Biathlon World Championships 2005

The 40th Biathlon World Championships were held in 2005 for the third time in Hochfilzen, Austria from 4 to 13 March. Approximately 80,000 spectators went to see the competitions. The mixed relay, contested for the first time in the World Championships, was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

Biathlon World Championships 2005

Host city	Hochfilzen
Country	Austria
Events	8
Opening	4 March 2005 (2005-03-04)
Closing	13 March 2005 (2005-03-13)
← Oberhof 2004 Pokljuka 2006 →

Schedule

Date	Time	Event
5 March	10:00	Men's 10 km sprint
	14:00	Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March	10:00	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
	13:00	Women's 10 km pursuit
8 March	14:15	Women's 15 km individual
9 March	14:15	Men's 20 km individual
11 March	14:15	Women's 4 × 6 km relay
12 March	14:45	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
13 March	10:45	Women's 12.5 km mass start
	12:45	Men's 15 km mass start
20 March	13:00	Mixed 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint^[1]	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	24:37.5 (1+0)	Sven Fischer   Germany	24:48.0 (1+0)	Ilmārs Bricis   Latvia	25:01.5 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit^[2]	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	36:41.4 (0+1+1+1)	Sergei Tchepikov   Russia	37:20.6 (0+0+0+0)	Sven Fischer   Germany	37:32.1 (2+0+1+0)
20 km individual^[3]	Roman Dostál   Czech Republic	1:00:24.5 (0+0+0+1)	Michael Greis   Germany	1:00:33.9 (0+0+0+0)	Ricco Groß   Germany	1:00:51.4 (1+0+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay^[4]	Norway Halvard Hanevold Stian Eckhoff Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:59.2 (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Russia Sergei Rozhkov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Pavel Rostovtsev Sergei Tchepikov	1:22:25.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1)	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Wolfgang Rottmann Christoph Sumann	1:22:42.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)
15 km mass start^[5]	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	40:51.9 (1+0+2+0)	Sven Fischer   Germany	41:03.8 (0+1+1+1)	Raphaël Poirée   France	41:12.5 (0+0+1+1)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint^[6]	Uschi Disl   Germany	21:58.6 (0+0)	Olga Zaitseva   Russia	22:02.1 (0+0)	Olena Zubrilova   Belarus	22:25.2 (0+0)
10 km pursuit^[7]	Uschi Disl   Germany	33:32.5 (1+0+2+1)	Liu Xianying   China	33:50.4 (0+1+1+2)	Olga Zaitseva   Russia	34:13.1 (0+1+1+2)
15 km individual^[8]	Andrea Henkel   Germany	52:37.5 (0+1+0+0)	Sun Riboun   China	53:07.7 (0+1+0+1)	Linda Tjørhom   Norway	53:11.8 (1+0+0+0)
4 × 6 km relay^[9]	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Zaitseva	1:13:44.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0)	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Kati Wilhelm	1:14:25.8 (0+3) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1)	Belarus Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova Lyudmila Ananko Olena Zubrylava	1:14:37.6 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3)
12.5 km mass start^[10]	Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen   Norway	41:40.3 (0+1+0+3)	Anna Carin Olofsson   Sweden	41:44.0 (0+1+1+1)	Olga Pyleva   Russia	41:48.7 (1+1+1+0)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 6 km W+M relay^[11]	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Ivan Cherezov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	1:13:24.1 (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Zaitseva Sergey Tchepikov Sergey Rozhkov	1:13:31.4 (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3)	Germany Uschi Disl Kati Wilhelm Michael Greis Ricco Groß	1:13:58.3 (1+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3)

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	5	0	1	6
2	Germany (GER)	3	4	2	9
3	Russia (RUS)	1	3	2	6
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
5	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
7	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	10	30

References

1. Men's sprint results
2. Men's pursuit results
3. Men's individual results
4. Men's relay results
5. Men's mass start results
6. Women's sprint results
7. Women's pursuit results
8. Women's individual results
9. Women's relay results
10. Women's mass start results
11. Mixed relay results