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Biathlon World Championships 2011

2011 edition of the Biathlon World Championships

Summary

2011 edition of the Biathlon World Championships

Field	Value
name	Biathlon World Championships 2011
logo	Biathlon World Championships 2011 logo.png
size	150px
host_city	Khanty-Mansiysk
country	Russia
events	11
opening	3 March
closing	13 March
previous	Khanty-Mansiysk 2010
next	Ruhpolding 2012

The Alexander Filipenko Winter Sport Center in Khanty-Mansiysk

The 44th Biathlon World Championships was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 3–13, 2011.

There was a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted for the 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup season.

Championship highlights

The Championships kicked off with the Mixed relay event which is seeking to make its way onto the Olympic programme for the 2014 games in Sochi. As the first event of the programme, it was finally given importance by the different teams, with all nations fielding their best teams, in difference to earlier world cup events. The Norwegians won it, overtaking Germany on the last leg. The veteran Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his fifteenth world championship gold medal in the process and his first in the mixed relay, giving him a full set of gold medals in the six events that are currently contested.

Tarjei Bø, Martin Fourcade, Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Arnd Peiffer won their first champion titles in career. Martin Fourcade also won a full scope of medals, gold, silver and bronze at these championships.

The surprise medalists included Maxim Maximov of Russia, Tina Bachmann of Germany and Vita Semerenko of Ukraine.

Helena Ekholm literally swept the field in the individual with zero shooting and fast skiing, winning more than 2 minutes over the runner-up Bachmann and making one of the greatest 1–2 place margins in biathlon history.

Doping violations

After a lengthy investigation, Evgeny Ustyugov of Russia was found guilty of doping violations, resulting in the annulment of his results, including those from the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2011 World Championships. So, on 7 December 2025, Sweden was awarded the relay bronze medals, and on 13 December 2025, Ukraine was awarded the silver medals.

Schedule of events

The provisional schedule of the event is below. All times in UTC+5.

Date	Time	Event
3 March	16:30	2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay
5 March	14:00	Men's 10 km sprint
18:00	Women's 7.5 km sprint
6 March	14:00	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
16:30	Women's 10 km pursuit
8 March	17:15	Men's 20 km individual
9 March	17:15	Women's 15 km individual
11 March	18:00	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
12 March	16:30	Women's 12.5 km mass start
18:30	Men's 15 km mass start
13 March	15:00	Women's 4 × 6 km relay

Medal winners

Men

15 km mass start
Emil Hegle Svendsen	38:42.7
(0+0+0+1)	Lukas Hofer	38:57.0
(0+0+0+1)	Tarjei Bø	39:06.0
(0+0+0+2)

Women

12.5 km mass start
Magdalena Neuner	36:48.5
(0+1+2+1)	Darya Domracheva	36:53.3
(2+1+0+0)	Tora Berger	37:02.5
(2+1+0+0)

Mixed

2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km W+M relay
	1:14:22.5
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)		1:14:45.4
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+1)		1:15:38.7
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)

Medal table

Top nations

Top athletes

All athletes with two or more medals.

Participating countries

40 nations competed.

Andorra
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greenland
Hungary
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United States

Notes

References

(2025-12-07). "Här får Sverige sitt VM-brons – nästan 15 år senare". [[Sveriges Television.
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SMSP/BT_C73B_1.0.pdf Men's sprint results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SMPU/BT_C73D_1.0.pdf Men's pursuit results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SMIN/BT_C73A_1.0.pdf Men's individual results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SMRL/BT_C73C_1.0.pdf Men's relay results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SMMS/BT_C73E_1.0.pdf Men's mass start results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SWSP/BT_C73_V3.pdf Women's sprint results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SWPU/BT_C73_V2.pdf Women's pursuit results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SWIN/BT_C73_V3.pdf Women's individual results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SWRL/BT_C73C_1.1.pdf Women's relay results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/SWMS/BT_C73_V2.pdf Women's mass start results]
[https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/1011/BT/SWRL/CH__/MXRL/BT_C73_V2.pdf Mixed relay results]
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