Biathlon World Championships 2020

Biathlon World Championships 2020

Host city	Rasen-Antholz
Country	Italy
Events	12
Opening ceremony	12 February
Closing ceremony	23 February
Officially opened by	Sergio Mattarella
Main venue	South Tyrol Arena
Website	Website
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Biathlon World Championships 2020
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women
Mixed relay	single	team
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The Biathlon World Championships 2020 took place in Rasen-Antholz, Italy, from 12 to 23 February 2020.

Host selection[]

On 4 September 2016, Antholz-Anterselva won the voting (30 votes) during the twelfth IBU Congress in Chișinău over Pokljuka (15 votes) and Oberhof, Germany (four votes). Also Nové Město na Moravě withdrew their bid for 2020 before the vote took place. The 2020 event is staged in Antholz for the sixth time.^[1]

Schedule[]

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

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	6	3	2	11
2	France	3	2	3	8
3	Italy*	2	2	0	4
4	Russia	1	0	1	2
5	Germany	0	4	1	5
6	United States	0	1	0	1
7	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
8	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		12	12	12	36

Top athletes[]

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Marte Olsbu Røiseland (NOR)	5	0	2	7
2	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	3	3	0	6
3	Dorothea Wierer (ITA)	2	2	0	4
4	Émilien Jacquelin (FRA)	2	0	2	4
5	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	2	0	1	3
6	Tiril Eckhoff (NOR)	2	0	0	2
7	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)	1	2	0	3
8	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	1	1	0	2
9	Alexander Loginov (RUS)	1	0	1	2
10	Denise Herrmann (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Franziska Preuß (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Vanessa Hinz (GER)	0	2	0	2
13	Erik Lesser (GER)	0	1	1	2

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[3] details	Alexander Loginov  Russia	22:48.1 (0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	22:54.6 (1+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	23:07.6 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit[4] details	Émilien Jacquelin  France	31:15.2 (0+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	31:15.6 (1+1+0+0)	Alexander Loginov  Russia	31:29.1 (0+0+0+1)
20 km individual[5] details	Martin Fourcade  France	49:43.1 (0+0+0+1)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	50:40.1 (1+0+0+1)	Dominik Landertinger  Austria	51:05.2 (0+0+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay[6] details	France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:12:35.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:12:57.4 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1)	Germany Erik Lesser Philipp Horn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:13:12.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (1+3)
15 km mass start[7] details	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	38:09.5 (0+0+0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	38:51.5 (1+0+1+1)	Émilien Jacquelin  France	39:04.5 (1+0+1+0)

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[8] details	Marte Olsbu Røiseland  Norway	21:13.1 (0+1)	Susan Dunklee  United States	21:19.9 (0+0)	Lucie Charvátová  Czech Republic	21:34.4 (1+0)
10 km pursuit[9] details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	29:22.0 (0+0+0+1)	Denise Herrmann  Germany	29:31.5 (1+0+1+1)	Marte Olsbu Røiseland  Norway	29:37.8 (1+0+0+2)
15 km individual[10] details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	43:07.7 (1+1+0+0)	Vanessa Hinz  Germany	43:09.9 (0+0+0+1)	Marte Olsbu Røiseland  Norway	43:23.5 (0+1+0+1)
4 × 6 km relay[11] details	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:07:05.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Karolin Horchler Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß Denise Herrmann	1:07:16.4 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Yuliia Dzhima Vita Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	1:07:24.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)
12.5 km mass start[12] details	Marte Olsbu Røiseland  Norway	39:14.0 (1+1+0+0)	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	39:34.7 (1+0+1+1)	Hanna Öberg  Sweden	39:40.1 (1+0+0+2)

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 6 km W+M relay[13] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:02:27.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:02:43.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Czech Republic Eva Kristejn Puskarčíková Markéta Davidová Ondřej Moravec Michal Krčmář	1:02:58.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)
6 km W + 7.5 km M single relay[14] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø	34:19.9 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Franziska Preuß Erik Lesser	34:37.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Bescond Émilien Jacquelin	34:49.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website