World Team Challenge

International biathlon competition in Germany

World Team Challenge

World Team Challenge 2005

Status| active
Genre| sports event
Date(s)| December
Frequency| annual
Location(s)| Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country| Germany
Inaugurated| 2002 (2002)

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.

## Statistics

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### Winners by edition

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1 | 2002 |  Michael Greis |  Martina Glagow
2 | 2003 |  Ole Einar Bjørndalen |  Gunn Margit Andreassen
3 | 2004 |  Ole Einar Bjørndalen |  Liv Kjersti Eikeland
4 | 2005 |  Ole Einar Bjørndalen |  Linda Tjørhom
5 | 2006 |  Ole Einar Bjørndalen |  Linda Grubben
6 | 2007 |  Dmitri Yaroshenko |  Ekaterina Iourieva
7 | 2008 |  Andriy Deryzemlya |  Oksana Khvostenko
8 | 2009 |  Christoph Sumann |  Kati Wilhelm
9 | 2010 a |  Evgeny Ustyugov |  Svetlana Sleptsova
10 | 2011 |  Carl Johan Bergman |  Kaisa Mäkäräinen
11 | 2012 |  Anton Shipulin |  Ekaterina Yurlova
12 | 2013 |  Florian Graf |  Laura Dahlmeier
13 | 2014 |  Serhiy Semenov |  Valj Semerenko
14 | 2015 |  Martin Fourcade |  Marie Dorin-Habert
15 | 2016 |  Simon Schempp |  Vanessa Hinz
16 | 2017 |  Alexey Volkov |  Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
17 | 2018 |  Lukas Hofer |  Dorothea Wierer
18 | 2019 |  Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen |  Marte Olsbu Røiseland
19 | 2020 |  Matvey Eliseev |  Evgeniya Pavlova
20 | 2021 |  Felix Leitner |  Lisa Theresa Hauser
21 | 2022 |  Fabien Claude |  Julia Simon
22  | 2023[2] |  Fabien Claude |  Julia Simon
23  | 2024 |  Sturla Holm Lægreid |  Karoline Offigstad Knotten

* ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.

### Successful nations

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Rank  | Country  | Victories

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1 |  Norway | 6
2 |  Russia | 5
3 |  Germany | 3.5
4 |  France | 3
5 |  Ukraine | 2
6 |  Austria | 1.5
7 |  Italy | 1
8 |  Finland
Sweden | 0.5

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Austria |  |  |  |  |  |  | * | ** | 1* | 1 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Belarus | 1 |  | 1 |  |  |  |  | * |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |  | 1 |  |  |  |
Belgium |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1
Canada |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |
China |  |  |  | 1 |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Czech Republic |  | 1 |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
Finland | 1 | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  | * | * | * |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 |  |
France | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |  | 1 | 1 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1
Germany | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3* | 1** | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2
Italy | 1 |  |  |  | 1 | 1 |  |  |  | 1 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  |
Japan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |
Latvia |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Norway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |  | 1 | 2 | 1 |  | 1 |  | * | 1 |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1
Poland |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Romania |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Russia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  |  |
Slovakia |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Slovenia |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1
Sweden |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1* | * |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 1
Switzerland |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Ukraine |  |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | * | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

Legend to the table

«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.

## References

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1. ^ "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
2. ^ "Simon and Claude Defend World Team Challenge Title". International Biathlon Union - IBU. 2023-12-28. Retrieved 2023-12-30.

## External links

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