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.
| World Team Challenge | |
|---|---|
 World Team Challenge 2005 | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | sports event |
| Date(s) | December |
| Frequency | annual |
| Location(s) | Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Inaugurated | 2002 |
Statistics
Winners by edition
| # | Years | Winners | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2002 |  Michael Greis | Martina Glagow |
| 2 | 2003 |  Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Gunn Margit Andreassen |
| 3 | 2004 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Liv Kjersti Eikeland |
| 4 | 2005 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Linda Tjørhom |
| 5 | 2006 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Linda Grubben |
| 6 | 2007 |  Dmitri Yaroshenko | Ekaterina Iourieva |
| 7 | 2008 |  Andriy Deryzemlya | Oksana Khvostenko |
| 8 | 2009 |  Christoph Sumann | Kati Wilhelm |
| 9 | 2010 a | Evgeny Ustyugov | Svetlana Sleptsova |
| 10 | 2011 |  Carl Johan Bergman |  Kaisa Mäkäräinen |
| 11 | 2012 | Anton Shipulin | Ekaterina Yurlova |
| 12 | 2013 | Florian Graf | Laura Dahlmeier |
| 13 | 2014 | Serhiy Semenov | Valj Semerenko |
| 14 | 2015 |  Martin Fourcade | Marie Dorin-Habert |
| 15 | 2016 | Simon Schempp | Vanessa Hinz |
| 16 | 2017 | Alexey Volkov | Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht |
| 17 | 2018 |  Lukas Hofer | Dorothea Wierer |
| 18 | 2019 | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | Marte Olsbu Røiseland |
| 19 | 2020 | Matvey Eliseev | Evgeniya Pavlova |
| 20 | 2021 | Felix Leitner | Lisa Theresa Hauser |
| 21 | 2022 | Fabien Claude | Julia Simon |
| 22 | 2023[2] | Fabien Claude | Julia Simon |
- ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.
Successful nations
| Rank | Country | Victories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway | 5 |
| Russia | ||
| 3 | Germany | 3.5 |
| 4 | France | 3 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 2 |
| 6 | Austria | 1.5 |
| 7 | Italy | 1 |
| 8 | Finland | 0.5 |
| Sweden |
Participating nations
| Country | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | * | ** | 1* | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Belarus | 1 | 1 | * | * | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
 Belgium | * | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
 China | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Finland | 1 | 1 | * | * | * | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| France | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Germany | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3* | 1** | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
 Japan | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | * | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
 Poland | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Romania | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Russia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
 Slovakia | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 1* | * | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
 United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | * | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Legend to the table
«*» – one athlete in a mixed pair.
References
External links
Media related to World Team Challenge at Wikimedia Commons
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