Men 10 km Sprint Competition

Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe finished this afternoon’s Olso Holmenkollen men’s 10 km sprint exactly like finished every other sprint this season, in first place. Today’s one-penalty, wire-to-wire win in 25:13 gave the man wearing the Yellow/Red Bib sprint victory number eight for a clean sweep of the 2022/23 BMW IBU World Cup season. As has been the case all season, once JT set the bar after the standing stage, no one was able to come close to his stunning ski speed on the last loop; this time adding 16 seconds to his lead, guaranteeing victory.

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 without competing in the last two IBU Cups in Canmore! It also paved the way for three top 15 finishes in his first-ever IBU World Championships, a mixed relay podium in Nove Mesto and this past week, his first-ever BWW IBU World Cup victory with Norway’s men’s relay team. Now in a couple of days, Stroemsheim will be on the closing out a dream season at home in the Holmenkollen Ski Arena.