2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 4

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 4 was held in Oberhof, Germany, from 4 January until 8 January 2012.[1] It was the fourth of nine scheduled events on the World Cup schedule, with both men and women competing in three different disciplines.

Schedule of events

Date	Time	Events
January 4	18:15 CET	Women's 4 x 6 km Relay
January 5	18:20 CET	Men's 4 x 7.5 km Relay
January 6	18:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
January 7	14:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
January 8	13:30 CET	Women's 12.5 km Mass Start
	15:30 CET	Men's 15 km Mass Start

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
4 x 7.5 km Relay details	Italy Christian de Lorenzi Markus Windisch Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:30:49.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeniy Garanichev Evgeny Ustyugov Alexey Volkov	1:30:55.2 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (2+3) (0+2) (0+1)	Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman	1:31:21.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1)
10 km Sprint details	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	25:57.5 (1+0)	Simon Fourcade  France	25:58.6 (0+0)	Evgeny Ustyugov  Russia	26:02.3 (0+0)
15 km Mass Start details	Andreas Birnbacher  Germany	38:34.6 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Fourcade  France	38:38.9 (0+1+0+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	39:04.2 (0+1+2+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
4 x 6 km Relay details	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Olga Vilukhina	1:19:32.0 (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Elise Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger	1:19:37.9 (0+0) (2+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	France Marie Dorin Habert Anais Bescond Marine Bolliet Sophie Boilley	1:20:38.4 (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)
7.5 km Sprint details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	22:27.6 (0+0)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	23:04.9 (0+1)	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	23:11.0 (0+0)
12.5 km Mass Start details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	40:02.2 (1+1+1+0)	Tora Berger  Norway	40:14.7 (1+0+1+0)	Andrea Henkel  Germany	40:34.2 (1+0+0+0)

Achievements

Best performance of all time

Yuriy Liadov (BLR), 30th place in Sprint  Milanko Petrovic (SRB), 61st place in Sprint  Ville Simola (FIN), 63rd place in Sprint  Stefan Gavrila (ROU), 76th place in Sprint

Nastassia Dubarezava (BLR), 7th place in Sprint  Natalya Burdyga (UKR), 8th place in Sprint  Diana Rasimovičiūtė (LTU), 9th place in Sprint  Marine Bolliet (FRA), 16th place in Sprint  Laure Soulie (AND), 26th place in Sprint  Ingela Andersson (SWE), 58th place in Sprint  Seora Kim (KOR), 74th place in Sprint

First World Cup race

Simon Kocevar (SLO), 80th place in Sprint  Arturs Kolesnikovs (LAT), 91st place in Sprint

Juliya Dzhyma (UKR), 34th place in Sprint  Irene Cadurisch (SUI), 69th place in Sprint  Eevamari Oksanen (FIN), 79th place in Sprint  Yuki Nakajima (JPN), 81st place in Sprint  Mika Torii (JPN), 84th place in Sprint

References

1. "E.ON IBU World Cup 4 Biathlon". IBU Datacenter. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.

External links

• Official IBU site