World Team Challenge

World Team Challenge
World Team Challenge 2005
Statusactive
Genresports event
Date(s)December
Frequencyannual
Location(s)Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
CountryGermany
Inaugurated2002 (2002)

The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.

Statistics

Winners by edition

# Years Winners
1 2002 Germany Michael Greis Germany Martina Glagow
2 2003 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway Gunn Margit Andreassen
3 2004 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway Liv Kjersti Eikeland
4 2005 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway Linda Tjørhom
5 2006 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway Linda Grubben
6 2007 Russia Dmitri Yaroshenko Russia Ekaterina Iourieva
7 2008 Ukraine Andriy Deryzemlya Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko
8 2009 Austria Christoph Sumann Germany Kati Wilhelm
9 2010 a Russia Evgeny Ustyugov Russia Svetlana Sleptsova
10 2011 Sweden Carl Johan Bergman Finland Kaisa Mäkäräinen
11 2012 Russia Anton Shipulin Russia Ekaterina Yurlova
12 2013 Germany Florian Graf Germany Laura Dahlmeier
13 2014 Ukraine Serhiy Semenov Ukraine Valj Semerenko
14 2015 France Martin Fourcade France Marie Dorin-Habert
15 2016 Germany Simon Schempp Germany Vanessa Hinz
16 2017 Russia Alexey Volkov Russia Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
17 2018 Italy Lukas Hofer Italy Dorothea Wierer
18 2019 Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland
19 2020 Russia Matvey Eliseev Russia Evgeniya Pavlova
20 2021 Austria Felix Leitner Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser
21 2022 France Fabien Claude France Julia Simon
22 2023[2] France Fabien Claude France Julia Simon
23 2024 Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten
  • ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.

Successful nations

Rank Country Victories
1  Norway 6
2  Russia 5
3  Germany 3.5
4  France 3
5  Ukraine 2
6  Austria 1.5
7  Italy 1
8  Finland
 Sweden		 0.5

Participating nations

Country 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
 Austria * ** 1* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Belarus 1 1 * * 1
 Belgium * 1 1
 Canada 1 1 1
 China 1 1
 Czech Republic 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Finland 1 1 * * * 1 1
 France 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Germany 4 5 4 5 6 5 3* 1** 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
 Italy 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Japan 1 1
 Latvia 1
 Norway 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 * 1 1 1 1
 Poland 1 1
 Romania *
 Russia 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Slovakia 1
 Slovenia 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Sweden 1* * 1 1 1
 Switzerland 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 United States 1 1 1 1
 Ukraine 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Legend to the table

«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.

References

  1. ^ "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  2. ^ "Simon and Claude Defend World Team Challenge Title". International Biathlon Union - IBU. 2023-12-28. Retrieved 2023-12-30.

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