Biathlon World Championships 2016

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

Biathlon World Championships 2016

Host city	Oslo
Country	Norway
Events	11
Opening	3 March
Closing	13 March
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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.

Host selection

Oslo was the sole candidate for this championship. Oslo was announced as the host city on 2 September 2012 during the X IBU Congress in Merano, Italy. Two years earlier Oslo lost Biathlon World Championships 2015 to Kontiolahti.^[2] This was the sixth time that these World Championships were held in Oslo; the city had previously hosted the event in 1986, 1990 (certain events held in Oslo due to difficult weather in the host city of Minsk), 1999 (certain events held in Oslo due to difficult weather in the host city of Kontiolahti), 2000 and 2002 (only the mass start as it was not on the program for the 2002 Olympics).

Schedule

Medal ceremony after women's 15 km individual event at Medal Plaza of the University, Karl Johans gate, 9 March 2016. From left to right: Laura Dahlmeier, Marie Dorin Habert and Anaïs Bescond.

All times are local (UTC+1).^[3]

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
	14:30	Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March	13:30	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
	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
	16:00	Men's 15 km mass start

Medal summary

Medal table

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

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

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
	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
	Simon Schempp (GER)	0	2	0	2
13	Franziska Hildebrand (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Franziska Preuß (GER)	0	1	1	2

Medal winners

Men

All the athletes together at the start of the mass start.

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)

Women

Marie Dorin-Habert and Laura Dahlmeier during the mass start.

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)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[14] details	France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	1:14:01.0 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:14:05.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Marte Olsbu Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	1:14:15.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0)