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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.
Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the list of multiple medalists behind Marit Bjørgen who has won 15 medals. He is also the most successful biathlete of all time at the Biathlon World Championships, having won 45 medals, more than double that of any other biathlete except Martin Fourcade. With 95 World Cup wins, Bjørndalen is ranked first all-time for career victories on the Biathlon World Cup tour, more than twice that of anyone else but Fourcade. He has won the Overall World Cup title six times, in 1997–98, in 2002–03, in 2004–05, in 2005–06, in 2007–08 and in 2008–09.
Myriam Bédard, is a Canadian retired biathlete. She represented Canada at two Winter Olympics winning gold medals, and a bronze medal. As of 2018, Bédard is the only Canadian biathlete, male or female, ever to win an Olympic medal, and the only North American biathlete ever to win Olympic gold.
Michael Greis is a former German biathlete.
Zina Kocher is a Canadian cross-country skier and former biathlete. She competed for Team Canada in biathlon at the 2006, 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics and in 12 editions of the Biathlon World Championships.
Dárya Vladímirovna Dómracheva is a retired Belarusian biathlete and coach who competed in the Biathlon World Cup from 2006 to 2018. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay and a silver medal in the mass start competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics, three gold medals in the pursuit, individual, and mass start competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and a bronze medal in the individual competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was a Biathlon World Cup overall winner for the 2014–15 season.
Brendan Green is a Canadian biathlete and cross-country skier. He began skiing at three years of age and began competition under coach Pat Bobinski. He won Biathlon Canada's Myriam Bedard Award. Brendan competed for Canada in the Biathlon Men's 4x7.5 km Relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The group placed 10th. Brendan Green is not to be confused with Brendan Greene, the man behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG).
Rosanna Crawford is a Canadian biathlete.
Megan Tandy is a Canadian biathlete.
Olena Pidhrushna is a Ukrainian biathlete. She is Olympic and World champion, multiple medalist of different high-level competitions. Pidhrushna is considered to be one of the most successful winter sports athlete in Ukraine. She lives in Ternopil.
Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff is a Norwegian biathlete who represents Fossum IF. She is an Olympic champion, winning the Mixed Relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and also won a bronze in the Mass start, a feat she repeated at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Eckhoff is also a two-time gold medallist from the 2016 Biathlon World Championships in Oslo where she won both the relay and an individual gold in the 7.5 sprint. She is the sister of fellow biathlete Stian Eckhoff.
Nathan Smith is a Canadian biathlete.
Artem Tyshchenko is a Ukrainian biathlete. He participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Julia Ransom is a Canadian retired biathlete from Penticton, British Columbia. She competed in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 World Cup seasons, and represented Canada at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 in Kontiolahti.
Scott Gow is a Canadian biathlete. He competed in the 2014/15 World Cup season, and represented Canada at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě and at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 in Kontiolahti.
Christian Gow is a Canadian biathlete.
Sarah Beaudry is a Canadian biathlete. She has competed in the Biathlon World Cup, and represented Canada at the Biathlon World Championships 2016.
Canada competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25, 2018. It was the nation's 23rd appearance at the Winter Olympics, having competed at every Games since their inception in 1924. Canada competed in all sports disciplines, except Nordic combined. The chef de mission was Isabelle Charest, who was appointed in February 2017.
Emma Lunder is a Canadian biathlete from North Vancouver, British Columbia.
The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) was a multi-race series over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 2 December 2018 in Pokljuka, Slovenia and ended on 24 March 2019 in Oslo Holmenkollen, Norway. The defending overall champions from the 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup were Martin Fourcade of France and Kaisa Mäkäräinen of Finland.
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- ↑ "Macx Davies". International Biathlon Union . Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ↑ "Olympic veterans Crawford and Green lead Canadian biathlon team to Pyeongchang". CTV News . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ "Rosanna Crawford headlines Canadian Olympic biathlon team". CBC News . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ McCarter, Shannon (16 January 2018). "Team Canada biathletes nominated for PyeongChang 2018". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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