The 39th Biathlon World Championships were held in 2004 in Oberhof, Germany.^[1]

Men's results

20 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Raphaël Poirée	FRA
	Tomasz Sikora	POL
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR

10 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Raphaël Poirée	FRA
	Ricco Groß	GER
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR

12.5 km pursuit

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Ricco Groß	GER
	Raphaël Poirée	FRA
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR

15 km mass start

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Raphaël Poirée	FRA
	Lars Berger	NOR
	Sergei Konovalov	RUS

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Germany Frank Luck Ricco Groß Sven Fischer Michael Greis	GER
	Norway Halvard Hanevold Lars Berger Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR
	France Ferréol Cannard Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphaël Poirée	FRA

Women's results

15 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Olga Pyleva	RUS
	Albina Akhatova	RUS
	Olena Petrova	UKR

7.5 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Liv Grete Poirée	NOR
	Anna Bogaliy	RUS
	Martina Glagow	GER
	Ekaterina Ivanova	BLR

10 km pursuit

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Liv Grete Poirée	NOR
	Martina Glagow	GER
	Anna Bogaliy	RUS

12.5 km mass start

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Liv Grete Poirée	NOR
	Katrin Apel	GER
	Sandrine Bailly	FRA

4 × 6 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Norway Linda Tjörhom Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poirée	NOR
	Russia Olga Pylyova Svetlana Ishmouratova Anna Bogaliy Albina Akhatova	RUS
	Germany Martina Glagow Katrin Apel Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm	GER

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Norway	4	2	3	9
2	France	3	1	2	6
3	Germany	2	3	2	7
4	Russia	1	3	2	6
5	Poland	0	1	0	1
6	Belarus	0	0	1	1
6	Ukraine	0	0	1	1