The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not timed per se, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time being added to the contestant's total.
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country...
Izhevsk) is a retired Russian biathlete and biathlon coach. He took two individual medals in the Biathlon World Championships, a bronze in 2008 and a...
A biathlon rifle is a specialized rifle designed for use in a biathlon event. Specialist biathlon rifles are ultra lightweight, and usually equipped with...
The tank biathlon is a mechanized military sport event held by the Russian military as a part of the annual International Army Games. Inspired by the winter...
Nordic field biathlon (Norwegian: skifeltskyting) is a combined cross-country skiing and shooting sport discipline within Det frivillige Skyttervesen....
Biathlon debuted at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California with the men's 20 km individual event. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble...
Moose biathlon (Finnish: Hirvenhiihto) is a winter sport variation of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing, range estimation of paper targets...
Biathlon at the 2023 Winter World University Games was held at Whiteface Mountain from 14 to 21 January 2023. * Host nation (United States) 16 nations...
The first Biathlon World Championships (BWCH) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men. The original team event, Team (time), was held...
The IBU Summer Biathlon is a sporting event organized by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) which combines trail running or roller skiing and rifle...
The International Biathlon Union (IBU; German: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in...
The Biathlon World Cup is a top-level biathlon season-long competition series. It has been held since the winter seasons of 1977–78 for men and 1982–83...
the complete list of Olympic medalists in biathlon. Medalists in military patrol, a precursor to biathlon, are listed separately. The numbers in brackets...
The Biathlon World Championships 2023 took place in Oberhof, Germany, from 8 to 19 February 2023. All times are local (UTC+1). * Host nation (Germany)...
Wins Tank Biathlon; Next Up, Caspian Naval Biathlon?". EurasiaNet. Retrieved 2015-11-07. "Azerbaijani team reaches final of Tank Biathlon competition...
The 2024 Biathlon World Championships took place from 7 to 18 February 2024 at the Vysočina Arena in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. After 2013,...
phase at the 2018 Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof. Ole Einar Bjørndalen in Trondheim during the 2009 Biathlon World Cup. Bike biathlon competition using...
Biathlon orienteering or orienteering shooting is a multisport consisting of shooting and orienteering. The sport is organized internationally by the International...
ski jumping, mountaineering, hiking, association football, handball, biathlon, speed skating, and, to a lesser degree, ice hockey. Norway is known internationally...
as a member of the 1984 U.S. relay team competing in the first women's Biathlon World Championships in Chamonix, France. Swenson placed fifth overall in...
The Summer Biathlon World Championships are the world championships in summer biathlon which have been held annually since 1990. This event was not held...
and are heavily influenced by the British National Rifle Association. In Biathlon, prone is one of two positions that athletes shoot from, along with standing...
Biathle is a sub-sport of modern pentathlon invented to create opportunities for training the run and swim parts of pentathlon in real race conditions...
Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics consisted of eight biathlon events. They were held at Soldier Hollow. The events began on 11 February and ended on...
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