Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championships

Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championships were held in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, the IBU hosted its own World Championship for mixed relays, known as the Mixed Relay Championships , on a trial basis in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . In 2006, after the Olympic Games in Turin , the competition was held independently again as part of the World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia . With the 2007 World Championships in Antholz, the mixed relay was firmly integrated into the competition program of the World Championships. For the time being, the last edition of a world championship with only mixed races took place in 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia , as it was the only competition of the year that was not held at the Olympic Games. Since the mixed relay will be part of the Olympic program from 2014 , there will probably no longer be an independent mixed relay world championship.

In contrast to 2007, when men ran the usual relay length of 7.5 kilometers, in 2005 and 2006 all four runners in each relay had to cover a distance of 6 kilometers. The genders also alternated in the race, since 2007 women have been running first, followed by men. Otherwise the usual rules of international biathlon relay races applied.

Results

World Championship		gold	silver	bronze
2005	Khanty-Mansiysk	Russia I. Olga Pyljowa Svetlana Ischmuratowa Iwan Tscheresow Nikolai Kruglow jr.	Russia II Anna Bogali Olga Saizewa Sergei Tschepikow Sergei Roschkov	Germany I. Uschi Disl Kati Wilhelm Michael Greis Ricco Groß
2006	Pokljuka	Russia II Anna Bogali-Titowez Sergei Tschepikow Irina Malgina Nikolai Kruglow jr.	Norway Linda Tjörhom Halvard Hanevold Tora Berger Ole Einar Bjørndalen	France I. Florence Baverel-Robert Vincent Defrasne Sandrine Bailly Raphaël Poirée
2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	Germany Simone Hauswald Magdalena Neuner Simon Schempp Arnd Peiffer	Norway Ann Kristin Flatland Tora Berger Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sweden Helena Jonsson Anna Carin Olofsson Zidek Björn Ferry Carl Johan Bergman

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	Total
1	Russia	2	1	-	3
2	Germany	1	-	1	2
3	Norway	-	2	-	2
4th	France	-	-	1	1
	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Competition Analysis, Mixed World Championships 2005 (pdf) on biathlonresults.com, accessed on February 24, 2017
2. ↑ Competition Analysis, Mixed World Championship 2006 (pdf) on biathlonresults.com, accessed on February 24, 2017
3. ↑ Competition Analysis, Mixed World Championships 2010 (pdf) on biathlonresults.com, accessed on February 24, 2017