Biathlon World Championships 1996


The 31st Biathlon World Championships were held in 1996 for the third time in Ruhpolding, Germany.

Men's results

20 km individual

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Sergei Tarasov53:05.4
Vladimir Drachev53:49.9
Vadim Sashurin54:38.3

10 km sprint

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Vladimir Drachev26:52.3
Viktor Maigourov
René Cattarinussi

Team event

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Belarus

Vadim Sashurin
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Alexandr Popov
Petr Ivashko
26:05.6
Russia

Viktor Maigourov
Vladimir Drachev
Pavel Muslimov
Sergei Rozhkov
Italy

René Cattarinussi
Pieralberto Carrara
Patrick Favre
Hubert Leitgeb

4 × 7.5 km relay

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Russia

Viktor Maigourov
Vladimir Drachev
Sergei Tarasov
Alexei Kobelev
1:19:50.8
Germany

Ricco Groß
Peter Sendel
Frank Luck
Sven Fischer
Belarus

Alexei Aidarov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Vadim Sashurin
Alexandr Popov

Women's results

15 km individual

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Emmanuelle Claret46:43.1
Olga Melnik
Olena Petrova

7.5 km sprint

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Olga Romasko22:30.5
Ann-Elen Skjelbreid
Magdalena Forsberg

Team event

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Germany

Katrin Apel
Petra Behle
Uschi Disl
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm
23:23.6
Ukraine

Tetyana Vodopyanova
Olena Petrova
Olena Zubrilova
Nina Lemesh
France

Anne Briand
Corinne Niogret
Florence Baverel-Robert
Emmanuelle Claret

4 × 7.5 km relay

MedalNameNationPenaltiesResult
Germany

Uschi Disl
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm
Katrin Apel
Petra Behle
1:33:59.8
France

Corinne Niogret
Florence Baverel-Robert
Emmanuelle Claret
Anne Briand
Ukraine

Tetyana Vodopyanova
Olena Petrova
Olena Zubrilova
Valentina Tserbe-Nessina

Medal table

PlaceNationTotal
14408
22103
31113
41023
50123
60101
70022
80011