1974 Biathlon World Championships

1974 Biathlon World Championships
winner
sprint	Juhani Suutarinen
singles	Juhani Suutarinen
Season	Soviet Union
← Lake Placid 1973	Antholz 1975 →

The 13th Biathlon World Championships took place in 1974 in the specially built Raubitschy winter sports complex near Minsk in the Soviet Union . With the addition of the sprint competition to the world championship program, three competitions were held for the first time.

Men

Sprint 10 km

space	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Juhani Suutarinen	37: 42.43	0 + 2
2	Günter Bartnik	38: 30.73	1 + 3
3	Torsten Wadman	38: 44.03	2 + 0
4th	Gheorghe Gârniță	38: 46.36	0 + 2
5	Simo Halons	38: 51.40	1 + 2
6th	Nikolai Kruglow	39: 13.99	2 + 2
7th	Kåre Hovda	39: 15.70	0 + 3
8th	Sune Adolfsson	39: 19.10	2 + 2
...	...	...	...
15th	Karl-Heinz Menz	40: 07.55	1 + 3
18th	Josef Niedermeier	40: 32.80	2 + 1
24	Josef Keck	40: 47.40	3 + 2
27	Manfred Beer	41: 00.38	2 + 3
38	Heinrich Mehringer	41: 55.50	3 + 3
42	Manfred Geyer	42: 03.18	1 + 1
47	Udo Ehrenberg	42: 41.40	1 + 4

Date: February 28

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Juhani Suutarinen	1: 12: 04.74	0 + 1 + 0 + 0
2	Gheorghe Gârniță	1: 13: 28.92	0 + 0 + 0 + 1
3	Svendsberget gate	1: 13: 37.10	0 + 3 + 0 + 0
4th	Heikki Ikola	1: 13: 53.78	1 + 3 + 0 + 0
5	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 14: 12.91	0 + 0 + 2 + 2
6th	Josef Niedermeier	1: 14: 41.40	1 + 0 + 1 + 1
7th	Ivan Byakov	1: 15: 10.14	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
8th	Kjell Hovda	1: 15: 50.90	0 + 2 + 0 + 1
...	...	...	...
11	Manfred Geyer	1: 17: 13.38	0 + 2 + 2 + 0
20th	Klaus Gehrke	1: 19: 21.30	2 + 0 + 3 + 0
25th	Josef Keck	1: 21: 21.50	1 + 4 + 2 + 0
28	Rüdiger Mühlig	1: 21: 44.45	3 + 3 + 3 + 0
44	Günter Bartnik	1: 24: 03.60	0 + 0 + 1 + 4
52	Karl-Heinz Wolf	1: 27: 08.12	2 + 2 + 5 + 5
57	Franz Watzinger	1: 36: 45.40	5 + 3 + 5 + 3

Date: February 27

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Soviet Union	Alexander Ushakow Alexander Tikhonow Yuri Kolmakow Nikolai Kruglow	2: 02: 48.75
2	Finland	Simo Halonen Henrik Flöjt Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola	2: 04: 08.81
3	Norway	Terje Hanssen Kåre Hovda Kjell Hovda Gate Svendsberget	2: 05: 15.35
4th	GDR	Manfred Beer Manfred Geyer Karl-Heinz Menz Günter Bartnik	2: 09: 36.11

Date: March 1st

Medal table

Nations

space	nation
1	Finland	2	1	0	3
2	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
3	German Democratic Republic	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
5	Norway	0	0	2	2
6th	Sweden	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Juhani Suutarinen	2	1	0	3
2	Alexander Ushakov	1	0	0	1
	Alexander Tikhonov	1	0	0	1
	Yuri Kolmakov	1	0	0	1
	Nikolai Kruglow	1	0	0	1
6th	Gheorghe Gârniță	0	1	0	1
7th	Günter Bartnik	0	1	0	1
	Simo Halons	0	1	0	1
	Henrik Flöjt	0	1	0	1
	Heikki Ikola	0	1	0	1
11	Svendsberget gate	0	0	2	2
12	Torsten Wadman	0	1	0	1
	Terje Hanssen	0	1	0	1
	Kåre Hovda	0	0	1	1
	Kjell Hovda	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1975 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1974, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 172 .

Web links

• Men 10 km sprint. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on August 28, 2012 (English). 
• Men 20 km Individual. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on August 28, 2012 (English).