World Team Challenge

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.

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)

Statistics

Winners by edition

#	Years	Winners
1	2002	Michael Greis	Martina Glagow
2	2003	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Gunn Margit Andreassen
3	2004	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Liv Kjersti Eikeland
4	2005	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Linda Tjørhom
5	2006	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Linda Grubben
6	2007	Dmitri Yaroshenko	Ekaterina Iourieva
7	2008	Andriy Deryzemlya	Oksana Khvostenko
8	2009	Christoph Sumann	Kati Wilhelm
9	2010 a	Evgeny Ustyugov	Svetlana Sleptsova
10	2011	Carl Johan Bergman	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
11	2012	Anton Shipulin	Ekaterina Yurlova
12	2013	Florian Graf	Laura Dahlmeier
13	2014	Serhiy Semenov	Valj Semerenko
14	2015	Martin Fourcade	Marie Dorin-Habert
15	2016	Simon Schempp	Vanessa Hinz
16	2017	Alexey Volkov	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
17	2018	Lukas Hofer	Dorothea Wierer
18	2019	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	Marte Olsbu Røiseland
19	2020	Matvey Eliseev	Evgeniya Pavlova
20	2021	Felix Leitner	Lisa Theresa Hauser
21	2022	Fabien Claude	Julia Simon
22	2023[2]	Fabien Claude	Julia Simon
23	2024	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Karoline Offigstad Knotten

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

Successful nations

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

Participating nations

Country	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Austria							*	**	1*	1		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Belarus	1		1					*									*		1
Belgium																*						1	1
Canada															1	1				1
China				1		1
Czech Republic		1		1								1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Finland	1	1							*	*	*									1	1
France	1	2	1	1	2	2	1	1		1	1		1	1	1	1	1	1			1	1	1
Germany	4	5	4	5	6	5	3*	1**	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Italy	1				1	1				1		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Japan																1	1
Latvia																							1
Norway	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2		1	2	1		1		*	1			1	1	1
Poland			1					1
Romania								*
Russia	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Slovakia			1
Slovenia			1								1	1		1								1	1
Sweden										1*	*			1					1				1
Switzerland										1			1					1	1	1	1	1
United States							1	1	1		1
Ukraine				1			1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	*	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Legend to the table

«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.