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Maren Kirkeeide of Norway takes gold in the biathlon sprint during her Olympic debut
- On Saturday in Anterselva, Maren Kirkeeide, Olympic debutant, won gold in the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.
- The sprint format requires skiing three 2.5-kilometer loops with prone and standing shooting stages, and each miss forces a 150-meter penalty lap.
- Kirkeeide's clean shooting produced a 20 minutes, 40.8 seconds finish, with Oceane Michelon also clean and 3.8 seconds behind, while Lou Jeanmonnot missed one shot but placed 23.7 seconds back.
- Only the top 60 biathletes will qualify for the pursuit race on Sunday, with sprint finish time gaps determining pursuit starts in seconds-back format.
- With the reigning sprint champion retired, Kirkeeide arrived at the sprint after taking silver in the 15-kilometer individual on Wednesday and helping Norway win mixed-relay gold last Sunday.
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Maren Kirkeeide, 22, had everything in her own hands before the last shooting. Then the Norwegian shot away with the gold. First to cross the finish line was home hope Lisa Vittozzi, 31.
Biathlon-Sprint women set for quick return in Sunday's pursuit race
ANTERSELVA, Italy, Feb 14 : Olympic sprint champion Maren Kirkeeide and the other female biathletes at the Milano Cortina Games face a quick turnaround after Saturday's sprint, with less than 24 hours to recover before Sunday's pursuit race gets underway at the Anthloz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena.The top 60 in
For her first Olympic race, the Chamberian just shot and finished the Olympic sprint vice-champion on Saturday 14 February. Despite a mistake in shooting, Lou Jeanmonnot adds a third bronze medal to her collection.
The tricolored biathletes Océane Michelon and Lou Jeanmonnot won silver and bronze medals on Saturday in the Olympic 2026 sprint in Antholz-Anterselva. The title returned for 3.8 seconds to Norwegian Maren Kirkeeide. These are the 11th and 12th medals for the French delegation, which is close to its record. - OJ 2026: the biathletes Océane Michelon in silver and Lou Jeanmonnot in bronze in the sprint (Olympic and Paralympic Games).
ANTHOLZ. The Swedish biathlon team is unrecognizable. After the belly flop in the women's sprint, the stars fumbled for explanations. Most worrying for the rest of the Olympics: no one had a real answer.
Thanks to the silver medals of Oceane Michelon and bronze by Lou Jeanmonnot in sprint, this Saturday the French biathlon continued its impressive Olympic harvest, equalling its record of seven medals in one edition, after only five of the eleven events.
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