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Biathlon World Championships 2017

Host city	Hochfilzen
Country	Austria
Events	11
Opening	9 February
Closing	19 February
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Biathlon at the 2017 World Championships
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed
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The 49th Biathlon World Championships was held from 9 to 19 February 2017 in Hochfilzen, Austria. There were 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 count for the Biathlon World Cup season.

Host selection

The second candidate city was Östersund, Sweden. Hochfilzen was selected as the host city on September 2, 2012 during the X IBU Congress in Merano, Italy (27 to 20 votes). This will be fourth time when World Championships will be held in Hochfilzen; the city had previously hosted the event in 1978, 1998 and 2005.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	1	0	8
2	France (FRA)	1	2	4	7
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	1	4
4	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
5	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
6	Norway (NOR)	0	3	1	4
7	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	2	2
10	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		11	11	11	33

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Laura Dahlmeier (GER)	5	1	0	6
2	Simon Schempp (GER)	2	0	0	2
	Vanessa Hinz (GER)	2	0	0	2
4	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	1	2	2	5
5	Gabriela Koukalová (CZE)	1	1	1	3
6	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	1	0	1	2
7	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	0	3	0	3
8	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)	0	2	0	2
9	Anaïs Chevalier (FRA)	0	1	2	3
10	Marie Dorin Habert (FRA)	0	1	1	2
11	Simon Eder (AUT)	0	0	2	2

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint details	Benedikt Doll  Germany	23:27.4 (0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	23:28.1 (0+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	23:50.5 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit details	Martin Fourcade  France	30:16.9 (0+0+0+1)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	30:39.7 (1+1+1+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	30:42.5 (0+0+0+1)
20 km individual details	Lowell Bailey  United States	48:07.4 (0+0+0+0)	Ondřej Moravec  Czech Republic	48:10.7 (0+0+0+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	48:28.6 (1+0+1+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Russia Alexey Volkov Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Babikov Anton Shipulin	1:14:15.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	1:14:20.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	1:14:35.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
15 km mass start details	Simon Schempp  Germany	35:38.3 (0+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	35:47.3 (0+0+0+1)	Simon Eder  Austria	35:48.4 (0+0+0+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint details	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	19:12.6 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	19:16.6 (0+0)	Anaïs Chevalier  France	19:37.7 (0+0)
10 km pursuit details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	28:02.3 (1+0+0+0)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	28:13.9 (0+0+0+0)	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	28:18.9 (2+0+1+0)
15 km individual details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	41:30.1 (1+0+0+0)	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	41:54.8 (1+0+0+0)	Alexia Runggaldier  Italy	43:15.7 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 6 km relay details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier	1:11:16.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Anastasiya Merkushyna Olena Pidhrushna	1:11:23.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	France Anaïs Chevalier Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin Habert	1:11:24.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)
12.5 km mass start details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	33:13.8 (0+0+0+0)	Susan Dunklee  United States	33:18.4 (0+0+0+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	33:33.9 (1+0+0+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:09:06.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	1:09:08.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Russia Olga Podchufarova Tatiana Akimova Alexander Loginov Anton Shipulin	1:09:09.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)

References

1. "Oslo and Hochfilzen Selected as World Championship Host". biathlonworld.com. September 2, 2012. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012.
2. "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
3. Men's sprint results
4. Men's pursuit results
5. Men's individual results
6. Men's relay results
7. Men's mass start results
8. Women's sprint results
9. Women's pursuit results
10. Women's individual results
11. Women's relay results
12. Women's mass start results
13. Mixed relay results

External links

• Official website
• IBU

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