Biathlon World Championships 2008

The 42nd Biathlon World Championships were held in Östersund, Sweden from 8 to 17 February 2008. It was the second time Östersund was hosting the Biathlon World Championships, the first being in 1970. It was also 50 years after the first Biathlon World Championships, which were held 1958 in Saalfelden, Austria.

Biathlon World Championships 2008

Host city	Östersund
Country	Sweden
Events	11
Opening	8 February 2008 (2008-02-08)
Closing	17 February 2008 (2008-02-17)
Main venue	Östersund Ski Stadium
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Östersund Ski Stadium

There were a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and the relatively new mixed relay. The championships were dominated by the German, Norwegian, and Russian teams, which would win every competition and 28 of the 33 available medals.

Schedule

Date	Event
9 February	Women's 7.5 km sprint
	Men's 10 km sprint
10 February	Women's 10 km pursuit
	Men's 7.5 km pursuit
12 February	2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km relay
14 February	Women's 15 km individual
	Men's 20 km individual
16 February	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
	Women's 12.5 km mass start
17 February	Men's 15 km mass start
	Women's 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[1] details	Maxim Tchoudov  Russia	22:25.4 (0+0)	Halvard Hanevold  Norway	22:45.2 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	22:55.4 (0+2)
12.5 km pursuit[2] details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	31:04.5 (0+1+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov  Russia	31:14.6 (2+0+2+0)	Alexander Wolf  Germany	31:47.3 (0+0+1+0)
20 km individual[3] details	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	51:51.9 (0+1+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	52:23.3 (1+1+0+0)	Maxim Maksimov  Russia	52:26.7 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay[4] details	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	1:21:00.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:49.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:22:43.2 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start[5] details	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	36:12.6 (1+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	36:13.0 (0+0+1+0)	Maxim Tchoudov  Russia	36:37.5 (0+1+2+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[6] details	Andrea Henkel  Germany	19:43.1 (0+0)	Albina Akhatova  Russia	19:55.8 (0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko  Ukraine	20:06.3 (0+0)
10 km pursuit[7] details	Andrea Henkel  Germany	28:56.0 (0+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva  Russia	29:16.5 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova  Russia	29:34.5 (0+0+0+0)
15 km individual[8] details	Ekaterina Iourieva  Russia	44:23.8 (0+0+0+0)	Martina Glagow  Germany	45:37.1 (1+0+0+0)	Oksana Khvostenko  Ukraine	46:48.2 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay[9] details	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	1:10:12.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)	Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva Vita Semerenko Valentyna Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko	1:10:43.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	1:11:48.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start[10] details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	39:36.5 (0+0+2+2)	Tora Berger  Norway	39:39.5 (1+0+0+0)	Ekaterina Iourieva  Russia	40:06.0 (1+0+1+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[11] details	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	1:12:20.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov	1:13:13.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko	1:13:23.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	1	2	8
2	Norway (NOR)	3	5	1	9
3	Russia (RUS)	3	3	5	11
4	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
5	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		11	11	11	33