Biathlon

Michael Greis retired as a biathlete six years ago. In our interview, Michael Greis reveals what he’s doing now and how he regards Germany’s current athletes.

For seven years, the champion of the overall World Cup in biathlon has been Martin Fourcade. This puts him in pole position with sponsors and fans alike. But who follows him in the cross-country ski run and in the prize money ranking? ISPO.com presents the stars of the Biathlon World Cup.

The stars of the Ski Jumping and Biathlon World Cup are also popular in the social media. ISPO.com shows the ranking of the ten most successful Instagram profiles of ski stars. Kamil Stoch of course made it into the ranking, but there are also two Germans and the 16th of the last Ski Jumping World Cup.orld Cup.

Laura Dahlmeier is currently the world’s most successful female biathlete. But before the beginning of the World Cup season 2018/19 she hast to take a long break – with fans and sponsors, she’s despite on the track to gold.

Some of the stars were even able to double their social reach over the course of the Olympic winter. We took a look at the most successful winter athletes on Facebook and Instagram and compared them internationally.

The official Olympic weather report is only moderately accurate, so Team Snowstorm from Karlsruhe has developed an alternative that is far more technologically superior.

Attractive competitions, exciting protagonists, divine TV ratings – biathlon is, without a doubt, the trend sport of the winter. The combination of cross-country skiing and shooting is now a multi-million dollar business, and is attracting the interest of some major sponsors.

A dominant force in biathlon, Martin Fourcade wants to expand his gold medal collection at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Alongside cross-country skiing, the Frenchman is a father and social media star.

Last winter he became the individual world champion, and now it’s on to Olympic gold: Simon Schempp is Germany’s best hope for the men’s biathlon at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

At the age of 44, biathlon legend Ole Einar Björndalen wants to top off an unparalleled career at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. With eight gold medals, he is already the most successful winter athlete in the history of the Olympics, and Pyeongchang will be his seventh Winter Games.