Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the temporary Biathlon Course at the Seefeld Arena venue in Innsbruck, Austria.[1][2] One of the mixed events is contested together with cross-country skiers.

Biathlon at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Seefeld Arena Seefeld
Dates	15–19 January
Competitors	100 from 33 nations

Events

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	1	0	5
2	Russia	1	1	1	3
3	China	1	0	1	2
4	Estonia	0	2	0	2
5	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
6	Norway	0	1	0	1
7	France	0	0	2	2
8	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		6	6	6	18

Boys' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint	Cheng Fangming  China	19:21.7 (0+1)	Rene Zahkna  Estonia	19:43.0 (0+1)	Aristide Begue  France	19:48.5 (1+0)
Pursuit	Niklas Homberg  Germany	28:43.1 (2+0+2+0)	Rene Zahkna  Estonia	28:52.6 (0+2+1+1)	Cheng Fangming  China	28:57.7 (2+1+1+3)

Girls' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint	Franziska Preuß  Germany	17:27.7 (0+1)	Galina Vishnevskaya  Kazakhstan	17:55.2 (1+1)	Uliana Kaysheva  Russia	18:00.9 (1+1)
Pursuit	Uliana Kaysheva  Russia	26:01.3 (0+0+0+0)	Franziska Preuß  Germany	26:29.2 (1+0+1+0)	Galina Vishnevskaya  Kazakhstan	27:44.4 (0+2+1+1)

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed relay	Germany (GER) Franziska Preuß Laura Hengelhaupt Maximilian Janke Niklas Homberg	1:11:06.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1)	Norway (NOR) Kristin Sandeggen Karoline Næss Haakon Livik Kristian Andre Aalerud	1:13:11.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3)	France (FRA) Léa Ducordeau Chloé Chevalier Fabien Claude Aristide Bègue	1:13:27.8 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)
Cross-country Biathlon mixed relay	Germany (GER) Franziska Preuß Victoria Carl Maximilian Janke Christian Stiebritz	1:04:23.4 (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2)	Russia (RUS) Uliana Kaisheva Anastasia Sedova Ivan Galushkin Alexander Selyaninov	1:05:22.5 (1+3) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2)	United States (USA) Anna Kubek Heather Mooney Sean Doherty Patrick Caldwell	1:05:23.0 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)

Qualification system

Qualification summary

NOC	Men	Women	Total
Armenia		1	1
Australia	1		1
Austria	2	2	4
Belarus	2	2	4
Bulgaria	2	2	4
Canada	2	2	4
China	1	2	3
Croatia	1		1
Czech Republic	2	2	4
Estonia	2	2	4
Finland	2	2	4
France	2	2	4
Germany	2	2	4
Great Britain	1		1
Hungary	1		1
Italy	2	2	4
Kazakhstan	1	2	3
Latvia	2	1	3
Lithuania	1	1	2
Moldova		1	1
New Zealand		1	1
Norway	2	2	4
Poland	2	2	4
Romania	1	2	3
Russia	2	2	4
Serbia	1		1
Slovakia	2	2	4
Slovenia	2	2	4
South Korea	1	1	2
Sweden	2	2	4
Switzerland	2	1	3
Ukraine	2	2	4
United States	2	2	4
Total athletes	50	49	99
Total NOCs	30	29	32

References

1. Seefeld arena
2. Biathlon