2020 Biathlon Women’s World Cup Betting Predictions: Will We Have a New Champion?

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The 2019-20200 season of the women’s biathlon world cup is almost at half time, with 5 more race weekends ahead. Currently, Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff is leading the overall standing for a little surprise. So let’s see who else can get to the top according to the 2020 Biathlon Women’s World Cup betting predictions. 

Though Italian Dorothea Wierer is the reigning champion, she is only second at the moment. But only 3 points behind the leader Eckhoff. Looks like the world cup title will be decided between the two of them. Hopefully, the fans can see a tight race for the rest of the season. Online sportsbooks in Italy are giving similar odds for both of them. Eckhoff having a slight advantage with the odds of 2.248, while Wierer has the odds of 2.50. But who are these favorites and is there anyone else with a chance? 

2020 Biathlon Women’s World Cup betting predictions are giving similar odds for top two

Dorothea Wierer has won last season with 22 points lead ahead of her compatriot, Lisa Vittozzi and Russian Anastasiya Kuzmina. Wierer had some success earlier, she won three bronze medals in the World Championships in the relay. She also won two bronzes in the Olympic Games in the mixed relay and a silver in Pursuit in the World Championship in 2016.  But last year she reached the top with becoming the world champion in the mass start. She also won the World Cup in both the overall and pursuit event.  

The Italian has started this season strongly, with winning the first two races in the 7.5km sprint. But later she couldn’t keep up with her biggest rival, Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff. Eckhoff has won all 3 events in the French race, and two more others, making her the leader after the first half of the season. Her great performance is a bit of a surprise even though she is a former world and Olympic champion.  But in the world cup, she hasn’t been that convincing finishing around the top ten most of the time. This season she seems to be in her best form though, we’ll see if she can keep her lead until the end of the season.

Tiril Eckhoff is currently leading BillyBonkers / Norges Skiskytterforbund [CC BY]

Other favorites according to the 2020 Biathlon Women’s World Cup betting predictions

Hanna Oberg is a Swedish biathlete, finishing fifth last season. She won the individual race in the last Olympics by surprise, as she hasn’t got any podium before.  She also won the race in the world championship racing on home soil, in Ostersund. Oberg is also part of relay teams just like the others, they finished second in both the Olympics and the World Championship. She’s got two podium finishes so far in the season, but she will need more to be on the overall podium in March. Her odds to win the World Cup are 12.00 with 1xBet.  

Similar chances are offered in the 2020 Biathlon Women’s World Cup betting predictions for another Norwegian athlete,  Marte Olsbu Roiseland. She is currently only seventh, 39 points far from the podium. She is also an Olympic medallist, winning silver in Pyeongchang in the individual and mixed relay as well. The teams were successful in the world championship, winning gold in relay and mixed relay, but in individual races, Roiseland’s best result was a fourth place in pursuit of 2019. 

There is a third biathlete with the same odds, 12.00 , German Denise Herrmann. She has started in cross-country and was competing in the World Cup since 2009 but she switched to biathlon in 2016 and has been competing there since. In the first two years she hasn’t achieved any great result, but last year she won the pursuit at the World Championship. She also got a bronze in mass start along with a silver in the mixed relay.  In the new season, she is currently in fifth place, so she can get into the top 3 easily, but to actually win the world cup might be a bit tough task. 

Denise Herrmann can reach the top 3 [Cephas [CC BY-SA]

Surprises of the season 

Online gambling sites in Italy were also predicting  Lisa Vittozzi into the favorites to win the world cup, but she is having a disappointing season so far. She is only in 13th place, more than 200 points behind the leaders, with 9th place finishes as her best result so far besides winning the mixed relay event in the first race in Sweden.  She is still a very talented biathlete, she was competing with Wierer in the mixed relay team which won the bronze in Pyeongchang. They also won the bronze together in the mixed relay this year in the World Championship. On top Vittozzi managed to win a silver in the individual race here. But after finishing in second place last season, she is out of form now. 

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