2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1

Biathlon World Cup
2015–16
Following
Men

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

Mixed relay
Women

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

World Cup events

Östersund | Hochfilzen | Pokljuka | Ruhpolding | Ruhpolding (2)
Antholz | Canmore | Presque Isle | Khanty-Mansiysk

World Championships

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 was the opening event[1] of the season and was held in Östersund, Sweden, from 29 November until 6 December 2015.

Schedule of events

[2]

Date Time Events
November 29 13:45 CET Single Mixed Relay
15:30 CET Mixed Relay
December 2 17:15 CET Men's 20 km Individual
December 3 17:15 CET Women's 15 km Individual
December 5 12:30 CET Men's 10 km Sprint
15:30 CET Women's 7.5 km Sprint
December 6 11:00 CET Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
13:30 CET Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
20 km Individual
details
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
50:14.5
(0+0+0+0)
Simon Schempp
 Germany
50:41.6
(0+0+1+0)
Alexey Volkov
 Russia
50:52.7
(0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint
details
Martin Fourcade
 France
24:02.0
(1+1)
Arnd Peiffer
 Germany
24:53.6
(0+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
24:57.2
(1+1)
12.5 km Pursuit
details
Martin Fourcade
 France
31:22.4
(1+0+1+1)
Arnd Peiffer
 Germany
31:57.5
(0+1+0+0)
Quentin Fillon Maillet
 France
32:17.6
(0+0+1+1)

Women

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
15 km Individual
details
Dorothea Wierer
 Italy
42:17.0
(0+0+0+0)
Marie Dorin-Habert
 France
42:31.1
(0+2+0+0)
Olena Pidhrushna
 Ukraine
42:54.8
(0+0+0+0)
7.5 km Sprint
details
Gabriela Soukalová
 Czech Republic
19:46.2
(0+0)
Federica Sanfilippo
 Italy
20:01.2
(0+0)
Olena Pidhrushna
 Ukraine
20:24.6
(1+0)
10 km Pursuit
details
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
 Finland
30:45.1
(1+0+1+0)
Dorothea Wierer
 Italy
30:47.0
(0+0+1+0)
Franziska Hildebrand
 Germany
30:48.4
(0+0+0+0)

Mixed

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Single Mixed Relay
details
 Norway
Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen
Lars Helge Birkeland
36:27.3
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+1) (0+0)
 Canada
Rosanna Crawford
Nathan Smith
36:39.2
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
 Germany
Maren Hammerschmidt
Daniel Böhm
36:40.5
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay
details
 Norway
Fanny Horn Birkeland
Tiril Eckhoff
Johannes Thingnes Bø
Tarjei Bø
1:11:42.6
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
 Germany
Franziska Hildebrand
Vanessa Hinz
Benedikt Doll
Simon Schempp
1:12:16.2
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
 Czech Republic
Veronika Vítková
Gabriela Soukalová
Michal Šlesingr
Ondřej Moravec
1:12:54.1
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

  •  Sean Doherty (USA), 17th place in Individual
  •  Anton Babikov (RUS), 18th place in Individual
  •  Dmitriy Dyuzhev (BLR), 25th place in Individual
  •  George Buta (ROU), 33rd place in Individual
  •  Dimitar Gerdzhikov (BUL), 55th place in Individual
  •  Martin Remmelg (EST), 56th place in Individual
  •  Dimitar Partalov (BUL), 64th place in Individual
  •  Rafal Penar (POL), 80th place in Individual
  •  Daumants Lusa (LAT), 83rd place in Individual

First World Cup race

  •  Miha Dovzan (SLO), 47th place in Individual
  •  Sergey Bocharnikov (BLR), 87th place in Individual
  •  Denis Serban (ROU), 96th place in Individual

  •  Kristina Ilchenko (BLR), 69th place in Individual
  •  Meril Beilmann (EST), 79th place in Individual

Oldest winner of a biathlon world cup race in history

References

  1. "Event schedule". IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  2. "Events". Retrieved October 21, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, February 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.