Biathlon World Championships 1965

Biathlon World Championships 1965Host city| Elverum

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Country| Norway
Events| 2
Opening| 18 February 1965 (1965-02-18)
Closing| 20 February 1965 (1965-02-20)

<- Seefeld in Tirol 1963

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1966 ->

The 6th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1965 in Elverum, Norway.[1] The men's 20 km individual and team events were the only official competitions. In these championships, an unofficial men's 4 × 7.5 km relay was also held. It was a success, and replaced the team competition as an official event in 1966.[2]

## Men's results

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### 20 km individual

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Medal  | Name  | Nation  | Penalties  | Result  | Behind

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| Olav Jordet |  NOR | 1 | 1:23:34.9 |
| Nikolay Puzanov |  URS | 1 | 1:23:57.0 | 22.1
| Antti Tyrväinen |  FIN | 0 | 1:23:57.6 | 22.7
4 | Ola Wærhaug |  NOR | 2 | 1:24:59.0 | 1:24.1
5 | Heinz Kluge |  GDR | 2 | 1:25:45.0 | 2:10.1
6 | Józef Gąsienica Sobczak |  POL | 0 | 1:27:05.9 | 3:31.0

Each shot missing the target gave a penalty of 2 minutes.

### 20 km team

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Medal  | Name  | Nation  | Penalties  | Result  | Behind

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| Norway |  NOR | 6 | 4:18:00.9 |
| Soviet Union |  URS | 8 | 4:20:49.6 | 2:48.7
| Poland |  POL | 5 | 4:25:12.9 | 7:12.0
4 | East Germany |  GDR | ? | 4:28:16.4 | 10:15.5
5 | Finland |  FIN | ? | 4:28:24.1 | 10:23.2
6 | Sweden |  SWE | 5 | 4:28:31.0 | 10:30.1

The times of the top 3 athletes from each nation in the individual race were added together.

### 4 × 7.5 km relay (unofficial)

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Medal  | Name  | Nation  | Penalties  | Result  | Behind

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| Norway |  NOR | 5 | 2:02:34 |
| Sweden |  SWE | 7 | 2:04:32 | 1:58
| Soviet Union |  URS | 4 | 2:05:46 | 3:12
4 | East Germany |  GDR | ? | 2:06:33 | 3:59
5 | Finland |  FIN | ? | 2:11:00 | 8:26
6 | Romania |  ROU | ? | 2:12:03 | 9:29

## Medal table (official events)

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Place  | Nation  |  |  |  | Total

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1 |  Norway | 2  | 0  | 0  | 2
2  |  Soviet Union | 0  | 2  | 0  | 2
3  |  Finland | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
3  |  Poland | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1

## References

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1. ^ Sports 123 biathlon results
2. ^ Relay rules approved Archived May 31, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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