Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe made it a Holmenkollen double dip this afternoon, his eighth such win this season, again going wire-to-wire unchallenged to win the men’s 12.5 km pursuit, with a single penalty in 32:34. The penalty did nothing to spoil the Yellow/Red Bib’s day, in total control from start to finish, he played to the crowd in his last standing stage and stopped to bow to them before he crossed the finish line ..read more

After a night of snowfall, heavy fog rolled into the Holmenkollen Ski Arena this afternoon, first forcing officials to delay the start. However, the fog continued to increase, forcing the scheduled women’s 7.5 km sprint competition to be postponed until Saturday at 15:00 ..read more

After skipping the competitions in Oestersund while recovering form Covid-19, Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe completed a Holmenkollen Hat Trick by winning this afternoon’s foggy men’s 15 km mass start, pulling away from the field before the standing stages for his third consecutive victory this week. JT, with two penalties, was never threatened in the last two loops as in yesterday’s pursuit, crossing the finish line in 38:51.9. Switzerland’s Niklas Hartweg shot clean to equal his personal best in second place, 26.2 seconds back ..read more

Germany’s Denise Herrmann-Wick ended her sprint career with a double win this afternoon at the Holmenkollen Ski Arena, shooting clean and skiing the last loop powerfully for a 21:06.5 victory in the women’s 7.5 km sprint. The German Olympic and World Champion’s win sealed the Women’s World Cup Sprint Score title, giving the retiring Herrmann-Wick the second discipline crystal globe of her career ..read more

Sweden’s IBU Mass Start World Champion Hanna Oeberg took control of the season’s final competition, the Olso Holmenkollen women’s 12.5 km mass start when she cleaned the first standing stage, going on to a runaway victory in 36:33.5. Oeberg led after the first prone stage, slipped to second in the next and from that point, controlled the competition, despite foggy conditions and her only penalty of the day in the last standing stage ..read more

JT Boe put up another memorable show in Oslo-Holmenkollen, a fitting end to the best season ever in biathlon. Julia Simon triumphed in the women’s Total Score in a season that saw Denise Herrmann-Wick close her career with a Sprint Cup Score. Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen won a Cup Score doubled and already has a summer plan. Niklas Hartweg opened and closed the season with a second place, both times wearing a Blue bib as the best U25 athlete. Heavyweight retirements sealed up another unforgettable season ..read more

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) announced today that it will implement a full ban of ski preparation products containing fluor at all its event series from the 2023/2024 season onwards ..read more

Motivated like never before in the summer, JT Boe put on a week-in-week-out show never seen before in biathlon. He won all eight Sprints. Johannes won seven medals at the BMW IBU World Championships Oberhof 2023, five of those Gold. He won 19 times in 2022/2023, an eye-popping stat that only man can better, and even for that man would be extremely difficult: Johannes himself. Boe summarised the 2022/2023 season with a brief but telling answers. And he has an idea of who would be an ideal caretaker for his forest in Boeberhof ..read more

Between the World Cúp in Oestersund and the Youth Junior World Championships - you get to decide who will be the athlete of the week ..read more

Norwegian Endre Stroemsheim started his international biathlon career with Gold and Silver medals in the 2016 IBU Youth World Championships. Jump to the 2019/20 IBU Cup season; he won three times, teamed with Karoline Erdal to win the IBU OECH single Mixed Relay Gold medal, but finished second to Lucas Fratzscher in the IBU Cup Total Score by a single point. This season, everything went right for the 25-year-old Norwegian: six individual IBU Cup victories including Sprint and Individual Gold medals at the IBU OECH. That ensured him the IBU Cup Total Score, Individual and Sprint Score globes wi ..read more