Biathlon

Biathlon combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Find Olympic Biathlon videos, photos, events, results and news, plus Olympic and World records.

The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Biathlon debuted at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley with the men's 20 km individual event. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre, Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea.

What you need to know about biathlon at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games

The Outline Biathlon is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, two events that are very different from each other. Athletes strap the...

Biathlon is one of the most challenging of all the Winter Olympics sports. The biathlon requires athletes to have both stamina and precision as they compete in a cross country skiing race that is interrupted by frequent stops to shoot at a series of targets. This sport, which dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, became …

Daily Report - Highlights of the Men's Biathlon 10km Sprint from the Laura Cross-Country Ski Stadium as Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen wins the gold medal at...

The biathlon combines long-distance cross country skiing with precise .22 caliber target shooting. But for the U.S. Biathlon Team, Olympic training can't sto...

The sport of biathlon has a long history among northern European countries.

About Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games

Olympic qualification for biathlon began on November 25, 2016 in Beitostolen, Norway. In total, 230 biathletes, 115 per gender, will compete in PyeongChang.   Countries earned spots for athletes in the Olympic Winter Games through competing in International Biathlon Union (IBU) events. Based on the men’s and women’s IBU World Cup Nations Cup final standings at

Preview of the Olympic event biathlon

Preview of the Olympic event biathlon

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Medal Winners: Gold: Klas Lestander, Silver: Antti Tyrväinen, Bronze: Aleksandr Privalov, Summary Biathlon was a new event in the Olympic program 1960. It was an individual variant of the military ski patrol competition, an official medal sport in 1924, and organized as a demonstration sport on several earlier Olympic occasions. The first World Championships were organized in Saalfelden, Austria in 1958 with [Adolf Wiklund] from Sweden as the first champion. One year later the Soviets took a double in Courmayeur, Italy, with [Vladimir Melanin] as winner and [Dmitry Sokolov] in second place. The Olympic biathlon competition in 1960 was contested over 20 km with 20 shots fired over four different ranges: 200m, 250m, 150m and 100m. The first three series were fired from a prone position, the last standing. Each missed target gave a two minute penalty, which was added to the final time. In 1967 the penalty for each missed target was reduced from two to one minute. Also the weapon was different from the small board rifle in use nowadays. The biathletes at that time used a high-power center fire rifle, normally caliber 7,62 mm. The normal start interval in those days was two minutes, but due to very mild temperatures the intervals were reduced to one minute for the first Olympic event. Before the final five standing shots, only three participants had been able to hit all 15 targets, and those three held the medal positions. [Aleksandr Privalov] from the Soviet Union had a lead of over two minutes on the Swede [Klas Lestander], and the Norwegian 38-year-old veteran [Henry Hermansen] followed closely in third place. But the final standing shooting turned out to be decisive. Lestander once again made 5 hits, the only competitor to hit all 20 targets, and would finish as Olympic champion, even if his cross country time was the 15th best of the day out of 30 competitors. Privalov missed three times, was penalized with six minutes, and was also passed in the final stage by the Finn [Antti Tyrväinen], who had two missed targets on the first two shooting phases, but was able to hit his last 10 targets. For Hermansen, the final shooting phase was even worse - he missed four shots and went down to 10th place overall. The fastest skier of the day, the French cross country specialist [Victor Arbez], had a cross-country time almost 7 1/2 minutes better than the Olympic Champion Lestander, but was only able to hit 2 of his 20 targets. He was penalized 36 minutes and ended up placing 25th out of the 30 competitors. The Olympic Champion Klas Lestander was 28, and came from the little village Arjeplog in the Lapland area in the far north of Sweden. He ended his athletic career after being a member of the Swedish relay team that placed third at the 1961 World Biathlon Championships. At that time, the relay event was not an official championships event.

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