Biathlon World Championships 1996

Biathlon World Championships 1996
Host cityRuhpolding, Bavaria
CountryGermany
Events8
Opening3 February 1996 (1996-02-03)
Closing11 February 1996 (1996-02-11)

The 31st Biathlon World Championships were held in 1996 for the third time in Ruhpolding, Germany.[1]

Men's results

20 km individual

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sergei Tarasov RUS 53:05.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Vladimir Drachev RUS 53:49.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vadim Sashurin BLR 54:38.3

10 km sprint

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vladimir Drachev RUS 26:52.3
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Viktor Maigourov RUS
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) René Cattarinussi ITA

Team event

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Belarus

Vadim Sashurin
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Alexandr Popov
Petr Ivashko

BLR 26:05.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Russia

Viktor Maigourov
Vladimir Drachev
Pavel Mouslimov
Sergei Rozhkov

RUS
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Italy

René Cattarinussi
Pieralberto Carrara
Patrick Favre
Hubert Leitgeb

ITA

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Russia

Viktor Maigourov
Vladimir Drachev
Sergei Tarasov
Alexei Kobelev

RUS 1:19:50.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Germany

Ricco Groß
Peter Sendel
Frank Luck
Sven Fischer

GER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Belarus

Alexei Aidarov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Vadim Sashurin
Alexandr Popov

BLR

Women's results

15 km individual

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Emmanuelle Claret FRA 46:43.1
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olga Melnik RUS
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Olena Petrova UKR

7.5 km sprint

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Olga Romasko RUS 22:30.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ann-Elen Skjelbreid NOR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Magdalena Forsberg SWE

Team event

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Germany

Katrin Apel
Petra Behle
Uschi Disl
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm

GER 23:23.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ukraine

Tetyana Vodopyanova
Olena Petrova
Olena Zubrilova
Nina Lemesh

UKR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) France

Anne Briand
Corinne Niogret
Florence Baverel-Robert
Emmanuelle Claret

FRA

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal Name Nation Penalties Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Germany

Uschi Disl
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm
Katrin Apel
Petra Behle

GER 1:33:59.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) France

Corinne Niogret
Florence Baverel-Robert
Emmanuelle Claret
Anne Briand

FRA
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ukraine

Tetyana Vodopyanova
Olena Petrova
Olena Zubrilova
Valentina Tserbe-Nessina

UKR

Medal table

Place Nation 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
1 Russia 4 4 0 8
2 Germany 2 1 0 3
3 France 1 1 1 3
4 Belarus 1 0 2 3
5 Ukraine 0 1 2 3
6 Norway 0 1 0 1
7 Italy 0 0 2 2
8 Sweden 0 0 1 1

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