Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

Biathlon heard since the Olympic Winter Games of 1960 by going to the program of the Olympic Winter Games.

After the 20 - kilometer run of the men four times in 1968 with the 7.5 - kilometer relay and 1980 with the sprint competition the next biathlon competitions were olympic. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games Women's competitions were held in biathlon for the first time. With the inclusion of the tracking run at the games in 2002 and the Mass Start 2006 five disciplines for men and women are currently being held.

A list of Olympic champion in biathlon is located at: List of Olympic champion in biathlon.

Competitions

• = official competition, D = discharged as a demonstration

1 = at the Olympic Games 1992: 3 x 7,5 km, from Olympia 1994-2002: 4 x 7,5 km, since the 2006 Olympic Games: 4 x 6 km

Olympic gold as a target

As with many other sports also includes the biathlon win an Olympic gold medals at the biggest successes that can achieve in this sport an athlete.

Strikingly, however, is that not necessarily all belong to the Olympic champion at the World Championships or the World Cup for a long time successful athletes. Thus, the Frenchwoman Florence Baverel -Robert succeeded, for example, the only victory of her career in 2006 in the Olympic sprint races.

Conversely, some otherwise very successful biathletes have tried in vain in her career to win Olympic Gold. These athletes include, for example, the Frenchman Raphael Poirée, his Norwegian wife Liv Grete Poirée or the Swede Magdalena Forsberg. As an eight- time World Champion and four-time overall World Cup winner Raphael Poirée never reached the goal of winning an Olympic gold medal in three Olympic Winter Games. This was achieved in 2006, however, his compatriot Vincent DeFrasne, but otherwise what the successes concerns was always in the shadow Poirées. Magdalena Forsberg also won a six-time overall World Cup champion and six -time World Champion no Olympic race. Although she won two bronze medals in 2002, the objective of a gold medal, they did not reach also.

The most successful athletes

The most successful biathlete at the Winter Olympics, the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen, the eight times Olympic champion, including four times in 2002 in Salt Lake City. Bjørndalen holds the records of total recovered gold medals (eight), individual gold medals (five), medals total recovered ( eight gold, four silver and one bronze ) and on total items won medals ( five gold, three silver, one bronze ). Four times could win Season gold German Ricco Gross and Russian Alexander Tikhonov. Four Olympic gold medals also reached Sven Fischer, who won gold medals in 2006 in addition to three season in the sprint competition. Further repeated German Olympic champion, Mark Kirchner and Michael Greis, each with three and Frank Luck and Frank -Peter Roetsch with two gold medals.

In the list of the most successful participants at the Winter Olympics a whole range of German biathletes are represented up front. Successful athlete Kati Wilhelm is with three gold, three silver medals and one bronze medal, follow them with two gold medals Magdalena Neuner, Olga Zaitseva, Uschi Disl, Katrin Apel and Andrea Henkel. Two-fold Olympic champions are also Canada's Myriam Bédard and the two Russian women Svetlana Ischmuratowa and Anfisa Reszowa. Most Olympic Medals reached Uschi Disl with two gold, four silver and three bronze medals.

Medal Tally

See also: List of Olympic champion in biathlon

See also: List of Olympic champion in biathlon

Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

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