Biathlon European Championships 2014

There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.

Schedule of events

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The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.

It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km sprint^[1]	Lars Helge Birkeland	Maxim Tsvetkov	Andrejs Rastorgujevs David Komatz
Men's 12.5 km pursuit^[2]	Maxim Tsvetkov	Lars Helge Birkeland	Anton Babikov
Men's 20 km individual^[3]	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Benedikt Doll	Maxim Tsvetkov
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay^[4]	Austria Lorenz Wäger Michael Reiter Peter Brunner David Komatz	Norway Kristoffer Skjelvik Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland	Germany Michael Willeitner Matthias Bischl Benedikt Doll Florian Graf

Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete (Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's 7.5 km sprint^[5]	Marte Olsbu	Victoria Padial	Iana Bondar
Women's 10 km pursuit^[6]	Mona Brorsson	Victoria Padial	Daria Virolaynen
Women's 15 km individual^[7]	Audrey Vaillancourt	Nastassia Kalina	Iryna Kryuko
Women's 4 x 6 km relay^[8]	Belarus Iryna Kryuko Ala Talkach Aksana Shymanovich Nastassia Kalina	Germany Karolin Horchler Annika Knoll Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt	Norway Ane Skrove Nossum Hilde Fenne Bente Landheim Marte Olsbu

Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's sprint^[9]	Raman Yaliotnau	Adam Václavík	Maikol Demetz
Men's pursuit^[10]	Alexander Povarnitsyn	Artem Tyshchenko	Adam Václavík
Men's individual^[11]	Rene Zahkna	Ivan Alekhin	Artem Tyshchenko

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's sprint^[12]	Tuuli Tomingas	Svetlana Mironova	Uliana Kaisheva
Women's pursuit^[13]	Svetlana Mironova	Uliana Kaisheva	Dunja Zdouc
Women's individual^[14]	Anastasia Evsyunina	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Lisa Vittozzi

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay^[15]	Ukraine Yuliya Bryhynets Yuliya Zhuravok Andriy Dotsenko Artem Tyshchenko	Russia Anastasia Evsyunina Uliana Kaisheva Eduard Latypov Alexander Povarnitsyn	Estonia Meril Beilmann Tuuli Tomingas Johan Talihärm Rene Zahkna


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	5	4	13
2	Norway (NOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
4	Estonia (EST)	2	0	1	3
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	2	5
6	Austria (AUT)	1	0	2	3
7	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	1	2
8	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
11	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	0	2
11	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
13	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 nations)		15	16	15	46

33 nations competed

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