Biathlon World Championships 2008

Official image

Stadium

Arctura is located at the ski stadium

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 would 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.

Opening ceremony

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

Men's results

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
4	Simon Fourcade	FRA	0 + 0 + 0 + 1	52:57.3	+1:05.4
5	Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	3 + 0 + 0 + 0	53:13.9	+1:22.0
6	Christian de Lorenzi	ITA	0 + 1 + 0 + 0	53:26.6	+1:34.7
7	Zdeněk Vítek	CZE	0 + 1 + 0 + 1	53:32.5	+1:40.6
8	Rustam Valiullin	BLR	0 + 1 + 1 + 0	53:40.5	+1:48.6
9	Andriy Deryzemlya	UKR	0 + 0 + 1 + 0	53:52.0	+2:00.1
10	Michal Šlesingr	CZE	0 + 0 + 1 + 0	53:55.6	+2:03.7

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
4	Ivan Tcherezov	RUS	0 + 1	23:01.2	+35.8
5	Michael Rösch	GER	0 + 1	23:08.9	+43.5
6	Michal Šlesingr	CZE	0 + 0	23:21.1	+55.7
7	Daniel Graf	GER	1 + 0	23:23.9	+58.5
8	Andreas Birnbacher	GER	0 + 0	23:25.8	+1:00.4
9	Tim Burke	USA	0 + 1	23:30.4	+1:05.0
10	Dmitri Yaroshenko	RUS	0 + 2	23:31.0	+1:05.6

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	31:04.51
	Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	2 + 0 + 2 + 0	31:14.60	+10.1
	Alexander Wolf	GER	0 + 0 + 1 + 0	31:47.39	+42.8
4	Dmitri Yaroshenko	RUS	1 + 1 + 0 + 0	31:54.59	+50.0
5	Michal Šlesingr	CZE	0 + 0 + 0 + 0	31:57.07	+52.5
6	Simon Fourcade	FRA	0 + 0 + 1 + 0	31:57.10	+52.6
7	Michael Rösch	GER	0 + 0 + 1 + 1	32:02.56	+58.0
8	Ivan Tcherezov	RUS	0 + 1 + 1 + 1	32:02.76	+58.2
9	Halvard Hanevold	NOR	0 + 0 + 1 + 1	32:03.09	+58.5
10	Tim Burke	USA	0 + 0 + 2 + 0	32:23.18	+1:18.6

15 km mass start

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

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

4 × 7.5 km relay

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

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
01 !	Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Dmitri Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	RUS	0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+1	1:21:00.7
02 !	Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen 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
03 !	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

Women's results

15 km individual

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

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

7.5 km sprint

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

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

10 km pursuit

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

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

12.5 km mass start

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

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

4 × 6 km relay

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

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
01 !	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
02 !	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
03 !	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

Mixed

Medal ceremony for the Mixed Relay

2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay

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

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
01 !	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
02 !	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
03 !	Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Dmitri 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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	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
Total		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

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

References

External links

Media related to 2008 Biathlon World Championships at Wikimedia Commons

• Östersund 2008 - official website

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