Biathlon World Championships 2009
Host city | Pyeongchang |
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Country | South Korea |
Events | 11 |
Opening | 13 February 2009 (2009-02-13) |
Closing | 22 February 2009 (2009-02-22) |
Main venue | Alpensia Biathlon Centre |
← Östersund 2008 Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 → |
The 43rd Biathlon World Championships were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea from February 13 to February 22, 2009. It was the first time that the Biathlon World Championships were held in Asia (outside Asian Russia).
There were a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and the relatively new mixed relay. All the events during these championships also counted for the 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup season.
Championship highlights
Before the championships even started there was controversy with three Russian biathletes being sent home for having failed drugs tests during a previous round of the World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden.[citation needed] Then the first day's competition was only made possible after the efforts of over 500 volunteers, working overnight managed to re-lay the competition tracks with man-made snow after all the natural snow had disappeared after unusual weather conditions melted it all away.
The events themselves started with a victory for Kati Wilhelm[1] in the women's sprint and an extraordinary 1,2,3,4 for Norway[2] in the men's sprint with Ole Einar Bjørndalen coming out on top.
Drama started on the second day with reigning champion, Andrea Henkel disqualified before the women's pursuit even started after she accidentally loaded her rifle with live ammunition and fired a round during a pre-race practice,[3] leaving Helena Jonsson from Sweden to capture a surprise gold medal, moving into the medal positions from fifth place only after shooting clear on the final shoot.
Then during the men's 12.5 km pursuit, 15 competitors at least, including race leader and eventual winner Ole Einar Bjørndalen, skied the wrong way at the start of the first lap. Just after leaving the start, the athletes skied over a bridge instead of around it, which was a course change from the previous day's sprint competition.[4] Following a complaint from the Russian team, a race jury gave nine athletes a one-minute time penalty, relegating Bjørndalen from first to the bronze medal position and awarding the gold medal to the Russian Maxim Tchoudov. However, a counter complaint by seven other member states led to the Appeal Jury reverting to the original result. It was a record 12th World Championship gold medal for Bjørndalen.[5] Because the world championships count towards the World Cup, the win was Bjørndalen's 86th victory, equaling the winter-sport record of 86 World Cup victories by Swedish Alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark.[6]
The men's individual saw another victory for Bjørndalen, taking his tally of World Cup victories to 87, and breaking Stenmark's record that had stood since 1989.[7] The women's individual saw Wilhelm win her second gold medal of the Championships.[8]
The relay events started with the mixed relay event and in a very close competition France, Sweden and Germany were within 10 seconds of each other at the final change over with France coming out on top to win their first title in this event.[9]
The mass start for men saw Bjørndalen going for his 4th victory of the championships, and into the last shooting stage he was comfortably in the lead but then with 2 shots missed, Dominik Landertinger and Christoph Sumann from Austria and Ivan Tcherezov from Russia were able all get within 5 seconds of him. On the last skiing lap Landertinger was able to ski quickest, securing Austria their first medal of the championships, with Bjørndalen having to settle for fourth. The women's relay was won by Russia with an impressive margin over Germany with France taking bronze.[10]
The women's mass start was a close-run race with 4 women battling it out for gold after the final shoot, with Olga Zaitseva coming home comfortably at the end.[11] Kati Wilhelm, wearing bib one, had been expected to contend for gold having already collected 2 gold medals earlier in the championships but after missing 7 targets she came home last. The men's relay brought the championships to a close with another close race with Austria, Norway and Germany all in contention right up the final standing shoot of the final leg. Bjørndalen on the anchor leg for Norway shot clear whereas Sumann missed one target and the Norwegian had enough in him to ski his country to gold, collecting his fourth gold of the championships in the process.[12]
Schedule
The provisional schedule of the event is below.[13]
Date | Time | Events |
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February 14 | 8:45 KST | Women's 7.5 km sprint |
11:15 KST | Men's 10 km sprint | |
February 15 | 9:00 KST | Women's 10 km pursuit |
11:15 KST | Men's 12.5 km pursuit | |
February 17 | 6:15 KST | Men's 20 km individual |
February 18 | 10:15 KST | Women's 15 km individual |
February 19 | 10:00 KST | Mixed relay |
February 21 | 9:15 KST | Men's 15 km mass start |
11:15 KST | Women's 4 × 6 km relay | |
February 22 | 9:00 KST | Women's 12.5 km mass start |
11:15 KST | Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay |
Medal winners
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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10 km sprint[14] details | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 24:16.5 (1+1) | Lars Berger Norway | 24:17.7 (1+1) | Halvard Hanevold Norway | 24:29.0 (0+0) |
12.5 km pursuit[15] details | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 31:46.7 (0+2+0+2) | Maxim Tchoudov Russia | 32:28.4 (0+0+1+2) | Alexander Os Norway | 32:39.5 (0+0+2+1) |
20 km individual[16] details | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 52:28.0 (0+0+2+1) | Christoph Stephan Germany | 52:42.1 (1+0+0+0) | Jakov Fak Croatia | 52:45.1 (0+0+0+1) |
4 × 7.5 km relay[17] details | Norway | 1:08:04.1 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) | Austria | 1:08:16.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) | Germany | 1:08:36.8 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) |
15 km mass start[18] details | Dominik Landertinger Austria | 38:32.5 (2+0+0+1) | Christoph Sumann Austria | 38:41.4 (2+0+0+1) | Ivan Tcherezov Russia | 38:48.4 (2+0+0+0) |
Women
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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7.5 km sprint[19] details | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 21:11.1 (0+0) | Simone Hauswald Germany | 21:21.0 (0+0) | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 21:38.2 (0+0) |
10 km pursuit[20] details | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 34:12.4 (2+0+0+0) | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 34:30.6 (1+1+3+1) | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 34:36.4 (0+3+1+2) |
15 km individual[21] details | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 44:03.1 (0+1+0+0) | Teja Gregorin Slovenia | 44:42.6 (0+0+0+1) | Tora Berger Norway | 44:49.6 (0+0+0+1) |
4 × 6 km relay[22] details | Russia | 1:13:12.9 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany | 1:14:28.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (2+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) | France | 1:14:40.4 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (1+3) |
12.5 km mass start[23] details | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 34:18.3 (0+0+1+1) | Anastasiya Kuzmina Slovakia | 34:25.8 (0+0+1+1) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 34:30.6 (0+0+1+1) |
Mixed
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay[24] details | France | 1:10:30.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Sweden | 1:10:36.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Germany | 1:10:39.0 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) |
Medal summary
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Norway (NOR) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
2 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
3 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
4 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
5 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
6 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (9 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
References
- ^ Golds for Bjorndalen and Wilhelm[dead link]
- ^ Bjorndalen leads Norway sweep at biathlon world championships[dead link]
- ^ "IBU Press Release - February 15th, 2009". Biathlonworld.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ Biathlon: Bjoerndalen gold after protest, The Norway Post. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Bjorndalen wins gold after protest
- ^ Joy for record-equalling Bjoerndalen Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Age. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Bjorndalen becomes triple biathlon world champ Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Wilhelm wins individual race to take second gold at biathlon worlds
- ^ France wins biathlon mixed relay for first gold of world championships[dead link]
- ^ Golds for Landertinger and Russia[dead link]
- ^ "Russia's Zaitseva takes biathlon mass start gold". Usatoday.com. 2009-02-22. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
- ^ Bjoerndalen wins fourth gold in relay
- ^ "World Championships schedule". Biathlon-pyeongchang.or.kr. Archived from the original on 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ Men's sprint results
- ^ Men's pursuit results
- ^ Men's individual results
- ^ Men's relay results
- ^ Men's mass start results
- ^ Women's sprint results
- ^ Women's pursuit results
- ^ Women's individual results
- ^ Women's relay results
- ^ Women's mass start results
- ^ Mixed relay results
External links
- Pyeongchang 2009 official site (in English)
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