Paula Botet has been a sensation in the IBU Cup since the start of the season and made her comeback in the World Cup in the Oberhof biathlon event on Thursday January 9.
Paula Botet, her name may not mean anything to you, but she could be one of the attractions for the rest of the biathlon season. Leader of the IBU Cup, the lower level, Paula Botet returns to the elite of world biathlon during the Oberhof round after a stint in March 2023, during a sprint organized in Oslo which took place finished with a 21st place and a 9/10.
From now on, it is as a leader and even a boss that she arrived in this round of the World Cup with six podiums to her credit since the start of the season. “Given the level of performance of Paula Botet throughout the start of the season, she completely deserves to move up to the World Cup” launched the staff of the French team.
For the record, Paula Botet is the daughter of Véronique Claudel, former French Olympic biathlete, Olympic relay champion in Albertville in particular. A family story therefore and a desire to embrace this career since always, as she explained a few years ago in Nordic Mag. “I always wanted to take up biathlon. I did a few other sports, gym, swimming and triathlon, but without success… Today, I do biathlon for the pleasure of doing well things, to go fast and shoot at 10/10 or 20/20 There’s not much in my life that I do really well, but I don’t do too bad in biathlon or. I don’t like not lose too much.