 42.4sec, 2.8sec clear of the...

Slovenia Times 15. February, 2021 Men’s pursuit title goes to Jacquelin French biathlete Emilien Jacquelin is the winner of Sunday’s pursuit race at the World Championships in Pokljuka. With a perfect shooting record, he clinched the title from Sweden’s Sebastian Samuelsson. Johannes Thingnes Bo of Norway won bronze. The surprise winner of yesterday’s sprint, Swedish competitor Martin Ponsiluoma, had the best position at the outset, but he missed two targets on the opening s...

Norway’s Tiril Eckhoff secured a hat-trick of titles at the International Biathlon Union World Championships by triumphing in the women’s pursuit event in Pokljuka today.

Eckhoff tops the podium again at IBU World Championships Saturday, 13 February 2021 Norway’s Tiril Eckhoff claimed her second gold medal of the International Biathlon Union World Championships with victory in the women’s 7.5 kilometres sprint in Pokljuka in Slovenia. Eckhoff, a gold medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, produced a perfect 10-out-of-10 in the shooting as she recorded a winning time of 21min 18.7sec. The 30-year-old now has eight world titles, but this was her...

Hauser wins individual race to secure maiden IBU World Cup victory Thursday, 21 January 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser of Austria ended her wait for an International Biathlon Union World Cup victory by winning todays individual race in Antholz-Anterselva. The 27-year-old, who earned three podium finishes at one of the two World Cups held in Oberhof earlier this month, completed the 15 kilometres course in a time of 42min 29.3sec to take gold. A single penalty did not prevent Hauser from securing a l...

Tuesday, 12 January 2021 Norway will be eyeing further success as the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Biathlon World Cup resumes in Oberhof tomorrow. Tiril Eckhoff bagged two individual golds while Johannes Thingnes Bø and Sturla Holm Lægreid both topped all-Norwegian podiums in the German town last weekend. Oberhof is now set to stage another leg of the World Cup, scheduled to take place from tomorrow until January 17. Competition is due to begin with the men’s 10-kilometre sprint, whe...

Russia and France win relay events on final day of IBU World Cup in Oberhof Sunday, 10 January 2021 Russia and France finished the weekend on a high on the final day of competition in Oberhof in Germany at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Biathlon World Cup after wins in the relays. In the 4x6 kilometres mixed relay event, Russia edged out Norway for the gold medal by just 0.7 seconds. After the first womens leg, Uliana Kaisheva had Russia far off the pace, 30.5 seconds behind early lead...

For Gow, it was his highest placing since Feb. 16, 2019 when he finished eighth in the pursuit at Soldier Hollow, Utah. It was a 1-2-3 finish in the men’s race for Norway. Johannes Dale claimed the silver medal, 15.6 seconds behind Laegreid, and Tarjei Boe was third, 25.4 seconds off the pace. Scott Gow of Canmore, Christian’s older brother, also qualified for the pursuit and finished 40 th after shooting 18-for-20. He was 3:10.5 behind Laegreid. In the women’s 10 km pursuit Saturday ...

Beaudry was perfect in two shooting bouts crossed the finish 2:33.1 behind gold medalist Tiril Eckhoff of Norway, who topped the field of 104 racers with a time of 23:54. Lunder missed one prone and one standing target and stopped the clock 2:30.1 off the winning pace. Hanna Oeberg of Sweden (0+0, +29.6) and Lisa Theresa Hauser of Austria (0+1, +40.2) also made the medal podium. In other Canadian results, Megan Bankes of Calgary placed 64 th (0+2, +2:58.3) and Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yuko...