Biathlon World Championships

The Biathlon World Championships of the International Biathlon Union ( IBU ) organized in the years without Olympic Winter Games. By 2009, the world championships were usually mid-to late February. 2011, the title fights are first held early to mid- March as the highlight of the season before the last World Cup.

  • 3.1 Official World Championships
  • 3.2 Mixed Relay World Championships
  • 3.3 Host Cities
  • 6.1 Junior World Championships
  • 6.2 Summer World Championships

Qualification

The occupation of the places in the world championships will be made by the national federations. German starters are nominated by the DSV when they finish a 15 World Cup races among the top 8 or two races in the TOP.

Competitions

Disciplines

With Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass Start, Relay and Mixed Relay is the current World Championship program in six disciplines. The single race since the first Biathlon World Cup 1958 in the program. Until 1965 medals were awarded because the relay race was not an official part of the Biathlon World Championships for this discipline. These were from 1958 to 1963 only a team score of four (1958 ) or the three best ( 1959-1963 ) athletes of every nation in the individual competition over 20 km. Time was calculated by adding up the individual times of each athlete. 1965 for the first time a relay race over 3 × 7.5 km was discharged. 1966 Relay Race with the present line length of 4 × 7.5 km was officially introduced.

The Sprint was first held in 1974 at the World Championships and placed so that the second addition to the single individual discipline dar. Since the late 1980s, the program will be expanded continuously. In 1989, the team competition was added, but this was canceled back in 1998. The pursuit race since 1997, an integral part of the World Championships, the mass start since 1999. At the 2007 World Championships Mixed Relay has been integrated for the first time in the competition program. This competition was still held first as an independent Mixed Relay World Championship in 2005 and 2006. A separate title fight also took place in the Olympic year of 2010, as the event has not been added to the Winter Olympics program. In the mixed relay first start two women about 6 km, then two men over 7.5 km.

Rating

In years when the Olympic Winter Games champion be determined only in those competitions that do not belong to the Olympic program. These events are counted by the IBU with the exception of the events of 1992 as the official world championships. In contrast to the Nordic or alpine skiing competitions, the Olympic champions are not considered as world champion until 1980.

The results of the World Championships in so that the athletes receive World Cup points for the Biathlon World Cup for their rankings in contrast to many other winter sports.

Former World Championships

Official World Championships

The Biathlon World Championships take place every year since 1958, the venue for any Winter Olympics. From 1958 to 1983, the World Championships were advertised for men only. From 1984 to 1988 its own world championships for women were held, which were from men performed separately in other places. Since 1989, men and women carry out joint World Championships. With the World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě been 46 World Championships were held. The World Championships of women are not taken into account, according to the IBU in this count.

Mixed Relay World Championships

See: Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championships

Venues

Total so far Biathlon World Championships were held in 14 different countries. Switzerland and France were likewise hosts, but only the unofficial women's world championships.

The most frequent host to world championships is the Italian Antholz, which held four regular World Championships and 1976 Olympic sprint competition not. Also the venue at five different World Championships was the Norwegian Oslo, which, however, in the years 1990, 1999 and 2000, only a part of the competitions and hosted only the non-Olympic mass start competition in 2002.

In Germany so far world championships were at four different locations: In the 1960s, once each in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Altenberg, a total of three times in Ruhpolding and first time in 2004 in Oberhof.

Explanations: ER substitute host for events which could not be carried out at the original venue FR World Championships for Women MR Mixed Relay World Championship OL Olympic year, it only non-Olympic competitions were held

The most successful athletes

The most successful participants in the World Championships is Ole Einar Bjørndalen with 19 gold medals, eleven silver medals and nine bronze medals. He is followed by Frank Luck ( 11-5-4 ), Emil Hegle Svendsen ( 11-4-2 ) and Alexander Tikhonov ( 11-4-1 ). As with the Olympics Ole Einar Bjørndalen is at the World Championships the most successful participants in individual disciplines, he won a total of eleven gold, four silver and seven bronze medals. In addition, the Norwegians the most successful athlete is based on the total number of medals won. With a total of 39 medals, he is at the three Germans Ricco Gross, Frank Luck and Sven Fischer, who achieved 20 medals each.

Successful Participant at World Championships with 12 gold medals, the German Magdalena Neuner followed by the Russian Jelena Golovina, who won ten gold medals. It is followed by the German athletes Petra Behle with nine and Uschi Disl and Norwegian Liv Grete Poirée with eight gold medals. The six- time singles gold reached Liv Grete Poirée and the Swede Magdalena Forsberg. With addition of a silver and five bronze medals Forsberg is the most successful biathlete before Poirée in the rating of the individual disciplines. Successful athlete based on the total number of medals won is as well at the Olympics Uschi Disl with a total of 19 medals. Your follow Norway's Tora Berger (18 medals), which was launched for Ukraine and Belarus Olena Subrylowa ( 17 medals ) and the German Magdalena Neuner ( 17 medals ) and Andrea Henkel (16 medals). As the only athlete Andrea Henkel won in each individual event (individual, sprint, pursuit, mass start ) a gold medal.

Medal Tally

More World Championships

Junior World Championships

See: Biathlon Junior World Championships

Summer World Championships

Since 1996, the IBU biathlon hosts regular summer world championships. Gelaufen initially was doing without auxiliary center, 2005, competitions were introduced on roller skis, they are carried out only since 2010. The rules are the same as the winter competitions.

Winter Olympic Games Biathlon World Championships 1958 Biathlon World Championships 1966 Biathlon World Championships 1974 Biathlon World Championships 1989 Biathlon World Championships 1998 Biathlon World Championships 2007 Biathlon World Championships 2013 Courmayeur Seefeld in Tirol Elverum Biathlon World Championships 1967 Altenberg, Saxony Biathlon World Championships 1969 Zakopane Biathlon World Championships 1970 Biathlon World Championships 1971 Biathlon World Championships 1973 Lake Placid, New York Biathlon World Championships 1975 Biathlon World Championships 1976 Biathlon World Championships 1977 Lillehammer Biathlon World Championships 1978 Hochfilzen Biathlon World Championships 1981 Lahti Biathlon World Championships 1982 Biathlon World Championships 1983 Biathlon World Championships 1984 Chamonix Biathlon World Championships 1985 Biathlon World Championships 1986 Falun Biathlon World Championships 1987 Biathlon World Championships 1988 Biathlon World Championships 1990 Kontiolahti Biathlon World Championships 1991 Biathlon World Championships 1992 Biathlon World Championships 1993 Biathlon World Championships 1994 Canmore (Alberta) Biathlon World Championships 1995 Biathlon World Championships 1996 Biathlon World Championships 1997 Pokljuka Biathlon World Championships 1999 Biathlon World Championships 2000 Biathlon World Championships 2001 Biathlon World Championships 2002 Biathlon World Championships 2003 Biathlon World Championships 2004 Oberhof, Germany Biathlon World Championships 2005 Biathlon World Championships 2008 Biathlon World Championships 2009 Pyeongchang County Biathlon World Championships 2011 Biathlon World Championships 2012 Biathlon World Championships 2015 Biathlon World Championships 2016 Biathlon World Championships 2017 Italy Bulgaria Finland Vingrom Muonio
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