Biathlon World Championships 2008
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.
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Host city | Östersund |
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Country | Sweden |
Events | 11 |
Opening ceremony | 8 February 2008 |
Closing ceremony | 17 February 2008 |
Main venue | Östersund Ski Stadium |
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.
Opening ceremony
- Date / Time: Fri 8 February 2008 / 19:00 CET
Men's results
20 km individual
- Date / Start Time: Thu 14 February 2008 / 17:15 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Emil Hegle Svendsen | 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 | 51:51.9 | |||
Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 | 52:23.3 | +31.4 | ||
Maxim Maksimov | 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 | 52:26.7 | +34.8 | ||
4 | Simon Fourcade | 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 | 52:57.3 | +1:05.4 | |
5 | Maxim Tchoudov | 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 | 53:13.9 | +1:22.0 | |
6 | Christian de Lorenzi | 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 | 53:26.6 | +1:34.7 | |
7 | Zdeněk Vítek | 0 + 1 + 0 + 1 | 53:32.5 | +1:40.6 | |
8 | Rustam Valiullin | 0 + 1 + 1 + 0 | 53:40.5 | +1:48.6 | |
9 | Andriy Deryzemlya | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | 53:52.0 | +2:00.1 | |
10 | Michal Šlesingr | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | 53:55.6 | +2:03.7 |
10 km sprint
- Date / Start Time: Sat 9 February 2008 / 14:15 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Maxim Tchoudov | 0 + 0 | 22:25.4 | |||
Halvard Hanevold | 0 + 0 | 22:45.2 | +19.8 | ||
Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 0 + 2 | 22:55.4 | +30.0 | ||
4 | Ivan Tcherezov | 0 + 1 | 23:01.2 | +35.8 | |
5 | Michael Rösch | 0 + 1 | 23:08.9 | +43.5 | |
6 | Michal Šlesingr | 0 + 0 | 23:21.1 | +55.7 | |
7 | Daniel Graf | 1 + 0 | 23:23.9 | +58.5 | |
8 | Andreas Birnbacher | 0 + 0 | 23:25.8 | +1:00.4 | |
9 | Tim Burke | 0 + 1 | 23:30.4 | +1:05.0 | |
10 | Dmitri Yaroshenko | 0 + 2 | 23:31.0 | +1:05.6 |
12.5 km pursuit
- Date / Start Time: Sun 10 February 2008 / 14:15 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 0 + 1 + 1 + 0 | 31:04.51 | |||
Maxim Tchoudov | 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 | 31:14.60 | +10.1 | ||
Alexander Wolf | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | 31:47.39 | +42.8 | ||
4 | Dmitri Yaroshenko | 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 | 31:54.59 | +50.0 | |
5 | Michal Šlesingr | 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 | 31:57.07 | +52.5 | |
6 | Simon Fourcade | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | 31:57.10 | +52.6 | |
7 | Michael Rösch | 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 | 32:02.56 | +58.0 | |
8 | Ivan Tcherezov | 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 | 32:02.76 | +58.2 | |
9 | Halvard Hanevold | 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 | 32:03.09 | +58.5 | |
10 | Tim Burke | 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 | 32:23.18 | +1:18.6 |
15 km mass start
- Date / Start Time: Sun 17 February 2008 / 12:00 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 36:12.6 | |||
Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 0 – 0 – 1 – 0 | 36:13.0 | +0.4 | ||
Maxim Tchoudov | 0 – 1 – 2 – 0 | 36:37.5 | +24.9 |
4 × 7.5 km relay
- Date / Start Time: Sat 16 February 2008 / 12:00 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Dmitri Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov | 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+1 | 1:21:00.7 | |||
Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+3 0+1 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+0 | 1:21:49.9 | +49.2 | ||
Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis | 0+0 – 1+3 0+0 – 0+1 0+2 – 1+3 0+3 – 0+2 | 1:22:43.2 | +1:42.5 |
Women's results
15 km individual
- Date / Start Time: Thu 14 February 2008 / 14:05 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Ekaterina Iourieva | 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 44:23.8 | |||
Martina Glagow | 1 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 45:37.1 | +1:13.3 | ||
Oksana Khvostenko | 0 – 0 – 1 – 0 | 46:48.2 | +2:24.4 |
7.5 km sprint
- Date / Start Time: Sat 9 February 2008 / 11:00 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Andrea Henkel | 0 – 0 | 19:43.1 | |||
Albina Akhatova | 0 – 0 | 19:55.8 | +12.7 | ||
Oksana Khvostenko | 0 – 0 | 20:06.3 | +23.2 |
10 km pursuit
- Date / Start Time: Sun 10 February 2008 / 12:00 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Andrea Henkel | 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 28:56.0 | |||
Ekaterina Iourieva | 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 29:16.5 | +20.5 | ||
Albina Akhatova | 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 29:34.5 | +38.5 |
12.5 km mass start
- Date / Start Time: Sat 16 February 2008 / 15:00 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Magdalena Neuner | 0 – 0 – 2 – 2 | 39:36.5 | |||
Tora Berger | 1 – 0 – 0 – 0 | 39:39.5 | +3.0 | ||
Ekaterina Iourieva | 1 – 0 – 1 – 0 | 40:06.0 | +29.5 |
4 × 6 km relay
- Date / Start Time: Sun 17 February 2008 / 14:30 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm | 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+0 0+2 – 1+3 0+2 – 0+2 | 1:10:12.6 | |||
Oksana Yakovleva Vita Semerenko Valentina Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko | 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+0 | 1:10:43.5 | +30.9 | ||
Delphine Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly | 0+1 – 0+1 0+0 – 1+3 0+1 – 1+3 0+2 – 0+2 | 1:11:48.3 | +1:35.7 |
Mixed
2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay
- Date / Start Time: Tue 12 February 2008 / 14:15 CET
Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | Behind |
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Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis | 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 0+1 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+1 | 1:12:20.5 | |||
Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov | 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+1 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 | 1:13:13.1 | +52.6 | ||
Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Dmitri Yaroshenko | 0+0 – 0+0 0+0 – 0+2 1+3 – 0+2 0+0 – 0+2 | 1:13:23.4 | +1:02.9 |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | |
3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |
4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (6 nations) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Medal summary
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Women's 7.5 km sprint | |||
Men's 10 km sprint | |||
Women's 10 km pursuit | |||
Men's 12.5 km pursuit | |||
2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay | |||
Women's 15 km individual | |||
Men's 20 km individual | |||
Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay | |||
Women's 12.5 km mass start | |||
Men's 15 km mass start | |||
Women's 4 × 6 km relay |
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.
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