World Team Challenge 2007
The 6th World Team Challenge 2007 (officially: VELTINS-Biathlon-WTC 07 ) was a biathlon competition that took place on December 29, 2007 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen .
Defending champion Norway could not successfully defend their victory from the previous year and finished the race in second place. It was won by the Russian team Dmitri Yaroshenko and Yekaterina Jurjewa .
Attendees
A total of 12 teams from six nations took part. Most of the teams were provided by the German team with a total of five teams.
Results
| space | Surname | country | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dmitri Yaroshenko and Yekaterina Yuryeva |
 Russia
|
1: 03: 48.8 |
| 2 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Tora Berger |
 Norway
|
+0: 31.6 |
| 3 | Michael Greis and Anne Preussler |
 Germany
|
+0: 45.2 |
| 4th | Halvard Hanevold and Solveig Rogstad |
Norway
|
+1: 02.8 |
| 5 | Michael Rösch and Kati Wilhelm |
Germany
|
+1: 10.0 |
| 6th | Simon Fourcade and Sylvie Becaert |
 France
|
+1: 11.6 |
| 7th | Andreas Birnbacher and Kathrin Hitzer |
Germany
|
+1: 11.9 |
| 8th | René-Laurent Vuillermoz and Michela Ponza |
 Italy
|
+1: 17.9 |
| 9 | Zhang Chengye and Liu Xianying |
 People's Republic of China
|
+1: 25.6 |
| 10 | Alexander Wolf and Andrea Henkel |
Germany
|
+1: 31.1 |
| 11 | Florian Graf and Susann König |
Germany
|
+1: 45.1 |
| 12 | Vincent Defrasne and Sandrine Bailly |
France
|
+1: 59.2 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WTC Hall of Fame ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (biathlon-aufschalke.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)