Biathlon facts&stats

What a season! Entertainment in every single race! 😍 Biggest thanks goes to @IBU_WC for managing to organise the season in these challenging conditions! 🙏 Let's hope spectators will be allowed to safely watch races on the course and in the stadiums 🤞 Just 8 months to wait now!

Words can not describe the anger we feel right now towards the action by terrorist Putin. He was a young guy. Full of dreams of becoming biathlete. He fought for his country. Our condolences to @biathlonua @ukrbiathlon @biathlon_ua 🇺🇦 World must protect Ukraine and it's citizens!

It's not the fault of athletes from Russia and Belarus, but inconvenience they face is nothing compared to the suffering of people from Ukraine. Only complete ban from sports, culture, finance and other areas will make the people from Russia unhappy with their tyrant.

Hi all! Apologies for being inactive this season. Have many projects going, so this was put on hold. But now it's time to break the silence. I am incredibely proud about immediate actions taken by @biathlonworld 👏 They showed great leadership not tolerating actions in Ukraine.

@mathieubureau @tarjei_boe @biathlonworld No, definitely not. Its too much calculus + Tarjei's position could change... He just played it safe and had no need to rush. Remember what happened between Norway and Russia in Skiing World Championship...

@BiathlonStats @tarjei_boe @biathlonworld Do you think Johannes thought about this in the last lap and stayed third on purpose?

Something for each brother! @tarjei_boe can also take a spotlight with @biathlonworld Mass Start Crystal Globe. His closest rival was his bro 🤘

@IBU_WC @tarjei_boe There is always Mixed Individual as a back-up...

@BiathlonStats @tarjei_boe That's our April Fool's idea for this year out of the window, then. 😥

It has been a long wait for @tarjei_boe -- but a decade after winning his first globes, he adds another one to the collection. 🤩 Mass Time Discipline Score winner for the first time! eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/ | #ost21

@IBU_WC @tarjei_boe Are we gonna see something new soon? 😁

@tarjei_boe Mass Start, of course. 😱

Johannes Thingnes Bø becomes 1st biathlete from @NSSF_Biathlon to win 3 @IBU_WC overall crystal globes in a row. Only Frank Ullrich and @raphael_poiree have also won 3 WCs in a row, while @martinfkde was unbeaten SEVEN seasons in a row 💪

Thumbs up for @biathloncanada @Scott_Gow 🍁 He finishes the season with PB by taking 10th position today in Mass Start!

And so here are the final overall standings of 2020/21 @IBU_WC! A lot of Norwegians on the top - well done Johannes, but I think we know, who is the biggest surprise of the year!

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! 🇳🇴 eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/ | #ost21

Eduard Latypov had never finished Top 5 in @IBU_WC before, but today on his 27th birthday he finishes 2nd! I guess @russianbiathlon gave him a very useful birthday cake... 🎂

Whether you supported one or another, you can not deny two things: 1) Fights like this is the reason, why we love biathlon 😍 2) Johannes is bloody great biathlete 👏

Something for everyone! @simondstx takes his 1st ever Mass Start victory, Latypov scores his 1st ever @IBU_WC podium, while Boe wins overall cup for 3rd season in a row!

🇳🇴 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).

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%): realbiathlon.com/races.html?rac…

Here are the final overall standings of 2020/21 @IBU_WC season! Eckhoff takes crystal globe for the 1st time in her career. Røiseland and @PreussFranziska gets the personal best with P2 and P3. @_Dinarochka_ becomes the 1st ever winner of U25 cup! 94 biathletes scored points!

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. eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/ | #ost21

Be quick and precise :) Also all six ladies who made just 4 or 5 mistakes finished within Top 12, and all 3 who had 10+ mistakes finished in last 3 places.