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The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the biathlon at the 2026 Winter Olympics.^[1]

Quota allocation

A total quota of 210 athletes are allowed at the Games (105 both men and women). The first 93 quota allocations, per gender, will be assigned from the 2024/25 World Cup Nation Cup score. The final 12 spots, per gender, will be allocated using the IBU Qualifying Points List (as of January 18, 2026), to nations who have not qualified any athletes yet, with a maximum of two per nation.

From the 2024/25 world cup final standings, NOCs ranked 1-3 will qualify six athletes, 4-10 five athletes, and 11-20 four athletes, for both male and female competitions. The final twelve spots in each gender are filled individually from the IBU Qualifying points list to a maximum of two for a nation, from nations not already qualified. Two of these spots will be used by the host if not already qualified. The host may only start in the relay competitions that they have enough qualified athletes for. Reallocation of unused quotas will be from the IBU Qualifying points list for nations that have not yet qualified, or only have one qualifier. For each event a maximum of 4 athletes per NOC may compete, except the Mass Start in which it remains possible to qualify up to 6.

Minimum Requirements

During the 2024/25 or 2025/26 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual and have at most an IBU Qualifying point total of 150 or less. Or, two placings in the top half at the Junior World Championships. They also can have a combination of both criteria (one of each). All relay members must meet this requirement as well.

Qualification standings

	Qualifies 6 athletes
	Qualifies 5 athletes
	Qualifies 4 athletes
	Qualifies 2 athletes by IBU qualifying points
	Qualifies 1 athlete by IBU qualifying points

Standings after 14 of 26 events.

Men's standings^[2]^[3]
Position	Country	Nations Cup Points
1	France	4918
2	Norway	4853
3	Sweden	4320
4	Germany	4262
5	Switzerland	3635
6	Slovenia	3593
7	Czech Republic	3579
8	Ukraine	3579
9	Italy	3551
10	Finland	3415
11	Austria	3261
12	United States	3251
13	Belgium	2572
14	Poland	2443
15	Estonia	2435
16	Latvia	2416
17	Romania	2382
18	Bulgaria	2280
19	Lithuania	2213
20	Kazakhstan	1837
21	Canada	1822
22	Slovakia	1433
23	Moldova	1341
24	South Korea	667
25	Croatia	429
26	China	317
27	Japan	300
28	Greece	117
29	Denmark^[a]	99^[b]
30	Great Britain	40
31	Spain	30
32	Mongolia	13

Standings after 14 of 26 events

Women's standings^[4]^[5]
Position	Country	Nations Cup Points
1	France	4901
2	Germany	4579
3	Sweden	4418
4	Norway	4225
5	Switzerland	3747
6	Italy	3653
7	Austria	3585
8	Finland	3414
9	Ukraine	3397
10	Czech Republic	3334
11	Poland	3228
12	Slovenia	2965
13	Estonia	2874
14	Canada	2662
15	Bulgaria	2625
16	Slovakia	2583
17	Belgium	2491
18	Latvia	2375
19	United States	2032
20	Lithuania	1927
21	Kazakhstan	1581
22	Moldova	1435
23	Romania	1413
24	South Korea	492
25	China	458
26	Australia	337
27	Croatia	207
28	Japan	149
29	Greece	104
30	Great Britain	41
31	Brazil	0

IBU Qualifying points

As of 24 January 2025.^[5]

Men's standings
Position	Athlete	Points
1	Timofei Lapshin	51.62
2	Maksim Makarov	58.98
3	Adam Runnalls	64.23
4	Pavel Magazeev	64.89
5	Krešimir Crnković	77.22
6	Jakub Borgula	79.88
7	Sondre Slettemark	80.05
8	Yan Xingyuan	84.77
9	Matija Legović	85.18
10	Logan Pletz	87.00
11	Tomáš Sklenárik	89.24
12	Mikito Tachizaki	102.83
13	Masaharu Yamamoto	109.04
14	Gu Cang	111.18
15	Enkhsaikhan Enkhbat	111.19
16	Aleksei Starodubets	122.57
17	Rasmus Schiellerup	132.82

Women's standings
Position	Country	Points
1	Alina Stremous	42.71
2	Darcie Morton	80.15
3	Aliona Makarova	82.82
4	Ekaterina Avvakumova	83.72
5	Anastasia Tolmacheva	85.22
6	Galina Vishnevskaya-Sheporenko	97.05
7	Andreea Mezdrea	99.97
8	Olga Poltoranina	102.09
9	Tang Jialin	103.13
10	Anika Kožica	107.08
11	Meng Fanqi	113.13
12	Gaia Brunello	118.12
13	Ukaleq Slettemark	122.79
14	Shawna Pendry	128.87
15	Ko Eun-jung	135.37
16	Aoi Sato	148.92

^ Athletes from Greenland qualify for Denmark.
^ Nation's cup points are only displayed for Greenland because they are the highest ranked National Federation of Denmark's National Olympic Committee.^[1]