Biathlon World Championships 2008

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The 42nd Biathlon World Championships were held in Östersund in Jämtland in central Sweden from February 8 to February 17, 2008. It was the second time Östersund was hosting the Biathlon World Championships, the first being in 1970. It was also 50 years after the first Biathlon World Championships, which were held 1958 in Saalfelden, Austria.

There were a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and the relatively new mixed relay. The championships were dominated by the German, Norwegian, and Russian teams, which could win every competition and 28 of the 33 available medals.

The 2009 Biathlon World Championships will be held from February 13 to February 22 in Pyeongchang in South Korea.

Contents 1 Opening ceremony 2 Men's results 2.1 10 km sprint 2.2 12.5 km pursuit 2.3 20 km individual 2.4 4×7.5 km relay 2.5 15 km mass start 3 Women's results 3.1 7.5 km sprint 3.2 10 km pursuit 3.3 15 km individual 3.4 12.5 km mass start 3.5 4×6 km relay 4 Mixed 4.1 2×6 km + 2×7.5 km relay 5 Medals table 6 Medal summary 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Opening ceremony

• Date / Time: Fri February 8, 2008 / 19:00 CET

[edit] Men's results

[edit] 10 km sprint

• Date / Start Time: Sat February 9, 2008 / 14:15 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	0 – 0	22:25.4
	Halvard Hanevold	NOR	0 – 0	22:45.2	+19.8
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	0 – 2	22:55.4	+30.0

[edit] 12.5 km pursuit

• Date / Start Time: Sun February 10, 2008 / 14:15 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	0 – 1 – 1 – 0	31:04.5
	Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	2 – 0 – 2 – 0	31:14.6	+10.1
	Alexander Wolf	GER	0 – 0 – 1 – 0	31:47.3	+42.8

[edit] 20 km individual

• Date / Start Time: Thu February 14, 2008 / 17:15 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR	0 – 1 – 0 – 0	51:51.9
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	1 – 1 – 0 – 0	52:23.3	+31.4
	Maxim Maksimov	RUS	0 – 0 – 0 – 0	52:26.7	+34.8

[edit] 4×7.5 km relay

• Date / Start Time: Sat February 16, 2008 / 12:00 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Ivan Cherezov Nikolay N. Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+1	1:21:00.7
	Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Bratsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+3 0+1 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+0	1:21:49.9	+49.2
	Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	GER	0+0 – 1+3 0+0 – 0+1 0+2 – 1+3 0+3 – 0+2	1:22:43.2	+1:42.5

[edit] 15 km mass start

• Date / Start Time: Sun February 17, 2008 / 12:00 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR	1 – 0 – 0 – 0	36:12.6
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	0 – 0 – 1 – 0	36:13.0	+0.4
	Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	0 – 1 – 2 – 0	36:37.5	+24.9

[edit] Women's results

[edit] 7.5 km sprint

• Date / Start Time: Sat February 9, 2008 / 11:00 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Andrea Henkel	GER	0 – 0	19:43.1
	Albina Akhatova	RUS	0 – 0	19:55.8	+12.7
	Oksana Khvostenko	UKR	0 – 0	20:06.3	+23.2

[edit] 10 km pursuit

• Date / Start Time: Sun February 10, 2008 / 12:00 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Andrea Henkel	GER	0 – 0 – 0 – 0	28:56.0
	Ekaterina Iourieva	RUS	0 – 0 – 0 – 0	29:16.5	+20.5
	Albina Akhatova	RUS	0 – 0 – 0 – 0	29:34.5	+38.5

[edit] 15 km individual

• Date / Start Time: Thu February 14, 2008 / 14:05 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Ekaterina Iourieva	RUS	0 – 0 – 0 – 0	44:23.8
	Martina Glagow	GER	1 – 0 – 0 – 0	45:37.1	+1:13.3
	Oksana Khvostenko	UKR	0 – 0 – 1 – 0	46:48.2	+2:24.4

[edit] 12.5 km mass start

• Date / Start Time: Sat February 16, 2008 / 15:00 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Magdalena Neuner	GER	0 – 0 – 2 – 2	39:36.5
	Tora Berger	NOR	1 – 0 – 0 – 0	39:39.5	+3.0
	Ekaterina Iourieva	RUS	1 – 0 – 1 – 0	40:06.0	+29.5

[edit] 4×6 km relay

• Date / Start Time: Sun February 17, 2008 / 14:30 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	GER	0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+0 0+2 – 1+3 0+2 – 0+2	1:10:12.6
	Oksana Yakovleva Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko	UKR	0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+0	1:10:43.5	+30.9
	Delphine Peretto Marie Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	FRA	0+1 – 0+1 0+0 – 1+3 0+1 – 1+3 0+2 – 0+2	1:11:48.3	+1:35.7

[edit] Mixed

[edit] 2×6 km + 2×7.5 km relay

• Date / Start Time: Tue February 12, 2008 / 14:15 CET

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	GER	0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 0+1 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+1	1:12:20.5
	Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov	BLR	0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2	1:13:13.1	+52.6
	Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay N. Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko	RUS	0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 1+3 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+2	1:13:23.4	+1:02.9

[edit] Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	5	1	2	8
2	Norway	3	5	1	9
3	Russia	3	3	5	11
4	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
5	Belarus	0	1	0	1
6	France	0	0	1	1

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
7.5 km sprint women	Andrea Henkel (GER)	Albina Akhatova (RUS)	Oksana Khvostenko (UKR)
10 km sprint men	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	Halvard Hanevold  (NOR)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)
10 km pursuit women	Andrea Henkel (GER)	Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS)	Albina Akhatova (RUS)
12.5 km pursuit men	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	Alexander Wolf (GER)
2×6 km + 2×7.5 km relay mixed	Germany	Belarus	Russia
15 km individual women	Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS)	Martina Glagow (GER)	Oksana Khvostenko (UKR)
20 km individual men	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	Maxim Maksimov (RUS)
4×7.5 km relay men	Russia	Norway	Germany
12.5 km mass start women	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	Tora Berger (NOR)	Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS)
15 km mass start men	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)
4×6 km relay women	Germany	Ukraine	France

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Östersund 2008 - official website

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