Biathlon World Championship 1961

Biathlon World Championships 1961
winner
singles	Kalevi Huuskonen
Team - only unofficial rating	Finland
← Courmayeur 1959	Hämeenlinna 1962 →

The 3rd biathlon world championship took place in 1961 in Umeå in Sweden . In the previous year there had been no biathlon world championships because of the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley .

Men

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Kalevi Huuskonen	1:32:11	2
2	Alexander Privalov	1:35:07	6th
3	Paavo Repo	1:35:20	8th
4th	Valentin Pschenitsyn	1:37:37	6th
5	Antti Tyrväinen	1:38:07	6th
6th	Dmitri Sokolov	1:38:51	10
7th	Magnar Ingebrigstli	1:39:33	10
8th	Days Lundin	1:39:46	6th

Date: February 25th

Team competition (unofficial)

The results of the three best starters in each country in the individual race were combined into a team ranking.

space	country	athlete	time	Sch.
1	Finland	Kalevi Huuskonen Paavo Repo Antti Tyrväinen	...	...
2	Soviet Union	Alexander Privalov Valentin Pschenitsyn Dmitri Sokolov	...	...
3	Sweden	Klas Lestander Days Lundin Stig Andersson	...	...

Official medal table

without taking into account the unofficial relay medals

Nations

space	nation
1	Finland	1	0	1	2
2	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Kalevi Huuskonen	1	0	0	1
2	Alexander Privalov	0	1	0	1
3	Paavo Repo	0	0	1	1

Unofficial medal table

taking into account the unofficial relay medals

Nations

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

Nations

space	nation
1	Kalevi Huuskonen	2	0	0	2
2	Paavo Repo	1	0	1	3
3	Antti Tyrväinen	1	0	0	1
4th	Alexander Privalov	0	2	0	2
5	Dmitri Sokolov	0	1	0	1
5	Valentin Pschenitsyn	0	1	0	1
7th	Klas Lestander	0	0	1	1
7th	Days Lundin	0	0	1	1
7th	Stig Andersson	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. ↑ Biathlonworld, data center on the website biathlonresults.com