Biathlon World Championships 1971

Biathlon World Championships 1971
winner
sprint	Dieter Speer
Season	Soviet Union
← Östersund 1970	Lake Placid 1973 →

The 11th Biathlon World Championships took place in Hämeenlinna in Finland in 1971 . Because of the Olympic Winter Games in the following year, there were no biathlon world championships in 1972.

Men

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Dieter Speer	1: 18: 20.2	2
2	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 18: 48.4	3
3	Magnar Solberg	1: 20: 00.9	0
4th	Daniel Claudon	1: 20: 31.4	2
5	Rinnat Safin	1: 20: 32.7	3
6th	Viktor Mamatov	1: 21: 48.5	2
7th	Vilhelm György	1: 22: 18.0	1
8th	Mauri Röppänen	1: 22: 38.8	5

Date: March 6th

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	time	Sch.
1	Soviet Union	Alexander Tikhonov Viktor Mamatow Rinnat Safin Nikolai Muschitow	...	...
2	Norway	Gate Svendsberget Ragnar Tveiten Magnar Solberg Ivar Nordkild	...	...
3	Poland	Józef Rózak Andrzej Rapacz Aleksander Klima Józef Stopka	...	...

Date: March 7th

Medal table

Nations

space	nation
1	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
2	German Democratic Republic	1	0	0	1
3	Norway	0	1	1	2
4th	Poland	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Alexander Tikhonov	1	1	0	2
2	Dieter Speer	1	0	0	1
	Viktor Mamatov	1	0	0	1
	Rinnat Safin	1	0	0	1
	Nikolai Mushitov	1	0	0	1
6th	Magnar Solberg	0	1	1	2
7th	Svendsberget gate	0	1	0	1
	Ragnar Tveiten	0	1	0	1
	Ivar Nordkild	0	1	0	1
10	Józef Rózak	0	0	1	1
	Andrzej Rapacz	0	0	1	1
	Aleksander climate	0	0	1	1
	Józef Stopka	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results lists on sports123.com
• List of biathlon world champions on laola1.at
• Biathlon World Championships 1971 on biathlonworld.com
• Biathlon history 1958 to 1972 on biathlonworld.com