Biathlon World Championships 2011

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

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

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

Biathlon World Championships 2011
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed

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

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[2]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[7]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[12]	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

Top nations

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Biathlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

40 nations competed.^[13]

See also

• 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships

Notes

References

External links

• 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)