The Women's sprint competition at the
Biathlon World Championships 2024
The 2024 Biathlon World Championships took place from 7 to 18 February 2024 at the Vysočina Arena in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. After 2013, the championship was held for the second time in this location.
The event was the highligh ...
was held on 9 February 2024.
Denise Herrmann-Wick
Denise Herrmann-Wick (née Herrmann, born 20 December 1988) is a former German biathlete and cross-country skier. She won gold at 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's individual, won gold at Biathlon World Championships 2019 – Women's pursuit and ...
was the defending champion, but she has already ended her career in the
2022–23 season.
Julia Simon became the new world champion and only the fourth Frenchwoman to secure the world championship title in sprint, following in the footsteps of
Anne Briand
Anne Briand (born 2 June 1968 in Mulhouse) is a former France, French biathlon, biathlete. She belonged to the world's best biathletes in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics, 1992 Olympics in Albertville, the first time this competition ...
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1995
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),
Sylvie Becaert
Sylvie Becaert (born 6 September 1975 in Lille) is a French biathlete. Becaert's best year so far was 2003 when she came third in the overall world cup standings and won gold in the sprint event at the World Championships 2003 in Khant ...
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2003
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Marie Dorin Habert
Marie Dorin Habert (born 19 June 1986) is a retired French biathlete.
Career
She became junior world champion in relay (2004 and 2005).
She represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was also on the bronze medal-winning French relay ...
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2015
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).
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (born 4 July 1996) is a French biathlete, Olympic champion in the 12.5 km mass start at the 2022 Beijing Games and medalist at the Winter Olympics 2018 and World Championships.
Biography
Justine Braisaz began her biathl ...
from France took silver and the bronze was won by
Lou Jeanmonnot
Lou Jeanmonnot (born 28 October 1998) is a French biathlete. Her World Cup debut was in 2021 in Nové Město. She won a gold medal at the 2024 Biathlon World Championships in relay.
Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the Internation ...
from France, who had won her first ever
world championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
medal.
For the first time since the first women's World Championships in biathlon in
1984
Events
January
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, the first four places in the competition were taken by representatives of the same country.
Results
The race was started at 17:20.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Biathlon World Championships 2024 - Women's sprint
Women's sprint