Biathlon European Championships 2014
The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 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
The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.
Date | Time | Event |
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January 29 | 10:00 | U21 Women's individual |
13:30 | U21 Men's individual | |
January 30 | 10:00 | U26 Women's individual |
13:30 | U26 Men's individual | |
January 31 | 10:00 | U21 Women's sprint |
13:00 | U21 Men's sprint | |
February 1 | 10:00 | U26 Women's sprint |
12:45 | U26 Men's sprint | |
February 2 | 09:15 | U26 Women's pursuit |
10:15 | U21 Women's pursuit | |
12:30 | U26 Men's pursuit | |
13:30 | U21 Men's pursuit | |
February 3 | 12:00 | U21 Mixed relay |
February 4 | 10:00 | U26 Women's relay |
13:00 | U26 Men's relay |
Results
U26
Men's
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 |
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Men's 10 km sprint[1] | |||
Men's 12.5 km pursuit[2] | |||
Men's 20 km individual[3] | |||
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay[4] | Lorenz Wäger Michael Reiter Peter Brunner David Komatz | Kristoffer Skjelvik Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland | Michael Willeitner Matthias Bischl Benedikt Doll Florian Graf |
Women's
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 |
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Women's 7.5 km sprint[5] | |||
Women's 10 km pursuit[6] | |||
Women's 15 km individual[7] | |||
Women's 4 x 6 km relay[8] | Iryna Kryuko Ala Talkach Aksana Shymanovich Nastassia Kalina | Karolin Horchler Annika Knoll Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt | Ane Skrove Nossum Hilde Fenne Bente Landheim Marte Olsbu |
U21
Men's
Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's sprint[9] | |||
Men's pursuit[10] | |||
Men's individual[11] |
Women's
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Women's sprint[12] | |||
Women's pursuit[13] | |||
Women's individual[14] |
Mixed
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay[15] | Yuliya Bryhynets Yuliya Zhuravok Andriy Dotsenko Artem Tyshchenko | Anastasia Evsyunina Uliana Kaisheva Eduard Latypov Alexander Povarnitsyn | Meril Beilmann Tuuli Tomingas Johan Talihärm Rene Zahkna |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 | |
2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Totals (13 nations) | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 |
Participating countries
33 nations competed
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References
- "Men's 10 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- Men's 12.5 km pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- "Men's 20 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Men 4x7.5km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- "Women's 7.5 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- Women's 10 km pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- "Women's 15 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Women 4x6km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- "Junior men's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- Junior men's pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- "Junior men's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- "Junior women's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- Junior women's pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- "Junior women's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- Junior mixed relay final results Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine