Biathlon World Championships 2008

Biathlon World Championships 2008

Host city	Östersund
Country	Sweden
Events	11
Opening	8 February 2008 (2008-02-08)
Closing	17 February 2008 (2008-02-17)
Main venue	Östersund Ski Stadium
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The 42nd Biathlon World Championships were held in Östersund, Sweden from 8 to 17 February 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.

Schedule

Date	Event
9 February	Women's 7.5 km sprint
9 February	Men's 10 km sprint
10 February	Women's 10 km pursuit
10 February	Men's 7.5 km pursuit
12 February	2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay
14 February	Women's 15 km individual
14 February	Men's 20 km individual
16 February	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
16 February	Women's 12.5 km mass start
17 February	Men's 15 km mass start
17 February	Women's 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint details	Maxim Tchoudov Russia	22:25.4 (0+0)	Halvard Hanevold Norway	22:45.2 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	22:55.4 (0+2)
12.5 km pursuit details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	31:04.5 (0+1+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov Russia	31:14.6 (2+0+2+0)	Alexander Wolf Germany	31:47.3 (0+0+1+0)
20 km individual details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	51:51.9 (0+1+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	52:23.3 (1+1+0+0)	Maxim Maksimov Russia	52:26.7 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	1:21:00.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:49.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:22:43.2 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	36:12.6 (1+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	36:13.0 (0+0+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov Russia	36:37.5 (0+1+2+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint details	Andrea Henkel Germany	19:43.1 (0+0)	Albina Akhatova Russia	19:55.8 (0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko Ukraine	20:06.3 (0+0)
10 km pursuit details	Andrea Henkel Germany	28:56.0 (0+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva Russia	29:16.5 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova Russia	29:34.5 (0+0+0+0)
15 km individual details	Ekaterina Iourieva Russia	44:23.8 (0+0+0+0)	Martina Glagow Germany	45:37.1 (1+0+0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko Ukraine	46:48.2 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay details	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	1:10:12.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)	Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva Vita Semerenko Valentyna Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko	1:10:43.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	1:11:48.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	39:36.5 (0+0+2+2)	Tora Berger Norway	39:39.5 (1+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva Russia	40:06.0 (1+0+1+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay details	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:12:20.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov	1:13:13.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko	1:13:23.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)

Medal summary


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	1	2	8
2	Norway (NOR)	3	5	1	9
3	Russia (RUS)	3	3	5	11
4	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
5	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		11	11	11	33

References

"Results of the 2008 World Championships, Östersund (SWE), 8–17 Feb 2008". International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 13 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-14.

External links

Media related to 2008 Biathlon World Championships at Wikimedia Commons

Östersund 2008 - official website

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