| Biathlon at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | Birkebeineren Ski Stadium Lillehammer |
| Dates | 14–21 February |
| Competitors | 99 from 32 nations |
| Biathlon at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
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| Sprint | boys | girls |
| Pursuit | boys | girls |
| Relay | single mixed | |
| mixed | ||
Biathlon at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer, Norway.
* Host nation (Norway)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Norway* | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 |  Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 |  France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 |  Russia | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 |  Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint | Emilien Claude  France | 19:01.5 (0+0) | Sivert Bakken  Norway | 19:08.6 (1+1) | Egor Tutmin  Russia | 19:19.5 (0+2) |
| Pursuit | Sivert Guttorm Bakken Norway | 28:10.7 (1+1+1+1) | Egor Tutmin Russia | 29:21.4 (0+1+3+1) | Said Karimulla Khalili Russia | 29:28.4 (1+1+1+1) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint | Juliane Frühwirt  Germany | 18:23.5 (0+0) | Marthe Kråkstad Johansen Norway | 18:29.1 (0+1) | Arina Pantova  Kazakhstan | 18:40.6 (1+1) |
| Pursuit | Khrystyna Dmytrenko  Ukraine | 25:12.9 (2+0+0+0) | Marthe Kråkstad Johansen Norway | 25:20.4 (2+0+1+1) | Lou Jeanmonnot-Laurent France | 25:20.5 (0+0+1+1) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single mixed relay | China Meng Fanqi Zhu Zhenyu Meng Fanqi Zhu Zhenyu | 41:35.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (2+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Norway Marthe Kråkstad Johansen Fredrik Bucher-Johannessen Marthe Kråkstad Johansen Fredrik Bucher-Johannessen | 41:35.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) | Russia Ekaterina Ponedelko Egor Tutmin Ekaterina Ponedelko Egor Tutmin | 41:50.3 (0+0) (3+3) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) |
| Mixed relay | Norway Marit Øygard Marthe Kråkstad Johansen Fredrik Bucher-Johannessen Sivert Bakken | 1:18:35.6 (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Juliane Frühwirt Franziska Pfnuer Simon Gross Danilo Riethmueller | 1:18:43.2 (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | Italy Samuela Comola Irene Lardschneider Cedric Christille Patrick Braunhofer | 1:20:06.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) |
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