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France's Julia Simon claimed her first-ever crystal globe with a fifth-place finish in the women's sprint in Oslo. The 26-year-old became the first French female biathlete to win an overall World Cup since Sandrine Bailly in 2005. Ad Simon's total of 1048 points left her untouchable ahead of the 12.5km mass start to come and secured the historic victory.
Johannes Thingnes Boe showed no ill effects from his week off as he notched yet another World Cup success with victory in the sprint in Oslo. In the final week of the season, Boe bounced back from missing last week in Oestersund with Covid to cruise to the win despite a miss on the standing shoot.
Galen Rupp enters Sunday’s NYC Half, his first race in four months, coming off what he called “a pretty rough” 2022.
Johannes Thingnes Boe showed no ill-effects from his week off as he notched yet another World Cup success with victory in the sprint in Oslo. In the final week of the season, Boe bounced back from missing last week in Oestersund with Covid to cruise to the win despite a miss on the standing shoot.
Norwegian biathlon star Tiril Eckhoff has announced her retirement from the sport. Eckhoff posted a statement on social media that said she was proud of what she achieved in the sport but feels it’s the right decision to step aside. Ad The 32-year-old is a two-time Olympic champion having secured gold as part of Norway’s mixed relay team at Sochi 2014 before repeating the feat at the most recent Games at Beijing 2022.
Norway's Tiril Eckhoff, a double Olympic biathlon mixed relay champion and three-times individual world champion, has announced her retirement, the Norwegian Ski Federation said on Wednesday.
Legendary Norwegian biathlete Marte Olsbu Roeiseland has confirmed that she will step away from biathlon at the end of the season, saying that now is the “right time” to retire. In 2022 at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Roeiseland, 32, created history by winning five Olympic medals (three golds and two bronzes), becoming the first woman to ever achieve the feat and matching the tally for the most medals won in a single Winter Olympic Games ever. Ad She also created another piece of history in the 2020 world championships when she became the first athlete to ever win medals across all seven events.
Dorothea Wierer made it two wins from two events in Oestersund in the mass start as Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen earned his first biathlon World Cup win of the season. The Italian took advantage of a miss from Julia Simon on her final shot to take victory in the women's 12.5km mass start, adding to the individual win she took on Thursday.