World Team Challenge

The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.

World Team Challenge
Statusactive
Genresports event
Date(s)December
Frequencyannual
Location(s)Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
CountryGermany
Inaugurated2002 (2002)

Statistics

Winners by edition
# Years Winners
12002 Michael Greis Martina Glagow
22003 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Gunn Margit Andreassen
32004 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Liv Kjersti Eikeland
42005 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Linda Tjørhom
52006 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Linda Grubben
62007 Dmitri Yaroshenko Ekaterina Iourieva
72008 Andriy Deryzemlya Oksana Khvostenko
82009 Christoph Sumann Kati Wilhelm
92010 a Evgeny Ustyugov Svetlana Sleptsova
102011 Carl Johan Bergman Kaisa Mäkäräinen
112012 Anton Shipulin Ekaterina Yurlova
122013 Florian Graf Laura Dahlmeier
132014 Serhiy Semenov Valj Semerenko
142015 Martin Fourcade Marie Dorin-Habert
152016 Simon Schempp Vanessa Hinz
162017 Alexey Volkov Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
172018 Lukas Hofer Dorothea Wierer
182019 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Marte Olsbu Røiseland
  • ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.

Successful nations
Rank Country Victories
1 Norway5
2 Russia4
3 Germany3.5
4 Ukraine2
5 France1
 Italy
7 Austria0.5
 Finland
 Sweden

Participating nations
Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
 Austria** *• *••••••••
 Belarus••**
 Belgium*
 Canada••
 China••
 Czech Republic•••••••••
 Finland••***
 France•• •••• •• •••••••••••
 Germany• • • •• • • • •• • • •• • • • •• • • • • •• • • • •• • • *• * *• • •• •• • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
 Italy•••••••••••
 Japan••
 Norway• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••• ••• •••*•
 Poland••
 Romania*
 Russia• ••••••••••••••••••
 Slovakia•
 Slovenia••••
 Sweden• **•
  Switzerland•••
 United States••••
 Ukraine••••••••••*••
Legend to the table
• - one pair; 
•• - two pairs and so on; 
* - one athlete in a mixed pair.

References
  1. "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

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