Biathlon Junior World Championships 2026

2026 IBU Youth & Junior World Championships
2026 IBU Youth & Junior World Championships
Host city	Arber, Germany
Dates	25 February – 8 March
Main venue	Hohenzollern Skistadion
Participation	436 athletes from 41 nations
Events	18
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The 2026 Biathlon Junior World Championships are held from 25 February to 8 March 2026 in Arber, Germany.^[1]

Medal summary

* Host nation (Germany)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km individual details	Philip Lindkvist-Fløtten Sweden	49:44.0 (0+0+0+0)	Léo Carlier France	50:30.7 (0+0+0+1)	Jakob Kulbin Estonia	52:00.6 (2+1+1+1)
10 km sprint details	Grzegorz Galica Poland	27:46.4 (0+2)	Philip Lindkvist-Fløtten Sweden	28:10.1 (0+0)	Kasper Kalkenberg Norway	28:18.4 (0+0)
12 km mass start 60 details	Kasper Kalkenberg Norway	31:15.4 (0+2+0+0)	Jakob Kulbin Estonia	31:34.3 (1+2+0+0)	Philip Lindkvist-Fløtten Sweden	31:39.0 (1+1+0+2)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	France Camille Grataloup-Manissolle Antonin Delsol Guillaume Poirot Léo Carlier	1:21:13.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3)	Norway Andreas Haug Leo Gundersen Oliver Alm Kasper Kalkenberg	1:23:13.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (3+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0)	Italy Davide Cola Hannes Bacher Nicola Giordano Simone Motta	1:25:02.0 (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (1+3) (0+1)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
12.5 km individual details	Thémice Fontaine France	44:42.9 (0+0+0+0)	Oleksandra Merkushyna Ukraine	45:02.4 (1+0+0+0)	Inka Hämäläinen Finland	45:32.5 (0+0+0+2)
7.5 km sprint details	Estere Volfa Latvia	21:39.8 (1+0)	Inka Hämäläinen Finland	22:33.7 (1+0)	Sydney Wüstling Germany	22:47.0 (1+0)
9 km mass start 60 details	Oleksandra Merkushyna Ukraine	29:17.1 (1+0+1+1)	Estere Volfa Latvia	29:37.0 (1+2+0+1)	Elza Bleidele Latvia	29:54.0 (0+3+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay details	Germany Johanna Lehnung Melina Gaupp Leni Dietersberger Sydney Wüstling	1:13:36.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1)	France Namou Canndau-Armand Louise Roguet Lou-Anne Dupont Ballet-Baz Thémice Fontaine	1:13:40.2 (0+0) (1+3) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Ukraine Tetiana Tarasiuk Kseniia Prykhodko Valeriia Sheihas Oleksandra Merkushyna	1:13:56.0 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (1+3) (0+1)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 6 km M+W relay details	Latvia Matīss Meirāns Rihards Lozbers Elza Bleidele Estere Volfa	1:17:55.2 (0+1) (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2)	Norway Oliver Alm Kasper Kalkenberg Agathe Brathagen Silje Berg-Knutsen	1:17:59.7 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	France Léo Carlier Camille Grataloup-Manissolle Lou-Anne Dupont Ballet-Baz Thémice Fontaine	1:18:53.9 (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
12.5 km individual details	Rihards Lozbers Latvia	38:21.2 (2+0+1+0)	Taras Tarasiuk Ukraine	39:15.7 (0+2+0+0)	Georgi Dzhorgov Bulgaria	41:45.1 (1+1+1+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Markus Sklenárik Slovakia	18:28.6 (0+0)	Rihards Lozbers Latvia	18:47.6 (2+1)	Hannes Lipfert Germany	19:13.4 (1+0)
12 km mass start 60 details	Georgi Dzhorgov Bulgaria	36:16.4 (1+0+0+0)	Rihards Lozbers Latvia	36:27.2 (1+1+2+3)	Tuomas Latvalahti Finland	36:32.4 (1+0+0+2)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Italy Andreas Braunhofer Julian Huber Jonas Tscholl	1:02:00.2 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1)	Austria Simon Hechenberger Tim Denner Matti Pinter	1:02:23.2 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (2+3) (0+1) (0+2)	Estonia Daniel Varikov Kristen Baumann Frederik Vaelbe	1:02:29.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km individual details	Michaela Straková Slovakia	33:15.4 (1+0+0+0)	Hanna Vølstad Norway	34:21.0 (1+0+0+2)	Viktoriia Khvostenko Ukraine	34:35.1 (0+1+0+0)
6 km sprint details	Michaela Straková Slovakia	17:02.5 (0+0)	Hanna Vølstad Norway	17:14.8 (0+1)	Selina Ganner Austria	17:20.8 (0+1)
9 km mass start 60 details	Selina Ganner Austria	33:46.8 (1+2+0+0)	Adèle Ouvrier-Buffet France	33:57.0 (1+0+1+1)	Ilvy Giestheuer Austria	34:04.7 (0+1+2+1)
3 × 6 km relay details	Norway Stine Haarstad Hanna Vølstad Martine Skog	53:05.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1)	France Juliette Oliva Matilda Dodos Adèle Ouvrier-Buffet	54:12.9 (0+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Ukraine Alina Khmil Khrystyna Ruda Viktoriia Khvostenko	54:37.7 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 6 km M+W relay details	Austria Simon Hechenberger Matti Pinter Ilvy Giestheuer Selina Ganner	1:12:29.1 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Bjørn-Anders Eriksen Emil Skjellberg Hanna Vølstad Martine Skog	1:13:56.0 (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Finland Arttu Remes Tuomas Latvalahti Venla Mennala Hanni Koski	1:14:32.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)