Biathlon Junior World Championships 2012

The 2012 Biathlon Junior World Championships was held in Kontiolahti, Finland from January 20 to January 26, 2012. 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	Julia Bartolomäs  Germany	40:35.2 (1+0+1+1)	Galina Vishnevskaya  Kazakhstan	40:54.4 (0+2+0+2)	Hilde Fenne  Norway	41:05.0 (1+3+1+1)
6 km sprint details	Hilde Fenne  Norway	18:48.3 (0+1)	Niya Dimitrova  Bulgaria	19:07.9 (0+0)	Lisa Theresa Hauser  Austria	19:41.4 (0+1)
7.5 km pursuit details	Grete Gaim  Estonia	27:18.1 (0+0+1+0)	Julia Ransom  Canada	27:24.9 (0+0+0+2)	Annika Knoll  Germany	27:35.6 (0+0+1+0)
3 × 6 km relay details	Ukraine Yuliya Zhuravok Yuliya Brhyhnets Anastasiya Merkushyna	1:03:53.2 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Sweden Linn Persson Hanna Öberg Lotten Sjöden	1:04:51.4 (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Austria Christina Rieder Julia Reisinger Lisa Theresa Hauser	1:04:52.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0)

Junior Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Chardine Sloof  Netherlands	43:44.5 (0+0+0+1)	Monika Hojnisz  Poland	43:51.0 (0+1+0+1)	Elena Badanina  Russia	44:19.2 (0+1+0+2)
7.5 km sprint details	Elena Ankudinova  Russia	22:27.9 (0+0)	Anaïs Chevalier  France	22:35.9 (0+0)	Margarita Vasileva  Russia	22:44.1 (1+0)
10 km pursuit details	Chardine Sloof  Netherlands	34:52.3 (0+0+0+0)	Olga Iakushova  Russia	35:24.3 (1+0+0+2)	Iryna Kryuko  Belarus	35:35.4 (0+2+1+0)
3 × 6 km relay details	Norway Thekla Brun-Lie Hilde Fenne Marion Rønning Huber	1:01:37.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3)	Italy Alexia Runggaldier Giulia Collavo Nicole Gontier	1:01:54.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0)	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Alla Gylenko Iana Bondar	1:02:01.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3)

Youth Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Aristide Begue  France	40:45.8 (0+1+0+0)	Maksim Ramanouski  Belarus	41:33.6 (2+0+0+0)	Artem Tyshchcenko  Ukraine	42:00.7 (0+1+1+1)
7.5 km sprint details	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	19:15.0 (1+1)	Maksim Ramanouski  Belarus	20:05.8 (1+0)	Artem Tyshchcenko  Ukraine	20:07.6 (0+0)
10 km pursuit details	Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway	29:13.6 (0+1+0+2)	Matthias Dorfer  Germany	31:14.0 (0+0+0+0)	Maksim Ramanouski  Belarus	31:32.0 (0+1+1+0)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	France Clemet Dumont Florian Rivot Aristide Begue	1:06:44.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3)	Sweden Per Niklas Forsberg Victor Olsson Robert Sjöström	1:07:22.5 (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1)	Germany Niklas Homberg Maximilian Janke Matthias Dorfer	1:07:39.9 (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3) (1+3)

Junior Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km individual details	Kurtis Wenzel  Canada	44:09.2 (0+1+0+0)	Marius Hol  Norway	44:52.0 (0+0+0+2)	Alexander Loginov  Russia	45:07.2 (1+1+1+0)
10 km sprint details	Maxim Tsvetkov  Russia	25:15.0 (1+0)	Florent Claude  France	25:20.3 (1+0)	Simon Desthieux  France	25:22.3 (0+0)
12.5 km pursuit details	Maxim Tsvetkov  Russia	33:20.3 (0+0+0+0)	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen  Norway	35:02.9 (0+0+1+1)	Alexander Loginov  Russia	35:06.8 (0+0+1+2)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Norway Erling Ålvik Johannes Thingnes Bø Marius Hol Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:21:50.4 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)	Czech Republic Vlastimil Vávra Matěj Krupčík Michal Żak Michal Krčmář	1:23:13.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1)	Russia Alexander Loginov Ilya Popov Aleksandr Pechenkin Maxim Tsvetkov	1:23:14.0 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (5+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	5	2	1	8
2	Russia	3	1	5	9
3	France	2	2	1	5
4	Netherlands	2	0	0	2
5	Germany	1	1	2	4
5	Canada	1	1	0	2
6	Ukraine	1	0	3	4
7	Estonia	1	0	0	1
8	Belarus	0	2	2	4
9	Sweden	0	2	0	0
10	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
15	Austria	0	0	2	2
Total		16	16	16	48

References

External links

• Official IBU website (in English)

Biathlon Junior World Championships
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