Biathlon: “It annoys me”, Lou Jeanmonnot completely misses his race but saves his crystal globe at the last minute on the individual

The Biathlon World Cup has resumed its rights. Around ten days after the end of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, the Blues returned to competition in the women’s individual event in Kontiolahti (Finland) this Thursday. And the race did not go at all as planned for the French women.

Firmly installed at the top of the general classification with a large lead of 202 points over her first pursuer, Lou Jeanmonnot completely missed her race with a mistake in each of her passages on the shooting range (16/20) more than 4 minutes 30 behind the winner of the evening. The French biathlete concluded the individual in 35th position, scoring only six points.

At the head of the race, Elvira Oeberg claimed her third victory of the season with a nice flawless performance, ahead of her older sister Hanna Oeberg (19/20 shooting) and the Slovakian Paulina Bátovska Fialkova (19/20).

185 points ahead for the big crystal globe

Lou Jeanmonnot thus saw his lead largely disappear for the small globe of the individual as his competitors arrived. But the Frenchwoman (136 points) ended up miraculously coming out of it with two points ahead of Anna Magnusson (134 points).

“It annoys me,” said the Frenchwoman at the microphone of La Chaîne L’Équipe, particularly regarding her missed shots. In the fight for the big crystal globe, the 27-year-old from Jura now has a 185-point lead over Finnish Suvi Minkkinen and 219 points over Hanna Oeberg.

Probably exhausted by the 13 medals brought back from Antholz-Anterselva, the rest of the French delegation, with Camille Bened, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, Sophie Chauveau and Julia Simon, who obtained the best result (10th), did not manage to do better. But the main thing is elsewhere: Lou Jeanmonnot treats himself to his first globe of the winter.