World Team Challenge 2012

The 11th World Team Challenge 2012 (officially: R (H) EINPOWER-Biathlon-WTC 12 ) was a biathlon competition that took place on December 29, 2012 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen .

The winner was the Russian team with Anton Schipulin and Jekaterina Jurlowa . It was the third time after 2007 and 2010 that a Russian team won the event.

In addition, a farewell race was organized for Magdalena Neuner, who retired in March 2012, with active and former world cup runners and training partners.

Attendees

A total of ten teams with participants from nine nations started. For Michael Greis it was not only his eleventh participation in this event, but also the last biathlon competition of his successful career.

Results

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Anton Schipulin and Jekaterina Jurlowa	Russia	32: 24.0
2	Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin-Habert	France	+0: ​​07.3
3	Lars Helge Birkeland and Fanny Horn	Norway	+0: ​​08.0
4th	Andreas Birnbacher and Andrea Henkel	Germany I.	+0: ​​14.7
5	Jakov Fak and Teja Gregorin	Slovenia	+0: ​​24.0
6th	Michael Greis and Franziska Hildebrand	Germany II	+0: ​​42.6
7th	Carl Johan Bergman and Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Sweden Finland	+0: ​​44.9
8th	Serhiy Sednyev and Vita Semerenko	Ukraine	+0: ​​48.7
9	Niklas Homberg and Laura Dahlmeier	Germany III	+2: 19.7
10	Tim Burke and Susan Dunklee	United States	+2: 34.7

Results of the Magdalena Neuner farewell race

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Dorothea Wierer	Italy	20: 50.8
2	Magdalena Neuner	Germany	+0: ​​03.8
3	Éva Tófalvi	Romania	+0: ​​13.4
4th	Nadine Horchler	Germany	+0: ​​21.2
5	Kathrin Lang	Germany	+0: ​​28.1
6th	Carolin Hennecke	Germany	+0: ​​34.9
7th	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak	Poland	+1: 41.5
8th	Sabrina Buchholz	Germany	+2: 03.6
9	Stefanie Hildebrand	Germany	+2: 17.9

Web links

• Official homepage of the event

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WTC Hall of Fame ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (biathlon-aufschalke.de, accessed on December 31, 2012)