The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 2014.
There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.
The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.
Date | Time | Event |
---|---|---|
January 29 | 10:00 | U21 Women's individual |
13:30 | U21 Men's individual | |
January 30 | 10:00 | U26 Women's individual |
13:30 | U26 Men's individual | |
January 31 | 10:00 | U21 Women's sprint |
13:00 | U21 Men's sprint | |
February 1 | 10:00 | U26 Women's sprint |
12:45 | U26 Men's sprint | |
February 2 | 09:15 | U26 Women's pursuit |
10:15 | U21 Women's pursuit | |
12:30 | U26 Men's pursuit | |
13:30 | U21 Men's pursuit | |
February 3 | 12:00 | U21 Mixed relay |
February 4 | 10:00 | U26 Women's relay |
13:00 | U26 Men's relay |
It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 10 km sprint [1] | Lars Helge Birkeland | Maxim Tsvetkov |
Andrejs Rastorgujevs David Komatz |
Men's 12.5 km pursuit [2] | Maxim Tsvetkov | Lars Helge Birkeland | Anton Babikov |
Men's 20 km individual [3] | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Benedikt Doll | Maxim Tsvetkov |
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay [4] |
Austria Lorenz Wäger Michael Reiter Peter Brunner David Komatz |
Norway Kristoffer Skjelvik Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland |
Germany Michael Willeitner Matthias Bischl Benedikt Doll Florian Graf |
Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete ( Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Women's 7.5 km sprint [5] | Marte Olsbu | Victoria Padial | Iana Bondar |
Women's 10 km pursuit [6] | Mona Brorsson | Victoria Padial | Daria Virolaynen |
Women's 15 km individual [7] | Audrey Vaillancourt | Nastassia Kalina | Iryna Kryuko |
Women's 4 x 6 km relay [8] |
Belarus Iryna Kryuko Ala Talkach Aksana Shymanovich Nastassia Kalina |
Germany Karolin Horchler Annika Knoll Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt |
Norway Ane Skrove Nossum Hilde Fenne Bente Landheim Marte Olsbu |
Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's sprint [9] | Raman Yaliotnau | Adam Václavík | Maikol Demetz |
Men's pursuit [10] | Alexander Povarnitsyn | Artem Tyshchenko | Adam Václavík |
Men's individual [11] | Rene Zahkna | Ivan Alekhin | Artem Tyshchenko |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Women's sprint [12] | Tuuli Tomingas | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva |
Women's pursuit [13] | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva | Dunja Zdouc |
Women's individual [14] | Anastasia Evsyunina | Anastasiya Merkushyna | Lisa Vittozzi |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay [15] |
Ukraine Yuliya Bryhynets Yuliya Zhuravok Andriy Dotsenko Artem Tyshchenko |
Russia Anastasia Evsyunina Uliana Kaisheva Eduard Latypov Alexander Povarnitsyn |
Estonia Meril Beilmann Tuuli Tomingas Johan Talihärm Rene Zahkna |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
2 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
3 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
4 | Estonia (EST) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
6 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
7 | Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
11 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
13 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (13 entries) | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 |
33 nations competed
The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 2014.
There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.
The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.
Date | Time | Event |
---|---|---|
January 29 | 10:00 | U21 Women's individual |
13:30 | U21 Men's individual | |
January 30 | 10:00 | U26 Women's individual |
13:30 | U26 Men's individual | |
January 31 | 10:00 | U21 Women's sprint |
13:00 | U21 Men's sprint | |
February 1 | 10:00 | U26 Women's sprint |
12:45 | U26 Men's sprint | |
February 2 | 09:15 | U26 Women's pursuit |
10:15 | U21 Women's pursuit | |
12:30 | U26 Men's pursuit | |
13:30 | U21 Men's pursuit | |
February 3 | 12:00 | U21 Mixed relay |
February 4 | 10:00 | U26 Women's relay |
13:00 | U26 Men's relay |
It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 10 km sprint [1] | Lars Helge Birkeland | Maxim Tsvetkov |
Andrejs Rastorgujevs David Komatz |
Men's 12.5 km pursuit [2] | Maxim Tsvetkov | Lars Helge Birkeland | Anton Babikov |
Men's 20 km individual [3] | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Benedikt Doll | Maxim Tsvetkov |
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay [4] |
Austria Lorenz Wäger Michael Reiter Peter Brunner David Komatz |
Norway Kristoffer Skjelvik Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland |
Germany Michael Willeitner Matthias Bischl Benedikt Doll Florian Graf |
Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete ( Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Women's 7.5 km sprint [5] | Marte Olsbu | Victoria Padial | Iana Bondar |
Women's 10 km pursuit [6] | Mona Brorsson | Victoria Padial | Daria Virolaynen |
Women's 15 km individual [7] | Audrey Vaillancourt | Nastassia Kalina | Iryna Kryuko |
Women's 4 x 6 km relay [8] |
Belarus Iryna Kryuko Ala Talkach Aksana Shymanovich Nastassia Kalina |
Germany Karolin Horchler Annika Knoll Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt |
Norway Ane Skrove Nossum Hilde Fenne Bente Landheim Marte Olsbu |
Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's sprint [9] | Raman Yaliotnau | Adam Václavík | Maikol Demetz |
Men's pursuit [10] | Alexander Povarnitsyn | Artem Tyshchenko | Adam Václavík |
Men's individual [11] | Rene Zahkna | Ivan Alekhin | Artem Tyshchenko |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Women's sprint [12] | Tuuli Tomingas | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva |
Women's pursuit [13] | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva | Dunja Zdouc |
Women's individual [14] | Anastasia Evsyunina | Anastasiya Merkushyna | Lisa Vittozzi |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay [15] |
Ukraine Yuliya Bryhynets Yuliya Zhuravok Andriy Dotsenko Artem Tyshchenko |
Russia Anastasia Evsyunina Uliana Kaisheva Eduard Latypov Alexander Povarnitsyn |
Estonia Meril Beilmann Tuuli Tomingas Johan Talihärm Rene Zahkna |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
2 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
3 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
4 | Estonia (EST) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
6 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
7 | Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
11 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
13 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (13 entries) | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 |
33 nations competed