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Headlines from the biathlon media of every country we cover: broadcasters like Sportschau, SVT, NRK and Yle, specialist sites like Nordic Magazine, biathlon-online.de and OA Sport, and the national federations. We show the title and a short excerpt and link straight to the publisher.
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Athlete holidays this spring featured a few twists away from the norm including Deedra Irwin’s wedding, Fabien Claude’s three-month adventure and proposal to his girlfriend, a bit of golf for Elvira Oeberg, and a family-filled house in Tuscany for Regina Ermits.
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Johannes Kühn competed in his first World Cup race in 2012. More than 14 years later, he is ending his active career and looking back on many years that have shaped him. In an interview with Biathlonworld, he talks about his highlights, mental challenges, and his future.
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Building the Future of Biathlon & Para Biathlon in Antholz-Anterselva
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The IBU today announced that the iconic biathlon venues of Kontiolahti (FIN) and Oestersund (SWE) have officially submitted applications to host the World Biathlon Championships 2031.
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After a heart operation abruptly ended his Olympic season, Italian biathlete Tommaso Giacomel reflects on recovery, mental challenges, the loss of friend Sivert Bakken and his return to training ahead of the new biathlon season.
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Norway is synonymous with biathlon success. Yet when the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games arrived, not a single Norwegian athlete stood on the start line. For a country with a proud history in the Para Biathlon, the absence was striking.
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IBU announces Summer Regional Events calendar for season 2026/2027
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After a tumultuous Olympic season, capped by a flurry of retirements and a spring holidays, most teams have reset their rosters, including a few surprises and some late retirements.
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After a long and tiring Olympic season, several teams made coaching changes later than usual. Czechia made waves, reuniting Michal Slesingr to work alongside former teammate Ondrej Moravec on the men’s team. At the same time, Italy tapped former Czech Women’s Coach Egil Gjelland for their women’s team.
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June 3 is the day of the bicycle. World Bicycle Day, as designated by the United Nations, celebrates “the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle.” Today, Johannes Dale-Skjevdal, Lucie Charvátová, Anna Gandler and Selina Grotian and other biathletes are on the roads, cycling favourite routes.
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Building on the momentum of its debut edition, International Biathlon Day returned on 30 May 2026 with record participation, bringing biathlon and para biathlon to thousands of people around the world. More than 30 National Federations hosted activities ranging from first-time try-outs and master classes to competitions, introducing an estimated 10,000 participants to the sport.
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Olympic biathlete Selina Gasparin launches Rhaetian Private School in Chur, Switzerland—helping student-athletes balance sports and education with full-day care.
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The last Olympic cycle is history. The new training season is under way and with a new focus, Norway, Poland and Sweden revealed their priorities for the years up to the French Alps 2030 Olympic Winter Games.
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Biathlon brings together two extremes, super endurance and shooting skills. These would for sure help if we were to drop the biathletes into a real-life survival test. But which one of them would come out as the winner? We asked the athletes, and here is the verdict!
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Building on the success of its debut edition, International Biathlon Day (IBD) is returning on 30 May 2026, with more nations than ever before preparing to host special events to celebrate the sport and get more people involved in biathlon.
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Some records are broken and it feels as if hardly anyone noticed. When others are shattered, you are left with the feeling that the sport has fundamentally changed, even if only slightly. This season gave biathlon several moments like that — teenagers challenging history, Olympic legends reaching another level and races decided by margins almost too small to believe.
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After a strong first edition in 2025, International Biathlon Day returns 30 May 2026 for its second edition - with numerous activations taking place across the world, allowing more than 10,000 participants to experience the thrill of biathlon.
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The Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games saw Dorothea Wierer in a long-planned departure and Franziska Preuss on rather short notice leave biathlon. These two World Cup Total Score winners are a study in contrasts; each creating a unique legacy, leaving their mark on biathlon.
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Lee Hyuck Yul, President of the Korea Biathlon Union, has been appointed Chairman of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Legacy Foundation for a three-year term, filling a position that had been vacant for more than a year.
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Thomas Marchl is one of the most promising young talents in the Austrian team. He won the overall standing in the IBU Junior Cup in the 2025/2026 season and is now dreaming of making his World Cup debut. He has set himself ambitious goals for the coming years.
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Winter Regional Events Reach Record in Youth and Junior Participation
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In May 2022, the Italian Federation (FISI) unveiled their 9-person Milano Cortina 2026 Team and Elite A team including Lukas Hofer and Dorothea Wierer, focused on the home 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Simultaneously, they added Jonne Kahkonnen to work alongside Mirco Romanin on the women’s team while Fabrizio Curtaz became Milano Cortina Project Manager. With the Games over, how did this OWG push...
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Estere Volfa is the surprise of the World Cup season, she won the overall standing in the IBU Junior Cup, competed at the Winter Olympics in Antholz and is fast becoming one of her country’s best-known biathletes. Why is biathlon a family affair for her, and how does she cope with her success?
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Para biathlon teams may be small, but behind the scenes, they are powered by people willing to take on almost every role imaginable. Few embody that spirit more than Jakub Twardowski - coach, guide, ski technician, and logistics coordinator all at once.
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The coaching carousel moved slowly and steadily since the season ended, with big changes in Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Ukraine and Sweden. At the same time, Poland stood pat with their current coaches while Italy, USA and Switzerland have yet to announce their new coaching appointments.
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The Olympic 2025/26 season was pressure-packed with more on the line than at any time in the quadrennial. With career-defining moments at stake, there were dips and upward mobility on the shooting range, although shooting remained consistently high.So, who was most at home on the range last winter?
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When working in biathlon, the IBU media team gets to experience all the biggest moments from a front-row seat. From the first podium of the career to Olympic gold celebrations, here are the media team's favourite moments from the season!
