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Sturla Holm Laegreid might have just missed out on the Total Score but he adds the U25 trophy to his 2 Discipline Globes. 🥰
What an incredible season, Sturla! So well done! 🇳🇴
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🇳🇴 Johannes Thingnes Bø joins the club of 3-time #Biathlon Overall World Cup winners:
🇫🇷 Martin Fourcade (7), 🇳🇴 Ole Einar Bjørndalen (6), 🇫🇷 Raphaël Poirée (4), 🇩🇪 Frank Ullrich (4), 🇩🇪 Frank Peter Roetsch (3).
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The women's mass start had the second-lowest overall hit rate for a race in Östersund ever (390/600, 65.0%).
The worst was the 2015 men's SP (59.8%):
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Last year, @TirilEckhoff missed out on the Overall Score Victory by just a few points, this year she bounced back from the disappointment with an incredible season to capture it. Incredible job.
"I never give up" - she really doesn't.
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The overall hit rate in today's women's pursuit (69.05%, 801/1160) was the 4th lowest ever for a non-team race in Östersund. The last World Cup race with an even lower hit rate was the 2020 Oberhof MS (66.67%). #biathlon
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Biathlon🎿🔫 - Sturla Holm Lægreid🇳🇴 joins Sven Fischer🇩🇪 (1999), Raphaël Poirée🇫🇷 (2004) and Emil Hegle Svendsen🇳🇴 (2008) as only men to win the individual and mass start world title in the same year. #pokljuka2021
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🇳🇴 Sturla Holm Lægreid is the first biathlete since 🇩🇪Magdalena Neuner in 2007 to win 2 non-team gold medals at their very first #Biathlon World Championships.
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🇳🇴 Tiril Eckhoff joins the club of 2-time sprint world champions (🇳🇴 Anne Elvebakk, 🇳🇴 Liv Grete Skjelbreid, 🇩🇪 Kati Wilhelm & 🇷🇺 Olga Romasko).
🇩🇪 Magdalena Neuner is the only woman with 3 #biathlon sprint gold medals.
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What a dramatic finish! Latypov out-skies Laegreid on the last meters! 🙀 @russianbiathlon wins the Mixed Relay in #OBE21
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JT Boe vs. @tarjei_boe :
10-1 in 1st places when both have been on the podium. @BiathlonStats @realbiathlon @biathlon23 @rjweise
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No female biathlete has ever won pursuit in Oberhof AND hit all 20 targets. Every winner missed two times or more. #windy #foggy @biathlon23 @BiathlonStats @rjweise
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According to @StatSkier, in cross-country the leader at halfway ends up winning 73% of the time for women, 45% for men. In #biathlon, it's roughly 29% for women, 38% for men (since 2016–17).
Men: IN 53%, SP 43%, PU 46%, MS 11%, RL 37%
Women: IN 20%, SP 23%, PU 54%, MS 19%, RL 19%
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Today is the 5th time 🇳🇴 Norway get 5 men in the top 7 (after 2003 Kontiolahti SP, 2004 Ruhpolding SP/PU, 2005 Oberhof SP). Ole Einar Bjørndalen was part of all those previous 4 races (he won two). #biathlon
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🇸🇪 Sweden's men have won 9 World Cup level relays and reached 26 podiums. Their wins are spread out over more than 60 years: 1958, 1993 (2x), 2005, 2009, 2018 (3x), 2020. #biathlon
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For the first time since March 2019 - 26 races ago - Johannes Thingnes Boe is outside the podium twice in a row. #struggle @BiathlonStats @biathlon23
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The new IBU Biathlon Guide 2020/2021 is now available for download.
➡ bit.ly/Guide2021
