{"id":44093,"date":"2026-03-20T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44093\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:42:12","slug":"ukraine-competes-at-holmenkollen-as-world-cup-final-opens-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44093\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine competes at Holmenkollen as World Cup final opens | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">A decisive weekend awaits at Holmenkollen, where Ukraine aims to solidify its World Cup standing amid strong rivals.<\/p>\n<p>In Norway, at the Holmenkollen Stadium, from March 19 to 22, the final stage of the current Biathlon World Cup season 2025\/26 will take place, the ninth competition of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the program will begin with the women\u2019s sprint over 7.5 km, the start scheduled for 17:15 Kyiv time.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine will be represented at the tournament by Kristina Dmitrenko (35th start number), Oleksandra Merkushina (51), Anastasia Merkushina (74), Daryna Chalyk (77), Olena Horodna (82), and Yulia Dzima (85).<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s sprint over 10 km will take place on March 20, also at 17:15.<\/p>\n<p>On March 21, pursuit races will be held \u2013 the women\u2019s 10 km at 14:45 and the men\u2019s 12.5 km at 17:15.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule of the Final Stage<\/p>\n<p>On March 22 the program will be concluded with mass starts: the women\u2019s 12.5 km race will begin at 14:45, the men\u2019s 15 km at 17:15.<\/p>\n<p>It is also known that Anastasia Merkushina won gold at the 2026 European Biathlon Championship in the individual race.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Ukraine intends to continue the fight in the final stage of the season and solidify its positions in the World Cup overall standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decisive weekend awaits at Holmenkollen, where Ukraine aims to solidify its World Cup standing amid strong rivals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[25090,25089,25091,38,157,156,25092,25093,25094],"class_list":{"0":"post-44093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-biathlon-world-cup","9":"tag-biathlon-world-cup-holmenkollen-2026-ukraine-biathlon-womens-sprint-world-cup-final","10":"tag-holmenkollen-2026","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-norway","13":"tag-oslo","14":"tag-ukraine-biathlon","15":"tag-womens-sprint","16":"tag-world-cup-final"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116258730515744239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}