The Norwegian team has been announced: Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Sturla Holm Lægreid will be competing in the bett1.de World Team Challenge at Schalke on Saturday, December 28. Last year, Ingrid and Sturla already secured 3rd place as a duo at the WTC in Gelsenkirchen. The two athletes are only half a year apart in age - no wonder they harmonize perfectly on the course.

Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold's talent was already evident in her first international races. Tandrevold won numerous medals as a junior and competed in the BMW IBU World Cup for the first time in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2016. Her strong debut and consistently good performances earned the Norwegian a place in the national World Cup team and a start at the Olympics at the age of 20. She achieved her first podium finish in the BMW IBU World Cup in 2019 in the mass start in Ruhpolding, where she came second. In the same season, Tandrevold won sprint silver and relay gold at the IBU World Championships in Östersund. Tandrevold improved once again in the 2019/2020 season. She achieved four more podium finishes in the BMW IBU World Cup, achieved a total hit rate of 82 percent, won her second IBU World Championship gold medal in the relay and finished seventh in the overall World Cup standings. In the 2022/23 season, Tandrevold reached the podium four times in individual races with a second place each time and achieved several top 10 finishes. At the 2023 Biathlon World Championships, the biathlete won the silver medal with a second place in the mass start and finished fourth in the pursuit. Tandrevold also won the gold medal in the mixed relay. The 2023/2024 season began for Tandrevold with three finishes in the top 7 in Östersund. At the 2024 Biathlon World Championships in Nové Město, Tandrevold won the silver medal in the mixed relay and the bronze medal in the relay. In the following World Cup in Oslo, she won the individual event, achieving her third World Cup victory of the season. She achieved another podium finish in Soldier Hollow. Tandrevold also won the relay for the third time this season this weekend.

Sturla Holm Lægreid is in top form: he has been competing in the World Cup since 2020 and achieved second place in the overall standings in each of the 2020/2021 to 2022/2023 seasons. Lægreid grew up in a sporty family and focused on biathlon from the age of 16. He celebrated his first successes at the Junior World Championships in 2018. After a few health setbacks, he made his breakthrough in the World Cup in 2020: in the 2020/2021 season, he won seven individual races, four World Championship gold medals and finished second overall in the World Cup behind Johannes Thingnes Bø. His strengths lie primarily at the shooting range. In 2022, he became Olympic champion with the Norwegian men's relay team and once again finished second in the overall World Cup. At the 2023 World Championships, Lægreid became world champion in the mixed relay together with Bø and took silver in the men's relay, as well as winning silver in the pursuit and 20-kilometer individual race and bronze in the sprint. Lægreid celebrated his first win of the season in an individual race at the 2024 World Championships in Nové Město, where he had no misses in the sprint and triumphed by 3.5 seconds ahead of Johannes Thingnes Bø. In the subsequent pursuit race, he finished second behind Bø. He won another World Championship silver medal with the Norwegian relay team.

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