2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 was the opening event^[1] of the season and was held in Östersund, Sweden, from 29 November until 6 December 2015.

Schedule of events[]

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Medal winners[]

Men[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
20 km Individual details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	50:14.5 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Schempp  Germany	50:41.6 (0+0+1+0)	Alexey Volkov  Russia	50:52.7 (0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade  France	24:02.0 (1+1)	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	24:53.6 (0+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	24:57.2 (1+1)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Martin Fourcade  France	31:22.4 (1+0+1+1)	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	31:57.5 (0+1+0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	32:17.6 (0+0+1+1)

Women[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km Individual details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	42:17.0 (0+0+0+0)	Marie Dorin-Habert  France	42:31.1 (0+2+0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna  Ukraine	42:54.8 (0+0+0+0)
7.5 km Sprint details	Gabriela Soukalová  Czech Republic	19:46.2 (0+0)	Federica Sanfilippo  Italy	20:01.2 (0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna  Ukraine	20:24.6 (1+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	30:45.1 (1+0+1+0)	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	30:47.0 (0+0+1+0)	Franziska Hildebrand  Germany	30:48.4 (0+0+0+0)

Mixed[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Single Mixed Relay details	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland	36:27.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Canada Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith	36:39.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm	36:40.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	Norway Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	1:11:42.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp	1:12:16.2 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	1:12:54.1 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)

Achievements[]

Best performance for all time

First World Cup race

Oldest winner of a biathlon world cup race in history

References[]