Biathlon World Championships 2016

Biathlon World Championships 2016
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Pursuit		men		women
Mass start		men		women
Relay		men	mixed	women

The 48th Biathlon World Championships was held in Oslo, Norway from 3 to 13 March 2016.^[1]

There were 11 competitions in total: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted towards the Biathlon World Cup.

Host selection

Oslo was the sole candidate for this championship. Oslo was announced as the host city on 2 September 2012 during the X IBU Congress in Merano, Italy. Two years earlier Oslo lost Biathlon World Championships 2015 to Kontiolahti.^[2] This was the sixth time that these World Championships were held in Oslo; the city had previously hosted the event in 1986, 1990 (certain events held in Oslo due to difficult weather in the host city of Minsk), 1999 (certain events held in Oslo due to difficult weather in the host city of Kontiolahti), 2000 and 2002 (only the mass start as it was not on the program for the 2002 Olympics).

Schedule

Medal Ceremony Women 15 km Individual at Medal Plaza by the University, Karl Johans gate, 9 March. From left Laura Dahlmeier, Marie Dorin Habert and Anaïs Bescond.

All times are local (UTC+1).^[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	6	4	1	11
2	Norway	4	2	3	9
3	Germany	1	3	3	7
4	Austria	0	1	1	2
5	Italy	0	1	0	1
6	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Total		11	11	11	33

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	4	1	0	5
2	Marie Dorin Habert (FRA)	3	2	1	6
3	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	2	0	1	3
	Tiril Eckhoff (NOR)	2	0	1	3
5	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	1	2	1	4
6	Anaïs Bescond (FRA)	1	2	0	3
7	Laura Dahlmeier (GER)	1	1	3	5
8	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Marte Olsbu (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	1	0	1	2
11	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Simon Schempp (GER)	0	2	0	2
13	Franziska Hildebrand (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Franziska Preuß (GER)	0	1	1	2

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
20 km individual[4]	Martin Fourcade  France	49:13.9 (0+1+0+0)	Dominik Landertinger  Austria	49:19.0 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Eder  Austria	49:28.3 (0+0+0+0)
10 km sprint[5]	Martin Fourcade  France	25:35.4 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	26:02.3 (0+0)	Serhiy Semenov  Ukraine	26:03.0 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit[6]	Martin Fourcade  France	32:56.5 (0+0+1+2)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	33:16.6 (1+0+0+1)	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	33:27.7 (0+0+0+1)
15 km mass start[7]	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	37:05.1 (0+0+1+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	37:07.9 (1+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	37:11.8 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay[8]	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:13:16.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:13:28.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green	1:13:40.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km individual[9]	Marie Dorin Habert  France	44:02.8 (0+0+0+1)	Anaïs Bescond  France	44:15.0 (0+0+0+1)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	45:20.6 (1+0+1+0)
7.5 km sprint[10]	Tiril Eckhoff  Norway	21:10.8 (0+0)	Marie Dorin Habert  France	21:25.8 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	21:30.6 (1+0)
10 km pursuit[11]	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	30:49.2 (0+0+0+0)	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	31:37.5 (0+1+1+0)	Marie Dorin Habert  France	31:46.5 (0+0+2+1)
12.5 km mass start[12]	Marie Dorin Habert  France	35:28.5 (0+0+0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	35:35.8 (0+0+1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	35:36.6 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay[13]	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	1:07:10.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2)	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	1:07:15.3 (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0)	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	1:07:38.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay[14]	France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	1:14:01.0 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:14:05.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Marte Olsbu Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	1:14:15.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0)

References

External links

• Official website
• IBU (English)

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