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Beijing 2022: Biathletes Pronouncing Their Names



Ever wondered how you pronounce Simon Desthieux? Or maybe Daniil Serokhvostov? Even Vanessa Voigt could be tricky… then, wonder no more and check how the athletes pronounce their names and the ones of their teammates.

We apologise to some missing teams and individuals: both late nominations and nomination changes made it difficult to catch up with everyone in time before the conclusion of the final World Cup stages before Beijing.

Chapters:
00:00 Team Austria Men
00:09 Team Austria Women
00:24 Team Belarus Women
00:34 Team Belarus Men
00:43 Team Belgium Women
00:45 Team Belgium Men
00:57 Team Bulgaria
01:03 Team Canada Women
01:11 Team Canada Men
01:22 Team Czech Rep. Women
01:35 Team Czech Rep. Men
01:51 Team Estonia Women
01:55 Team Estonia Men
02:01 Team Denmark
02:04 Team Finland Women
02:12 Team Finland Men
02:22 Team France Women
02:33 Team France Men
02:44 Team Germany Women
02:56 Team Germany Men
03:09 Team Italy Women
03:16 Team Italy Men
03:24 Team Japan Women
03:34 Team Japan Men
03:37 Team Latvia
03:41 Team Norway Men
03:58 Team Norway Women
04:12 Team Poland
04:25 Team ROC Women
04:36 Team ROC Men
04:47 Team Slovakia Women
04:58 Team Slovakia Men
05:06 Team Slovenia Women
05:10 Team Slovenia Men
05:17 Team Sweden Women
05:27 Team Sweden Men
05:35 Team Switzerland Women
05:42 Team Switzerland Men
05:50 Team Ukraine Women
05:59 Team Ukraine Men
06:06 Team USA Women
06:15 Team USA Men

33 Comments

  1. That's a very interesting way to know people of different origins. Would be nice to include name pronouncing from athletes of the host country China. I am sure it will be a completely different world.

  2. I can't believe you made this video! I knew the American tv announcers were pronouncing most of the French names wrong, so I assumed they were doing the same to many others. (Most Americans don't hear many foreign languages except Spanish.) I love this, and and as others have said, I could listen to Emilien Jacquelin all day! (I hope he goes into broadcasting when he retires.)

  3. Так интересно было послушать как действительно правильно произносить фио.губерниеву это глянуть надо бы..

  4. Hope this you will keep on doing videos like this for every sport for every Olympics. It´s nice to hear the names as they should be pronounced.
    I also hope in the future they will be able to use all letters in the graphics during the Olympics, so it will say Öberg and not the weird Oeberg, for instance.

  5. Yess, yes! Finally I heard the correct pronounce ❤️ And wow – some of my tips were right, but some of them are totally away from the reality 😅😂

    Still love everyone ❤️

  6. Ukaleq Slettemark (the danish one) is pronouncing her own name in pure norwegian.

  7. Only major surprise was the pronunciations of the czech girls names. Didn't know you were supposed to emphasize the last letter a. Sounded very cute.

  8. I was surprised by "Gasparin". I figured the -in would be French style/or the named pronounced Russian style with the stress on the last 'a'.

  9. Merci pour cette initiative, si seulement les journalistes français étaient capables de comprendre que la moindre des choses serait de savoir prononcer correctement les noms des sportifs (je parle en général, ceux qui commentent le biathlon sont loin d'être les pires).

  10. Just don't say "Oyberg" and you're fine with the Swedes I think. I've heard the French, German and Slavic versions of Swedish names and they're fairly close to the mark usually. Maybe if Henning Sjökvist makes it there will be issues.

  11. C'est trop bête, j'ai mal prononcé certains noms et je n'aurai plus l'occasion de les entendre correctement car ils et elles ont prit leur retraite, ça m'énerve!

  12. I am French so I listen the other languages lol. I love the names Krcmar and Stvtrecky ❤️❤️

  13. Came to settle an argument about how to pronounce Sturla's last name. This did not help. 😅

    Please make a new one of these for the upcoming season!

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