Julia Simon Holt Gold: Triumph at Biathlon World Cup in Lenzerheide!

Julia Simon Holt Gold: Triumph at Biathlon World Cup in Lenzerheide!

An exciting day for the biathlon fans! Julia Simon from France crowns the individual world champion at the Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide. With an outstanding performance over 15 kilometers, Simon Gold secured himself with a 37.8 second lead against the flawless Swede Ella Halvarsson, who won her first medal in this race. Lou JeanMonnot, also from France, completed the successful trio with bronze, only 1.4 seconds behind Halvarsson, like xc-ski.de reported.

While Simon received the laurels, the Austrian biathlete Lisa Hauser was only a stroke of an eye from her first podium of the season. Two mistakes in the last shooting prevented Hauser with the group in third place. In the end, she had to be satisfied with eleventh place and a gap of 1: 25.7 minutes. In this exciting persecution, Lea Redschopf must also be worth mentioning, which got a World Coup point with 40th place. Her teammates Tamara Steiner and Anna Juppe, on the other hand, ended up in places 43 and 45, as reported Laola1.at.

A look at the pursuers

In the fight for the medals, other favorites also missed their goals. Franziska Preuß from Germany, which was on the medal course until the last shooting, shot unfocused and fell back to tenth place. "It was a shame on the last shooting, I was unfocused," said Prussia after the race. Her teammate Johanna Puff celebrated her World Cup debut and took 22nd place with solid shooting performance. The pressure was noticeable for Puff: "I knew that I had to work well on the shooting range," she said in an interview. With this development, the tension for the upcoming competitions remains high - especially with the upcoming mass start, in which the athletes can finally take their chance of the coveted medals.