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

Östersund Ski Stadium

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.

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

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[1]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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

References

External links

Media related to 2008 Biathlon World Championships at Wikimedia Commons

• Östersund 2008 - official website