Biathlon Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[Grassmarket 4,028]

We get another week of biathlon thanks to  and their national championships

 

Friday - Sprints

Saturday - Mass starts

Sunday - Club relays 

 

Will post the link later.

[prso1000 721]

On 3/22/2025 at 3:37 PM, evil betty said:

That is the tricky thing, I believe that the scores take three trimesters into account so some athletes will have scores that are too old by the time the olympics come. 

I think (but really not sure) the current points take into account the whole season 24/25. For the Olympics only two trimesters will count from this season plus first trimester next year. 
I don’t know the trimester definition /dates but we can assume that all results before Christmas will not count. 

Edited March 24 by prso1000

[prso1000 721]

The first trimester ended on the 22.12.24, which for sure means those results will not count. 2nd trimester ended on 26.01.2025. all results after that will count for sure. Not sure about the 2nd trimester as qualification period lasts until 18.01.2026. I would assume only last trimester of this season plus all events next year until 18.01 will count, but that’s my view. If correct the current list is not really saying much. 

[Monzanator 4,768]

Coralie Langel has switched to who happen to have a free World Cup spot after Elisa Gasparin retired.

[Grassmarket 4,028]

On 3/24/2025 at 7:51 AM, Grassmarket said:

We get another week of biathlon thanks to  and their national championships

 

Friday - Sprints

Saturday - Mass starts

Sunday - Club relays 

 

Will post the link later.

Think these links should work for the weekend's races.

[heywoodu 16,000]

4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Coralie Langel has switched to who happen to have a free World Cup spot after Elisa Gasparin retired.

Hasn't competed internationally in years (since before Beijing) and it looks like she was never really that big of a promise...very curious to see if she'll manage to get herself into the World Cup team, instead of the Meinen's and Cadurisch's of the IBU Cup.

[Swewi 460]

Hanna and Elvira Öberg 4th in Swedish nationals single mixed as a full Female team in a race where the men had the last extra leg, despite a penalty loop

[Swewi 460]

Hanna Öberg, Elvira Öberg, Sebastian Samuelsson and Martin Ponsilouma among the first selected Swedish olympians for 2026

[heywoodu 16,000]

Got a present and now my life is complete  

 

Spoiler

 

[NearPup 3,488]

 Evgeny Ustyugov has had all his results from January 2010 to the end of the 2013/14 season disqualified due to doping.

 

A few Olympic medals are expected to change hand as a result:

Vancouver 2010 Mass Start:

Gold: Martin Fourcade
Silver: Pavol Hurajt
Bronze:  Christoph Sumann

Vancouver 2010 men's relay:

Bronze:

 

This also confirms the previous disquaification of the Russian relay team from the Sochi Olympics.

 

https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/ustyugovs-olympic-results-disqualified/2p7jJvmw932nmrfuip2Cxl

 

Amazing that Martin Fourcade can't stop winning Olympic gold medals even in retirement xD

 

Crazy how long this case has been going on, but glad it has been resolved.

Edited May 23 by NearPup