1958 Biathlon World Championship

1958 Biathlon World Championships
winner
singles	Adolf Wiklund
Team - only unofficial rating	Sweden
	Biathlon World Championship 1959 →

The 1st Biathlon World Championship was held on February 1st and 2nd, 1958 in Saalfelden , Austria .

Until 1965, only one world champion was determined in the individual competition over 20 km. The teams were only rated unofficially. A relay race was first held in 1959 as a "supporting program". Official medals were awarded for the relay from 1966.

Biathlon men

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Diff	Shooting error
01	Adolf Wiklund	1: 33: 44.0		03
02	Olle Gunneriusson	1: 34: 13.0	+ 29.0	03
03	Viktor Butakov	1: 34: 46.0	+1: 02.0	06th
04th	Stubborn Ohlin	1: 35: 47.0	+ 2: 03.0	03
05	Arvid Nyberg	1: 36: 54.0	+ 3: 10.0	07th
06th	Pentti Napari	1: 37: 13.0	+ 3: 29.0	07th
07th	Valentin Pschenitsyn	1: 37: 14.0	+ 3: 30.0	07th
08th	Sven Nilsson	1: 40: 14.0	+ 6: 30.0	06th
09	Dmitri Sokolov	1: 41: 21.0	+ 7: 37.0	11
10	Alexander Gubin	1: 42: 12.0	+ 8: 28.0	10
11	Stanisław Zięba	...	...	...
12	Asbjørn Bakken	1: 49: 35.0	+ 15: 51.0	10
13	Hermann Mayr	1: 50: 52.0	+ 17: 08.0	11
14th	Stanislaw Styrczula	...	...	...
...	...	...	...	...
16	Knut Wold	1: 55: 23.0	+ 21: 39.0	12
17th	Ernst Paul	1: 57: 06.0	+ 23: 22.0	07th
...	...	...	...	...
...	Rolf Graterud	2: 02: 06.0	+ 28: 22.0
...	...	...	...	...
25th	Fritz Krischan	2: 04: 23.0	+ 30: 39.0	17th
...	...	...	...	...
27	Heinz Härting	2: 08: 07.0	+ 34: 23.0	20th

Date: Sun. February 2, 1958, 10:30 a.m.

Only 28 athletes from six nations competed in the first biathlon world championship.

The participants had to go to the shooting range four times and fire five shots each, the distance decreased from 250 to 200, 150 and 100 meters. Only the last shooting was standing. Two minutes were added to the running time for each missed shot.

Team competition 4 × 20 km (unofficial)

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sweden	Adolf Wiklund Olle Gunneriusson Sture Ohlin Sven Nilsson	6:23:58
2	Soviet Union	Viktor Butakov Valentin Pschenitsyn Dmitri Sokolov Alexander Gubin	+ 11:35
3	Norway	Arvid Nyberg Asbjørn Bakken Knut Wold Rolf Graterud	+ 1:00:00
4th	Poland	Stanisław Zięba Stanisław Styrczula Stanisław Szczepaniak Stanisław Gąsienica-Sobczak	+ 1:16:22
5	Austria	Hermann Mayr Ernst Paul Fritz Krischan Heinz Härting	+ 1:36:30

Date: February 2, 1958, 10:30 a.m.

This competition was not a relay, but a team competition as it is called here. The results came about in an unofficial evaluation by adding up the four best athletes of each nation.

Official medal table

without taking into account the unofficial medals from the team evaluation

Nations

space	nation
1	Sweden	1	1	0	2
2	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Adolf Wiklund	1	0	0	1
2	Ole Gunneriusson	0	1	0	1
3	Viktor Butakov	0	0	1	1

Unofficial medal table

taking into account the unofficial medals from the team evaluation

Nations

space	nation
1	Sweden	2	1	0	3
2	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
3	Norway	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Adolf Wiklund	2	0	0	2
2	Ole Gunneriusson	1	1	0	2
3	Stubborn Ohlin	1	0	0	1
	Sven Nilsson	1	0	0	1
5	Viktor Butakov	0	1	1	2
6th	Valentin Pschenitsyn	0	1	0	1
	Dmitri Sokolov	0	1	0	1
	Alexander Gubin	0	1	0	1
9	Arvid Nyberg	0	0	1	1
	Asbjørn Bakken	0	0	1	1
	Knut Wold	0	0	1	1
	Rolf Graterud	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results lists on sports123.com
• List of biathlon world champions on laola1.at
• Biathlon history 1958 to 1972 on biathlonworld.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BIATHLON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - Saalfelden (AUT) ( English ) IBU . Retrieved March 3, 2011.