Biathlon World Championships 1999

The 34th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1999 in Kontiolahti, Finland. Due to the cold, the individual and the mass start events were moved to Oslo, Norway. The mass start was contested for the first time in the world championships.

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint	Frank Luck Germany	28:05.6 (0+0)	Patrick Favre Italy	28:27.6 (0+0)	Frode Andresen Norway	28:46.4 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit	Ricco Groß Germany	35:37.8 (0+0+0+0)	Frank Luck Germany	36:05.0 (0+0+1+2)	Sven Fischer Germany	36:18.7 (1+0+1+1)
20 km individual	Sven Fischer Germany	53:53.2 (1+0+0+0)	Ricco Groß Germany	54:01.9 (0+0+0+0)	Vadim Sashurin Belarus	54:30.5 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Petr Ivashko Vadim Sashurin Oleg Ryzhenkov	1:23:19.3 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3)	Russia Viktor Maigourov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Rozhkov Pavel Rostovtsev	1:23:42.4 (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:23:56.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (3+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start	Sven Fischer Germany	39:39.9 (1+1+0+0)	Vladimir Drachev Russia	39:49.8 (0+0+1+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	39:57.3 (0+0+0+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint	Martina Zellner Germany	26:59.9 (0+2)	Magdalena Forsberg Sweden	27:04.4 (0+1)	Olena Zubrilova Ukraine	27:08.2 (1+2)
10 km pursuit	Olena Zubrilova Ukraine	32:17.5 (0+1+1+0)	Martina Schwarzbacherová Slovakia	33:19.5 (0+1+0+0)	Martina Zellner Germany	33:25.1 (1+0+0+1)
15 km individual	Olena Zubrilova Ukraine	43:28.1 (0+0+0+0)	Corinne Niogret France	45:32.0 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova Russia	46:41.7 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm Katrin Apel Martina Zellner	1:36:56.0 (0+4) (0+3) (0+1) (1+4)	Russia Nadezhda Talanova Galina Koukleva Olga Romasko Albina Akhatova	1:37:34.3 (0+3) (0+4) (0+2) (0+1)	France Delphyne Heymann-Burlet Florence Baverel Christelle Gros Corinne Niogret	1:37:42.9 (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start	Olena Zubrilova Ukraine	40:08.2 (0+2+2+0)	Olena Petrova Ukraine	40:11.3 (0+0+1+1)	Magdalena Forsberg Sweden	40:16.9 (1+0+2+0)

Medal table

Place	Nation	1st place, gold medalist(s)	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Total
1	Germany	6	2	2	10
2	Ukraine	3	1	1	5
3	Belarus	1	0	1	2
4	Russia	0	3	1	4
5	France	0	1	1	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
7	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
9	Norway	0	0	3	3