Biathlon World Championships 1978

Biathlon World Championships 1978
winner
sprint	Frank Ullrich
singles	Odd Lirhus
Season	GDR
← Vingrom 1977	Ruhpolding 1979 →

The 16th Biathlon World Championships were in 1978 in the Austrian Hochfilzen instead. The Junior World Championships were held in Ruhpolding .

Men

Sprint 10 km

space	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Frank Ullrich	32: 17.44	0 + 0
2	Eberhard Rösch	32: 38.11	0 + 0
3	Klaus Siebert	33: 02.87	0 + 0
4th	Vladimir Barnashov	33: 07.38	0 + 0
5	Sigleif Johansen	33: 23.31	1 + 1
6th	Odd Lirhus	34: 09.91	0 + 3
7th	Luigi Weiss	34: 40.20	1 + 2
8th	Per Andersson	34: 43.10	0 + 0
9	Gerhard Winkler	34: 47.80	0 + 1
10	Heinrich Mehringer	34: 48.20	1 + 0
11	Alfred Eder	34: 51.50	0 + 1
...	...	...	...
15th	Manfred Geyer	34: 59.83	1 + 0
16	Andreas Schweiger	35: 00.60	0 + 0
28	Josef Koll	35: 45.90	0 + 1
33	Hans Estner	36: 32.00	2 + 3
34	Hansruedi Süssli	36: 33.4	0 + 3
39	Franz Weber	36: 45.30	0 + 4
46	Roland Burn	37: 23.40	0 + 3
52	Siegfried Dockner	38: 08.70	4 + 2
65	Adrian dust	39: 51.80	1 + 2
67	Emil Süssli	40: 41.70	1 + 2

Date: March 4th

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Odd Lirhus	1: 05: 26.39	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	Frank Ullrich	1: 05: 35.79	1 + 1 + 0 + 0
3	Eberhard Rösch	1: 06: 04.29	0 + 1 + 0 + 1
4th	Heikki Ikola	1: 06: 54.51	0 + 0 + 0 + 1
5	Nikolai Kruglow	1: 07: 10.75	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
6th	Roar Nilsen	1: 07: 40.60	0 + 1 + 0 + 0
7th	Klaus Siebert	1: 08: 03.18	2 + 0 + 1 + 0
8th	Erkki Antila	1: 08: 04.20	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
...	...	...	...
13	Alfred Eder	1: 09: 49.60	2 + 1 + 1 + 0
14th	Heinrich Mehringer	1: 09: 53.40	0 + 0 + 1 + 0
15th	Manfred Beer	1: 10: 06.84	1 + 0 + 1 + 2
27	Andreas Schweiger	1: 11: 44.70	0 + 1 + 1 + 1
30th	Josef Koll	1: 12: 14.90	1 + 0 + 1 + 2
32	Hans Estner	1: 12: 33.00	1 + 4 + 0 + 0
38	Hansruedi Süssli	1: 13: 46.10	0 + 3 + 0 + 4
42	Franz Weber	1: 15: 12.40	0 + 5 + 0 + 4
44	Siegfried Dockner	1: 15: 35.40	1 + 4 + 2 + 2
48	Gerhard Winkler	1: 16: 31.90	2 + 3 + 0 + 3
54	Arthur Schnüriger	1: 19: 49.10	1 + 0 + 1 + 2
57	Roland Burn	1: 20: 32.20	2 + 0 + 2 + _
59	Adrian dust	1: 20: 57.90	0 + 2 + 1 + 3

Date: March 2nd

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	GDR	Manfred Beer Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	1: 37: 45.65	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1
2	Norway	Gate Svendsberget Roar Nilsen Odd Lirhus Sigleif Johansen	1: 40: 28.59	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0
3	BR Germany	Heinrich Mehringer Hans Estner Andreas Schweiger Gerhard Winkler	1: 40: 35.10	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0
4th	Soviet Union	Vladimir Barnaschow Alexander Ushakow Nikolai Kruglow Alexander Tichonow	1: 41: 04.39	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0
5	Austria	Franz Weber Siegfried Dockner Frederick Schmidt Alfred Eder	1: 42: 89.10	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0
6th	Czechoslovakia	Miroslav Soviš Jaromír Šimůnek Antonín Kříž Zdeněk Pavlíček	1: 43: 09.65	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 0
7th	Finland	Erkki Antila Simo Halonen Mauri Lahtela Raimo Seppänen	1: 43: 52.6	0
8th	Italy	Giuliano Spiller Lino Jordan Luigi Weiss Arduino Tiraboschi	1: 44: 17.4	1
...	...	...	...	...
15th	Switzerland	Roland Burn Adrian Staub Emil Süssli Hansruedi Süssli	1: 48: 27.90	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0

Date: March 5th

Medal table

Nations

space	country
1	German Democratic Republic	2	2	2	6th
2	Norway	1	1	0	2
3	BR Germany	0	0	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Frank Ullrich	2	1	0	3
2	Eberhard Rösch	1	1	1	3
3	Odd Lirhus	1	1	0	2
4th	Klaus Siebert	1	0	1	2
5	Manfred Beer	1	0	0	1
6th	Svendsberget gate	0	1	0	1
	Roar Nilsen	0	1	0	1
	Sigleif Johansen	0	1	0	1
9	Heinrich Mehringer	0	0	1	1
	Hans Estner	0	0	1	1
	Andreas Schweiger	0	0	1	1
	Gerhard Winkler	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1978, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 176 .

Web links

• Men 10 km sprint. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on October 3, 2012 (English). 
• Men 20 km Individual. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on October 3, 2012 (English). 
• Men 4 x 7.5 km relay. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on October 3, 2012 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ БИАТЛОН История Biathlon - History on dynamo.by (Russian), accessed on February 3, 2016