Biathlon World Championship 1963

Biathlon World Championships 1963
winner
singles	Vladimir Melanin
Team - only unofficial rating	Norway
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The 5th Biathlon World Championship took place on February 3, 1963 in Seefeld in Tyrol , Austria . Vladimir Melanin from the Soviet Union was able to successfully defend his previous year's title.

The world championship was opened on the evening of February 2, 1963 by the Austrian Federal President Adolf Schärf . The competition, which started at 8:30 am, took place at the end of the pre-Olympic competitions, but did not count as a "pre-Olympic competition". The athletes from the Soviet Union and Finland were considered favorites.

20 km individual race

space	athlete	Time (h)	Shooting penalty time (min)
1	Vladimir Melanin	1: 32: 06.8	4th
2	Antti Tyrväinen	1: 33: 46.7	4th
3	Hannu Posti	1: 35: 02.1	4th
4th	Nikolai Meshcheryakov	1: 36: 24.6	6th
5	Jon Istad	1: 36: 42.1	8th
6th	Veikko Hakulinen	1: 37: 13.7	12
7th	Valentin Pschenitsyn	1: 37: 25.3	4th
8th	Nikolai Pushanov	1: 37: 31.4	8th
0...
12	Hans-Dieter Riechel	1: 42: 18.1	6th
18th	Helmut Klöpsch	1: 46: 37.3	6th
25th	Hans King	1: 49: 32.3	8th
31	Herbert Kirchner	1: 53: 41.0	12
0...
	Fritz Mair	2: 03: 10.9	26th
	Jürgen Seifert (biathlete)	2: 04: 45.4	28
	Edgar Schubert	2: 11: 48.0	36

Veikko Hakulinen was superior with his running time, but failed in the shooting. The Austrian participants achieved the following places: 14th place Müller, 15th place Hermann Mayer, 20th place color maker, 32nd place cousin

Team ranking (unofficial)

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Melanin Nikolai Meshcheryakov Valentin Pschenitsyn	4: 45: 56.7
2	Finland	Antti Tyrväinen Hannu Posti Veikko Hakulinen	4: 46: 02.5
3	Norway	Jon Istad Olav Jordet Egil Nygård	5: 03: 55.5
4th	Sweden		5: 10: 37.3
5	Poland		5: 11: 30.9
6th	Austria		5: 13: 01.7
7th	GDR		5: 16: 18.7
0...
11	BR Germany		6: 06: 55.9

Official medal table

without taking into account the unofficial medals from the team competition

Nations

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

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Vladimir Melanin	1	0	0	1
2	Antti Tyrväinen	0	1	0	1
3	Hannu Posti	0	0	1	1

Unofficial medal table

taking into account the unofficial medals from the team competition

Nations

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

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Vladimir Melanin	2	0	0	2
2	Nikolai Meshcheryakov	1	0	0	1
	Valentin Pschenitsyn	1	0	0	1
4th	Antti Tyrväinen	0	2	0	2
5	Hannu Posti	0	1	1	2
6th	Veikko Hakulinen	0	1	0	1
7th	Jon Istad	0	0	1	1
	Olav Jordet	0	0	1	1
	Egil Nygård	0	0	1	1

literature

• New Germany newspaper , February 4, 1963 edition
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of February 4, 1963

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. ↑ "The Norwegians will win!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 30, 1963, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Federal President Dr. Sharpening at the biathlon world championship . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 2, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Hakulinen shot poorly . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1963, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).