Biathlon World Championships 2017

Biathlon World Championships 2017

Host city	Hochfilzen
Country	Austria
Events	11
Opening ceremony	9 February
Closing ceremony	19 February
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Biathlon at the 2017 World Championships
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed
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The 49th Biathlon World Championships was held from 9 to 19 February 2017 in Hochfilzen, Austria.^[1] There were 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 count for the Biathlon World Cup season.

Host selection[]

The second candidate city was Östersund, Sweden. Hochfilzen was selected as the host city on September 2 2012 during the X IBU Congress in Merano, Italy (27 to 20 votes). This will be fourth time when World Championships will be held in Hochfilzen; the city had previously hosted the event in 1978, 1998 and 2005.

Schedule[]

All times are local (UTC+1).^[2]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	1	0	8
2	France (FRA)	1	2	4	7
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	1	4
4	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
5	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
6	Norway (NOR)	0	3	1	4
7	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	2	2
10	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		11	11	11	33

Top athletes[]

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Laura Dahlmeier (GER)	5	1	0	6
2	Simon Schempp (GER)	2	0	0	2
	Vanessa Hinz (GER)	2	0	0	2
4	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	1	2	2	5
5	Gabriela Koukalová (CZE)	1	1	1	3
6	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	1	0	1	2
7	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	0	3	0	3
8	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)	0	2	0	2
9	Anaïs Chevalier (FRA)	0	1	2	3
10	Marie Dorin Habert (FRA)	0	1	1	2
11	Simon Eder (AUT)	0	0	2	2

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[3] details	Benedikt Doll  Germany	23:27.4 (0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	23:28.1 (0+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	23:50.5 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit[4] details	Martin Fourcade  France	30:16.9 (0+0+0+1)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	30:39.7 (1+1+1+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	30:42.5 (0+0+0+1)
20 km individual[5] details	Lowell Bailey  United States	48:07.4 (0+0+0+0)	Ondřej Moravec  Czech Republic	48:10.7 (0+0+0+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	48:28.6 (1+0+1+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay[6] details	Russia Alexey Volkov Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Babikov Anton Shipulin	1:14:15.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	1:14:20.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	1:14:35.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
15 km mass start[7] details	Simon Schempp  Germany	35:38.3 (0+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	35:47.3 (0+0+0+1)	Simon Eder  Austria	35:48.4 (0+0+0+0)

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[8] details	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	19:12.6 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	19:16.6 (0+0)	Anaïs Chevalier  France	19:37.7 (0+0)
10 km pursuit[9] details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	28:02.3 (1+0+0+0)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	28:13.9 (0+0+0+0)	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	28:18.9 (2+0+1+0)
15 km individual[10] details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	41:30.1 (1+0+0+0)	Gabriela Koukalová  Czech Republic	41:54.8 (1+0+0+0)	Alexia Runggaldier  Italy	43:15.7 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 6 km relay[11] details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier	1:11:16.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Anastasiya Merkushyna Olena Pidhrushna	1:11:23.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	France Anaïs Chevalier Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin Habert	1:11:24.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)
12.5 km mass start[12] details	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	33:13.8 (0+0+0+0)	Susan Dunklee  United States	33:18.4 (0+0+0+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	33:33.9 (1+0+0+0)

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[13] details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:09:06.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	1:09:08.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Russia Olga Podchufarova Tatiana Akimova Alexander Loginov Anton Shipulin	1:09:09.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• IBU