As of: February 20, 2024, 6:07 a.m
By: Andreas Knobloch
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In the Biathlon World Cup, women and men often travel together, so it's no wonder that couples also form here.
Innsbruck - In the biathlon world, the women and men travel in parallel from place to place in the World Cup.
The mixed competitions that have been launched for a few years now strengthen the bond even further.
Of course, deep friendships and romantic couples like those of Karoline Offigstad Knotten and Philipp Nawrath also develop in close collaboration.
Anna Gandler and Emilien Claude have also found each other and are a winter sports dream couple.
Winter sports dream couple Gandler and Claude successful at the Junior World Championships
Gandler?
The name has been known to many biathlon fans since the World Championships in Nove Mesto.
Lisa Theresa Hauser held the Austrian flag high for years, but Anna Gandler showed in the mass start that she can keep up with the big names.
With only two mistakes, Gandler finished seventh and has already collected over 270 World Cup points in the last two seasons.
The biathlete, born in January 2001, receives support from her friend Emilien Claude.
Claude, who was born in France in June 1999, will be familiar to even more biathlon fans because he has two brothers who also race on the trails.
His mother was also a biathlete in the 80s.
Claude won a total of five gold medals at two Biathlon Junior World Championships, four times alone and once with the relay team.
His girlfriend, on the other hand, only won one world title at the Junior World Championships.
Gandler was at the Biathlon World Championships, Claude was behind in the strong French team
The two also enjoy training together in the summer.
Gandler made it into the national squad this winter, Claude has to fight hard to get his place in the good French team.
Quentin Fillon Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin, Eric Perrot and brother Fabien are a little ahead of Emilien and, for example, ran together in the relay.
After her seventh place in the mass start, Gandler wrote on Instagram: “What a great race.”
Claude commented on the photos with an upper arm emoji in his own story.
The training in the summer, which also included a round of golf, is already bearing its first fruits.
Maybe both can soon get close to the Junior World Championship record on the big stage.
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