2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 was the opening event[1] of the season and was held in Östersund, Sweden, from 29 November until 6 December 2015.

Schedule of events

[2]

Date	Time	Events
November 29	13:45 CET	Single Mixed Relay
	15:30 CET	Mixed Relay
December 2	17:15 CET	Men's 20 km Individual
December 3	17:15 CET	Women's 15 km Individual
December 5	12:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	15:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
December 6	11:00 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	13:30 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
20 km Individual details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	50:14.5 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Schempp  Germany	50:41.6 (0+0+1+0)	Alexey Volkov  Russia	50:52.7 (0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade  France	24:02.0 (1+1)	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	24:53.6 (0+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	24:57.2 (1+1)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Martin Fourcade  France	31:22.4 (1+0+1+1)	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	31:57.5 (0+1+0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet  France	32:17.6 (0+0+1+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km Individual details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	42:17.0 (0+0+0+0)	Marie Dorin-Habert  France	42:31.1 (0+2+0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna  Ukraine	42:54.8 (0+0+0+0)
7.5 km Sprint details	Gabriela Soukalová  Czech Republic	19:46.2 (0+0)	Federica Sanfilippo  Italy	20:01.2 (0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna  Ukraine	20:24.6 (1+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	30:45.1 (1+0+1+0)	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	30:47.0 (0+0+1+0)	Franziska Hildebrand  Germany	30:48.4 (0+0+0+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Single Mixed Relay details	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland	36:27.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Canada Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith	36:39.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm	36:40.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	Norway Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	1:11:42.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp	1:12:16.2 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	1:12:54.1 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

Sean Doherty (USA), 17th place in Individual  Anton Babikov (RUS), 18th place in Individual  Dmitriy Dyuzhev (BLR), 25th place in Individual  George Buta (ROU), 33rd place in Individual  Dimitar Gerdzhikov (BUL), 55th place in Individual  Martin Remmelg (EST), 56th place in Individual  Dimitar Partalov (BUL), 64th place in Individual  Rafał Penar (POL), 80th place in Individual  Daumants Lūsa (LAT), 83rd place in Individual

Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 1st place in Individual  Federica Sanfilippo (ITA), 2nd place in Sprint  Lisa Hauser (AUT), 8th place in Individual  Darya Usanova (KAZ), 15th place in Individual  Linn Persson (SWE), 29th place in Individual  Johanna Talihärm (EST), 31st place in Individual  Anna Magnusson (SWE), 40th place in Individual  Annukka Siltakorpi (FIN), 61st place in Individual

First World Cup race

Miha Dovžan (SLO), 47th place in Individual  Sergey Bocharnikov (BLR), 87th place in Individual  Denis Serban (ROU), 96th place in Individual

Kristina Ilchenko (BLR), 69th place in Individual  Meril Beilmann (EST), 79th place in Individual

Oldest winner of a biathlon world cup race in history

•  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 41 years and 309 days

References

1. "Event schedule". IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
2. "Events". Archived from the original on February 16, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2015.