Last winter, Lou Jeanmonnot narrowly lost out in the race with Franziska Preuß to win the overall World Cup. In order to soon be at the top, the Frenchwoman is now breaking new ground.
Biathlon star Lou Jeanmonnot no longer wants to leave anything to chance or the weather: The 27-year-old is now the proud owner of a roller ski treadmill. She posted some pictures of the training device on Instagram.
“My new dry training toy,” Jeanmonnot wrote on her post.
This means you can train in your home in the Doubs department even on rainy days. World Cup competitor Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold was amazed. “Wow,” the Norwegian wrote in the comments.
Samuelsson also relies on roller ski treadmills
Lou Jeanmonnot is by no means the only top athlete who owns a roller ski treadmill. The Swede Sebastian Samuelsson has also been using such training equipment for years so that he can hone his skiing technique in all weather conditions. “I wanted to invest 100 percent in my biathlon sport,” is Samuelsson’s reasoning behind purchasing a professional treadmill with the help of part of the prize money he won.
The exceptional biathlete Johannes Thingnes Bö, who has since retired, also trained with a roller ski treadmill. “You get pretty defensive on a roller ski treadmill like this because the treadmill always wins. It never stops, it never gives up. It’s a battle you can’t win,” he says of his Rodby brand model.
Now Lou Jeanmonnot also wants to push herself to her limits in training in order to make another attempt in the fight for overall World Cup victory. In 2024/25 she had to admit defeat in the last race of the season and let Franziska Preuß go first. The 27-year-old fell a few hundred meters from the finish, so the DSV biathlete reached the first large crystal ball of her career. “I got over it quickly because I had good support from my family and friends,” Jeanmonnot recently recalled of the events in Oslo.