Biathlon World Championships 1967

Biathlon World Championships 1967
winner
sprint	Viktor Mamatov
Season	Norway
← Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1966	Zakopane 1969 →

The 8th Biathlon World Championships were held in Altenberg in the GDR in 1967 . The competitions were held at the SG Dynamo Zinnwald facilities . Because of the Olympic Winter Games, there were no regular biathlon world championships in the following year.

Results

Postage stamp for the Biathlon World Cup 1967 in Altenberg

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Penalty minutes
1	Viktor Mamatov	1: 18: 34.1	6th
2	Stanisław Szczepaniak	1: 29: 21.3	5
3	Jon Istad	1: 30: 03.7	12
4th	Rinnat Safin	1: 30: 08.7	13
5	Ola Wærhaug	1: 31: 14.7	14th
6th	Erkki Ala-Honkola	1: 31: 32.3	13
7th	Ragnar Tveiten	1: 31: 33.6	15th
8th	Horst Koschka	1: 33: 59.2	11
9	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 34: 11.2	19th
10	Heikki Flöjt	1: 34: 27.8	18th
11	Sten Eriksson	1: 34: 27.9	8th
12	Torgeir Tallerås	1: 35: 18.2	18th
13	Pavel Ploc	1: 35: 45.0	15th
14th	Ladislav Mundil	1: 36: 17.9	14th
15th	Olle Petrusson	1: 37: 27.6	15th
16	Xaver Kraus	1: 37: 36.2	12
	Helmut Klöpsch
18th	Egon Schnabel	1: 37: 55.3	12
19th	Shozo Okuyma	1: 38: 00.2	12
20th	Isao Ono	1: 38: 26.5	12
21st	Louis Romand	1: 38: 33.5	17th
22nd	Holmfried Olsson	1: 38: 59.4	16
23	Constantin Carabela	1: 39: 10.5	14th
24	Józef Stopka	1: 39: 33.5	15th
25th	Nikolai Pushanov	1: 39: 33.8	22nd
26th	Nicolae Bărbăşescu	1: 40: 52.8	17th
27	Martti Jantunen	1: 40: 58.0	21st
28	Vilmoș Gheorghe	1: 41: 07.1	20th
29	Claus Schubert	1: 41: 34.8	18th
30th	Miki Shibuya	1: 41: 52.5	15th
31	Kalevi Vähäkylä	1: 42: 24.3	24
32	Horst Schneider	1: 43: 31.5	13
33	Erich Schönbächler	1: 44: 07.3	16
34	Herbert Hindelang	1: 44: 34.2	16
35	Gheorghe Cimpoia	1: 44: 56.7	17th
36	Jean-Claude Viry	1: 45: 36.0	24
37	Vladimír Jeřábek	1: 45: 37.8	18th
38	Peter Gerig	1: 46: 09.3	15th
39	Yoshio Ninomine	1: 46: 10.1	20th
40	Stanislaw Łukaszczyk	1: 46: 37.7	21st
41	Hermann Fischer	1: 46: 43.8	17th
42	Gilbert Mercier	1: 47: 39.4	14th
43	Othmar Kälin	1: 47: 52.9	20th
44	Ladislav Žižka	1: 49: 32.5	24
45	Otto Neunhauser	1: 50: 34.3	21st
46	Adolf Scherwitzl	1: 50: 38.8	19th
47	Sten Eriksson	1: 50: 55.1	23
48	Guy Duraffourg	1: 51: 40.0	26th
49	Józef Gąsienica Sobczak	1: 53: 08.9	29
50	Hubert Merkel	1: 53: 54.0	26th

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [h]	Penalty minutes
1	Norway	Jon Istad Ragnar Tveiten Ola Wærhaug Olav Jordet	2: 52: 41.5	14th
2	Soviet Union	Alexander Tichonow Viktor Mamatow Rinnat Safin Nikolai Pusanow	3: 03: 11.8	16
3	Sweden	Olle Petrusson Tore Eriksson Holmfrid Olsson Sture Ohlin	3: 04: 47.3	12
0...
5	GDR	Wolfgang Böttner Egon Schnabel Helmut Klöpsch Horst Koschka	3: 09: 47.3	23
12	BR Germany	Hubert Merkel Theo Merkel Xaver Kraus Herbert Hindelang	3: 26: 46.8	23

Date: February 19th

Medal table

Nations

space	nation
1	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
2	Norway	1	0	1	2
3	Poland	0	1	0	1
4th	Sweden	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Viktor Mamatov	1	1	0	2
2	Jon Istad	1	0	1	2
3	Ragnar Tveiten	1	0	0	1
	Ola Wærhaug	1	0	0	1
	Olav Jordet	1	0	0	1
6th	Stanisław Szczepaniak	0	1	0	1
	Alexander Tikhonov	0	1	0	1
	Rinnat Safin	0	1	0	1
	Nikolai Pushanov	0	1	0	1
10	Olle Petrusson	0	0	1	1
	Goals Eriksson	0	0	1	1
	Holmfrid Olsson	0	0	1	1
	Stubborn Ohlin	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results of the Biathlon World Championships 1966-67 on the-sports.org
• Results lists on sports123.com
• List of biathlon world champions on laola1.at
• Biathlon World Cup 1967 on biathlonworld.com
• Biathlon history 1958 to 1972 on biathlonworld.com