Swedish biathlete Hanna Oeberg won the sprint race at the third stage of the World Cup in Annecy (France).

Oeberg covered the 7.5 km distance in 19 minutes 24.9 seconds and did not make a single mistake on two shooting ranges. The Frenchwoman Lou Jeanmonnot (+3.3 seconds; no misses) was second; the top three was rounded out by the Italian Dorothea Wierer (+11.4; no misses).

The leader of the overall standings, Swede Anna Magnusson (+1.23.4; 2) finished 38th.

On Friday, the men’s sprint will take place at the World Cup in Annecy.

The leader of the rating of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU), Victoria Metelya, will not perform at the Commonwealth Cup stage in Tchaikovsky (Perm Territory) for health reasons, host Dmitry Zanin said on Match TV.

The third stage of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Biathlon Cup will be held in Tchaikovsky on December 19–21. Sprint races are scheduled for Friday, pursuit races for Saturday, and mass starts for Sunday.

“Victoria Metelya, the leader of the SBR rating, where all races of the season are counted, will not compete in Tchaikovsky, because she is very ill, she has taken ill,” Zanin said on the air of the “Everyone for the Match!” program. on the Match TV channel.

Watch live broadcasts of the races on the Match TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

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Russian streamer Olga Ivanovna, known under the nickname i_olga on the Twitch platform, won the “Best Gaming Moment of 2025” category as part of the international NNYS award.

During one of the streams, a 77-year-old woman was able to create a so-called “ace” in the shooter Counter‑Strike 2 – the moment when one player defeats the entire opposing team. A video of this moment was widely shared on social networks.

The pensioner lives in Nizhny Novgorod. About 250 thousand viewers have subscribed to her channel.

The NNYS Awards annually celebrate significant moments and select the best videos across 16 categories.