Biathlon World Championships 2019

The Biathlon World Championships 2019 took place in Östersund, Sweden, from 6 to 17 March 2019.

Biathlon World Championships 2019

Host city	Östersund
Country	Sweden
Events	12
Opening ceremony	6 March
Closing ceremony	17 March
Officially opened by	Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Main venue	Östersund Ski Stadium

There were a total of 12 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and two mixed relay races. The single mixed relay was on the program of the World Championships for the first time. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup season.

Host selection

On 7 September 2014, Östersund won the voting (27 votes) in St. Wolfgang, Austria over Antholz, Italy (16 votes), Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic (4 votes) and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2 votes).[1] This was third time when World Championships was held in Östersund; the town had previously hosted the event in 1970 and 2008.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).[2]

Date	Time	Event
7 March	16:15	W 2 × 6 km + M 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
8 March	16:15	Women's 7.5 km sprint
9 March	16:30	Men's 10 km sprint
10 March	13:45	Women's 10 km pursuit
	16:10	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
12 March	15:30	Women's 15 km individual
13 March	16:10	Men's 20 km individual
14 March	17:10	W 6 km + M 7.5 km single mixed relay
16 March	13:15	Women's 4 × 6 km relay
	16:30	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
17 March	13:15	Women's 12.5 km mass start
	16:00	Men's 15 km mass start

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	5	3	1	9
2	Germany (GER)	2	2	3	7
3	Italy (ITA)	2	2	1	5
4	Sweden (SWE)*	1	1	1	3
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
6	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	0	1
7	Russia (RUS)	0	2	1	3
8	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		12	12	12	36

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[3]	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	24:37.6 (0+1)	Alexander Loginov  Russia	24:51.3 (0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	24:54.5 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit[4]	Dmytro Pidruchnyi  Ukraine	31:54.1 (2+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	32:02.4 (0+1+1+3)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	32:11.8 (2+0+0+1)
20 km individual[5]	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	52:42.4 (0+0+0+0)	Vladimir Iliev  Bulgaria	53:51.1 (0+1+0+0)	Tarjei Bø  Norway	53:51.5 (0+1+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay[6]	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:12:03.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3)	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:12:41.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Russia Matvey Eliseev Nikita Porshnev Dmitry Malyshko Alexander Loginov	1:13:16.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)
15 km mass start[7]	Dominik Windisch  Italy	40:54.1 (1+1+1+0)	Antonin Guigonnat  France	41:16.9 (2+0+0+1)	Julian Eberhard  Austria	41:17.4 (0+0+3+1)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[8]	Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia	22:17.5 (1+0)	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold  Norway	22:27.2 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	22:30.1 (0+0)
10 km pursuit[9]	Denise Herrmann  Germany	31:45.9 (0+0+2+0)	Tiril Eckhoff  Norway	32:17.3 (0+0+2+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	32:17.5 (0+0+1+0)
15 km individual[10]	Hanna Öberg  Sweden	43:10.4 (0+0+0+0)	Lisa Vittozzi  Italy	43:34.0 (0+0+0+0)	Justine Braisaz  France	43:42.9 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay[11]	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:12:00.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Anna Magnusson Hanna Öberg	1:12:24.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Vita Semerenko Yuliia Dzhima Valentyna Semerenko	1:12:35.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
12.5 km mass start[12]	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	37:26.4 (0+0+0+2)	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht  Russia	37:31.3 (0+0+1+1)	Denise Herrmann  Germany	37:41.8 (0+1+2+1)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay[13]	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:17:41.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Denise Herrmann Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:17:54.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:18:51.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3)
6 km + 7.5 km single relay[14]	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø	35:43.2 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Italy Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer	35:56.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	36:03.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)

References

1. "IBU WCH´s 2019 elected". International Biathlon Union. 7 September 2014. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
2. "Competition schedule". Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
3. Men's sprint results
4. Men's pursuit results
5. Men's individual results
6. Men's relay results
7. Men's mass start results
8. Women's sprint results
9. Women's pursuit results
10. Women's individual results
11. Women's relay results
12. Women's mass start results
13. Mixed relay results
14. Single mixed relay results

External links

• Official website (in English and Swedish)