The International Biathlon Union has announced the shortlisted entries for the 2024-2025 IBU Awards for Excellence in the categories Sustainability, Gender Equality and Social Media.

For each category, the jury has shortlisted three entries with the winner being crowned at Loop One Festival in Munich on 18 October 2025.

A total of almost 40 applications have been submitted over the course of this summer - the winners in the National Federation and Organising Commiittee categories will be rewarded with 10,000€ each while the winning athlete in the Social Media category will receive 5,000€.

NF Sustainability

Deutscher Skiverband

Fédération Française de Ski

Norwegian Biathlon Association

OC Sustainability

Organizing Committee, Otepää, Estonia

Organizing Committee, Pokljuka, Slovenia

Organizing Committee Lenzerheide, Switzerland

NF Gender Equality

Norwegian Biathlon Association

Brazilian Snow Sports Federation

Biathlon Canada

Athletes Social Media

Anna Gandler, Austria

Boris Stanish, Australia

Edgars Mise, Latvia

NF Social Media

Swedish Biathlon Federation

Czech Biathlon Union

Swiss Ski

The IBU will be presenting the Shortlisted entries in the lead up to Loop One Festival on biathlonworld.com as well as its Institutional Channels on LinkedIn and Instagram.