World Team Challenge 2003
The 2nd World Team Challenge 2003 (officially: VELTINS-Biathlon-WTC 03 ) was a biathlon competition that took place on December 27, 2003 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen .
It was won by the Norwegian team Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Gunn Margit Andreassen .
Attendees
A total of 12 teams from six nations took part. The Czech Republic was represented for the first time. Most of the teams were provided by the German team with a total of five teams.
Results
| space | Surname | country | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Gunn Margit Andreassen |
 Norway
|
50: 31.0 |
| 2 | Michael Greis and Katja Beer |
 Germany
|
+0: 29.3 |
| 3 | Ricco Groß and Kati Wilhelm |
Germany
|
+0: 35.4 |
| 4th | Peter Sendel and Katrin Apel |
Germany
|
+0: 56.8 |
| 5 | Pavel Rostovtsev and Olga Saizewa |
 Russia
|
+1: 06.3 |
| 6th | Halvard Hanevold and Linda Tjørhom |
Norway
|
+1: 10.8 |
| 7th | Vincent Defrasne and Corinne Niogret |
 France
|
+1: 17.5 |
| 8th | Frank Luck and Sabrina Buchholz |
Germany
|
+1: 23.0 |
| 9 | Tomáš Holubec and Kateřina Holubcová |
 Czech Republic
|
+1: 36.8 |
| 10 | Andreas Birnbacher and Uschi Disl |
Germany
|
+1: 46.3 |
| 11 | Paavo Puurunen and Eija Salonen |
 Finland
|
+2: 04.1 |
| 12 | Raphaël Poirée and Sandrine Bailly |
France
|
+2: 07.4 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biathlon World Team Challenge 2003 (rp-online.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)
- ↑ WTC Hall of Fame ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (biathlon-aufschalke.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)