Biathlon World Championships 1969

Biathlon World Championships 1969
winner
sprint	Alexander Tikhonov
Season	Soviet Union
← Altenberg 1967	Östersund 1970 →

The 9th Biathlon World Championships took place in 1969 in the Polish winter sports resort of Zakopane . Because of the Olympic Winter Games , there had been no regular biathlon world championships in the previous year.

Men

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Shoot
1	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 22: 46.2	5
2	Rinnat Safin	1: 22: 49.0	3
3	Magnar Solberg	1: 24: 00.7	5
4th	Nikolai Pushanov	1: 24: 58.9	4th
5	Miki Shibuay	1: 24: 59.9	3
6th	Horst Koschka	1: 25: 39.0	3
7th	Joachim Günther	1: 25: 40.5	0
8th	Pavel Ploc	1: 25: 52.5	2
0 ...

Date: February 27

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [h]	Shoot
1	Soviet Union	Alexander Tikhonov Viktor Mamatow Rinnat Safin Vladimir Gundarzew	1: 57: 55.1	0
2	Norway	Jon Istad Ragnar Tveiten Magnar Solberg Esten Gjelten	2: 03: 58.6	2
3	Finland	Kalevi Vähäkylä Mauri Röppänen Mauno Peltonen Esko Marttinen	2: 05: 04.1	4th
4th	Czechoslovakia		2: 06: 37.8	2
5	GDR	Hans-Gert Jahn Joachim Günther Horst Koschka Dieter Speer	2: 06: 49.0	3
0 ...

Date: March 2nd

Medal table

Nations

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

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Alexander Tikhonov	2	0	0	2
2	Rinnat Safin	1	1	0	2
3	Viktor Mamatov	1	0	0	1
	Vladimir Gundarzew	1	0	0	1
5	Magnar Solberg	0	1	1	2
6th	Jon Istad	0	1	0	1
	Ragnar Tveiten	0	1	0	1
	Estonians	0	1	0	1
9	Kalevi Vähäkylä	0	0	1	1
	Mauri Röppänen	0	0	1	1
	Mauno Peltonen	0	0	1	1
	Esko Marttinen	0	0	1	1

literature

• GDR daily newspaper Neues Deutschland , edition of March 2, 1969, individual results
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of March 3, 1969, relay results

Web links

• Results lists on sports123.com
• List of biathlon world champions on laola1.at
• Biathlon World Cup 1969 on biathlonworld.com
• Biathlon history 1958 to 1972 on biathlonworld.com