This set contains the top 74 men and 74 women who were eligible to receive cards, from the respective World Cup standings, with one man included in that number for a top ten finish in a World Championship race. Each biathlete has two cards - one for time trial races, and one for head-to-head races.
 
Norway dominated the men's World Cup, claiming the top five, and six of the top seven overall World Cup places, with Johannes Thingnes Boe retaining his title, with his fifth career globe. He claimed the title with four straight wins to end the year. Older brother Tarjei claimed his best finish in following in second, since his sole title in 2011, with Johannes Dale-Skjevdal claiming his best ever finish in third.
 
JT Boe also won three more World Championship golds individually, repeating his record in Oberhof in 2023. The other was a silver, behind another fellow Norwegian, Sturla Holm Laegreid, in the opening sprint race in Nové Město na Moravě.
 
The women's overall World Cup went down to the wire, with Italian Lisa Vittozzi winning twice in the final round in Canmore to claim her first overall globe. Frenchwoman Lou Jeanmonnot was denied a debut title of her own, continued her rise to second, just 23 points behind. Norway's Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold rounded out the podium.
 
Vittozzi would win one gold in the Czech Republic at the World Championship, her first individual gold, in the Individual, but the other three were shared amongst other French women. Julia Simon won both the sprint and then backed up with the pursuit title as well, before Justine Braisaz-Bouchet completed the event with the mass start gold - claiming her first World title, in the same race she won at the 2022 Olympics.