The 11th IBU Junior Open European Championships in biathlon took place from 21 to 25 January 2026 in Imatra, Finland.
The Czech and Latvian teams won the most medals.
The Czech team earned 3 gold and 1 bronze, while the Latvian team earned 1 gold and 3 bronze. The most decorated athletes of the championship were Latvia's Estere Volfa, Sweden's Greta Lindqvist Seldahl and Czech Republic's David Eliáš, who each won one individual gold and one individual bronze. Volfa and Lindqvist Seldahl also won one relay medal.
Schedule All times are local (UTC+2).
Date Time Event21 January 10:30 Women's 12.5 km individual 14:15 Men's 15 km individual22 January 10:30 Mixed Relay 14:00 Single Mixed Relay24 January 11:40 Women's 7.5 km sprint 14:10 Men's 10 km sprint25 January 11:00 Women's 9 km mass start 60 13:15 Men's 12 km mass start 60
Medal summary Medal table
Men 15 km individualdetails 42:17.3(1+1+0+0) 42:43.4(1+0+0+0) 42:55.5(1+1+0+1) 10 km sprintdetails 25:14.3(0+0) 25:26.5(0+1) 25:53.4(1+1) 12 km mass start 60details 32:13.2(0+0+0+0) +13.4(0+0+1+0) +14.1(1+0+0+0)
Women 12.5 km individualdetails 41:31.2(0+0+0+0) 41:40.2(0+2+0+0) 42:07.5(1+0+0+1) 7.5 km sprintdetails 22:44.8(1+0) 23:15.8(0+1) 23:21.7(0+3) 9 km mass start 60details 27:00.6(0+1+0+0) +3.1(0+0+0+0) +1:12.4(0+1+1+0)
Mixed 4 × 6 km M+W relaydetails 1:07:40.3(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1)(0+1) (0+0) 1:07:50.5(0+3) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1)(0+1) (0+0)(0+1) (1+3) 1:07:56.9(0+2) (0+1)(0+0) (0+3)(0+1) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1) details 37:29.1(0+1) (0+3)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+0) 37:32.4(0+1) (0+0)(0+1) (0+2)(0+2) (0+2)(0+1) (0+0) 37:47.0(0+0) (0+1)(0+2) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1)(1+3) (0+1)
See also 2025–26 Biathlon World Cup 2025–26 Biathlon IBU Cup 2026 Winter Olympics 2026 IBU Open European Championships
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