World Team Challenge

World Team Challenge
Status active
Genre sports event
Date(s) December
Frequency annual
Location(s) Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Inaugurated 2002 (2002)

The World Team Challenge is a commercial biathlon competition, which is held every year after Christmas since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Before that an asimilar competition was held in Ruhpolding at the same time, but since 2001 the place was changed due to financial troubles.[1]

Statistics

Competitions and winners

# Years Name Country
1 2002 Michael Greis and Martina Glagow  Germany
2 2003 Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Gunn Margit Andreassen  Norway
3 2004 Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Liv Kjersti Eikeland  Norway
4 2005 Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Linda Tjørhom  Norway
5 2006 Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Linda Grubben  Norway
6 2007 Dmitri Yaroshenko and Ekaterina Iourieva  Russia
7 2008 Andriy Deryzemlya and Oksana Khvostenko  Ukraine
8 2009 Christoph Sumann and Kati Wilhelm  Austria/ Germany
9 2010 a Evgeny Ustyugov and Svetlana Sleptsova  Russia
10 2011 Carl Johan Bergman and Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Sweden/ Finland
11 2012 Anton Shipulin and Ekaterina Yurlova  Russia
12 2013 Florian Graf and Laura Dahlmeier  Germany
13 2014 Serhiy Semenov and Valj Semerenko  Ukraine
14 2015 Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin-Habert  France
15 2016 Simon Schempp and Vanessa Hinz  Germany

Successful nations

Rank Country Victories
1  Norway 4
2  Germany 3.5
3  Russia 3
4  Ukraine 2
5  France 1
6  Austria 0.5
 Finland
 Sweden

Participating nations

Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
 Austria * * * • * • • • • •
 Belarus • • *
 Canada •
 China • •
 Czech Republic • • • • • •
 Finland • • * * *
 France • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
 Germany • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * • * * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
 Italy • • • • • • • •
 Norway • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
 Poland • •
 Romania *
 Russia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
 Slovakia •
 Slovenia • • • •
 Sweden • * * •
  Switzerland • •
 United States • • • •
 Ukraine • • • • • • • • • •

Legend to the table:

• - one pair; 
•• - two pairs and so on; 
* - one athlete in a mixed pair.
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References

  1. ↑ "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
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