2024–25 Biathlon IBU Cup

The 2024–25 Biathlon IBU Cup, organised by the International Biathlon Union (IBU), was the 17th official IBU Cup season for men and women as the second level of international biathlon competitions.^[1][2]

2024–25 Biathlon IBU Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Isak Frey	Camille Bened
U23	Isak Frey	Voldiya Galmace Paulin
Individual	Isak Frey	Voldiya Galmace Paulin
Sprint	Isak Frey	Paula Botet
Pursuit	Isak Frey	Camille Bened
Mass start	Johan-Olav Botn	Camille Bened
Relay	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup	Norway	France
Competition
Edition	17th	17th
Locations	8	8
Individual	24	24
Relay/Team	1	1
Mixed	6	6
←2023–24 2025–26→

The season started on 28 November 2024 in Idre Fjäll, Sweden and concluded on 15 March 2025 in Otepää, Estonia.^[3]

A major highlight of the season was the 2025 IBU Open European Championships held in Martell-Val Martello, Italy, which results also counted toward the IBU Cup rankings.

Mats Øverby from Norway (men's) and Océane Michelon from France (women's) were the reigning champions from the previous season.

Isak Frey from Norway and Camille Bened from France became the new overall champions. Their victories earned the Norwegian and French national teams the right to field an additional athlete in the World Cup events in Östersund and Hochfilzen during the 2025–26 season.

Map of IBU Cup hosts

Idre Fjäll	Geilo	Obertilliach	Arber
Brezno-Osrblie	Martell-Val Martello	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	Otepää
Europe Idre Fjäll Geilo Obertilliach Arber Brezno-Osrblie Martell Ridnaun Otepää European Championships IBU Cup Location of all 8 IBU Cup hosts of the season

Calendar

Stage	Location	Date	Individual / Short individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Idre Fjäll	28 November–1 December		●●	●
2	Geilo	4–7 December	●	●	●					relocated from Sjusjøen
3	Obertilliach	19–22 December		●		●		●	●
4	Arber	9–12 January		●●	●
5	Brezno-Osrblie	15–18 January	●	●				●	●
ECH	Martell-Val Martello	29 January–2 February	●	●	●		●			European Championships
6	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	5–8 February		●	●	●
7	Otepää	6–9 March		●	●	●
8		12–15 March	●	●				●	●
Total: 70 (31 men's, 31 women's, 6 mixed)			4	11	6	3	1	3	3

Men

Calendar

Key: IND – Individual / SIND – Short Individual / SPR – Sprint / PUR – Pursuit / MSS – Mass Start

No.	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	R.
1	28 November 2024	Idre Fjäll (1)	10 km SPR	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	Martin Uldal	Antonin Guigonnat	[4]
2	30 November 2024		10 km SPR	Isak Frey	Johan-Olav Botn	Martin Uldal	[5]
3	1 December 2024		12.5 km PUR	Isak Frey	Johan-Olav Botn	Martin Uldal	[6]
4	4 December 2024	Geilo (2)	20 km IND	Isak Frey	Johan-Olav Botn	Simon Kaiser	[7]
5	6 December 2024		10 km SPR	Martin Uldal	Johan-Olav Botn	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	[8]
6	7 December 2024		12.5 km PUR	Martin Uldal	Johan-Olav Botn	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	[9]
7	19 December 2024	Obertilliach (3)	10 km SPR	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Johan-Olav Botn	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	[10]
8	21 December 2024		15 km MSS 60	Johan-Olav Botn	Isak Frey	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	[11]
9	9 January 2025	Arber (4)	10 km SPR	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	[12]
10	11 January 2025		10 km SPR	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Isak Frey	Roman Rees	[13]
11	12 January 2025		12.5 km PUR	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Isak Frey	David Zobel	[14]
12	15 January 2025	Brezno-Osrblie (5)	15 km SIND	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	Isak Frey	[15]
13	17 January 2025		10 km SPR	Isak Frey	Fabian Müllauer	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	[16]
2025 IBU Open European Championships (29 January–2 February)
14	29 January 2025	Martell-Val Martello (ECH)	20 km IND	Isak Frey	Fredrik Mühlbacher	Emil Nykvist	[17]
15	31 January 2025		10 km SPR	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Fredrik Mühlbacher	[18]
16	1 February 2025		12.5 km PUR	Patrick Braunhofer	Isak Frey	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	[19]
17	5 February 2025	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna (6)	10 km SPR	David Zobel	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Paul Schommer	[20]
18	7 February 2025		12.5 km PUR	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Isak Frey	Paul Schommer	[21]
19	8 February 2025		15 km MSS 60	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	Simon Kaiser	Isak Frey	[22]
20	6 March 2025	Otepää (7), (8)	10 km SPR	Isak Frey	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	[23]
21	8 March 2025		12.5 km PUR	Johan-Olav Botn	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal	[24]
22	9 March 2025		15 km MSS	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Johan-Olav Botn	Isak Frey	[25]
23	12 March 2025		15 km SIND	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Roman Rees	Lucas Fratzscher	[26]
24	14 March 2025		10 km SPR	Johan-Olav Botn	Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	Roman Rees	[27]
17th IBU Cup Overall (28 November 2024 – 14 March 2025)				Isak Frey	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Johan-Olav Botn	[28]

Relay – 4 x 7.5 km

No.	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	R.
1	2 February 2025	Martell-Val Martello (ECH)	Norway 1. Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 2. Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 3. Sivert Guttorm Bakken 4. Isak Frey	Germany 1. Lucas Fratzscher 2. Simon Kaiser 3. Roman Rees 4. David Zobel	France 1. Théo Guiraud-Poillot 2. Gaëtan Paturel 3. Oscar Lombardot 4. Rémi Broutier	Norway	[29]

Overall leaders

Holder	Date	Place(s)	Number of competitions
Individual
Sverre Dahlen Aspenes	28 November 2024	Idre Fjäll	1
Martin Uldal (1)	30 November 2024	Idre Fjäll	1
Isak Frey (1)	1 December 2024 – 6 December 2024	Idre Fjäll – Geilo	3
Martin Uldal (2)	7 December 2024	Geilo	1
Johan-Olav Botn	19 December 2024 – 21 December 2024	Obertilliach	2
Isak Frey (2)	9 January 2025 – 14 March 2025	Arber – Otepää	16
Under 23
Isak Frey	28 November 2024 – 14 March 2025	Idre Fjäll – Otepää	24

Standings

Overall Rank final standings after 24 events[30][28] Points 1 Isak Frey 1494 2 Sivert Guttorm Bakken 1276 3 Johan-Olav Botn 1144 4 Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 991 5 Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 881 6 Roman Rees 821 7 Lucas Fratzscher 808 8 Gaëtan Paturel 601 9 Simon Kaiser 595 10 Nicola Romanin 545

Under 23 Rank final standings after 24 events[28] Points 1 Isak Frey 1494 2 Gaëtan Paturel 601 3 Théo Guiraud-Poillot 513 4 Franz Schaser 346 5 Nicolò Betemps 318 6 Marco Barale 267 7 Christoph Pircher 253 8 Fabian Müllauer 241 9 Jimi Klemettinen 235 10 Sondre Slettemark 177

Individual Rank final standings after 4 events[31][32] Points 1 Isak Frey 245 2 Sivert Guttorm Bakken 243 3 Johan-Olav Botn 180 4 Gaëtan Paturel 160 5 Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 155

Sprint Rank final standings after 11 events[33][34] Points 1 Isak Frey 624 2 Sivert Guttorm Bakken 581 3 Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 480 4 Johan-Olav Botn 468 5 Roman Rees 392

Pursuit Rank final standings after 6 events[35][36] Points 1 Isak Frey 420 2 Sivert Guttorm Bakken 306 3 Johan-Olav Botn 281 4 Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 266 5 Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 245

Mass start Rank final standings after 3 events[37][38] Points 1 Johan-Olav Botn 215 2 Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 210 3 Isak Frey 205 4 Sivert Guttorm Bakken 146 5 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 124

Relay Rank final standings after 7 events[39][40] Points 1  Norway 580 2  France 475 3  Germany 380 4  Italy 359 5  Ukraine 338

Nations Cup Rank final standings after 22 events[41][42] Points 1  Norway 8420 2  France 7219 3  Italy 6900 4  Germany 6476 5  Ukraine 6236

Women

Calendar

Key: IND – Individual / SIND – Short Individual / SPR – Sprint / PUR – Pursuit / MSS – Mass Start

No.	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	R.
1	28 November 2024	Idre Fjäll (1)	7.5 km SPR	Paula Botet	Chloé Chevalier	Anna Weidel	[43]
2	30 November 2024		7.5 km SPR	Ida Lien	Paula Botet	Camille Bened	[44]
3	1 December 2024		10 km PUR	Ida Lien	Anna Weidel	Camille Bened	[45]
4	4 December 2024	Geilo (2)	15 km IND	Camille Bened	Marit Øygard	Fany Bertrand	[46]
5	6 December 2024		7.5 km SPR	Paula Botet	Marlene Fichtner	Johanna Skottheim	[47]
6	7 December 2024		10 km PUR	Marlene Fichtner	Chloé Chevalier	Paula Botet	[48]
7	19 December 2024	Obertilliach (3)	7.5 km SPR	Ilaria Scattolo	Gilonne Guigonnat	Paula Botet	[49]
8	21 December 2024		12.5 km MSS 60	Stefanie Scherer	Paula Botet	Camille Bened	[50]
9	9 January 2025	Arber (4)	7.5 km SPR	Amandine Mengin	Sophie Chauveau	Rebecca Passler	[51]
10	11 January 2025		7.5 km SPR	Gilonne Guigonnat	Amandine Mengin	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	[52]
11	12 January 2025		10 km PUR	Amandine Mengin	Ragnhild Femsteinevik	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	[53]
12	15 January 2025	Brezno-Osrblie (5)	12.5 km SIND	Karoline Erdal	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Anastasiya Merkushyna	[54]
13	17 January 2025		7.5 km SPR	Marthe Kråkstad Johansen	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Karoline Erdal	[55]
2025 IBU Open European Championships (29 January–2 February)
14	29 January 2025	Martell-Val Martello (ECH)	15 km IND	Johanna Puff	Marlene Fichtner	Anna-Karin Heijdenberg	[56]
15	31 January 2025		7.5 km SPR	Anna-Karin Heijdenberg	Amandine Mengin	Baiba Bendika	[57]
16	1 February 2025		10 km PUR	Baiba Bendika	Anna-Karin Heijdenberg	Linda Zingerle	[58]
17	5 February 2025	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna (6)	7.5 km SPR	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Paula Botet	Marthe Kråkstad Johansen	[59]
18	7 February 2025		10 km PUR	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Marthe Kråkstad Johansen	Sophie Chauveau	[60]
19	8 February 2025		12.5 km MSS 60	Sophie Chauveau	Camille Bened	Rebecca Passler	[61]
20	6 March 2025	Otepää (7), (8)	7.5 km SPR	Gilonne Guigonnat	Rebecca Passler	Kristýna Otcovská	[62]
21	8 March 2025		10 km PUR	Gilonne Guigonnat	Camille Bened	Juni Arnekleiv	[63]
22	9 March 2025		12.5 km MSS	Kristýna Otcovská	Paula Botet	Camille Bened	[64]
23	12 March 2025		12.5 km SIND	Susan Külm	Karoline Erdal	Camille Bened	[65]
24	14 March 2025		7.5 km SPR	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Camille Bened	Paula Botet	[66]
17th IBU Cup Overall (28 November 2024 – 14 March 2025)				Camille Bened	Voldiya Galmace Paulin	Paula Botet	[67]

Relay – 4 x 6 km

No.	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	R.
1	2 February 2025	Martell-Val Martello (ECH)	Germany 1. Stefanie Scherer 2. Anna Weidel 3. Marlene Fichtner 4. Johanna Puff	France 1. Camille Bened 2. Sophie Chauveau 3. Amandine Mengin 4. Gilonne Guigonnat	Italy 1. Rebecca Passler 2. Ilaria Scattolo 3. Birgit Schölzhorn 4. Linda Zingerle	Norway	[68]

Overall leaders

Holder	Date	Place(s)	Number of competitions
Individual
Paula Botet (1)	28 November 2024 – 1 December 2024	Idre Fjäll	3
Camille Bened (1)	4 December 2024	Geilo	1
Paula Botet (2)	6 December 2024 – 9 January 2025	Geilo – Arber	5
Camille Bened (2)	11 January 2025 – 1 February 2025	Arber – Martell-Val Martello	7
Voldiya Galmace Paulin	5 February 2025 – 6 March 2025	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna – Otepää	4
Camille Bened (3)	8 March 2025 – 14 March 2025	Otepää	4
Under 23
Anna Andexer	28 November 2024	Idre Fjäll	1
Siri Skar	30 November 2024 – 21 December 2024	Idre Fjäll – Obertilliach	7
Marlene Fichtner	9 January 2025 – 11 January 2025	Arber	2
Voldiya Galmace Paulin	12 January 2025 – 14 March 2025	Arber – Otepää	14

Standings

Overall Rank final standings after 24 events[69][67] Points 1 Camille Bened 1143 2 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 1072 3 Paula Botet 934 4 Karoline Erdal 695 5 Gilonne Guigonnat 680 6 Stefanie Scherer 652 7 Amandine Mengin 631 8 Sophie Chauveau 599 9 Marthe Kråkstad Johansen 584 10 Rebecca Passler 551

Under 23 Rank final standings after 24 events[67] Points 1 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 1072 2 Amandine Mengin 631 3 Marlene Fichtner 545 4 Siri Skar 476 5 Fany Bertrand 344 6 Linda Zingerle 323 7 Lara Wagner 289 8 Ilaria Scattolo 223 9 Johanna Puff 221 10 Birgit Schölzhorn 193

Individual Rank final standings after 4 events[70][71] Points 1 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 225 2 Karoline Erdal 187 3 Camille Bened 180 4 Marit Øygard 116 5 Marlene Fichtner 103

Sprint Rank final standings after 11 events[72][73] Points 1 Paula Botet 486 2 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 481 3 Camille Bened 451 4 Gilonne Guigonnat 429 5 Karoline Erdal 328

Pursuit Rank final standings after 6 events[74][75] Points 1 Camille Bened 307 2 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 251 3 Paula Botet 216 4 Anna Weidel 202 5 Marlene Fichtner 174

Mass start Rank final standings after 3 events[76][77] Points 1 Camille Bened 205 2 Paula Botet 171 3 Stefanie Scherer 168 4 Voldiya Galmace Paulin 115 5 Rebecca Passler 100

Relay Rank final standings after 7 events[78][79] Points 1  Norway 531 2  France 485 3  Germany 395 4  Italy 369 5  Ukraine 338

Nations Cup Rank final standings after 22 events[80][81] Points 1  France 8080 2  Norway 7615 3  Austria 6616 4  Italy 6595 5  Sweden 6589

Mixed Relay

No.	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Winner	Second	Third	R.
Mixed Relay – 4 x 6 km
1	22 December 2024	Obertilliach (3)	Norway 1. Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 2. Johan-Olav Botn 3. Siri Skar 4. Ragnhild Femsteinevik	Germany 1. Lucas Fratzscher 2. David Zobel 3. Marion Wiesensarter 4. Sophia Schneider	France 1. Gaëtan Paturel 2. Oscar Lombardot 3. Chloé Chevalier 4. Paula Botet	[82]
3	18 January 2025	Brezno-Osrblie (5)	Norway 1. Marthe Kråkstad Johansen 2. Siri Skar 3. Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 4. Isak Frey	Austria 1. Lea Rothschopf 2. Lara Wagner 3. Fredrik Mühlbacher 4. Fabian Müllauer	Italy 1. Ilaria Scattolo 2. Beatrice Trabucchi 3. Iacopo Leonesio 4. Nicola Romanin	[83]
5	15 March 2025	Otepää (8)	Germany 1. Roman Rees 2. Simon Kaiser 3. Stefanie Scherer 4. Lisa Maria Spark	France 1. Damien Levet 2. Gaëtan Paturel 3. Célia Henaff 4. Paula Botet	Norway 1. Sivert Guttorm Bakken 2. Johan-Olav Botn 3. Karoline Erdal 4. Juni Arnekleiv	[84]
Single Mixed Relay – 6 km + 7.5 km
2	22 December 2024	Obertilliach (3)	Norway 1. Isak Frey 2. Marthe Kråkstad Johansen	France 1. Mathieu Garcia 2. Camille Bened	Germany 1. Roman Rees 2. Stefanie Scherer	[85]
4	18 January 2025	Brezno-Osrblie (5)	Norway 1. Karoline Erdal 2. Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Czech Republic 1. Tereza Vinklárková 2. Tomáš Mikyska	Ukraine 1. Anastasiya Merkushyna 2. Artem Tyshchenko	[86]
6	15 March 2025	Otepää (8)	France 1. Théo Guiraud-Poillot 2. Gilonne Guigonnat	Germany 1. Anna Weidel 2. Lucas Fratzscher	Norway 1. Sverre Dahlen Aspenes 2. Gro Randby	[87]

Podium table by nation

Table showing the IBU Cup podium places (gold–1st place, silver–2nd place, bronze–3rd place) by the countries represented by the athletes.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	31	23	19	73
2	France	13	19	15	47
3	Germany	6	8	7	21
4	Italy	2	1	5	8
5	Sweden	1	1	3	5
6	Czech Republic	1	1	1	3
7	Latvia	1	0	1	2
8	Estonia	1	0	0	1
9	Austria	0	3	1	4
10	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
Totals (11 entries)		56	56	56	168

Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2024–25 Biathlon IBU Cup for men and women.^[88]

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
Individual	90	75	65	55	50	45	41	37	34	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass Start

Retirements

The following notable biathletes, who competed in the IBU Cup and never participated in the World Cup, are expected to retire during or after the 2024–25 season:

Men Paul Fontaine Sebastien Mahon Ambroise Meunier Mathieu Perrillat-Bottonet

Women Maren Bakken [uk][89] Flavia Barmettler Svatava Mikysková Noemie Remonnay[90]

See also

• 2024–25 Biathlon World Cup (as the highest competition series of IBU)
• 2025 Biathlon World Championships
• 2025 IBU Open European Championships
• 2025 IBU Junior World Championships
• 2025 IBU Junior Open European Championships

Notes