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.

Men's results

20 km individual

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	CZE	Roman Dostál	1:00:24.5	0-0-0-1
2	GER	Michael Greis	+ 9.4	0-0-0-0
3	GER	Ricco Groß	+ 26.9	1-0-0-1
4	GER	Sven Fischer	+ 1:05.2	0-1-1-1
5	POL	Tomasz Sikora	+ 1:55.0	0-1-1-1
6	NOR	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	+ 2:01.7	1-1-0-3
7	FIN	Vesa Hietalahti	+ 2:22.1	0-1-1-0
8	FRA	Raphaël Poirée	+ 2:26.3	1-1-0-0
9	CZE	Michal Šlesingr	+ 2:41.6	0-1-1-1
10	ITA	Wilfried Pallhuber	+ 3:10.8	1-1-0-1

Date: 9 March 2005

10 km sprint

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	NOR	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	24:37.5	1-0
2	GER	Sven Fischer	+ 10.5	1-0
3	LAT	Ilmārs Bricis	+ 24.0	0-0
4	RUS	Sergei Tchepikov	+ 26.3	0-1
5	RUS	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	+ 34.1	0-0
6	GER	Michael Greis	+ 41.9	1-0
7	GER	Ricco Groß	+ 49.4	0-1
8	SWE	Carl Johan Bergman	+ 51.2	0-1
9	POL	Tomasz Sikora	+ 51.5	0-1
10	FRA	Vincent Defrasne	+ 53.5	0-1

Date: 5 March 2005

12.5 km pursuit

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	NOR	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	36:41.4	0-1-1-1
2	RUS	Sergei Tchepikov	+ 39.2	0-0-0-0
3	GER	Sven Fischer	+ 50.7	2-0-1-0
4	RUS	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	+ 1:11.1	0-0-0-1
5	GER	Michael Greis	+ 1:16.1	0-0-0-1
6	GER	Ricco Groß	+ 1:53.9	0-1-2-0
7	FRA	Vincent Defrasne	+ 2:16.7	1-1-1-0
8	UKR	Andriy Deryzemlya	+ 2:29.6	0-2-2-1
9	FRA	Raphaël Poirée	+ 2:32.5	0-0-2-2
10	POL	Tomasz Sikora	+ 2:33.6	1-1-3-0

Date: 6 March 2005

Non-starters were Daniel Mesotitsch, AUT and Andreas Birnbacher, GER.

15 km mass start

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	NOR	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	40:51.9	1-0-2-0
2	GER	Sven Fischer	+ 11.0	0-1-1-1
3	FRA	Raphaël Poirée	+ 20.6	0-0-1-1
4	RUS	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	+ 27.3	0-0-0-1
5	POL	Tomasz Sikora	+ 30.7	0-0-2-0
6	UKR	Andriy Deryzemlya	+ 33.2	2-0-0-0
7	GER	Ricco Groß	+ 34.5	0-1-1-0
8	RUS	Sergei Tchepikov	+ 36.7	0-0-1-1
9	UKR	Olexander Bilanenko	+ 37.7	0-0-0-0
10	GER	Michael Greis	+ 46.1	0-0-0-2

Date: 13 March 2005

4 × 7.5 km relay

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	NOR	Halvard Hanevold Stian Eckhoff Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:59.2	0+5 0+1 0+1 0+0
2	RUS	Sergei Rozhkov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Pavel Rostovtsev Sergei Tchepikov	+ 26.0	0+0 0+1 0+1 0+3
3	AUT	Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Wolfgang Rottmann Christoph Sumann	+ 43:3	0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1
4	BLR	Alexander Syman Sergei Novikov Rustam Valiullin Oleg Ryzhenkov	+ 59.2	0+1 0+0 0+2 1+4
5	FRA	Julien Robert Vincent Defrasne Ferreol Cannard Raphaël Poirée	+ 1:45.2	0+1 0+1 0+0 0+2
6	GER	Alexander Wolf Ricco Groß Sven Fischer Michael Greis	+ 1:59.1	1+6 1+5 0+3 0+0

Date: 12 March 2005

Women's results

15 km individual

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	GER	Andrea Henkel	52,37.5	0-1-0-0
2	CHN	Sun Riboun	+ 30.2	0-1-0-1
3	NOR	Linda Tjørhom	+ 34.3	1-0-0-0
4	FRA	Sandrine Bailly	+ 41.5	0-1-1-1
5	BUL	Ekaterina Dafovska	+ 44.2	0-1-0-1
6	RUS	Olga Pyleva	+ 52.3	1-0-0-1
7	RUS	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	+ 1:16.5	1-0-0-1
8	SWE	Anna Carin Olofsson	+ 2:04.6	0-2-0-2
9	UKR	Oksana Khvostenko	+ 2:13.5	0-0-1-1
10	RUS	Svetlana Ishmouratova	+ 2:16.7	0-0-1-2

Date: 8 March 2005

7.5 km sprint

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	GER	Uschi Disl	21:58.6	0-0
2	RUS	Olga Zaitseva	+ 3.5	0-0
3	BLR	Olena Zubrilova	+ 26.6	0-0
4	FRA	Sandrine Bailly	+ 34.1	0-2
5	CHN	Liu Xianying	+ 34.7	0-1
6	RUS	Olga Pyleva	+ 43.8	0-1
7	RUS	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	+ 49.0	1-1
8	UKR	Oksana Khvostenko	+ 53.2	0-1
9	FRA	Florence Baverel-Robert	+ 1:03.7	0-0
10	SWE	Anna Carin Olofsson	+ 1:09.5	0-1

Date: 5 March 2005

10 km pursuit

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	GER	Uschi Disl	33:32.5	1-0-2-1
2	CHN	Liu Xianying	+ 17.9	0-1-1-2
3	RUS	Svetlana Ishmouratova	+ 40.6	0-1-1-2
4	RUS	Olga Pyleva	+ 49.5	3-0-0-1
5	RUS	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	+ 51.9	2-0-0-2
6	SWE	Anna Carin Olofsson	+ 53.6	1-0-0-3
7	GER	Katrin Apel	+ 1:04.3	1-0-1-1
8	FRA	Florence Baverel-Robert	+ 1:09.2	0-0-2-0
9	FRA	Sandrine Bailly	+ 1:20.5	0-2-2-2
10	NOR	Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen	+ 1:28.9	0-0-2-2

Date: 6 March 2005

12.5 km mass start

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	NOR	Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen	41:40.3	0-1-0-3
2	SWE	Anna Carin Olofsson	+ 3.7	0-1-1-1
3	RUS	Olga Pyleva	+ 8.4	1-1-1-0
4	CHN	Liu Xianying	+ 12.7	2-1-1-0
5	GER	Kati Wilhelm	+ 17.7	1-0-1-1
6	CHN	Jingchao Kong	+ 21.2	2-2-0-0
7	GER	Andrea Henkel	+ 38.7	0-0-2-1
8	UKR	Oksana Khvostenko	+ 1:05.4	1-1-0-1
9	FRA	Sandrine Bailly	+ 1:16.3	2-0-2-1
10	GER	Uschi Disl	+ 1:19.0	1-1-4-0

Date: 13 March 2005

4 × 6 km relay

Position	Nationality	Competitor	Time	Sch.
1	RUS	Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Zaitseva	1:13:44.4	0+1 0+3 0+0 0+3
2	GER	Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Kati Wilhelm	+ 41.4	1+6 0+2 0+1 0+3
3	BLR	Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova Liudmila Ananko Olena Zubrylava	+ 53.2	1+3 0+2 0+1 0+3
4	FRA	Delphyne Peretto Florence Baverel-Robert Anne-Laure Mignerey Sandrine Bailly	+ 1:23.7	0+1 0+0 0+2 0+1
5	NOR	Tora Berger Liv Kjersti Eikeland Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen Linda Tjørhom	+ 1:34.3	0+3 2+4 0+3 0+0
6	SVK	Anna Murinova Martina Halinarova Marcela Pavkovcekova Sona Mihokova	+ 1:51.5	0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2

Date: 11 March 2005

In total, 19 countries presented teams for the start.

Mixed

4 × 6 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result	Behind
	Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmuratova Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	RUS 1
	Anna Bogaliy Olga Zaitseva Sergei Tchepikov Sergei Rozhkov	RUS 2
	Uschi Disl Kati Wilhelm Michael Greis Ricco Groß	GER 1

Medal table

Position	Land	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	5	0	1	6
2	Germany	3	4	3	10
3	Russia	2	4	2	8
4	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
5	China	0	2	0	2
6	Sweden	0	1	0	1
7	Belarus	0	0	2	2
8	Austria	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1

References

• "Results of the 2005 World Championships, Hochfilzen (AUT), 4–13 Mar 2005". International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 14 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-17.