Biathlon European Championships 2014

The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 2014.

There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.

Schedule of events
Biathlon European Championships 2014 official logo

The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.

Date Time Event
January 2910:00U21 Women's individual
13:30U21 Men's individual
January 3010:00U26 Women's individual
13:30U26 Men's individual
January 3110:00U21 Women's sprint
13:00U21 Men's sprint
February 110:00U26 Women's sprint
12:45U26 Men's sprint
February 209:15U26 Women's pursuit
10:15U21 Women's pursuit
12:30U26 Men's pursuit
13:30U21 Men's pursuit
February 312:00U21 Mixed relay
February 410:00U26 Women's relay
13:00U26 Men's relay

Results

Men's

It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 10 km sprint[1] Lars Helge Birkeland Maxim Tsvetkov Andrejs Rastorgujevs
David Komatz
Men's 12.5 km pursuit[2] Maxim Tsvetkov Lars Helge Birkeland Anton Babikov
Men's 20 km individual[3] Andrejs Rastorgujevs Benedikt Doll Maxim Tsvetkov
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay[4] Austria
Lorenz Wäger
Michael Reiter
Peter Brunner
David Komatz		 Norway
Kristoffer Skjelvik
Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Lars Helge Birkeland		 Germany
Michael Willeitner
Matthias Bischl
Benedikt Doll
Florian Graf

Women's

Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete (Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's 7.5 km sprint[5] Marte Olsbu Victoria Padial Iana Bondar
Women's 10 km pursuit[6] Mona Brorsson Victoria Padial Daria Virolaynen
Women's 15 km individual[7] Audrey Vaillancourt Nastassia Kalina Iryna Kryuko
Women's 4 x 6 km relay[8] Belarus
Iryna Kryuko
Ala Talkach
Aksana Shymanovich
Nastassia Kalina		 Germany
Karolin Horchler
Annika Knoll
Vanessa Hinz
Maren Hammerschmidt		 Norway
Ane Skrove Nossum
Hilde Fenne
Bente Landheim
Marte Olsbu

Men's

Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's sprint[9] Raman Yaliotnau Adam Václavík Maikol Demetz
Men's pursuit[10] Alexander Povarnitsyn Artem Tyshchenko Adam Václavík
Men's individual[11] Rene Zahkna Ivan Alekhin Artem Tyshchenko

Women's
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's sprint[12] Tuuli Tomingas Svetlana Mironova Uliana Kaisheva
Women's pursuit[13] Svetlana Mironova Uliana Kaisheva Dunja Zdouc
Women's individual[14] Anastasia Evsyunina Anastasiya Merkushyna Lisa Vittozzi

Mixed
Event Gold Silver Bronze
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay[15] Ukraine
Yuliya Bryhynets
Yuliya Zhuravok
Andriy Dotsenko
Artem Tyshchenko		 Russia
Anastasia Evsyunina
Uliana Kaisheva
Eduard Latypov
Alexander Povarnitsyn		 Estonia
Meril Beilmann
Tuuli Tomingas
Johan Talihärm
Rene Zahkna

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)45413
2 Norway (NOR)2215
3 Belarus (BLR)2114
4 Estonia (EST)2013
5 Ukraine (UKR)1225
6 Austria (AUT)1023
7 Latvia (LAT)1012
8 Canada (CAN)1001
 Sweden (SWE)1001
10 Germany (GER)0213
11 Czech Republic (CZE)0202
 Spain (ESP)0202
13 Italy (ITA)0022
Totals (13 nations)15161546

Participating countries

33 nations competed

References
  1. "Men's 10 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  2. Men's 12.5 km pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Men's 20 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  4. "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Men 4x7.5km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  5. "Women's 7.5 km sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. Women's 10 km pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Women's 15 km individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  8. "IBU Open European Championships Biathlon 2014, Nove Mesto Na Morave: Women 4x6km Relay - Final Results" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  9. "Junior men's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  10. Junior men's pursuit final results Archived February 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Junior men's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  12. "Junior women's sprint final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  13. Junior women's pursuit final results Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  14. "Junior women's individual final results". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  15. Junior mixed relay final results Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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