Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 3:36 p.m.
Lou Jeanmonnot won his fifth race of the season, on the occasion of the Antholz-Antselva sprint, on the track which will host the Olympic events next year. The Frenchwoman resumes points to the leader of the World Cup Franziska Preuss, third.
Lou Jeanmonnot had won two individuals and two proceedings since the start of the season, but had not yet triumphed over a sprint. It is now done, with his beautiful victory Thursday at Antholz-Antselva. On the track which will host the biathlon events in February 2026 during the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, The 26-year-old Franc-Comtoise signed the almost perfect race, succeeding in a flawless one in the shot and the second skiing time, a tenth of the former cross-country ski specialist, Anamarija Lampic. Part with the bib 50, or six bibs after his rival for the big Globe Franziska Preuss, Jeanmonnot took the lead from the score of 4.7km, and never left it. After the first shot, the Frenchwoman had six tenths ahead of her compatriot Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and seven seconds on Dorothea Wierer. The two blues were in the shoulder to the classification until the second shot, where Braisaz-Bouchet made two errors and came out 15th.
-Four French women in the top 7
Two Germans, also authorships of a flawless, were then behind Jeanmonnot: Selina Grotian at nine seconds and Franziska Preuss at 21. The French did not fall for the last hectometers and therefore won her fifth victory of the season, his Ninth in total in an individual test. The second place of the young Selina Grotian (20) does her business, because it allows him to take over more points to Franziska Preuss in the general classification of the World Cup. Jeanmonnot is in fact only 117 points behind his rival. On Saturday, the prosecution could allow him to glean other precious points, even if no one has yet managed the double sprint-pastry since the start of the season. The prosecution could also see other French women shining, because they succeeded in a pretty group shot, Julia Simon ranking fifth, just ahead of Jeanne Richard and Océane Michelon. Friday, the Sprint Gentlemen will be on the program.
World Cup (F) / Antholz-Antselva Sprint (Italy)
Final classification (7.5km) – Thursday January 23, 2025
1- Lou Jeanmonnot (FRA) in 21'09 (0 fault)
2- Selina Grotian (All) to 7 “2 (0)
3- Franziska test (all) à 16 “7 (0)
4- Dorothea wierer (ita) to 28 “(1)
5- Julia Simon (FRA) at 38 “(1)
6- Jeanne Richard (FRA) at 40 “9 (0)
7- Océane Michelon (FRA) at 47 “5 (1)
8- Amy Baserga (sui) at 48 “1 (1)
9- Tereza Vobornikova (RTC) at 49 “(0)
10- Yuliia dzhima (ukr) à 51 “2 (0)
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16- Justine BraisAz-Bouchet (FRA) in 1'05 “4 (2)
27- Paula Boutet (FRA) to 1,38 “9 (3)
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