Biathlon World Championships 2011

Biathlon World Championships 2011
Host city	Khanty-Mansiysk
Country	Russia
Events	11
Opening	3 March
Closing	13 March
	← Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Ruhpolding 2012 →

The 44th Biathlon World Championships was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 3–13, 2011.

The Alexander Filipenko Winter Sport Center in Khanty-Mansiysk

There was a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup season.

Championship highlights

The Championships kicked off with the Mixed relay event which is seeking to make its way onto the Olympic programme for the 2014 games in Sochi. As the first event of the programme, it was finally given importance by the different teams, with all nations fielding their best teams, in difference to earlier world cup events. The Norwegians won it, overtaking Germany on the last leg. The veteran Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his fifteenth world championship gold medal in the process and his first in the mixed relay, giving him a full set of gold medals in the six events that are currently contested.^[1]

Tarjei Bø, Martin Fourcade, Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Arnd Peiffer won their first champion titles in career. Martin Fourcade also won a full scope of medals, gold, silver and bronze at these championships.

The surprise medalists included Maxim Maximov of Russia, Tina Bachmann of Germany and Vita Semerenko of Ukraine.

Helena Ekholm literally swept the field in the individual with zero shooting and fast skiing, winning more than 2 minutes over the runner-up Bachmann and making one of the greatest 1–2 place margins in biathlon history.

Schedule of events

The provisional schedule of the event is below. All times in UTC+5.

Date	Time	Event
3 March	16:30	2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
5 March	14:00	Men's 10 km sprint
5 March	18:00	Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March	14:00	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
6 March	16:30	Women's 10 km pursuit
8 March	17:15	Men's 20 km individual
9 March	17:15	Women's 15 km individual
11 March	18:00	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
12 March	16:30	Women's 12.5 km mass start
12 March	18:30	Men's 15 km mass start
13 March	15:00	Women's 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint^[2] details	Arnd Peiffer Germany	24:34.0 (0+1)	Martin Fourcade France	24:47.0 (2+0)	Tarjei Bø Norway	24:59.2 (1+0)
12.5 km pursuit^[3] details	Martin Fourcade France	33:02.6 (0+1+2+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	33:06.4 (0+0+1+1)	Tarjei Bø Norway	33:07.8 (0+0+1+1)
20 km individual^[4] details	Tarjei Bø Norway	48:29.9 (0+0+1+0)	Maxim Maksimov Russia	49:09.9 (0+0+0+0)	Christoph Sumann Austria	49:15.4 (0+0+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay^[5] details	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Alexander Os Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	1:16:13.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3)	Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeny Ustyugov Maxim Maksimov Ivan Tcherezov	1:16:27.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0)	Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko Andriy Deryzemlya Serhiy Semenov Serhiy Sednev	1:16:41.9 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1)
15 km mass start^[6] details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	38:42.7 (0+0+0+1)	Evgeny Ustyugov Russia	38:47.7 (0+0+0+0)	Lukas Hofer Italy	38:57.0 (0+0+0+1)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint^[7] details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	20:31.2 (0+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	20:43.4 (0+0)	Anastasiya Kuzmina Slovakia	21:11.2 (0+1)
10 km pursuit^[8] details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	30:00.1 (0+0+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	30:21.7 (0+0+0+2)	Helena Ekholm Sweden	31:43.7 (0+0+0+0)
15 km individual^[9] details	Helena Ekholm Sweden	47:08.3 (0+0+0+0)	Tina Bachmann Germany	49:24.1 (0+2+0+0)	Vita Semerenko Ukraine	50:00.4 (1+0+0+2)
4 × 6 km relay^[10] details	Germany Andrea Henkel Miriam Gössner Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner	1:13:31.1 (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (2+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	France Anaïs Bescond Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin	1:14:18.3 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Nadzeya Pisarava Liudmila Kalinchik	1:15:18.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3)
12.5 km mass start^[11] details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	36:48.5 (0+1+2+1)	Darya Domracheva Belarus	36:53.3 (2+1+0+0)	Tora Berger Norway	37:02.5 (2+1+0+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay^[12] details	Norway Tora Berger Ann Kristin Flatland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø	1:14:22.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	1:14:45.4 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1)	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade	1:15:38.7 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)

Medal table

Top nations


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	3	0	7
2	Norway (NOR)	4	1	3	8
3	France (FRA)	1	2	1	4
4	Finland (FIN)	1	1	0	2
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
6	Russia (RUS)	0	3	0	3
7	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		11	11	11	33

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.


Rank	Biathlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	3	2	0	5
2	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	3	0	2	5
3	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	2	1	0	3
4	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	2	0	0	2
5	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	1	1	1	3
6	Andrea Henkel (GER)	1	1	0	2
	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	1	1	0	2
	Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)	1	1	0	2
	Tina Bachmann (GER)	1	1	0	2
10	Helena Ekholm (SWE)	1	0	1	2
10	Tora Berger (NOR)	1	0	1	2
12	Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)	0	2	0	2
12	Maxim Maksimov (RUS)	0	2	0	2
14	Darya Domracheva (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Marie Dorin (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA)	0	1	1	2