World Team Challenge 2002

The 1st World Team Challenge 2002 (officially: VELTINS-Biathlon-WTC 02 ) was a biathlon competition that took place on December 28, 2002 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen .

The German duo Michael Greis and Martina Glagow won the premiere of the competition .

Attendees

When the competition was held for the first time, a total of twelve teams from seven nations took part. Germany provided most of the teams with a total of four teams.

Results

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Michael Greis and Martina Glagow	Germany	40: 30.7
2	Viktor Maigurow and Albina Achatowa	Russia	+0: ​​25.8
3	Vesa Hietalahti and Sanna-Leena Perunka	Finland	+0: ​​49.9
4th	Pawel Rostovzew and Olga Pyljowa	Russia	+0: ​​55.0
5	Frank Luck and Andrea Henkel	Germany	+0: ​​58.3
6th	Peter Sendel and Katrin Apel	Germany	+1: 21.0
7th	Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Gunn Margit Andreassen	Norway	+1: 35.8
8th	Oleksij Ajdarow and Volha Nasarawa	Belarus	+1: 57.6
9	Ricco Groß and Kati Wilhelm	Germany	+2: 26.4
10	Vincent Defrasne and Florence Baverel-Robert	France	lapped
11	Wilfried Pallhuber and Nathalie Santer	Italy	lapped
12	Halvard Hanevold and Evelyn Hanevold	Norway	lapped

Web links

• Official homepage of the event

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biathletes do their laps in the "AufSchalke" arena (schwaebische.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)
2. ↑ WTC Hall of Fame ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (biathlon-aufschalke.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)