This past weekend’s Pokljuka Single Mixed Relay was beyond special for Switzerland’s Aita Gasparin. It was the Swiss team’s first-ever World Cup relay win of any kind and the veteran of 259 World Cup starts first time atop the podium.
Aita, the youngest of three Gasparin sisters is one of the many unheralded biathletes who toil diligently for years, struggling to reach the World Cup podium, no less the top. Although on the podium three times in the Women’s Relay in the 2019/20 season with her sisters, Sunday’s win left her still “trembling in my whole body” some time after the finish. With just three competitions left in the 2024/25 season, Aita has several reasons to smile: the Single Mixed victory, a…