Helena Jonsson

Kontiolahti, Finland - France finished ahead of Ukraine and Slovakia to win the mixed relay in the biathlon World Cup in a race which almost fell victim to freezing temperatures in Kontiolahti Friday. Sophie Boilley, Anais Bescond, Jean ...  

KONTIOLAHTI, Finland � Boisean Sara Studebaker led off the United States� world cup biathlon mixed relay Friday and helped the team finish in sixth place.Click to Continue »  

Nathan Smith successfully defended his home training centre by claiming his first career biathlon gold medal at the IBU Cup in Canmore, Alta., on Saturday. The 26-year-old native of nearby Calgary posted the fastest time of 26:13.4 in the men ...  

KONTIOLAHTI, Finland (AP) — France won a mixed relay from Ukraine by a second in a biathlon World Cup on Friday in minus-2 degree temperature. Sophie Boilley, Anais Bescond, Jean-Guillaume Beatrix and Vincent Jay hit five targets and clocked 1 hour ...  

CRACKLEY Hall’s athletics star Georgina Mitchell has her sights set ... clocking 1min 33.6secs. Her combined points tally proved enough to take the biathlon crown and repeat her gold medal-winning triumph at this stage in 2011. Fellow Crackley athlete ...  

Norway has picked up four medals at Seefeld so far in the Games, with Gold in the Cross-Country Ladies' and Men's Sprints and Silver in the Biathlon Mixed Relay and Cross-Country Ladies' Sprint. Germany's Innsbruck 2012 medal tally in Cross-Country and ...  

My skiing was good, so we'll see." Laura HENGELHAUPT (GER) was up next and she shone to help build a solid lead over the Russians. Germany coach Jesko FISCHER (GER) embraced an emotional HENGELHAUPT after her leg. "Congratulations. What a great race you ...  

Marie Laure Brunet, Sophie Boilley, Anais Bescond and Marie Dorin Habert clocked 1 hour 17 minutes 6.5 seconds over the 4x6km distance for a first season victory after coming second and third in the first two races, respectively. Belarus trailed ...  

In the women's 12.5-kilometre mass start, Darya Domracheva of Belarus won to draw closer to leader Magdalena Neuner in the overall World Cup standings. Domracheva missed two targets and clocked 35 minutes 3.6 seconds, finishing 25.2 seconds ahead of ...  

SEEFELD - Pre-race favourite Germany made light work of the heavy snow as it stormed to the Gold medal in the first Olympic-level Cross-Country/Biathlon Mixed Team Relay event on Saturday. Russia claimed the Silver medal and the USA took Bronze, in what ...  

Nove Mesto, Czech Republic - World Cup leader Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway won the men's 10km biathlon sprint Saturday while French brothers Simon and Martin Forcade appeared for the first time together on the podium. Svendsen missed one target ...  

Defending overall champion Kaisa Makarainen won a biathlon event on Wednesday for her first World Cup victory of the season. The 29-year-old Finnish skier missed two targets before completing the 15-kilometer individual race in 45 minutes, 3.3 seconds for ...  

She completed the 10-kilometer course in 31 minutes, 0.3 seconds in snowy conditions to claim her 14th career win. Helena Ekholm of Sweden finished 17.9 seconds behind in second place and Marie Laure Brunet of France was 25.1 seconds back in third ...  

Vetle Sjastad Christiansen claimed his second gold medal of the IBU Open European Biathlon Championships after leading home the Norwegian 2x6+2x7.5km mixed relay quartet in Brezno-Osrblie, Slovakia.  

This is proof that our members work had to constantly improve animal welfare"," said LRF Chairman Helena Jonsson. 15 per cent of Swedish consumers say that origin of meat does not matter. Two years ago, Swedish pig farmers received a lot of negati ve media attention.