Biathlon World Championships 2008

Host city	Östersund
Country	Sweden
Events	11
Opening	8 February 2008 (2008-02-08)
Closing	17 February 2008 (2008-02-17)
Main venue	Östersund Ski Stadium
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The 42nd Biathlon World Championships were held in Östersund, Sweden from 8 to 17 February 2008. It was the second time Östersund was hosting the Biathlon World Championships, the first being in 1970. It was also 50 years after the first Biathlon World Championships, which were held 1958 in Saalfelden, Austria.

There were a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and the relatively new mixed relay. The championships were dominated by the German, Norwegian, and Russian teams, which would win every competition and 28 of the 33 available medals.

Schedule

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint [1] details	Maxim Tchoudov   Russia	22:25.4 (0+0)	Halvard Hanevold   Norway	22:45.2 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	22:55.4 (0+2)
12.5 km pursuit [2] details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	31:04.5 (0+1+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov   Russia	31:14.6 (2+0+2+0)	Alexander Wolf   Germany	31:47.3 (0+0+1+0)
20 km individual [3] details	Emil Hegle Svendsen   Norway	51:51.9 (0+1+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	52:23.3 (1+1+0+0)	Maxim Maksimov   Russia	52:26.7 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay [4] details	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	1:21:00.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:49.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:22:43.2 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start [5] details	Emil Hegle Svendsen   Norway	36:12.6 (1+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	36:13.0 (0+0+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov   Russia	36:37.5 (0+1+2+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint [6] details	Andrea Henkel   Germany	19:43.1 (0+0)	Albina Akhatova   Russia	19:55.8 (0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko   Ukraine	20:06.3 (0+0)
10 km pursuit [7] details	Andrea Henkel   Germany	28:56.0 (0+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva   Russia	29:16.5 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova   Russia	29:34.5 (0+0+0+0)
15 km individual [8] details	Ekaterina Iourieva   Russia	44:23.8 (0+0+0+0)	Martina Glagow   Germany	45:37.1 (1+0+0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko   Ukraine	46:48.2 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay [9] details	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	1:10:12.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)	Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva Vita Semerenko Valentyna Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko	1:10:43.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	1:11:48.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start [10] details	Magdalena Neuner   Germany	39:36.5 (0+0+2+2)	Tora Berger   Norway	39:39.5 (1+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva   Russia	40:06.0 (1+0+1+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay [11] details	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:12:20.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov	1:13:13.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko	1:13:23.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	1	2	8
2	Norway (NOR)	3	5	1	9
3	Russia (RUS)	3	3	5	11
4	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
5	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		11	11	11	33

References

External links

Media related to 2008 Biathlon World Championships at Wikimedia Commons

• Östersund 2008 - official website