Summer biathlon world championships 1996

Summer biathlon world championships 1996
	Men's	Ladies
winner
sprint	Wilfried Pallhuber	Yu Shumei
singles	Alexei Kobelev	Olesya Tupilenko
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The 1st IBU Summer Biathlon World Championships took place in Hochfilzen in September 1996 .

After the International Biathlon Union (IBU) had included the " Summer Biathlon " discipline in its program in 1996, the first summer biathlon world championship was held in the same year . The Austrian Hochfilzen was chosen as the host by the IBU.

The program consisted of four races consisting of cross-country running and small-caliber shooting . These included the sprint and individual races for women and men. The women had to cover a distance of 4.5 kilometers in the sprint and shoot lying down and standing. For a mistake, a penalty loop had to be run analogous to the winter biathlon . In the individual, the women ran 6 kilometers with four shooting bouts. One minute was added to the running time for each target not hit. The men had to cover 6 (sprint) and 10 kilometers (individual) distances. A season was not held.

Prominent participants known from winter biathlon included Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Wilfried Pallhuber , Halvard Hanevold , Yu Shumei and Liv Grete Skjelbreid . The most successful nation was Russia with two titles. The only athlete who could win two medals was Olesja Tupilenko from Russia. In total, athletes from six countries were able to place on the podium.

Men

sprint

space	athlete	country
1	Wilfried Pallhuber	ITA
2	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR
3	Vladimir Drachev	RUS
4th	Dimitri Borovik	EST
5	Pavel Muslimov	RUS
6th	Janez Ožbolt	SLO
7th	Jacek Magiera	POLE
8th	Tomasz Sikora	POLE
9	Halvard Hanevold	NOR
10	Sergei Konovalov	RUS

singles

space	athlete	country
1	Alexei Kobelev	RUS
2	Janez Ožbolt	SLO
3	Vadim Sashurin	BLR
4th	Wilfried Pallhuber	ITA
5	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR
6th	Halvard Hanevold	NOR
7th	Pavel Muslimov	RUS
8th	Jacek Magiera	POLE
9	Sergei Roshkov	RUS
10	Tomaž Globočnik	SLO

Women

sprint

space	athlete	country
1	Yu Shumei	CHN
2	Olesya Tupilenko	RUS
3	Inna Scheschkil	KAZ
4th	Natalia Levchenkova	RUS
5	Margarita Doulowa	KAZ
6th	Liv Grete Skjelbreid	NOR
7th	Gunn Margit Andreassen	NOR
8th	Tracy van Deventer	United States
9	Martina Schwarzbacherová	SVK
10	Anna Stera	POLE

singles

space	athlete	country
1	Olesya Tupilenko	RUS
2	Gunn Margit Andreassen	NOR
3	Liu Jinfeng	CHN
4th	Margarita Doulowa	KAZ
5	Anna Stera	POLE
6th	Inna Scheschkil	KAZ
7th	Natalia Levchenkova	RUS
8th	Agata Suszka	POLE
9	Svetlana Paramygina	BLR
10	Soňa Mihoková	SVK

Medal table

space	country
1	Russia	2	1	1	4th
2	People's Republic of China	1	-	1	2
3	Italy	1	-	-	1
4th	Norway	-	2	-	2
5	Slovenia	-	1	-	1
6th	Kazakhstan	-	-	1	1
	Belarus	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Result lists complete ( Memento from February 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Results men
• Results women