2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 3

Biathlon World Cup

2011–12 Previous Following

Men

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay

Mixed relay

Women

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay

World Cup events

Östersund | Hochfilzen | Hochfilzen (2) | Oberhof | Nové Město Antholz | Holmenkollen | Kontiolahti | Khanty-Mansiysk

World Championships

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 3 was held in Hochfilzen, Austria, from 15 December until 18 December 2011. This was the second World Cup event in Hochfilzen in 2011–12 season, due to the lack of snow in Annecy.^[1][2][3]

Schedule of events

The time schedule of the event stands below^[4]

Date	Time	Events
December 15	14:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
December 16	14:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
December 17	12:00 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	14:30 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit
December 18	14:30 CET	Mixed Relay

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint details	Tarjei Bø  Norway	23:57.2 (1+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	24:01.2 (1+1)	Timofey Lapshin  Russia	24:14.4 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Andreas Birnbacher  Germany	35:40.3 (0+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	35:40.5 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Fourcade  France	35:41.6 (1+0+0+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	20:36.6 (0+1)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	20:50.5 (1+1)	Helena Ekholm  Sweden	21:06.8 (1+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	31:52.2 (0+0+0+0)	Helena Ekholm  Sweden	32:21.3 (0+0+0+1)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	32:36.9 (1+1+0+1)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	Russia Olga Vilukhina Olga Zaitseva Alexey Volkov Anton Shipulin	1:13:33.4 (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr	1:14:00.4 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	France Marie Dorin Habert Sophie Boilley Alexis Bœuf Simon Fourcade	1:14:11.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

Timofey Lapshin (RUS), 3rd place in Sprint  Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 4th place in Sprint  Tomas Holubec (CZE), 9th place in Sprint  Martin Eng (NOR), 11th place in Sprint  Vladimir Iliev (BUL), 20th place in Sprint  Vladimir Alenishko (BLR), 33rd place in Sprint  Mario Dolder (SUI), 34th place in Sprint  Rolands Puzulis (LAT), 69th place in Sprint

Jialin Tang (CHN), 6th place in Sprint  Nastassia Dubarezava (BLR), 10th place in Sprint  Anna Karin Strömstedt (SWE), 16th place in Sprint  Romana Schrempf (AUT), 21st place in Sprint  Megan Imrie (CAN), 25th place in Sprint and 24th place in Pursuit  Elisa Gasparin (SUI), 41st place in Sprint  Iryna Kryuko (BLR), 40th place in Pursuit

First World Cup race

Manuel Fernandez Musso (ESP), 104th place in Sprint

Ane Skrove Nossum (NOR), 34th place in Sprint  Birgitte Roeksund (NOR), 35th place in Sprint  Iryna Kryuko (BLR), 46th place in Sprint

References

1. Novickis, Edmunds (14 December 2011). "Pēdējais biatlona posms šogad – vai turēsies Bergmans, vai medaļu sēriju turpinās Noinere?" (in Latvian). Sportacentrs.com. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
2. Associated Press (December 15, 2011). "Norway's Tarjei Boe wins 10K sprint at biathlon World Cup event". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
3. "E.ON IBU World Cup 3 Relocated to Hochfilzen". IBU. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
4. E.ON IBU World Cup 3 Biathlon

Coordinates: 47°28′N 12°37′E / 47.467°N 12.617°E