Biathlon Junior World Championships 2008

The 2008 Biathlon Junior World Championships was held in Ruhpolding, Germany from January 26 to February 2 2008. There was to be a total of 16 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women.

Medal winners

Youth Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km individual details	Dorothea Wierer  Italy	36:10.9 (0+0+0+1)	Nicole Wötzel  Germany	37:17.3 (0+1+1+0)	Natalia Prekopova  Slovakia	37:53.0 (0+0+0+1)
6 km sprint details	Maren Hammerschmidt  Germany	20:21.6 (0+0)	Elise Ringen  Norway	20:23.8 (1+1)	Janin Hammerschmidt  Germany	20:31.3 (1+1)
7.5 km pursuit details	Janin Hammerschmidt  Germany	34:41.1 (1+0+4+1)	Sophie Boilley  France	35:01.1 (0+1+2+1)	Elise Ringen  Norway	35:09.0 (2+2+4+2)
3 × 6 km relay details	Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Janin Hammerschmidt Nicole Wötzel	1:14:28.5 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Ada Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Elise Ringen	1:17:04.8 (0+1) (1+3) (1+3) (1+3) (0+0) (2+3)	Italy Dorothea Wierer Alexia Runggaldier Monika Messner	1:17:58.6 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)

Junior Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Susann König  Germany	47:39.0 (1+1+0+1)	Marie Laure Brunet  France	48:02.8 (0+1+0+1)	Iris Schwabl  Austria	49:05.8 (1+0+0+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	24:38.9 (0+2)	Susann König  Germany	25:20.7 (0+1)	Marine Dusser  France	25:46.0 (0+0)
10 km pursuit details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	37:22.6 (0+2+3+2)	Veronika Vítková  Czech Republic	39:50.3 (0+0+2+1)	Marie Laure Brunet  France	40:07.8 (2+0+2+2)
3 × 6 km relay details	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Susann König Miriam Gössner	1:11:06.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (2+3)	France Anaïs Bescond Marine Dusser Marie Laure Brunet	1:11:42.4 (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1)	Russia Yuliya Kornilyuk Olga Vilukhina Anastasia Zagoruiko	1:12:24.6 (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3)

Youth Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Ludwig Ehrhart  France	38:24.6 (0+0+1+0)	Manuel Müller  Germany	39:35.0 (0+1+1+0)	Mathieu Souchal  France	39:47.5 (0+0+0+1)
7.5 km sprint details	Vladiimir Alenishko  Belarus	22:53.8 (0+1)	Remi Borgeot  France	23:06.1 (0+0)	Ludwig Ehrhart  France	23:10.3 (0+1)
10 km pursuit details	Ludwig Ehrhart  France	33:10.6 (0+0+1+2)	Manuel Müller  Germany	33:48.3 (0+1+1+1)	Leif Nordgren  United States	34:12.0 (0+1+2+1)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Germany Benjamin Thym Benedikt Doll Felix Schuster	1:08:14.1 (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3)	Norway Sondre Eide Erlend Øvereng Bjøntegaard Vegar Bergli	1:09:03.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+1)	Italy Pietro Dutto Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:09:08.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (3+3) (0+3) (0+1)

Junior Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km individual details	Jean Guillaume Beatrix  France	42:09.1 (1+0+0+0)	Anton Shipulin  Russia	42:09.7 (0+1+0+1)	Dmitriy Blinov  Russia	42:41.6 (0+0+1+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Anton Shipulin  Russia	24:47.7 (0+0)	Florian Graf  Germany	24:59.7 (0+1)	Arnd Peiffer  Germany	25:04.4 (0+2)
10 km pursuit details	Anton Shipulin  Russia	39:50.9 (0+0+0+0)	Florian Graf  Germany	41:28.1 (0+0+4+0)	Victor Vasilyev  Russia	41:45.3 (0+0+2+2)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Russia Dmitriy Blinov Anton Shipulin Pavel Magazeev Victor Vasilyev	1:35:21.6 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Magnus L'Abeé-Lund Dag Erik Kokkin Anders Hennum Aril Askestad	1:26:44.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Simon Schempp Manuel Müller Arnd Peiffer Florian Graf	1:36:13.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	8	6	3	17
2	France	3	4	4	11
3	Russia	3	1	3	6
4	Italy	1	0	2	3
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
6	Norway	0	4	1	5
7	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
8	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48

References

External links

• Official IBU website (in English)

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