Biathlon World Championships 2019

Host city	Östersund
Country	Sweden
Events	12
Opening	6 March
Closing	17 March
Opened by	Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Main venue	Östersund Ski Stadium
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Biathlon World Championships 2019
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women
Mixed relay	single	team
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The Biathlon World Championships 2019 took place in Östersund, Sweden, from 6 to 17 March 2019.

There were a total of 12 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and two mixed relay races. The single mixed relay was on the program of the World Championships for the first time. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup season.

Host selection

On 7 September 2014, Östersund won the voting (27 votes) in St. Wolfgang, Austria over Antholz, Italy (16 votes), Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic (4 votes) and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2 votes).^[1] This was third time when World Championships was held in Östersund; the town had previously hosted the event in 1970 and 2008.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).^[2]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	5	3	1	9
2	Germany (GER)	2	2	3	7
3	Italy (ITA)	2	2	1	5
4	Sweden (SWE)*	1	1	1	3
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
6	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	0	1
7	Russia (RUS)	0	2	1	3
8	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		12	12	12	36

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	4	1	0	5
2	Marte Olsbu Røiseland (NOR)	3	0	0	3
3	Tiril Eckhoff (NOR)	2	1	0	3
4	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR)	2	0	0	2
5	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	1	2	0	3
6	Denise Herrmann (GER)	1	1	1	3
	Dorothea Wierer (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	Hanna Öberg (SWE)	1	1	1	3
9	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (NOR)	1	1	0	2
10	Dominik Windisch (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	1	0	1	2
12	Benedikt Doll (GER)	0	2	0	2
13	Alexander Loginov (RUS)	0	1	1	2
	Lisa Vittozzi (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	0	1	1	2
16	Laura Dahlmeier (GER)	0	0	2	2
	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)	0	0	2	2

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint[3] details	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	24:37.6 (0+1)	Alexander Loginov  Russia	24:51.3 (0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	24:54.1 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit[4] details	Dmytro Pidruchnyi  Ukraine	31:54.1 (2+0+0+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	32:02.4 (0+1+1+3)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	32:11.8 (2+0+0+1)
20 km individual[5] details	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	52:42.4 (0+0+0+0)	Vladimir Iliev  Bulgaria	53:51.1 (0+1+0+0)	Tarjei Bø  Norway	53:51.5 (0+1+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay[6] details	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:12:03.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3)	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:12:41.8 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Russia Matvey Eliseev Nikita Porshnev Dmitry Malyshko Alexander Loginov	1:13:07.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)
15 km mass start[7] details	Dominik Windisch  Italy	40:54.1 (1+1+1+0)	Antonin Guigonnat  France	41:16.9 (2+0+0+1)	Julian Eberhard  Austria	41:17.4 (0+0+3+1)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint[8] details	Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia	22:17.5 (1+0)	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold  Norway	22:27.2 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	22:30.1 (0+0)
10 km pursuit[9] details	Denise Herrmann  Germany	31:45.9 (0+0+2+0)	Tiril Eckhoff  Norway	32:17.3 (0+0+2+0)	Laura Dahlmeier  Germany	32:17.5 (0+0+1+0)
15 km individual[10] details	Hanna Öberg  Sweden	43:10.4 (0+0+0+0)	Lisa Vittozzi  Italy	43:34.0 (0+0+0+0)	Justine Braisaz  France	43:42.9 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 6 km relay[11] details	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:12:00.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Anna Magnusson Hanna Öberg	1:12:24.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Vita Semerenko Yuliia Dzhima Valentyna Semerenko	1:12:35.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
12.5 km mass start[12] details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	37:26.4 (0+0+0+2)	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht  Russia	37:31.3 (0+0+1+1)	Denise Herrmann  Germany	37:41.8 (0+1+2+1)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 × 6 km W + 2 × 7.5 km M relay[13] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:17:41.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Denise Herrmann Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:17:54.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:18:51.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3)
6 km W + 7.5 km M single relay[14] details	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø	35:43.2 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Italy Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer	35:56.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	36:03.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)