The final World Cup race of the very short para biathlon season was held in Prince George just two days after the end of the World Championships and consisted of just one race. The biathletes raced the middle distance, which is 10km with four shoots and penalty loops for any misses, to determine the World Cup winners across all six categories. With the cross country World Cup Finals starting the following day we had a few absentees and also some new faces who didn’t race the World Championships. Wicker wins In the absence of both Kendall Gretsch and Oksana Masters there were only four women on ..read more

The final day of World Championships competition in Prince George was for the Team Sprint races. One for the sitting category and one a combined standing and VI race. The teams of two can be all male, all female or mixed. There can also be more than one team from each country for example Ukraine 1, 2 and 3. Unique to Parabiathlon is also the opportunity to race with a different country in the Team Sprint. Today we has FIS 1 who was made up of France’s Karl Tabouret and Germany’s Lennart Volkert. ( (Not sure why it’s FIS 1 and not IBU 1 though!) With a start list of 7 in the sitting and 11 in t ..read more

Day two of the World Championships saw eighteen medals awarded in the Individual race. 12.5km was the distance raced with 4 shoots and a time penalty for each miss. Magic Mark It was another sensational race from home favourite Mark Arendz in the men’s standing category. Today he hit all 20 targets – the only competitor to do so. He took his second World title in 2 days, after also winning the sprint gold, by 1 minute 39.5 seconds meaning he was equally as impressive on skis as he was on the range. The silver medal went to his old rival Benjamin Daviet with a single miss on his second shoot. G ..read more

There was a warm welcome in Prince George for the biathletes, from the locals not from the weather. It’s freezing with temperatures around -20 degrees! That didn’t seem to be an issue for our six newly crowned World Sprint champions however. The usual suspects The top three in the women’s sitting sprint was not a surprise it was just a matter of which order they would finish in. After missing World Championships last season Oksana Masters stormed back to win gold. Hitting all ten targets was the key to her victory. She is the fastest skier in the class so when she hits all ten she is almost im ..read more

Natalie Wilkie is a para biathlete and cross country skier from Salmon Arm, British Colombia in Canada. The 23-year-old competes in the standing category after losing four fingers on her left hand in a woodwork accident at school in 2016. Wilkie is a three time Paralmpic gold medallist in cross country skiing and a double biathlon World Champion. She will defend her Sprint and Individual titles from Ostersund 2023 at her home World Championship in Prince George in March. You can follow Natalie on Instagram: natalie_wilkie_ Why did you become a biathlete? I got started in biathlon shortly after ..read more

Finally, after what feels like a century, para biathlon is back! We got underway with the first World Cup on Thursday 1st February with the Sprint race followed by the Sprint/Pursuit on Saturday and concluding with the Individual on Sunday. We had some brand new names on the start line in the sitting races with Brazil fielding biathletes for the first time ever! Elena De Sena Souza and Guilherme Rocha were the history makers for their country. If those names aren’t familiar the winners definitely were. Taras on top Taras Rad was the top performer in the men’s sitting events. He backed up his S ..read more

I know what you are thinking – a season preview in January?! Yes well the Para biathlon World Cup doesn’t start until the 1st of February this season that’s why! Now that governance of the sport is in the hands of the IBU there have been some teething problems and chopping and changing of the calendar but that is to be expected as it’s only the second year since the move from the International Paralympic Committee. Hopefully next season there will be more races on the calendar with the 2026 Paralympics looming on the horizon. Luckily there have been some Continental Cups and National Champions ..read more

Hello and welcome to the 10th annual Biathlon23 awards. The alternative awards for biathlon which represent the important things in the sport like the ski suits and rifle design. They are among the most prestigious and most sought after awards. Who wants a crystal globe when you can win one of these! The awards are of course subject to a rigorous system used to ensure fairness in the nominations and winners – I pick them and it’s totally biased! Read, enjoy and feel free to disagree! Most hits on the blog (most popular): We had a mixture of returning biathletes for interviews this season like ..read more

Well what a season it has been! We had the official Biathlon23 Day on 2/3/23. We had a win and a second place finish and crowned Johannes Thingnes Boe as Biathlete23. JTB won every race he started on the World Cup in 2023 and 3/4 at World Champs. He won on Biathlon23 Day! His first ever WC win was in bib23 so he is the real life Biathlete23! For anyone unfamiliar with Biathlete23 (where have you been?!) this blog follows the results of whichever biathlete happens to be in bib23 for each race. It treats them like one athlete and adds up the score to see how this biathlete would have performed o ..read more

The winner of the Overall Title this season is someone who was not among the top favourites at the start of the season. Julia Simon has always been capable of winning races but was not consistent enough to challenge for the Total Score. This season she sorted out her shooting issues and was brilliant on the range and super consisitent and that is what won her her first big crystal globe! She accumulated 1093 points to finish 182 points ahead of her nearest rival winning 4 races and getting 12 podium finishes. She became World Champion in the Pursuit and took bronze in the Mass Start and Mixed ..read more