There have been eight men’s races in this season’s IBU World Cup and Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe has won six of them.
Boe swept all three races over the weekend at Nove Mesto (CZE), winning by 21.6 seconds (Sprint), 6.2 seconds (Pursuit) and 46.5 seconds (Mass Start). At 25, he is now in position to dethrone the seven-time World Cup champion, France’s Martin Fourcade.
After eight of 22 races, Boe now has a 428-312 lead over Alexander Loginov (RUS), with Simon Eder (AUT) and Simon Desthieux (FRA) at 266 and Fourcade and Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) at 263. Fourcade is the only one other than Boe to win a World Cup race this season, and he has two.
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland of Norway won the women’s 7.5 km Sprint and the 10 km Pursuit, her first-ever World Cup wins! Three-time Olympic gold medalist Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) won the Mass Start on Sunday, her 14th career World Cup win.
Slovakia’s Paulina Fialkova won her third medal of the season with a second to Kuzmina in the Mass Start race. Summaries:
IBU World Cup
Nove Mesto (CZE) ~ 20-23 December 2018
(Full results here)
Men
10 km Sprint: 1. Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR), 23:09.9 (0 penalties); 2. Alexander Loginov (RUS), +21.0 (0); 3. Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE), +54.2 (0); 4. Benjamin Weger (SUI), +1:03.5 (0); 5. Simon Desthieux (FRA), +1:03.7 (1).
12.5 km Pursuit: 1. J.T. Boe (NOR), 31:59.0 (4); 2. Loginov (RUS), +6.2 (4); 3. Tarjei Boe (NOR), +23.9 (1); 4. Simon Desthieux (FRA), +29.2 (2); 5. Martin Fourcade (FRA), +57.3 (0).
15 km Mass Start: 1. J.T. Boe (NOR), 37:25.2 (0); 2. Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA), +46.5 (2); 3. Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS), +54.1 (0); 4. Arnd Peiffer (GER), +59.3 (1); 5. Erlend Bjoentegaard (NOR), +1:04.9 (2).
Women
7.5 km Sprint: 1. Marte Olsbu Roeiseland (NOR), 19:44.6 (0); 2. Laura Dahlmeier (GER), +4.5 (1); 3. Paulina Fialkova (SVK), +6.2 (0); 4. Anais Chevalier (FRA), +23.0 (1); 5. Lena Haecki (SUI), +29.3 (1).
10 km Pursuit: 1. Roeiseland (NOR), 29:53.5 (2); 2. Dorothea Wierer (ITA), +0.2 (1); 3. Hanna Oeberg (SWE), +4.7 (1); 4. Lisa Vittozzi (ITA), +53.9 (1); 5. Dahlmeier (GER), +54.2 (2). Also in the top 25: 24. Clare Egan (USA), +2:22.3 (3).
12.5 km Mass Start: 1. Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 35:34.4 (2); 2. Fialkova (SVK), +12.1 (2); 3. Anais Chevalier (FRA), +13.3 (3); 4. Wierer (ITA), +20.1 (1); 5. Mona Brorsson (SWE), +36.3 (2).
