Biathlon World Championships 1999

The 34th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1999 in Kontiolahti, Finland.^[1] Due to the cold, the individual and the mass start events were moved to Oslo, Norway. The mass start was contested for the first time in the world championships.

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint details	Frank Luck   Germany	28:05.6 (0+0)	Patrick Favre   Italy	28:27.6 (0+0)	Frode Andresen   Norway	28:46.4 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit details	Ricco Groß   Germany	35:37.8 (0+0+0+0)	Frank Luck   Germany	36:05.0 (0+0+1+2)	Sven Fischer   Germany	36:18.7 (1+0+1+1)
20 km individual details	Sven Fischer   Germany	53:53.2 (1+0+0+0)	Ricco Groß   Germany	54:01.9 (0+0+0+0)	Vadim Sashurin   Belarus	54:30.5 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Petr Ivashko Vadim Sashurin Oleg Ryzhenkov	1:23:19.3 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3)	Russia Viktor Maigourov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Rozhkov Pavel Rostovtsev	1:23:42.4 (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:23:56.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (3+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start details	Sven Fischer   Germany	39:39.9 (1+1+0+0)	Vladimir Drachev   Russia	39:49.8 (0+0+1+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway	39:57.3 (0+0+0+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint details	Martina Zellner   Germany	26:59.9 (0+2)	Magdalena Forsberg   Sweden	27:04.4 (0+1)	Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine	27:08.2 (1+2)
10 km pursuit details	Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine	32:17.5 (0+1+1+0)	Martina Schwarzbacherová   Slovakia	33:19.5 (0+1+0+0)	Martina Zellner   Germany	33:25.1 (1+0+0+1)
15 km individual details	Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine	43:28.1 (0+0+0+0)	Corinne Niogret   France	45:32.0 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova   Russia	46:41.7 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm Katrin Apel Martina Zellner	1:36:56.0 (0+4) (0+3) (0+1) (1+4)	Russia Nadezhda Talanova Galina Koukleva Olga Romasko Albina Akhatova	1:37:34.3 (0+3) (0+4) (0+2) (0+1)	France Delphyne Heymann-Burlet Florence Baverel Christelle Gros Corinne Niogret	1:37:42.9 (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start details	Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine	40:08.2 (0+2+2+0)	Olena Petrova   Ukraine	40:11.3 (0+0+1+1)	Magdalena Forsberg   Sweden	40:16.9 (1+0+2+0)

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	6	2	2	10
2	Ukraine	3	1	1	5
3	Belarus	1	0	1	2
4	Russia	0	3	1	4
5	France	0	1	1	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
7	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
9	Norway	0	0	3	3

References

1. Sports 123 biathlon results