2026 IBU Junior Open European Championships

The 11th IBU Junior Open European Championships took place from 21 to 25 January 2026 in Imatra, Finland.^[1]

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 athlete of the championship was Latvian biathlete Estere Volfa, who became the champion in the 60 km mass start and also won bronze medals in the sprint and the single mixed relay.^[2][3]

All times are local (UTC+1).

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czech Republic	3	0	1	4
2	Sweden	2	0	1	3
3	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
4	Slovenia	1	1	0	2
5	Latvia	1	0	3	4
6	Austria	0	3	0	3
7	Slovakia	0	2	1	3
8	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
9	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		8	8	8	24

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km individual details	David Eliáš  Czech Republic	42:17.3 (1+1+0+0)	Matti Pinter  Austria	42:43.4 (1+0+0+0)	Rihards Lozbers  Latvia	42:55.5 (1+1+0+1)
10 km sprint details	Vladimír Kocmánek  Czech Republic	25:14.3 (0+0)	Martin Maťko  Slovakia	25:26.5 (0+1)	David Eliáš  Czech Republic	25:53.4 (1+1)
12 km mass start 60 details	Michael Málek  Czech Republic	32:13.2 (0+0+0+0)	Thomas Marchl  Austria	+13.4 (0+0+1+0)	Jakub Potoniec  Poland	+14.1 (1+0+0+0)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
12.5 km individual details	Greta Lindqvist Seldahl  Sweden	41:31.2 (0+0+0+0)	Tamara Molentová  Slovakia	41:40.2 (0+2+0+0)	Michaela Straková  Slovakia	42:07.5 (1+0+0+1)
7.5 km sprint details	Manca Caserman  Slovenia	22:44.8 (1+0)	Anna Millinger  Austria	23:15.8 (0+1)	Estere Volfa  Latvia	23:21.7 (0+3)
9 km mass start 60 details	Estere Volfa  Latvia	27:00.6 (0+1+0+0)	Tetiana Tarasiuk  Ukraine	+3.1 (0+0+0+0)	Greta Lindqvist Seldahl  Sweden	+1:12.4 (0+1+1+0)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 6 km M+W relay details	Sweden Lydia Hägg Eveby Greta Lindqvist Seldahl Isak Falk Elmer Nordlander	1:07:40.3 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Slovenia Ela Sever Manca Caserman Ruj Grošelj Simić Aljaž Omejc	1:07:50.5 (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3)	Ukraine Kseniia Prykhodko Viktoriia Khvostenko Ivan Steblyna Oleksandr Bilanenko	1:07:56.9 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
6 km M + 7.5 km W single relay details	Ukraine Tetiana Tarasiuk Taras Tarasiuk	37:29.1 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Switzerland Lena Baumann Remo Burch	37:32.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Latvia Estere Volfa Rihards Lozbers	37:47.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1)

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