Biathlon World Championships 2011

2011 edition of the Biathlon World Championships

For other uses, see 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships.

Biathlon World Championships 2011

Host city| Khanty-Mansiysk
Country| Russia
Events| 11
Opening| 3 March
Closing| 13 March

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The Alexander Filipenko Winter Sport Center in Khanty-Mansiysk

The 44th Biathlon World Championships was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 3–13, 2011.

There was a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup season.

## Championship highlights

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The Championships kicked off with the Mixed relay event which is seeking to make its way onto the Olympic programme for the 2014 games in Sochi. As the first event of the programme, it was finally given importance by the different teams, with all nations fielding their best teams, in difference to earlier world cup events. The Norwegians won it, overtaking Germany on the last leg. The veteran Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his fifteenth world championship gold medal in the process and his first in the mixed relay, giving him a full set of gold medals in the six events that are currently contested.[1]

Tarjei Bø, Martin Fourcade, Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Arnd Peiffer won their first champion titles in career. Martin Fourcade also won a full scope of medals, gold, silver and bronze at these championships.

The surprise medalists included Maxim Maximov of Russia, Tina Bachmann of Germany and Vita Semerenko of Ukraine.

Helena Ekholm literally swept the field in the individual with zero shooting and fast skiing, winning more than 2 minutes over the runner-up Bachmann and making one of the greatest 1–2 place margins in biathlon history.

## Schedule of events

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Biathlon World Championships 2011

Individual| men| women|
Sprint| men| women|
Pursuit| men| women|
Mass start| men| women|
Relay| men| women| mixed

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The provisional schedule of the event is below. All times in UTC+5.

Date  | Time  | Event

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3 March | 16:30 | 2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
5 March | 14:00 | Men's 10 km sprint
18:00 | Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March | 14:00 | Men's 12.5 km pursuit
16:30 | Women's 10 km pursuit
8 March | 17:15 | Men's 20 km individual
9 March | 17:15 | Women's 15 km individual
11 March | 18:00 | Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
12 March | 16:30 | Women's 12.5 km mass start
18:30 | Men's 15 km mass start
13 March | 15:00 | Women's 4 × 6 km relay

## Medal winners

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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10 km sprint[2]
details | Arnd Peiffer
Germany | 24:34.0
(0+1)  | Martin Fourcade
France | 24:47.0
(2+0)  | Tarjei Bø
Norway | 24:59.2
(1+0)
12.5 km pursuit[3]
details | Martin Fourcade
France | 33:02.6
(0+1+2+0)  | Emil Hegle Svendsen
Norway | 33:06.4
(0+0+1+1)  | Tarjei Bø
Norway | 33:07.8
(0+0+1+1)
20 km individual[4]
details | Tarjei Bø
Norway | 48:29.9
(0+0+1+0)  | Maxim Maksimov
Russia | 49:09.9
(0+0+0+0)  | Christoph Sumann
Austria | 49:15.4
(0+0+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay[5]
details |  Norway

Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Alexander Os
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Tarjei Bø

| 1:16:13.9
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (1+3) |  Russia

Anton Shipulin
Evgeny Ustyugov
Maxim Maksimov
Ivan Tcherezov

| 1:16:27.3
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0) |  Ukraine

Olexander Bilanenko
Andriy Deryzemlya
Serhiy Semenov
Serhiy Sednev

| 1:16:41.9
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
15 km mass start[6]
details | Emil Hegle Svendsen
Norway | 38:42.7
(0+0+0+1)  | Evgeny Ustyugov
Russia | 38:47.7
(0+0+0+0)  | Lukas Hofer
Italy | 38:57.0
(0+0+0+1)

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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7.5 km sprint[7]
details | Magdalena Neuner
Germany | 20:31.2
(0+0)  | Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Finland | 20:43.4
(0+0)  | Anastasiya Kuzmina
Slovakia | 21:11.2
(0+1)
10 km pursuit[8]
details | Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Finland | 30:00.1
(0+0+0+0)  | Magdalena Neuner
Germany | 30:21.7
(0+0+0+2)  | Helena Ekholm
Sweden | 31:43.7
(0+0+0+0)
15 km individual[9]
details | Helena Ekholm
Sweden | 47:08.3
(0+0+0+0)  | Tina Bachmann
Germany | 49:24.1
(0+2+0+0)  | Vita Semerenko
Ukraine | 50:00.4
(1+0+0+2)
4 × 6 km relay[10]
details |  Germany

Andrea Henkel
Miriam Gössner
Tina Bachmann
Magdalena Neuner

| 1:13:31.1
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+2) (2+3)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0) |  France

Anaïs Bescond
Marie-Laure Brunet
Sophie Boilley
Marie Dorin

| 1:14:18.3
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0) |  Belarus

Nadezhda Skardino
Darya Domracheva
Nadzeya Pisarava
Liudmila Kalinchik

| 1:15:18.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (1+3)
12.5 km mass start[11]
details | Magdalena Neuner
Germany | 36:48.5
(0+1+2+1)  | Darya Domracheva
Belarus | 36:53.3
(2+1+0+0)  | Tora Berger
Norway | 37:02.5
(2+1+0+0)

### Mixed

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[12]
details |  Norway

Tora Berger
Ann Kristin Flatland
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Tarjei Bø

| 1:14:22.5
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1) |  Germany

Andrea Henkel
Magdalena Neuner
Arnd Peiffer
Michael Greis

| 1:14:45.4
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+1) |  France

Marie-Laure Brunet
Marie Dorin
Alexis Bœuf
Martin Fourcade

| 1:15:38.7
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)

## Medal table

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### Top nations

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Germany (GER)| 4| 3| 0| 7
2|  Norway (NOR)| 4| 1| 3| 8
3|  France (FRA)| 1| 2| 1| 4
4|  Finland (FIN)| 1| 1| 0| 2
5|  Sweden (SWE)| 1| 0| 1| 2
6|  Russia (RUS)| 0| 3| 0| 3
7|  Belarus (BLR)| 0| 1| 1| 2
8|  Ukraine (UKR)| 0| 0| 2| 2
9|  Austria (AUT)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Italy (ITA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Slovakia (SVK)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (11 entries)| 11| 11| 11| 33

### Top athletes

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All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank| Biathlete| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Magdalena Neuner (GER)| 3| 2| 0| 5
2|  Tarjei Bø (NOR)| 3| 0| 2| 5
3|  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)| 2| 1| 0| 3
4|  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)| 2| 0| 0| 2
5|  Martin Fourcade (FRA)| 1| 1| 1| 3
6|  Andrea Henkel (GER)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Arnd Peiffer (GER)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Tina Bachmann (GER)| 1| 1| 0| 2
10|  Helena Ekholm (SWE)| 1| 0| 1| 2
Tora Berger (NOR)| 1| 0| 1| 2
12|  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)| 0| 2| 0| 2
Maxim Maksimov (RUS)| 0| 2| 0| 2
14|  Darya Domracheva (BLR)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Marie Dorin (FRA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA)| 0| 1| 1| 2

## Participating countries

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40 nations competed.[13]

* Andorra
* Armenia
* Australia
* Austria
* Belarus
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* China
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greenland
* Hungary
* Italy
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Macedonia
* Moldova
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United States

## See also

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* 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships

## Notes

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## References

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1. ^ "Boe the hero, 15th gold for Bjoerndalen as Norway win". monstersandcritics.com. March 3, 2011. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
2. ^ Men's sprint results
3. ^ Men's pursuit results
4. ^ Men's individual results
5. ^ Men's relay results
6. ^ Men's mass start results
7. ^ Women's sprint results
8. ^ Women's pursuit results
9. ^ Women's individual results
10. ^ Women's relay results
11. ^ Women's mass start results
12. ^ Mixed relay results
13. ^ "Archive for the 'Participating countries' Category". Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2011.

## External links

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* Media related to 2011 Biathlon World Championships at Wikimedia Commons
* Biathlon World Championships 2011 official site Archived January 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in English)

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