1988 Biathlon World Championships

1988 Women's Biathlon World Championships
winner
sprint	Petra Schaaf
singles	Anne Elvebakk
Season	Soviet Union
← Lahti / Lake Placid 1987	Feistritz an der Drau 1989 →

The 5th Biathlon World Championships for women took place from February 29 to March 6, 1988 in Chamonix , France . Because of the Olympic Winter Games held in the same year, no world championship fights were held for men. The last time there were separate world championships for women from men, since 1989 the world championships for men and women have been held together.

After German athletes competed for the first time last year, Petra Schaaf won the gold medal in the sprint, the first ever medal for the Federal Republic of Germany in women's biathlon. For the first time neither of the two gold medals in the sprint or individual race went to the Soviet Union, which, however, remained unbeaten in the relay competition for the fifth time.

Results

Sprint 5 km

space	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Petra Schaaf	19: 33.0	0
2	Eva Korpela	19: 47.3	1
3	Anne Elvebakk	19: 55.6	2
4th	Nadezhda Alexieva	20: 03.9	3
5	Mona Bollerud	20: 12.7	3
6th	Wenera Chernyshova	20: 26.1	0
7th	Helga Øvsthus	20: 27.8	0
8th	Tsvetana Krastewa	20: 34.9	2

Single 10 km

space	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Anne Elvebakk	36: 53.0	2
2	Elin Kristiansen	37: 35.3	1
3	Wenera Chernyshova	38: 01.7	1
4th	Jelena Golovina	38: 04.9	1
5	Eva Korpela	38: 30.1	3
5	Inger Björkbom	38: 30.1	2
7th	Myriam Bédard	38: 34.2	0
8th	Iwa Shkodrewa	38: 41.2	3

Relay 3 × 5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Soviet Union	Jelena Golowina Kaija Parve Wenera Tschernyschowa	57: 17.1	-
2	Norway	Elin Kristiansen Anne Elvebakk Mona Bollerud	57: 56.0	1
3	Sweden	Inger Björkbom Sabiene Karlsson Eva Korpela	58: 11.1	2
4th	Bulgaria	Zwetana Krastewa Marija Manolowa Nadezhda Alexieva	58: 24.4	0
5	BR Germany	Inga Kesper Dorina Pieper Petra Schaaf	59: 05.4	0
6th	Canada	Jane Isakson Lise Meloche Pat Konantz	62: 16.0	0
7th	Czechoslovakia	Petra Nosková Eva Bukovska Jana Kulhavá	64: 04.1	3
8th	France	Marie Pierre Baby Christine Poirot Véronique Claudel	64: 06.4	2

Medal table

space	country
1	Norway	1	2	1	4th
2	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
3	BR Germany	1	0	0	1
4th	Sweden	0	1	1	2

Medalists

space	athlete
01	Anne Elvebakk	1	1	1	3
02	Wenera Chernyshova	1	0	1	2
03	Petra Schaaf	1	0	0	1
	Kaja Parve	1	0	0	1
	Jelena Golovina	1	0	0	1
06th	Elin Kristiansen	0	2	0	2
07th	Eva Korpela	0	1	1	2
08th	Mona Bollerud	0	1	0	1
09	Inger Björkbom	0	0	1	1
	Sabiene Karlsson	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Biathlon World Cup and World Championships, extensive collection of results on biathlonresults.com
• Biathlon World Championships 1988 on biathlon-fans.de
• Biathlon World Championships on ifosta.de
• Biathlon World Championships 1988 on biathlon-fans.de

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport88. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-328-00301-0 , ISSN  0232-203X , p. 210 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ 1988 Biathlon World Cup, women sprint results on biathlonresults.com, accessed on March 1, 2017
2. ↑ Biathlon World Championships 1988, single women result on biathlonresults.com, accessed on March 1, 2017
3. ↑ Biathlon World Championships 1988, women relay results on biathlonresults.com, accessed on March 1, 2017