Biathlon World Championships 2019

Host city	Ostersund
Country	Sweden
Events	12
Opening	6 March
Closing	17 March
Opened by	Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Main venue	Ostersund Ski Stadium
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Biathlon World Championships 2019
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women
Mixed relay	single	team
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The Biathlon World Championships 2019 took place in Ostersund , Sweden , from 6 to 17 March 2019.

There were a total of 12 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and two mixed relay races. The single mixed relay was on the program of the World Championships for the first time. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2018?19 Biathlon World Cup season.

Host selection [ edit ]

On 7 September 2014, Ostersund won the voting (27 votes) in St. Wolfgang , Austria over Antholz , Italy (16 votes), Nove M?sto na Morav? , Czech Republic (4 votes) and Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia (2 votes). ^[1] This was third time when World Championships was held in Ostersund; the town had previously hosted the event in 1970 and 2008 .

Schedule [ edit ]

All times are local ( UTC+1 ). ^[2]

Medal summary [ edit ]

Medal table [ edit ]

  *    Host nation ( Sweden )

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway   (NOR)	5	3	1	9
2	Germany   (GER)	2	2	3	7
3	Italy   (ITA)	2	2	1	5
4	Sweden   (SWE) *	1	1	1	3
5	Ukraine   (UKR)	1	0	1	2
6	Slovakia   (SVK)	1	0	0	1
7	Russia   (RUS)	0	2	1	3
8	France   (FRA)	0	1	3	4
9	Bulgaria   (BUL)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria   (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		12	12	12	36

Top athletes [ edit ]

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø   ( NOR )	4	1	0	5
2	Marte Olsbu Røiseland   ( NOR )	3	0	0	3
3	Tiril Eckhoff   ( NOR )	2	1	0	3
4	Vetle Sjastad Christiansen   ( NOR )	2	0	0	2
5	Arnd Peiffer   ( GER )	1	2	0	3
6	Denise Herrmann   ( GER )	1	1	1	3
	Dorothea Wierer   ( ITA )	1	1	1	3
	Hanna Oberg   ( SWE )	1	1	1	3
9	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold   ( NOR )	1	1	0	2
10	Dominik Windisch   ( ITA )	1	0	1	2
	Tarjei Bø   ( NOR )	1	0	1	2
12	Benedikt Doll   ( GER )	0	2	0	2
13	Alexander Loginov   ( RUS )	0	1	1	2
	Lisa Vittozzi   ( ITA )	0	1	1	2
	Lukas Hofer   ( ITA )	0	1	1	2
16	Laura Dahlmeier   ( GER )	0	0	2	2
	Quentin Fillon Maillet   ( FRA )	0	0	2	2

Men [ edit ]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint [3] details	Johannes Thingnes Bø   Norway	24:37.6 (0+1)	Alexander Loginov   Russia	24:51.3 (0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet   France	24:54.1 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit [4] details	Dmytro Pidruchnyi   Ukraine	31:54.1 (2+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø   Norway	32:02.4 (0+1+1+3)	Quentin Fillon Maillet   France	32:11.8 (2+0+0+1)
20 km individual [5] details	Arnd Peiffer   Germany	52:42.4 (0+0+0+0)	Vladimir Iliev   Bulgaria	53:51.1 (0+1+0+0)	Tarjei Bø   Norway	53:51.5 (0+1+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay [6] details	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Vetle Sjastad Christiansen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:12:03.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3)	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:12:41.8 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Russia Matvey Eliseev Nikita Porshnev Dmitry Malyshko Alexander Loginov	1:13:07.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)
15 km mass start [7] details	Dominik Windisch   Italy	40:54.1 (1+1+1+0)	Antonin Guigonnat   France	41:16.9 (2+0+0+1)	Julian Eberhard   Austria	41:17.4 (0+0+3+1)

Women [ edit ]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint [8] details	Anastasiya Kuzmina   Slovakia	22:17.5 (1+0)	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold   Norway	22:27.2 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier   Germany	22:30.1 (0+0)
10 km pursuit [9] details	Denise Herrmann   Germany	31:45.9 (0+0+2+0)	Tiril Eckhoff   Norway	32:17.3 (0+0+2+0)	Laura Dahlmeier   Germany	32:17.5 (0+0+1+0)
15 km individual [10] details	Hanna Oberg   Sweden	43:10.4 (0+0+0+0)	Lisa Vittozzi   Italy	43:34.0 (0+0+0+0)	Justine Braisaz   France	43:42.9 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay [11] details	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:12:00.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Anna Magnusson Hanna Oberg	1:12:24.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Vita Semerenko Yuliia Dzhima Valentyna Semerenko	1:12:35.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
12.5 km mass start [12] details	Dorothea Wierer   Italy	37:26.4 (0+0+0+2)	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht   Russia	37:31.3 (0+0+1+1)	Denise Herrmann   Germany	37:41.8 (0+1+2+1)

Mixed [ edit ]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 km W + 2 × 7.5 km M relay [13] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjastad Christiansen	1:17:41.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Denise Herrmann Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:17:54.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:18:51.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3)
6 km W + 7.5 km M single relay [14] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø	35:43.2 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Italy Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer	35:56.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Sweden Hanna Oberg Sebastian Samuelsson	36:03.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website (in English and Swedish)