Biathlon Junior World Championships 1997

The 1997 Biathlon Junior World Championships was held in Forni Avoltri, Italy from February 15 to February 23, 1997. There was to be a total of 8 competitions: sprint, individual, team and relay races for men and women.

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Tetiana Rud Ukraine	38:07.2 (0+0+2)	Marcela Pavkovčeková Slovakia	38:12.9 (0+0+0)	Natalia Levchenkova Russia	38:19.8 (0+0+1)
7.5 km sprint details	Andrea Henkel Germany	26:30.9 (0+0)	Martina Glagow Germany	27:23.5 (2+0)	Olga Nazarova Russia	27:36.0 (0+0)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Norway Ann Helen Grande Linda Tjørhom Gro Marit Istad	1:25:34.2	Germany Andrea Henkel Martina Glagow Janet Klein	1:25:55.3	Russia Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova Natalia Levchenkova	1:26:56.9
7.5 km team	Russia Olga Zaitseva Lilia Efremova Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova		Czech Republic Irena Mádlová Irena Tomšová Denisa Pelikánová Jitka Šimůnková		Germany Janet Klein Annet Meisner Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km individual details	Erik Lundström Sweden	42:21.9 (0+0+0)	Sergei Ushankov Russia	42:33.0 (1+0+0)	Karsten Kapinos Germany	42:35.0 (0+0+0)
10 km sprint details	Jay Hakkinen United States	27:32. (0+1)	Torsten Thrän Germany	27:51.3 (0+1)	Marek Matiaško Slovakia	28:19.6 (0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Germany Karsten Kapinos Torsten Thrän Alexander Wolf Jörn Wollschlaeger	1:32:09.1	Italy Theo Senoner Alexander Inderst Paolo Longo Flavien Jordaney	1:32:41.9	Russia Vladimir Grigorev Mikhail Kovalkov Sergei Ushankov Sergey Bashkirov	1:33:56.6
10 km team	Russia Sergey Bashkirov Dimitri Babich Oleksiy Korobeinikov Sergei Ushankov		Finland Harri Lahdesmaki Pasi Ahola Joni Tiihonen Jussi Mäkelä		Germany Norman Köhler Jörn Wollschlaeger Torsten Thrän Karsten Kapinos

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	2	3	3	8
2	Russia (RUS)	2	1	4	7
3	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)*	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		8	8	8	24

Biathlon Junior World Championships 1997

Junior Women

Junior Men

Medal table

References

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