World Team Challenge
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| World Team Challenge | |
|---|---|
| File:Biathlon AufSchalke 2005.jpg World Team Challenge 2005 | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | sports event |
| Date | December |
| Frequency | annual |
| Locations | Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Inaugurated | 2002 |
The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.
Statistics
[edit | edit source]Winners by edition
[edit | edit source]- ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.
Successful nations
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Country | Victories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | 6 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 5 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | 3.5 |
| 4 | File:Flag of France.svg France | 3 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | 2 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria | 1.5 |
| 7 | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 1 |
| 8 | File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden |
0.5 |
Participating nations
[edit | edit source]- Legend to the table
«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons