Biathlon World Championships 2011

The 44th Biathlon World Championships was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 3–13, 2011.

Biathlon World Championships 2011
Host cityKhanty-Mansiysk
CountryRussia
Events11
Opening3 March
Closing13 March
The Alexander Filipenko Winter Sport Center in Khanty-Mansiysk

There was a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup season.

Championship highlights edit

The Championships kicked off with the Mixed relay event which is seeking to make its way onto the Olympic programme for the 2014 games in Sochi. As the first event of the programme, it was finally given importance by the different teams, with all nations fielding their best teams, in difference to earlier world cup events. The Norwegians won it, overtaking Germany on the last leg. The veteran Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his fifteenth world championship gold medal in the process and his first in the mixed relay, giving him a full set of gold medals in the six events that are currently contested.[1]

Tarjei Bø, Martin Fourcade, Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Arnd Peiffer won their first champion titles in career. Martin Fourcade also won a full scope of medals, gold, silver and bronze at these championships.

The surprise medalists included Maxim Maximov of Russia, Tina Bachmann of Germany and Vita Semerenko of Ukraine.

Helena Ekholm literally swept the field in the individual with zero shooting and fast skiing, winning more than 2 minutes over the runner-up Bachmann and making one of the greatest 1–2 place margins in biathlon history.

Schedule of events edit

The provisional schedule of the event is below. All times in UTC+5.

Date Time Event
3 March 16:30 2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
5 March 14:00 Men's 10 km sprint
18:00 Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March 14:00 Men's 12.5 km pursuit
16:30 Women's 10 km pursuit
8 March 17:15 Men's 20 km individual
9 March 17:15 Women's 15 km individual
11 March 18:00 Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
12 March 16:30 Women's 12.5 km mass start
18:30 Men's 15 km mass start
13 March 15:00 Women's 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners edit

Men edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
10 km sprint[2]
details
Arnd Peiffer
  Germany
24:34.0
(0+1)
Martin Fourcade
  France
24:47.0
(2+0)
Tarjei Bø
  Norway
24:59.2
(1+0)
12.5 km pursuit[3]
details
Martin Fourcade
  France
33:02.6
(0+1+2+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
33:06.4
(0+0+1+1)
Tarjei Bø
  Norway
33:07.8
(0+0+1+1)
20 km individual[4]
details
Tarjei Bø
  Norway
48:29.9
(0+0+1+0)
Maxim Maksimov
  Russia
49:09.9
(0+0+0+0)
Christoph Sumann
  Austria
49:15.4
(0+0+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay[5]
details
  Norway
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Alexander Os
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Tarjei Bø
1:16:13.9
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (1+3)
  Russia
Anton Shipulin
Evgeny Ustyugov
Maxim Maksimov
Ivan Tcherezov
1:16:27.3
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0)
  Ukraine
Olexander Bilanenko
Andriy Deryzemlya
Serhiy Semenov
Serhiy Sednev
1:16:41.9
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
15 km mass start[6]
details
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
38:42.7
(0+0+0+1)
Evgeny Ustyugov
  Russia
38:47.7
(0+0+0+0)
Lukas Hofer
  Italy
38:57.0
(0+0+0+1)

Women edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
7.5 km sprint[7]
details
Magdalena Neuner
  Germany
20:31.2
(0+0)
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
  Finland
20:43.4
(0+0)
Anastasiya Kuzmina
  Slovakia
21:11.2
(0+1)
10 km pursuit[8]
details
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
  Finland
30:00.1
(0+0+0+0)
Magdalena Neuner
  Germany
30:21.7
(0+0+0+2)
Helena Ekholm
  Sweden
31:43.7
(0+0+0+0)
15 km individual[9]
details
Helena Ekholm
  Sweden
47:08.3
(0+0+0+0)
Tina Bachmann
  Germany
49:24.1
(0+2+0+0)
Vita Semerenko
  Ukraine
50:00.4
(1+0+0+2)
4 × 6 km relay[10]
details
  Germany
Andrea Henkel
Miriam Gössner
Tina Bachmann
Magdalena Neuner
1:13:31.1
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+2) (2+3)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
  France
Anaïs Bescond
Marie-Laure Brunet
Sophie Boilley
Marie Dorin
1:14:18.3
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
  Belarus
Nadezhda Skardino
Darya Domracheva
Nadzeya Pisarava
Liudmila Kalinchik
1:15:18.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (1+3)
12.5 km mass start[11]
details
Magdalena Neuner
  Germany
36:48.5
(0+1+2+1)
Darya Domracheva
  Belarus
36:53.3
(2+1+0+0)
Tora Berger
  Norway
37:02.5
(2+1+0+0)

Mixed edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[12]
details
  Norway
Tora Berger
Ann Kristin Flatland
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Tarjei Bø
1:14:22.5
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Germany
Andrea Henkel
Magdalena Neuner
Arnd Peiffer
Michael Greis
1:14:45.4
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+1)
  France
Marie-Laure Brunet
Marie Dorin
Alexis Bœuf
Martin Fourcade
1:15:38.7
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)

Medal table edit

Top nations edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Germany (GER)4307
2  Norway (NOR)4138
3  France (FRA)1214
4  Finland (FIN)1102
5  Sweden (SWE)1012
6  Russia (RUS)0303
7  Belarus (BLR)0112
8  Ukraine (UKR)0022
9  Austria (AUT)0011
  Italy (ITA)0011
  Slovakia (SVK)0011
Totals (11 entries)11111133

Top athletes edit

All athletes with two or more medals.

RankBiathleteGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Magdalena Neuner (GER)3205
2  Tarjei Bø (NOR)3025
3  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)2103
4  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)2002
5  Martin Fourcade (FRA)1113
6  Andrea Henkel (GER)1102
  Arnd Peiffer (GER)1102
  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)1102
  Tina Bachmann (GER)1102
10  Helena Ekholm (SWE)1012
  Tora Berger (NOR)1012
12  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)0202
  Maxim Maksimov (RUS)0202
14  Darya Domracheva (BLR)0112
  Marie Dorin (FRA)0112
  Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA)0112

Participating countries edit

40 nations competed.[13]

See also edit

Notes edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Boe the hero, 15th gold for Bjoerndalen as Norway win". monstersandcritics.com. March 3, 2011. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Men's sprint results
  3. ^ Men's pursuit results
  4. ^ Men's individual results
  5. ^ Men's relay results
  6. ^ Men's mass start results
  7. ^ Women's sprint results
  8. ^ Women's pursuit results
  9. ^ Women's individual results
  10. ^ Women's relay results
  11. ^ Women's mass start results
  12. ^ Mixed relay results
  13. ^ "Archive for the 'Participating countries' Category". Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2011.

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