Biathlon European Championships 2014

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The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 2014.

There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.

Schedule of events[]

The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.

Date Time Event
January 29 10:00 U21 Women's individual
13:30 U21 Men's individual
January 30 10:00 U26 Women's individual
13:30 U26 Men's individual
January 31 10:00 U21 Women's sprint
13:00 U21 Men's sprint
February 1 10:00 U26 Women's sprint
12:45 U26 Men's sprint
February 2 09:15 U26 Women's pursuit
10:15 U21 Women's pursuit
12:30 U26 Men's pursuit
13:30 U21 Men's pursuit
February 3 12:00 U21 Mixed relay
February 4 10:00 U26 Women's relay
13:00 U26 Men's relay

Results[]

U26[]

Men's[]

It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 10 km sprint[1] Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Latvia Andrejs Rastorgujevs
Austria David Komatz
Men's 12.5 km pursuit[2] Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Russia Anton Babikov
Men's 20 km individual[3] Latvia Andrejs Rastorgujevs Germany Benedikt Doll Russia Maxim Tsvetkov
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay[4] Austria Austria
Lorenz Wäger
Michael Reiter
Peter Brunner
David Komatz		 Norway Norway
Kristoffer Skjelvik
Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Lars Helge Birkeland		 Germany Germany
Michael Willeitner
Matthias Bischl
Benedikt Doll
Florian Graf

Women's[]

Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete (Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's 7.5 km sprint[5] Norway Marte Olsbu Spain Victoria Padial Ukraine Iana Bondar
Women's 10 km pursuit[6] Sweden Mona Brorsson Spain Victoria Padial Russia Daria Virolaynen
Women's 15 km individual[7] Canada Audrey Vaillancourt Belarus Nastassia Kalina Belarus Iryna Kryuko
Women's 4 x 6 km relay[8] Belarus Belarus
Iryna Kryuko
Ala Talkach
Aksana Shymanovich
Nastassia Kalina		 Germany Germany
Karolin Horchler
Annika Knoll
Vanessa Hinz
Maren Hammerschmidt		 Norway Norway
Ane Skrove Nossum
Hilde Fenne
Bente Landheim
Marte Olsbu

U21[]

Men's[]

Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's sprint[9] Belarus Raman Yaliotnau Czech Republic Adam Václavík Italy Maikol Demetz
Men's pursuit[10] Russia Alexander Povarnitsyn Ukraine Artem Tyshchenko Czech Republic Adam Václavík
Men's individual[11] Estonia Rene Zahkna Russia Ivan Alekhin Ukraine Artem Tyshchenko

Women's[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's sprint[12] Estonia Tuuli Tomingas Russia Svetlana Mironova Russia Uliana Kaisheva
Women's pursuit[13] Russia Svetlana Mironova Russia Uliana Kaisheva Austria Dunja Zdouc
Women's individual[14] Russia Anastasia Evsyunina Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Italy Lisa Vittozzi

Mixed[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay[15] Ukraine Ukraine
Yuliya Bryhynets
Yuliya Zhuravok
Andriy Dotsenko
Artem Tyshchenko		 Russia Russia
Anastasia Evsyunina
Uliana Kaisheva
Eduard Latypov
Alexander Povarnitsyn		 Estonia Estonia
Meril Beilmann
Tuuli Tomingas
Johan Talihärm
Rene Zahkna

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)45413
2 Norway (NOR)2215
3 Belarus (BLR)2114
4 Estonia (EST)2013
5 Ukraine (UKR)1225
6 Austria (AUT)1023
7 Latvia (LAT)1012
8 Canada (CAN)1001
 Sweden (SWE)1001
10 Germany (GER)0213
11 Czech Republic (CZE)0202
 Spain (ESP)0202
13 Italy (ITA)0022
Totals (13 nations)15161546

Participating countries[]

33 nations competed

References[]

  1. ^ "Men's 10 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  2. ^ Men's 12.5 km pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Men's 20 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  4. ^ "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Men 4x7.5km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Women's 7.5 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. ^ Women's 10 km pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Women's 15 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  8. ^ "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Women 4x6km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  9. ^ "Junior men's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  10. ^ Junior men's pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Junior men's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  12. ^ "Junior women's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  13. ^ Junior women's pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Junior women's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  15. ^ Junior mixed relay final results Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

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