World Team Challenge

World Team Challenge
World Team Challenge 2005
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	December
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Inaugurated	2002 (2002)

The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.^[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.

Statistics[]

Winners by edition[]

#	Years	Winners
1		Michael Greis	Martina Glagow
2		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Gunn Margit Andreassen
3		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Liv Kjersti Eikeland
4		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Linda Tjørhom
5		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Linda Grubben
6		Dmitri Yaroshenko	Ekaterina Iourieva
7	2008	Andriy Deryzemlya	Oksana Khvostenko
8		Christoph Sumann	Kati Wilhelm
9	a	Evgeny Ustyugov	Svetlana Sleptsova
10		Carl Johan Bergman	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
11		Anton Shipulin	Ekaterina Yurlova
12		Florian Graf	Laura Dahlmeier
13	2014	Serhiy Semenov	Valj Semerenko
14		Martin Fourcade	Marie Dorin-Habert
15		Simon Schempp	Vanessa Hinz
16		Alexey Volkov	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
17	2018	Lukas Hofer	Dorothea Wierer
18	2019	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Marte Olsbu Røiseland
19		Matvey Eliseev	Evgeniya Pavlova
20		Felix Leitner	Lisa Theresa Hauser

• ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.

Successful nations[]

Rank	Country	Victories
1	Norway	5
	Russia
3	Germany	3.5
4	Ukraine	2
5	Austria	1.5
6	France	1
	Italy
8	Finland	0.5
	Sweden

Participating nations[]

Country	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Austria							*	* *	• *	•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Belarus	•		•					*									*		•
Belgium																*
Canada															•	•
China				•		•
Czech Republic		•		•								•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Finland	•	•							*	*	*
France	•	• •	•	•	• •	• •	•	•		•	•		•	•	•	•	•	•
Germany	• • • •	• • • • •	• • • •	• • • • •	• • • • • •	• • • • •	• • • *	• * *	• • •	• •	• • •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •
Italy	•				•	•				•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Japan																•	•
Norway	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	• •	•	• •		•	• •	•		•		*	•
Poland			•					•
Romania								*
Russia	• •	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Slovakia			•
Slovenia			•								•	•		•
Sweden										• *	*			•					•
Switzerland										•			•					•	•
United States							•	•	•		•
Ukraine				•			•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	*	•	•	•

Legend to the table

• - one pair; 
•• - two pairs and so on; 
* - one athlete in a mixed pair.

References[]

External links[]

Media related to World Team Challenge at Wikimedia Commons

• Official web page of the event