Norwegian Biathlon Championships 2013

Last updated April 28, 2019

The 55th Norwegian Biathlon Championships were held in Dombås, Oppland, Norway from 20 March to 24 March 2013 at the stadium Sparebank 1 skiarena, arranged by Dombås IL. There were a total of 8 scheduled competitions: individual, sprint, pursuit and relay races for men and women.

The Norwegian Biathlon Championships is the national biathlon championships of Norway and have been held every year since 1959.

The village of Dombås (help·info) lies in the Dovre municipality and serves as an administrative center in the upper Gudbrandsdal, Norway. It lies at an important junction of roads: south leading to the current capital of Norway, Oslo, west via Lesja leading to Åndalsnes on the sea and north to the old capital, Trondheim.

Oppland[²ɔplɑn](listen) is a county in Norway, bordering Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway.

Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete, 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.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).^[1]^[2]

Date	Time	Event
20 March	14:00	Men's 20 km individual
20 March	16:00	Women's 15 km individual
22 March	10:30	Women's 7.5 km sprint
22 March	13:00	Men's 10 km sprint
23 March	14:30	Women's 10 km pursuit
23 March	15:45	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
24 March	10:00	Women's 3 × 6 km relay
24 March	12:30	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
20 km individual details	Vegard Bjørn Gjermundshaug Alvdal IL	52:37.0 (0+1+0+0)	Lars Helge Birkeland Birkenes IL	52:43.9 (0+0+0+2)	Dag Erik Kokkin Åsnes SSL	53:41.2 (0+0+0+1)
10 km sprint details	Lars Berger Dombås IL	25:12.7 (0+2)	Johannes Thingnes Bø Markane IL	25:41.1 (0+2)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Trondhjems Skiskyttere	25:58.4 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Trondhjems Skiskyttere	56:10.2 (0+0+1+0)	Johannes Thingnes Bø Markane IL	56:15.1 (0+0+2+0)	Lars Berger Dombås IL	56:27.3 (1+0+2+2)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Sogn og Fjordane Jarle Midthjell Gjørven Johannes Thingnes Bø Håvard Gutubø Bogetveit Tarjei Bø	1:12:07.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Nord-Østerdal I Kristoffer Langøien Skjelvik Lars Berger Vegard Bjørn Gjermundshaug Jan Olav Bjørn Gjermundshaug	1:13:31.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0)	Buskerud I Frode Andresen Martin Lindland Pål Kristian Grue Tufte Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:14:04.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km individual details	Tora Berger Dombås IL	47:00.2 (0+2+0+2)	Jori Mørkve Eldar IL	47:47.3 (0+2+0+0)	Birgitte Røksund Fana IL	47:56.4 (1+1+0+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Tiril Eckhoff Fossum IF	20:44.1 (0+1)	Synnøve Solemdal Tingvoll IL	20:51.4 (1+1)	Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Oslo SSL	20:54.3 (0+2)
10 km pursuit details	Tora Berger Dombås IL	50:11.9 (0+0+0+0)	Tiril Eckhoff Fossum IF	50:54.9 (2+1+0+1)	Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Oslo SSL	51:23.8 (1+2+0+1)
3 × 6 km relay details	Oslo og Akershus I Rikke Hald Andersen Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff	53:03.1 (1+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Hordaland I Hilde Fenne Ann Kristin Flatland Jori Mørkve	53:29.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Nord-Østerdal I Marion Rønning Huber Bente Losgård Landheim Tora Berger	54:03.3 (1+0) (0+0) (0+0)

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References

↑ "Rennprogram - NM Skiskyting" [Race program - NC (Norwegian Championships) Biathlon]. Dombaas-Il - NM info (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 August 2015. (in Norwegian)
↑ "Detaljert rennprogram - NM Skiskyting" [Detailed race program - NC (Norwegian Championships) Biathlon]. Dombaas-Il - NM info (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 August 2015. (in Norwegian)

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[Official_schedule-1] "Rennprogram - NM Skiskyting" [Race program - NC (Norwegian Championships) Biathlon]. Dombaas-Il - NM info (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 August 2015. (in Norwegian)

[Detailed_schedule-2] "Detaljert rennprogram - NM Skiskyting" [Detailed race program - NC (Norwegian Championships) Biathlon]. Dombaas-Il - NM info (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 August 2015. (in Norwegian)