JT Boe set two new, difficult-to-reach, gold medal records. Franziska Preuss, Elvira Oeberg, Endre Stroemsheim and Eric Perrot won a career-first individual World Championship gold in Lenzerheide. Many more athletes marked career milestones.

On Planet Johannes

When the curtain fell on the BMW IBU World Championships 2025, the last of his phenomenal career, Johannes Thingnes Boe was the only athlete with three individual medals; two were gold. They contributed to another two shattered historical records in Lenzerheide. Johannes’ 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.

As for his brother Tarjei - after a win in the Men's Relay - he will retire as the only man with seven gold medals in the discipline.

First-time World Championships individual Gold

Eric Perrot in the Individual and Endre Stroemsheim in the Mass Start won the remaining two men's gold medals - their first-ever gold at the World Championships. They both did so in a deciding manner: Perrot with the fastest skiing time in the Individual, Stroemsheim with an unexpected early attack in the uphill in the dramatic final lap in the Mass Start where at-that-time leader Sturla Holm Laegreid pushed hard to avoid the final Sprint where Stroemsheim is perhaps the strongest in field - at least according to Ole Einar Bjoerndalen - just to be left in slushy tracks.

Franziska Preuss ticked another momentous box in her long but often troubled career by taking her first-ever individual gold at the World Championships with a win in the Pursuit. She won another silver in the Sprint and bronze medals in the Mixed and Single Mixed Relay.

Elvira Oeberg won her first-ever individual gold at the World Championships (silver in the Pursuit was her first-ever individual medal at the World Championships). Hanna has three World Championship gold medals, making them the first sisters to win individual gold medals and second, after the Boe brothers, in the individual gold medal category among siblings.

First-time World Championships individual medal

Oceane Michelon (silver) and Maren Kirkeeide (bronze) won their maiden World Championships medals in the Mass Start. Suvi Minkkinen won bronze in the Sprint, Campbell Wright silver in the Sprint (he doubled down with another silver in the Pursuit), and Ella Halvarsson and Tommaso Giacomel silver in the Individual became first-time World Championships medallists.

Relay heroes

Julia Simon ended the Championships as the only athlete with four gold medals. She was a key athlete in all three gold-winning French relays—mixed, Single Mixed, and Women’s relay. With winning all three relay gold medals, she joined Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, who scored a relay golden triple in Oestersund 2019 and Antholz-Anterselva 2020, and JT Boe, who won all three relay medals in Oestersund 2019.

With a bronze medal in the Individual, Quentin Fillon Maillet completed his set of medals at the World Championships in all seven disciplines. Fillon Maillet, of course, aimed for individual gold, but his shooting - as often this season - proved too erratic for the only trophy of the highest order still missing in his collection.

Relays made many athletes proud - and first-time World Championships team medallists: Jessica Jislova, Tereza Vobornikova, Vitezslav won silver in the Mixed Relay and Ragnhild Femsteinevik in the Single Mixed Relay, and Emilien Claude in the Men’s Relay. Selina Grotian, Philipp Nawrath, and Justus Strelow won bronze in the Mixed Relay, and Danilo Riethmueller and Johannes Kuehn in the Men’s Relay.