Blink Festival 2025: Start lists for the 10/15km mass start and biathlon super sprint

by Leandro Lutz • 08.08.2025
Blink Festival
Day three of the Blink Festival 2025 promises an action-packed schedule, featuring two exciting events: the 10/15km mass start and the biathlon super sprint. Below are the start times and start lists.

Day three of the Blink Festival 2025 promises an action-packed schedule, featuring two exciting events: the 10/15km mass start and the biathlon super sprint. Below are the start times and start lists.

The Blink Festival continues to attract top-level international talent, and today there is no exception. Athletes will compete in mass start roller ski races—10km for women and 15km for men—as well as the biathlon super sprint. 

10/15km Mass Start – Roller Skiing

  • 15:30 CET: Prologue Start
  • 18:25 CET: Mass Start Women
  • 19:45 CET: Mass Start Men

Women’s Start List
Men’s Start List

Biathlon Super Sprint – Roller Skiing

  • 14:30 CET: Shooting – Biathlon Elite
  • 15:55 CET: Biathlon – Shooting Duel Women and Men
  • 17:10 CET: Biathlon – Super Sprint Qualification Elite Women
  • 17:45 CET: Biathlon – Super Sprint Qualification Elite Men

Women’s Start List
Men’s Start List

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On Saturday, a sprint race for the cross-country skiers and a mass start for the biathletes await.

Also Read – Blink Festival 2025: Complete calendar

FACTS: BLINK FESTIVAL 2025

  • Who: Cross-country skiers and biathletes at national and international levels, as well as junior classes and age-specific classes for younger athletes
  • What: Summer ski festival, cross-country skiing, biathlon, and long-distance skiing, held for the first time in 2006
  • Where: Norway
  • When: August 6 to 9, 2025
  • Website: Blink Festival

Program

Wednesday, August 6:  BLINK Lysebotn Up, 7.5km uphill race (More information can be found HERE and HERE)

  • 11:00 CET: 1km and 2km girls and boys
  • 11:45 CET: 7.5km skate women senior and women junior
  • 13:30 CET: 7.5km double poling women and men senior
  • 15:00 CET: 7.5km skate men senior and men junior
  • Prize giving at Øygardstøl after the finish

Thursday, August 7:  BLINK Classics at Ålgård (More information can be found HERE)

  • 15:00-23:00 CET: Folk Festival at Ålgård – activities for children and young people
  • 15:00 CET: Jæren Sparebank Kid Camps opens
  • 15:00-15:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 17:00-17:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 18:45 CET: Start BLINK Classics
  • 20:45 CET: Estimated finish time BLINK Classics
  • 21:15 CET: Free concert with DDE

Friday, August 8: BLINK in Sandnes Sentrum (More information can be found HERE and HERE)

  • 7:00-14:20 CET: Competitions for age groups and juniors 
  • 12:00-21:00 CET: Rogaland Sparebank Kid Camp: Activities for children and young people in Rutenparken
  • 14:00-14:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 14:30-15:15 CET: Shooting – biathlon elite
  • 15:30-15:50 CET: Cross-country skiing – prologue women and men
  • 15:55-16:50 CET: Biathlon – shooting duel women and men
  • 17:00-17:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 17:10-18:25 CET: Biathlon – super sprint qualification elite women and men

18:25-18:55 CET: Cross-country skiing – 10km mass start women

  • 18:55-19:45 CET: Biathlon – super sprint final women and men
  • 19:45-20:25 CET: Cross-country skiing – 15km mass start men
  • 20:45 CET: Award ceremony
  • 21:00 CET: Free concert with Postgirobygget

Saturday, August 9: BLINK in Sandnes Sentrum (More information can be found HERE and HERE)

  • 7:30-14:20 CET: Competitions for age groups and juniors
  • 11:00-12:00 CET: Free brunch
  • 12:00-21:00 CET: Rogaland Sparebank Kid Camp: Activities for children and young people in Rutenparken
  • 12:00-12:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 14:15-15:00 CET: Prize-giving ceremony for age groups in Rutenparken
  • 14:30-15:15 CET: Shooting – biathlon elite
  • 15:30-15:44 CET: Cross-country skiing – prologue women and men
  • 16:05-17:28 CET: Biathlon – Quarterfinals mass start women and men
  • 16:00-16:45 CET: Children’s entertainment with Fire Bear Bjørnis
  • 17:44-19:20 CET: Cross-country skiing – quarterfinals and semifinals sprint women and men
  • 19:22-20:08 CET: Biathlon – semifinals mass start women and men
  • 20:10-20:23 CET: Cross-country skiing – finals sprint women and men
  • 20:25-21:05 CET: Biathlon – finals mass start women and men
  • 21:25 CET: Awards ceremony
  • 21:45 CET: Free concert with CC Cowboys

For a comprehensive Blink Festival events program, click HERE

The Roller Ski Guide 2025 

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Read More: Roller Ski Guide 2025

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