A tense 15 km mass start in Holmenkollen decided the final standings and delivered a surprise finish that shifted season narratives. Norwegian winner Johan-Olav Botn crossed the line narrowly ahead, while Ukrainian ambitions ended with mixed results that left questions for next season.<\/p>\n
In Holmenkollen, Norway, the final stage of the 2025\/26 Biathlon World Cup season has concluded, with the 15 km mass start serving as the culmination of the year.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s race produced victory for Norwegian Johan-Olav Botn. He finished in 37 minutes 15.6 seconds, 3.7 seconds ahead of his closest rivals.<\/p>\n
In second place was German Philipp Navrat with zero misses; third place went to Erik Perro with a 13.7-second deficit and two misses.<\/p>\n
The lone Ukrainian competitor, Vitaliy Mandzin, finished 22nd, +2:23.7 behind, and made three misses.<\/p>\n
Season Summaries and Ukrainian Performances<\/p>\n
By the season\u2019s end, among men the leader was Frenchman Erik Perro; among Ukrainians the best was Vitaliy Mandzin, who finished 25th. In the women\u2019s mass start race, victory went to Frenchwoman Lou Jeanmonnot, and Khrystyna Dmytrenko from Ukraine finished the season in 52nd place. The Holmenkollen events capped the season and demonstrated the high level of the athletes\u2019 mastery on the world stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tense 15 km mass start in Holmenkollen decided the final standings and delivered a surprise finish that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[26120,26121,26050,26119,26122,38,157,156,26123],"class_list":{"0":"post-45957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-biathlon-world-cup-2025-26","9":"tag-eric-perrot","10":"tag-holmenkollen-mass-start","11":"tag-holmenkollen-mass-start-johan-olav-botn-biathlon-world-cup-2025-26-vitaliy-mandzyn-eric-perrot","12":"tag-johan-olav-botn","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-norway","15":"tag-oslo","16":"tag-vitaliy-mandzyn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116275843754944533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45957","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=45957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}