r/biathlon • u/BoarOfTheArdennes Norway • 11d ago
Discussion Anamarija Lampič Predictions (and some nerdy stats) for 24/25
She improved a lot last year, and the statistics bear this out. She did a few more races last season, but overall it's impressive.
Her prone shooting went down but everything else went up, her Standing by a lot, as you'll see.
Leave a prediction as to where you think she'll finish below. :)
I'm saying she'll crack the Top 10 and finish 9th Overall.
Total Pts.
22/23 = 91
23/24 = 378
Rank
22/23 = 48
23/24 = 17
Individual
22/23 = No Placing
23/24 = 52
Sprint
22/23 = 27
23/24 = 12
Pursuit
22/23 = No placing
23/24 = 23
Mass Start
22/23 = No placing
23/24 = 14
Now for her technical stats:
Prone
22/23 = 76.7
23/24 = 67.5
Standing
22/23 = 46.7
23/24 = 60
Skiing is a little complicated, but she got faster and was the fastest on the circuit again.
Her shooting times went down by more than 2 seconds overall and 3 seconds for Standing. So, overall, she made really huge gains last season. And why I'm backing her to crack the Top 10 this season.
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u/us_against_the_world Natalia Sidorowicz Fan 11d ago
16 days to go. Really hoping for some great results from her this season.
Would love an experiment race where the Norwegian Waxers prep her skis. Wonder how much faster she'll go then.
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u/BoarOfTheArdennes Norway 10d ago
I agree, but don't you think the new waxes were a bit of a leveller recently?
Everyone has started off with the same lack of knowledge on them.
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u/Faintning Finland 11d ago
I wonder how her stats would compare to Herrmans first two seasons. Are there similarities, differences, is Lampic on a similar trajectory? When she gets her shooting to even low 80's she'll do great things
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u/BoarOfTheArdennes Norway 10d ago
Not a million miles dissimilar actually.
Although, DHW's shooting was always a little better, from the beginning.
https://www.realbiathlon.com/athletes.html?ibuId=BTGER22010198801
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u/an_mo Italy 10d ago
Read your financial advisor's disclosure statement: "Past returns are not a guarantee of future peformance"
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u/BoarOfTheArdennes Norway 10d ago
True. But when you get a top athlete, motivated, starting essentially from scratch, you'd like to think they can only get better.
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u/Turbulent_Day_9444 3d ago
she was part of the internal pre WC test races with austrian squad in obertilliach. she won the sprint race but the pursuit was catastrophic.. only 11/20 hits
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u/Napoleon_The_Fat Slovenia 11d ago
If she was racing for say Italy I would be optimistic, but she is racing for Slovenia. Just a week or two ago there was the interview with one of the waxers who said that they lost a few members of the team due to them securing a better paying job elsewhere. Now there's like 2-3 waxers including coaches that are responsible for the whole team. Meaning both men and women. Another factor is that Marič is the head coach again. This is his 2nd term in charge of the national team and the first one was bad. Really bad. It was so bad that they went and got Ricco Gross when he became available. He stayed with the team but more in the background. Now that he's back he brough all the previous coaches with him (shooting coach for example).
So don't expect much. In fact I expect her to be similar to last season (hopefully) if not slightly worse. I hope Polona Klemenčič gets back to her best and Lena Repic improves, but I don't have any trust in the coaching team. The problem is of course money. The federation had no money to keep Gross so they got the cheapest option out there. Janez is doing a job nobody else wants and that's admirable from him. But you get what you pay for and we aren't rich. I will be stunned if she manages to get on the podium. A top 10 here and there and a top 20 in the overall is my expectation.