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Nove Mesto Preview now up! Believe it or not it's time to start thinking World Cup biathlon again. The preview includes: - Schedule - Course maps - Weather - News and Notes updates - Top 5 finishers last 5 seasons in Nove Mesto penaltyloop.com/2025/03/03/n... #biathlon

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Youth World Championship Women’s Relay 🥇Germany 🇩🇪 🥈Norway 🇳🇴 🥉Italy 🇮🇹 4) Ukraine 🇺🇦 5) Sweden 🇸🇪 6) Finland 🇫🇮 7) Poland 🇵🇱 8) Slovenia 🇸🇮 9) France 🇫🇷 10) Switzerland 🇨🇭 #biathlon

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🇨🇿Petr Hak with an absolutely brilliant week. Only once on the podium before these Junior Worlds he comes home with double🥉in Sprint and Mass 60. Add him with Tomas Mikyska and Jonas Marecek and there is something brewing for the young Czechia men! #biathlon

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🇫🇮Absolutely thrilled for Jimi Klemettinen! He's been having a stellar year showing good results on the IBU Cup and making his WC debut. Today he adds a🥈to his 2024 Youth Worlds Sprint🥉. The Finnish fans have to be so excited with him as a part of their bright future! #biathlon

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🇳🇴We've known about Kasper Kalkenberg for a little while now but this week he just confirmed everything. Today especially with a tactically perfect race. Building the lead lap 4 to give himself a cushion. Perfectly raced last lap to build the speed and break free for🥇! #biathlon

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Junior Worlds Men’s Mass 60 🥇Kasper Kalkenberg 🇳🇴 05 🥈Jimi Klemettinen 🇫🇮 05 🥉Pete Hak 🇨🇿 03 4) Andreas Aas 🇳🇴 03 5) Bohdon Borkovskyi 🇺🇦 04 6) Gaetan Paturel 🇫🇷 03 7) Matija Legovic 🇭🇷 05 8) Sivert Gerhardsen 🇳🇴 04 9) Thomas Marchl 🇦🇹 05 10) Elias Seidl 🇩🇪 04 #biathlon

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🇺🇦We've seen so much racing from Oleksandra Merkushyna the last few years that it is hard to remember she's still only 20. This is already her 3rd Youth/Junior Worlds medal! An excellent shooter, she used that to her advantage in wild winds to hit 17/20 and secure🥉! #biathlon

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🇫🇷Anaelle Bondoux's🥈 is made even more surprising considering she has been racing with a significant injury in her left thumb. She nearly pulled out of the Junior Worlds but decided to race and now she comes away with Junior Worlds medal of her career! #Biathlon

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🇫🇷Anaelle Bondoux finishes her individual Junior Worlds races with a frankly surprising🥈. Never known as a sharp shooter she has hit just 76.4% standing this year. Somehow, in the most intense shooting wind of the year she goes 10/10 standing and secures the medal! #Biathlon

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🇸🇪 Seriously overjoyed for Sara Andersson today. Such a strong start to the year on the WC but then knocked down by illness that threatened to derail her whole season. She really recovered her year in amazing fashion finishing Junior Worlds with 🥈&🥇!! #biathlon

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🇰🇿 Major congratulations to Mariya Poldyayeva. Today she was the best shooter somehow hitting 19/20. In these conditions that's some seriously good shooting!! #biathlon

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Junior Women’s Mass 60 🥇Sara Andersson 🇸🇪03 🥈Anaëlle Bondoux 🇫🇷04 🥉Oleksandra Merkushyna 🇺🇦05 4)Amandine Mengin 🇫🇷04 5)Anna Nedza-Kubiniec 🇵🇱 03 6)Anna Millinger 🇦🇹 05 7)Ann Aaland 🇳🇴 04 8)Lora Hristova 🇧🇬 03 9)Kseniia Prykhodko🇺🇦 05 10)Valentina Dimitrova🇧🇬 03 #biathlon

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For any of the youths who feel like they got roughed up by the tricky shooting conditions in Östersund just know it happens to the best. Check out these shooting times from the final shoot of the 2021 Östersund Women’s Mass Start #biathlon

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Nearly something for everybody this morning! 🇫🇷French men dominate 🇩🇪Young German women looking wonderful 🇨🇿Plechacova another medal 🇨🇦Luke Hulshof another great race 🇧🇬A couple men in the top 10 🇨🇭2 Swiss women in the top 10. Baumann a very good worlds! 🇵🇱Galica again! #biathlon

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Youth World Championship Men’s Mass 60 🥇Leo Carlier 🇫🇷06 🥈Falvio Guy 🇫🇷06 🥉Camille Grataloup-Manissole 🇫🇷06 4) Grzegorz Galica 🇵🇱07 5) Lukas Tannheimer 🇩🇪07 6)Veselin Belchinski 🇧🇬06 7)Luca Anding 🇩🇪06 8)Emil Skellberg 🇳🇴07 9)Luke Hulshof 🇨🇦06 10)Georgi Dzhorgov 🇧🇬07 #biathlon

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Youth World Championship Women’s Mass 60 🥇Louise Rouget 🇫🇷06 🥈Lena Siegmund 🇩🇪 06 🥉Ilona Plechacova 🇨🇿 06 4) Melina Gaupp 🇩🇪 08 5) Lena Baumann 🇨🇭 06 6) Sydney Wüsterling 🇩🇪 08 7)Martine Skog 🇳🇴07 8)Sophia Imwinkelreid 🇨🇭07 9)Carlotta Gautero 🇮🇹 06 10)Bjoerg Eide🇳🇴06 #biathlon

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🇬🇧 Chloe DuPont with her 3rd career top 30 today. This is another very solid result for British biathlon this week. This federation has done a great job the last few years of building up the younger levels!! #biathlon

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🇱🇻 Estere Volfa 10th & Elza Bleidel 12th have had a wonderful year and are showing a continuing bright future for Latvian biathlon. Both have shown very good skiing. Estere Volfa especially worth highlighting with several juniors top 10’s, a podium and her 1st WC races! #biathlon

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🇺🇦My heart goes out to Olena Horodna. She finishes just 1.1 sec from 🥉 today. So many areas that you can pick up a second here or there. Hopefully rather than disappointed she’s so happy to be included in the mix and proving herself next to such highly talented women! #biathlon

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🇫🇷What a year for Amandine Mengin now firmly established as future French contender. Early season Junior Cup podiums. Then on the IBU Cup she immediately has 2 wins and a 2nd in her 1st races. She won European Champs🥈. Now Junior Worlds 🥈&🥉in the IND & Sprint! #biathlon

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🇸🇪Sara Andersson already has a WC top 10 so she doesn’t need to a medal validate herself as one of the premier young talents biathlon…but it sure is nice! After a great start to the year on the WC she got sick and it’s phenomenal to see her back in full form taking 🥈! #biathlon

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🇦🇹What a great couple of weeks it’s been for Anna Andexer. First she goes head to head with the best in the world in the anchor leg of the Worlds relay and they finish 4 (Austria’s best Worlds ever). Now she finally claims the one thing she didn’t have: Junior Worlds🥇! #biathlon

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In the Junior Worlds men’s Sprint we have a 13 seconds split from 🥈 back to 8th. This was such a tightly packed race where a few second here and there made the difference. Excellent sprint! #biathlon

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Junior World Championship Men’s Sprint 🥇Haavard Tosterud 🇳🇴 04 🥈Jakub Borgula 🇸🇰04 🥉Peter Hak 🇨🇿03 4) Kasper Kalkenberg 🇳🇴05 5) Matija Legovic 🇭🇷 05 6) Fabian Muellauer 🇦🇹03 7) Leonard Pfund🇩🇪03 8) Sivert Gerhardsen 🇳🇴04 9) Axel Garnier 🇫🇷03 10)Christoph Pircher 🇮🇹03 #biathlon

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Junior World Championship Women’s Sprint 🥇Anna Andexer 🇦🇹03 🥈Sara Andersson 🇸🇪03 🥉Amandine Mengin 🇫🇷04 4) Olena Horodna 🇺🇦 04 5)Voldiya Galmace Paulin 🇫🇷05 6)Silje Berg-Knutsen 🇳🇴05 7)Lotta De Buhe 🇩🇪 03 8)Celia Henaff 🇫🇷 04 9)Lea Zimmerman 🇩🇪04 10)Estere Volfa 🇱🇻05 #biathlon

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Youth Worlds Mens Sprint Course Time Rank 1)Grzegorz Galica 🇵🇱07 2)Lukas Tannheimer 🇩🇪07 +4 3)Flavio Guy 🇫🇷06 +15 4)Rihards Lozbers 🇱🇻09 +22 5)Camille Gratalouo-Mannisole 🇫🇷06 +28 6)Leo Gundersen 🇳🇴06 +30 7)Leo Carlier 🇫🇷06 +32 8)Antonin Guy 🇫🇷06 +33 9)Andreas Haug 🇳🇴06 +35 10)Michal Adamov🇸🇰06 +35 #biathlon

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🇫🇷 Leo Carlier is a very good shooter having hit 80% or better in all but one of his Juniors races and 8 of 12 races. Now he’s linking that with improving skiing like his 7th course time rank today. The result is 🥈to go along with the 🥉from the IND. What a Worlds!! #biathlon

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🇩🇪 Lukas Tannheimer gets his shooting (9/10) to sync with his terrific skiing today and the result is his first Youth Worlds medal and it’s🥇! We know how fast he can be as he’s showing us this week. Now he show us his potential. A definite German player in the future! #biathlon

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🇨🇦Luke Hulshof off his brilliant relay performance in the anchor leg for surprise 4th place Canada and once again looks really good! 13th best course time and 8/10 scores him an 8th place finish. He has 3 regional Canada event wins this year but it’s his 1st IBU top 10! #biathlon

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🇫🇮 Arttu Remes in his 2nd IBU level event scored a big time top 10 as he finishes 7th. That 10/10 did him well today! One of just 4 perfect shooting days I believe #biathlon

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Youth World Championship Men’s Sprint 🥇Lukas Tannheimer 🇩🇪07 🥈Leo Carlier 🇫🇷 06 🥉Tov Roeysland 🇳🇴06 4) Korbi Kübler 🇩🇪 06 5) Grzegorz Galica 🇵🇱 07 6) Camille Grataloup-Manissole 🇫🇷06 7) Arttu Remes 🇫🇮 07 8)Luke Hulshof 🇨🇦 06 9)Oskar Bergman 🇸🇪 06 10)Antonin Guy 🇫🇷 06 #biathlon

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🇨🇦 Another solid day for Cheyenne Tirschmann! She finishes 21st with the 17th best ski time. Add that to a very good mixed relay leg and 14th best skiing in the IND and it’s turning into a great week! #biathlon

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🇩🇰 Leonora Roenhede!!! 9th in the Individual and 16th in the Sprint shes showing she is for real! 6th best ski time in the IND and 10th fastest today. This is super exciting for the future of Danish biathlon!! #biathlon

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🇨🇭Happy for Lena Baumann this week. Solid 16th in the IND, excellent opening leg in the mixed relay, 5th today with 9/10 shooting and 11th best skiing. Today is her 2nd career top 10, 2nd of the season, and her career best!! #biathlon

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🇳🇴Currently 2nd in the u18 ASKO Cup standings Martine Skog is no stranger to success! But this is her first IBU level individual win as she takes home Youth Worlds🥇in the Sprint! Her 7th best course time was good enough with a perfect 10/10. She now has 2🥇this Worlds! #biathlon

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🇫🇷 The last 2 races are the first time that she’s hit better than 80% in her IBU career as she was 18/20 in the IND and 9/10 today. Nice time for her to show her stuff! #biathlon

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🇫🇷Haven’t seen a ton of 18yo Louise Roguet on the IBU but she seems to have peaked her season at the right time with definitively her best races of the seasinthis week! 7th in the IND and 🥈today. 2nd best ski time just 0.1 from fastest! Another fast young French woman! #biathlon

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🇨🇿 Ilona Plechacova is one of the top Youth talents and she’s absolutely showing it right now at Worlds. Dominating🥇Individual performance. Huge leg in the relay to put Czechia out front. Now a 🥉 in the Sprint. I am so excited to watch her develop! #biathlon

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🇸🇪 Elsa Tänglander hasn’t had the easiest time the first couple of races finishing 46 in the IND and with a rough leg yesterday in the relay. This is much more like it! 4/5 in each shooting and 4th best skiing. Finished 4th today just 6 sec out of the medals! #biathlon

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Youth Worlds Women’s Sprint Course Time Ranks 1)Ilona Plechacova 🇨🇿06 2)Louise Roguet 🇫🇷06 +0.1 3)Lola Bugeaud 🇫🇷06 +2 4)Elsa Tänglander 🇸🇪07 +3 5)Coralie Perrin 🇫🇷06 +18 6)Melina Gaupp 🇩🇪08 +18 7)Martine Skog 🇳🇴07 +21 8)Gerda Kivil 🇪🇪07 +28 9)Heda Mikolasova 🇨🇿06 +29 10)Leonora Rønhede 🇩🇰06 +30 #biathlon

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Youth Worlds Women’s Sprint 🥇Martine Skog 🇳🇴07 🥈Louise Roguet 🇫🇷06 🥉Ilona Plechacova 🇨🇿 06 4) Elsa Tanglander 🇸🇪 07 5) Lena Baumann 🇨🇭06 6) Nayeli Mariotti Cavagnet 🇮🇹 06 7) Amelia Liszka 🇵🇱 06 8) Bjoerg Eide 🇳🇴06 9) Coralie Perrin 🇫🇷06 10) Sara Tronrud 🇳🇴06 #biathlon

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Youth World Championship Mixed Relay Golden Relay Leg 1: Martine Skog 🇳🇴 Leg 2: Ilona Plechacova 🇨🇿 Leg 3: Lukas Tannheimer 🇩🇪 Leg 4: Luke Hulshof 🇨🇦 Fastest Relay Leg 1: Martine Skog 🇳🇴 Leg 2: Melina Gaupp 🇩🇪 Leg 3: Lukas Tannheimer 🇩🇪 Leg 4: Rihards Lozbers 🇱🇻 #biathlon

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Junior World Championships Mixed Relay Golden Relay Leg 1:Valentina Dimitrova 🇧🇬 Leg 2:Anna Andexer 🇦🇹 Leg 3:Kasper Kalkenberg 🇳🇴 Leg 4:Sivert Gerhardsen 🇳🇴 Fastest Relay Leg 1:Voldiya Galmace Paulin🇫🇷 Leg 2:Sara Andersson 🇸🇪 Leg 3:Gaetan Paturel 🇫🇷 Leg 4:Edgar Geny🇫🇷 #biathlon

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🇫🇷 France getting 🥈 with 4 penalty loops is outrageous. As a team they were 2:09 faster on the course than Austria 🇦🇹 who finished as the 2nd fastest team. Sheesh! #biathlon

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Junior Worlds Mixed Relay 🥇Germany 🇩🇪 🥈France 🇫🇷 🥉Austria 🇦🇹 4) Norway 🇳🇴 5) Ukraine 🇺🇦 6) Bulgaria 🇧🇬 7) Sweden 🇸🇪 8) Poland 🇵🇱 9) Italy 🇮🇹 10) Czechia 🇨🇿 #biathlon

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🇨🇦 So happy for this Canadian team today!!! Best ever Juniors mixed relay finish. Best Juniors relay of any type since the Youth Men finished 2nd with a team including Jules Burnotte Congratulations Flora Csonka Cheyenne Tirschmann Malcolm McCulloch Luke Hulshof #biathlon

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Worth mentioning some big names too! 🇨🇿Heda Mikolasova and Ilona Plechacova were brilliant today getting Czechia a 43sec lead 🇩🇪Lukas Tannheimer didn’t shoot well but that speed was wild. Kübler solid anchor 🇫🇷Solid job by Grataloup-Mannisole and Carlier to close for🥉 #biathlon

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