Biathlon World Championships 2016

Biathlon World Championships 2016
Host city	Oslo
Country	Norway
Events	11
Opening	3 March
Closing	13 March
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Host cityOslo

CountryNorway

Events11

Opening3 March

The 48th Biathlon World Championships was held in Oslo, Norway from 3 to 13 March 2016.^[1]

There were 11 competitions in total: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted towards the Biathlon World Cup.

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Date	Time	Event
3 March	15:30	2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
5 March	11:30	Men's 10 km sprint
5 March	14:30	Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March	13:30	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
6 March	15:45	Women's 10 km pursuit
9 March	13:00	Women's 15 km individual
10 March	15:30	Men's 20 km individual
11 March	15:30	Women's 4 × 6 km relay
12 March	15:30	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
13 March	13:00	Women's 12.5 km mass start
13 March	16:00	Men's 15 km mass start

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	6	4	1	11
2	Norway (NOR)	4	2	3	9
3	Germany (GER)	1	3	3	7
4	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		11	11	11	33

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	4	1	0	5
2	Marie Dorin Habert (FRA)	3	2	1	6
3	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	2	0	1	3
3	Tiril Eckhoff (NOR)	2	0	1	3
5	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	1	2	1	4
6	Anaïs Bescond (FRA)	1	2	0	3
7	Laura Dahlmeier (GER)	1	1	3	5
8	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Marte Olsbu (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	1	0	1	2
11	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	0	2	0	2
11	Simon Schempp (GER)	0	2	0	2
13	Franziska Hildebrand (GER)	0	1	1	2
13	Franziska Preuß (GER)	0	1	1	2

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint^[4] details	Martin Fourcade France	25:35.4 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	26:02.3 (0+0)	Serhiy Semenov Ukraine	26:03.0 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit^[5] details	Martin Fourcade France	32:56.5 (0+0+1+2)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	33:16.5 (1+0+0+1)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	33:27.7 (0+0+0+1)
20 km individual^[6] details	Martin Fourcade France	49:13.9 (0+1+0+0)	Dominik Landertinger Austria	49:19.0 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Eder Austria	49:28.3 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay^[7] details	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:13:16.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:13:28.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green	1:13:40.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)
15 km mass start^[8] details	Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway	37:05.1 (0+0+1+0)	Martin Fourcade France	37:07.9 (1+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	37:11.8 (0+0+0+0)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint^[9] details	Tiril Eckhoff Norway	21:10.8 (0+0)	Marie Dorin Habert France	21:25.8 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier Germany	21:30.6 (1+0)
10 km pursuit^[10] details	Laura Dahlmeier Germany	30:49.2 (0+0+0+0)	Dorothea Wierer Italy	31:37.5 (0+1+1+0)	Marie Dorin Habert France	31:46.5 (0+0+2+1)
15 km individual^[11] details	Marie Dorin Habert France	44:02.8 (0+0+0+1)	Anaïs Bescond France	44:15.0 (0+0+0+1)	Laura Dahlmeier Germany	45:20.6 (1+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay^[12] details	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	1:07:10.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2)	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	1:07:15.3 (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0)	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	1:07:38.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)
12.5 km mass start^[13] details	Marie Dorin Habert France	35:28.5 (0+0+0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier Germany	35:35.8 (0+0+1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	35:36.6 (0+0+1+0)

Biathlon World Championships 2016

Schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

Top athletes

Medal winners

Men

Women

Mixed

References

External links

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Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed
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