World Team Challenge
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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
- ^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 | Ukraine | 2 |
| 5 | France | 1 |
| Italy | ||
| 7 | Austria | 0.5 |
| Finland | ||
| Sweden |
Participating nations
| Country | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | * | * * | • * | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||||
 Belarus | • | • | * | * | • | ||||||||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium | * | ||||||||||||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada | • | • | |||||||||||||||||
 China | • | • | |||||||||||||||||
 Czech Republic | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||||||
| Finland | • | • | * | * | * | ||||||||||||||
| France | • | • • | • | • | • • | • • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| Germany | • • • • | • • • • • | • • • • | • • • • • | • • • • • • | • • • • • | • • • * | • * * | • • • | • • | • • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
| Italy | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||||
 Japan | • | • | |||||||||||||||||
| Norway | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • | • • | • | • • | • | • | * | • | ||||
 Poland | • | • | |||||||||||||||||
 Romania | * | ||||||||||||||||||
| Russia | • • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
 Slovakia | • | ||||||||||||||||||
 Slovenia | • | • | • | • | |||||||||||||||
| Sweden | • * | * | • | • | |||||||||||||||
 Switzerland | • | • | • | • | |||||||||||||||
 United States | • | • | • | • | |||||||||||||||
| Ukraine | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | * | • | • | • |
- Legend to the table
• - one pair; •• - two pairs and so on; * - one athlete in a mixed pair.
References
- "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
External links
Media related to World Team Challenge at Wikimedia Commons
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