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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.
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms and bows/crossbows.
Jonas Edman is a Swedish rifle shooter, specializing in the Prone position. He was a 300 m Rifle specialist during most of the 1990s and a part of the winning team at the 1998 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Zaragoza, Spain. After this however, he started to focus in the Olympic 50 m Rifle. He got a very late wild card to the 2000 Olympics and performed 599, only one point from the maximum result, in the qualification round, and managed to keep his lead during the final.
The biathlon competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics were held at the Birkebeineren Ski Stadium. The events were held between 18 and 26 February 1994.
Eirik Kvalfoss is a Norwegian retired biathlete.
Military patrol was a team winter sport in which athletes competed in cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering and rifle shooting. It was usually contested between countries or military units.
Halvard Hanevold was a Norwegian biathlete.
Vladimir Alexandrovich Alikin is a Soviet former biathlete.
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Barnashov is a Soviet former biathlete.
Jens Steinigen is a former East German and German biathlete.
Dieter Speer is a former East German biathlete.
Ola Wærhaug is a former Norwegian biathlete. He received a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. He participated on the winning teams at the 1965 and at the 1967 Biathlon World Championships.
Ivan Ivanovych Biakov was a Soviet biathlete.
Vilho Ilmari Ylönen was a Finnish cross-country skier and rifle shooter who competed in the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics.
Simon Schempp is a German former biathlete.
Franck Badiou is a French former sports shooter, Olympic medallist and coach. He won silver medal in the 10 metre air rifle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He was also European Champion in the same discipline in 1993.
Hans Eberle was a German footballer who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. The right back played for TSG Ulm (1946-1953), where Toni Turek, the 1954 World Champion, was among his teammates, and for the Stuttgart Kickers (1953-1957). After his career, he became a coach. He also worked as a primary school teacher.
Vladimir Iliev is a Bulgarian biathlete.
Biathlon Australia is the national governing body that oversees the Winter Olympic sport of Biathlon in Australia, in both its winter and summer forms. It is affiliated with the International Biathlon Union and the Australian Olympic Committee. It is based at Mount Hotham, in Victoria, Australia.
A Biathlon rifle is a specialized rifle designed for use in a biathlon event. Specialist biathlon rifles are ultra lightweight, and usually equipped with straight-pull actions, integrated magazine carriers, and ergonomic stock designs suitable for both prone and standing positions.
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