2018 World Team Challenge
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The 17th World Team Challenge 2018 (officially: Joka Classic Biathlon World Team Challenge auf Schalke 2018) was a biathlon competition, that was held at December 29, 2018, at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The event was visited by 46.412 fans.
Format of competition
[edit | edit source]The competition was held in two stages: mass start and pursuit.
Participants
[edit | edit source]20 sportsmen (10 male, 10 female) competed as mixed teams. 10 different countries were represented at this event. Ole Einar Bjørndalen from Norway and Darya Domracheva from Belarus, who were at the moment retired athletes, took part in this competition as a pair.
Results
[edit | edit source]Mass start
[edit | edit source]Results and video are available here.
| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorothea Wierer / Lukas Hofer | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 33:24,8 |
| 2 | Anaïs Bescond / Émilien Jacquelin | File:Flag of France.svg France | +3,4 |
| 3 | Darya Domracheva / Ole Einar Bjørndalen | File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus / File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | +6,1 |
| 4 | Lisa Hauser / Dominik Landertinger | File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria | +8,2 |
| 5 | Franziska Preuß / Simon Schempp | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | +21,0 |
| 6 | Denise Herrmann / Benedikt Doll | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | +52,1 |
| 7 | Artem Pryma / Yuliia Dzhima | File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | +1:02,8 |
| 8 | Veronika Vítková / Michal Krčmář | File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic | +1:10,6 |
| 9 | Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht / Anton Shipulin | File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | +1:14,7 |
| 10 | Fuyuko Tachizaki / Mikito Tachizaki | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | +1:16,2 |
Pursuit
[edit | edit source]Results, video and photos are available here.
| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorothea Wierer / Lukas Hofer | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 33:23,6 |
| 2 | Franziska Preuß / Simon Schempp | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | +1,2 |
| 3 | Darya Domracheva / Ole Einar Bjørndalen | File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus / File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | +24,2 |
| 4 | Denise Herrmann / Benedikt Doll | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | +24,3 |
| 5 | Lisa Hauser / Dominik Landertinger | File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria | +1:04,1 |
| 6 | Veronika Vítková / Michal Krčmář | File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic | +1:09,5 |
| 7 | Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht / Anton Shipulin | File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | +1:48,8 |
| 8 | Yuliia Dzhima / Artem Pryma | File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | +2:12,3 |
| 9 | Anaïs Bescond / Émilien Jacquelin | File:Flag of France.svg France | +3:11,3 |
| 10 | Fuyuko Tachizaki / Mikito Tachizaki | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | +4:58,0[1] |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Japanese team got a two-minute penalty