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Biathlon World Championships 2011

The Alexander Filipenko Winter Sport Center in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

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

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

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

Medal winners

Men

Women

Mixed

Medal table

Top nations

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

Participating countries

40 nations competed.[13]

See also

Notes

References

  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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