World Team Challenge
World Team Challenge | |
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World Team Challenge 2005 | |
Status | active |
Genre | sports event |
Date(s) | December |
Frequency | annual |
Location(s) | Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Inaugurated | 2002 (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 | |
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1 | 2002 | Michael Greis | Martina Glagow |
2 | 2003 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Gunn Margit Andreassen |
3 | 2004 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Liv Kjersti Eikeland |
4 | 2005 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Linda Tjørhom |
5 | 2006 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Linda Grubben |
6 | 2007 | Dmitri Yaroshenko | Ekaterina Iourieva |
7 | 2008 | Andriy Deryzemlya | Oksana Khvostenko |
8 | 2009 | Christoph Sumann | Kati Wilhelm |
9 | 2010 a | Evgeny Ustyugov | Svetlana Sleptsova |
10 | 2011 | Carl Johan Bergman | Kaisa Mäkäräinen |
11 | 2012 | Anton Shipulin | Ekaterina Yurlova |
12 | 2013 | Florian Graf | Laura Dahlmeier |
13 | 2014 | Serhiy Semenov | Valj Semerenko |
14 | 2015 | Martin Fourcade | Marie Dorin-Habert |
15 | 2016 | Simon Schempp | Vanessa Hinz |
16 | 2017 | Alexey Volkov | Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht |
17 | 2018 | Lukas Hofer | Dorothea Wierer |
18 | 2019 | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | Marte Olsbu Røiseland |
19 | 2020 | Matvey Eliseev | Evgeniya Pavlova |
20 | 2021 | Felix Leitner | Lisa Theresa Hauser |
21 | 2022 | Fabien Claude | Julia Simon |
22 | 2023[2] | Fabien Claude | Julia Simon |
- ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.
Successful nations
Rank | Country | Victories |
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1 | Norway | 5 |
Russia | ||
3 | Germany | 3.5 |
4 | France | 3 |
5 | Ukraine | 2 |
6 | Austria | 1.5 |
7 | Italy | 1 |
8 | Finland | 0.5 |
Sweden |
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 |
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Austria | * | ** | 1* | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Belarus | 1 | 1 | * | * | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Belgium | * | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
China | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Czech Republic | 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 | ||||
Germany | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3* | 1** | 3 | 2 | 3 | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Norway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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 | |||||||||||||||||
Sweden | 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 |
- Legend to the table
«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.
References
External links
Media related to World Team Challenge at Wikimedia Commons
- Official web page of the event