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Sunday, 21 February 2021 Norway's Sturla Holm Lægreid cemented his status as a future star as Austria's Lisa Theresa Hauser secured her first Biathlon World Championships gold medal on the final day of the event in Pokljuka. Lægreid won the men's 15 kilometres mass start to seal his fourth title at the Championships, adding to his triumphs in the individual, mixed relay and men's relay races. The 23-year-old, who had not earned a World Cup victory until this season, pulled away on the last loop and finished in 32min 51.5sec. Lægreid led a Norwegian one-two as Johannes Dale took silver, 10...

Thursday, 18 February 2021 Julia Simon and Antonin Guigonnat of France caused an upset as they beat Norway's 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 men's and women's overall International Biathlon Union World Cup leaders. The French pair completed the course in a time of 36min 42.4sec, 2.8sec clear of their Norwegian rivals. Sebastian Samuelsson and Hanna Öberg of Sweden did enough for bronze after ...

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 shooting to create an opportunity for his pursuers. The 25-year-old Jacquelin, who is considered a su...

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 first sprint crown since 2016. "Today was really hard on the shooting range and I took some extra t...