DOLL Benedikt

Last weekend marked the final competitions of Benedikt Doll’s successful biathlon career – making him the last of a generation of German World Champions (Schempp, Peiffer, Lesser and himself) to hang up his rifle.

The final competition week of the year 2023 was also the first-ever BMW IBU World Cup stage in Lenzerheide (SUI) – we’ve seen stunning performances in the Swiss Alps and the following four athletes are nominated to become your final athlete of the week in this year.

As a father of a 1-year-old son and the most experienced member of Germany's men's team, Benedikt Doll enters his 13th season in the BMW World Cup nonetheless fascinated with biathlon's many riddles.

Benedikt Doll is the veteran leader on the German men’s team, with a career that dates back to the IBU YJWCH in Ruhpolding where he won a Gold medal in the youth relay. Along the way since then, Doll won the 2011 IBU Cup Total Score, Sprint and Pursuit Scores aa well as the Individual and Pursuit Scores in 2014 before securing as full-time spot in the BMW IBU World Cup. Two Olympic Bronze medals and five IBU WCH medals including the 2017 Sprint World Champion title later, Doll still battles weekly with the unabashed enthusiasm an 18-year-old. Beyond biathlon, Doll, recently a new father is a passionate chef, authoring a cookbook while sharing recipes on his “Doll’s Küche” website.

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Germany’s Benedikt Doll cleaned the last standing stage, then skied away from Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe in the last loop to win the Antholz men’s 15 km mass start in 37:14.9. Doll had a single penalty in the third win of his career. Boe, with three penalties finished second, 31.3 seconds back. Boe’s Teammate Sturla Holm Laegreid, with three penalties, finished third, 1:28.8 back.

JT Boe and Sturla Holm Laegreid intensified their battle for the Total Score title, Tiril Eckhoff simply kept on winning, the German men won the relay after a four-year wait with almost the same lineup that they had in Antholz 2017, a shuffled lineup brought the first-ever relay Total Score

Most know Benedikt Doll for the great biathlon champion that he is: Gold medalist in the 2017 Hochfilzen World Championships sprint and Bronze medalist in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games pursuit and men's relay. But the 28-year-old is also a passionate cook who sees food and nutrition as a