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2023/24 was Juni Arnekleiv’s breakthrough season which she kicked off with her first individual World Cup podium, Single Mixed and Relay podiums all in the Oestersund season-opener.

2024 IBU World Cup Total Score winner Lisa Vittozzi capped her return to competition with a dominant 15:55.6 win in the Blink Women’s Mass Start this evening. Just after Vittozzi’s joyful win, fast shooting Martin Uldal, after two earlier penalties. cleaned the final standing stage, sealing his second win of the weekend, taking the Blink Men’s Mass Start in 13:43.1.

France’s Lou Jeanmonnot, after not qualifying for the shooting duel final out-sprinted Italy’s Lisa Vittozzi, winning the women’s super sprint at Blink with a single penalty in 15:28.4. Eric Perrot made it a French double, taking the men’s title in a photo-finish 13:42.9 over Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid.

Siegfried Mazet will be stepping down as Head Coach of the Norwegian Biathlon Men's Team after the Olympic Season 2025-2026. This was announced by the Norwegian Biathlon Federation in a press release earlier this afternoon. Mazet had taken on the role in 2016, guiding the team to over 150 World Cup victories in his decade-long tenure.