From record-breaking wins to stunning consistency, the BMW IBU World Cup 2024/2025 season was filled with historic achievements. Athletes pushed the limits, delivering unforgettable performances and setting new benchmarks in biathlon. Check out the three most impressive stats for both men and women that defined this extraordinary season!

Men: JT Boe, Laegreid, Fak

Johannes Thingnes Boe shattered two historical records at the BMW IBU World Championships in Lenzerheide. His World Championships gold medal count, including relays, will forever stand at 23. His World Championships gold medal count in solely individual competitions will forever be 12.

Sturla Holm Laegreid became the sixth Norwegian man to win the Total Score title since 1993. JT Boe (2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023, 2024), Tarjei Boe (2010/2011), Emil Hegle Svendsen (2009/2010), Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (1997/1998, 2002/2003, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2007/2008, 2008/2009) and Jon Age Tyldum (1994/1995) won the Total Score before Laegreid.

Hitting sweat spot with 20/20, deep knowledge of the Pokljuka course, and super slow snow conditions that suited him more than the rest brought Jakov Fak his ninth World Cup win, first after 10 years and first in Pokljuka after he triumphed in the Sprint in 2012/2013 season just 0.8 seconds ahead of Emil Hegle Svendsen. He became the second oldest men’s World Cup winner after Ole Einar Bjoerndalen took the Individual in Oestersund in December 2015 at 41 (Fak is turning 38 in August this year).

Women: Preuss, Jeanmonnot, the Oeberg sisters

With winning the Total Score thriller in Oslo-Holmenkollen, Franziska Preuss became the sixth German woman to win the title since 1993. Laura Dahlmeier (2016/2017), Magdalena Neuner (2007/2008, 2009, 2010, 2011/2012), Andrea Henkel (2006/2007), Kati Wilhelm (2005/2006) and Martina Beck (2002/2003) won the Total Score before Preuss.

Lou Jeanmonnot, despite not winning the Total Score, had a very fine season, full of firsts for the French women’s team. In Pokljuka, she became the first-ever French female biathlete to win the Individual Cup Score. After collecting the Mass Start Cup Score win in the 2023/2024 season, Lou also clinched the Pursuit Cup Score in Oslo-Holmenkollen, and became the first Frenchwoman in history to claim three discipline Cup Score titles. Oslo Pursuit was Jeanmonnot’s eighth win-another record. Jeanmonnot also became the first Frenchwoman ever to win all four events—Sprint, Pursuit, Individual, and Mass Start—in a single season.

Elvira Oeberg secured her first individual gold at the World Championships in the Mass Start in Lenzerheide. With her sister Hanna having three World Championship golds, they became the first sisters to win individual gold medals, and the second sibling duo to achieve this feat after the Boe brothers.