Summer Biathlon World Championships

Summer Biathlon World Championships
Summer Biathlon World Championships
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	midyear
Frequency	annual
Inaugurated	1996
Organised by	IBU

Last updated September 06, 2025

The Summer Biathlon World Championships are the world championships in summer biathlon which have been held annually since 1996 (one unofficial edition in 1991). Junior events was added since 2000.

Styles

1996 - 2005: Cross (Trail)
2006 - 2009: Cross (Trail) + Roller
2010 - Ongoing: Roller

Editions

Since 1996:^[1]

Edition	Year	Host Country	Events
Cross
1	1996	Austria	4
2	1997	Poland	6
3	1998	Slovakia	6
4	1999	Belarus	6
5	2000	Russia	12
6	2001	Poland	12
7	2002	Czech Republic	12
8	2003	Italy	16
9	2004	Slovakia	16
10	2005	Finland	16
Cross + Roller
11	2006	Russia	18
12	2007	Estonia	18
13	2008	France	18
14	2009	Germany	18
Roller
15	2010	Poland	10
16	2011	Czech Republic	10
17	2012	Russia	10
18	2013	Italy	10
19	2014	Russia	10
20	2015	Romania	10
21	2016	Estonia	10
22	2017	Russia	10
23	2018	Czech Republic	10
24	2019	Belarus	12
26	2021	Czech Republic	12
27	2022	Germany	12
28	2023	Slovakia	12
29	2024	Estonia	12
Total			328

2020 in Germany was cancelled.

Trail running (until 2009)

Men

Individual (10 km)

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1991	Lake Placid	Sergei Tarasov (RUS)	Alexandr Popov (RUS)	Dave McMahon (CAN)

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Hochfilzen	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)	Janez Ožbolt (SLO)	Vadim Sashurin (BLR)

Sprint (6 km)

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Hochfilzen	Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	Vladimir Drachev (RUS)
1997	Kraków	Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)	Dimitri Borovik (EST)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)	Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)	Oleg Rudenko (RUS)
1999	Minsk	Rustam Valiullin (BLR)	Vadim Sashurin (BLR)	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Dmitriy Nikiforov (RUS)	Ilmārs Bricis (LAT)
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Dimitri Borovik (EST)	Alexey Kovyazin (RUS)	Maciej Wojciechowski (POL)
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Marek Matiaško (SVK)	Maksim Malenkih (KGZ)	Michael Genz (GER)
2003	Forni Avoltri	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Alexey Kovyazin (RUS)	Marko Dolenc (SLO)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Zdeněk Vítek (CZE)	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Dimitri Borovik (EST)
2005	Muonio	Alexander Kachanovski (RUS)	Alexandr Syman (BLR)	Alexandr Ustinov (BLR)
2006	Ufa	Sergey Balandin (RUS)	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Dmitriy Nikiforov (RUS)
2007	Otepää	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Marek Matiaško (SVK)	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)	Dias Keneshev (KAZ)	Ruslan Nasirov (UZB)
2009	Oberhof	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)	Ruslan Nasirov (UZB)	Miroslav Matiaško (SVK)

Pursuit (8 km)

This event was not held in 2007.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997	Kraków	Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)	Konstantin Popov (RUS)	Vadim Sashurin (BLR)
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)	Konstantin Popov (RUS)
1999	Minsk	Vadim Sashurin (BLR)	Ilmārs Bricis (LAT)	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Dmitriy Nikiforov (RUS)	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Alexey Kovyazin (RUS)
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Ilmārs Bricis (LAT)	Dimitri Borovik (EST)	Ivan Pesterev (BLR)
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Dmitriy Nikiforov (RUS)	Marko Dolenc (SLO)	Marek Matiaško (SVK)
2003	Forni Avoltri	Alexey Kovyazin (RUS)	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Oleg Rudenko (RUS)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Zdeněk Vítek (CZE)	Sergey Balandin (RUS)	Alexey Mironov (RUS)
2005	Muonio	Alexander Kachanovski (RUS)	Jaroslav Soukup (CZE)	Rustam Valiullin (BLR)
2006	Ufa	Sergey Balandin (RUS)	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)	Sergey Balandin (RUS)	Dias Keneshev (KAZ)
2009	Oberhof	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)	Ruslan Nasirov (UZB)	Alexander Kachanovski (RUS)

Mass start (8 km)

This event was first held in 1990. It was not held in 2006, and last held in 2007.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2003	Forni Avoltri	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Vyacheslav Derkach (UKR)	Marek Matiaško (SVK)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Pavol Hurajt (SVK)	Timur Nurmeev (RUS)	Alexey Mironov (RUS)
2005	Muonio	Alexandr Syman (BLR)	Alexei Kobelev (RUS)	Jaroslav Soukup (CZE)
2007	Otepää	Alexey Katrenko (RUS)	Indrek Tobreluts (EST)	Ivan Bogdanov (RUS)

Relay (4 × 6 km)

This event was first held in 1997 and last held in 2005. From 1997 to 2002 the distance was 4 × 6 km.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997	Kraków	Norway Egil Gjelland Jon Per Nygaard Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Oleg Rudenko Dmitriy Nikiforov Konstantin Popov Sergey Rusinov	Estonia Dimitri Borovik Roland Lessing Indrek Tobreluts Kalju Ojaste
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Russia Oleg Rudenko Konstantin Popov Sergei Konovalov Vladimir Bekhterev	Ukraine Mykhaylo Syzon Yuriy Dmitrenko Olexander Bilanenko Vyacheslav Derkach	Poland Grzegorz Grzywa Tomasz Sikora Kazimier Urbaniak Wojciech Kozub
1999	Minsk	Russia Alexei Kobelev Sergey Prosvirnin Alexsey Kovyazin Dmitriy Nikiforov	Latvia Oļegs Maļuhins Gundars Upenieks Jēkabs Nākums Ilmārs Bricis	Estonia Dimitri Borovik Roland Lessing Indrek Tobreluts Margus Ader
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Russia Alexsey Kovyazin Andrei Prokunin Dmitriy Nikiforov Sergey Prosvirnin	Latvia Oļegs Maļuhins Gundars Upenieks Jēkabs Nākums Ilmārs Bricis	Estonia Dimitri Borovik Roland Lessing Indrek Tobreluts Janno Prants
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Rustam Valiullin Alexandr Ustinov Ivan Pesterev	Latvia Oļegs Maļuhins Ilmārs Bricis Jēkabs Nākums Gundars Upenieks	Russia Alexsey Kovyazin Dmitriy Nikiforov Ivan Bogdanov Alexei Cheparev
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Russia Alexei Kobelev Pavel Chupriyanov Sergey Prosvirnin Dmitriy Nikiforov	Belarus Ivan Pesterev Sergey Novikov Alexandr Ustinov Vadim Sashurin	Slovakia Marek Matiaško Radovan Cienik Pavol Novák Davorín Škvaridlo
2003	Forni Avoltri	Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko Andriy Deryzemlya Alexei Korobeynikov Vyacheslav Derkach	Russia Oleg Rudenko Alexei Cheparev Timur Nurmeev Alexsey Kovyazin	Slovakia Marek Matiaško Radovan Cienik Davorín Škvaridlo Pavol Hurajt
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Belarus Alexandr Syman Rustam Valiullin Alexandr Ustinov Ivan Pesterev	Russia Alexey Mironov Timur Nurmeev Alexei Cheparev Sergey Balandin	Slovakia Pavol Hurajt Radovan Cienik Miroslav Matiaško Marek Matiaško
2005	Muonio	Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec Miroslav Tomeš Jaroslav Soukup	Russia Alexei Kobelev Oleg Rudenko Ivan Bogdanov Alexander Kachanovski	Belarus Alexandr Ustinov Sergey Novikov Rustam Valiullin Alexandr Syman

Women

Individual (4 km)

This event was only held in 1996.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Hochfilzen	Olessia Toupilenko (RUS)	Gunn Margit Andreassen (NOR)	Liu Jinfeng (CHN)

Sprint (3 km)

From 1996 to 2002 the distance was 4 km.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Hochfilzen	Yu Shumei (CHN)	Olessia Toupilenko (RUS)	Inna Sheshkil (KAZ)
1997	Kraków	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Irina Tananaiko (BLR)	Larisa Timchina (MDA)
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Nadezhda Talanova (RUS)	Nina Lemesh (UKR)	Adrianna Babik (POL)
1999	Minsk	Svetlana Ishmouratova (RUS)	Natalia Levchenkova (RUS)	Magdalena Grzywa (POL)
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Evgenia Mikhaylova (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Evgenia Mikhaylova (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Magdalena Grzywa (POL)	Ludmila Arlouskaya (BLR)
2003	Forni Avoltri	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Olena Zubrilova (BLR)	Inna Kasimova (RUS)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Oksana Neupokoeva (RUS)	Svetlana Khandohina (BLR)
2005	Muonio	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)
2006	Ufa	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Ekaterina Sidorenko (RUS)	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)
2007	Otepää	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Elena Khrustaleva (KAZ)	Lyudmyla Pysarenko (UKR)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Ekaterina Sidorenko (RUS)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)	Anastasia Kuznetsova (RUS)
2009	Oberhof	Iryna Babetskaya (BLR)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Juliane Döll (GER)

Pursuit (5 km)

From 1997 to 2002 the distance was 6 km. This event was not held in 2007.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997	Kraków	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Olessia Toupilenko (RUS)	Irina Tananaiko (BLR)
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Martina Schwarzbacherová (SVK)	Nina Lemesh (UKR)	Magdalena Grzywa (POL)
1999	Minsk	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Svetlana Ishmouratova (RUS)	Natalia Levchenkova (RUS)
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Evgenia Mikhaylova (RUS)
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Evgenia Mikhaylova (RUS)	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Magdalena Grzywa (POL)	Ludmila Arlouskaya (BLR)
2003	Forni Avoltri	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Olena Zubrilova (BLR)	Inna Kasimova (RUS)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Svetlana Khandohina (BLR)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)
2005	Muonio	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)
2006	Ufa	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Ekaterina Sidorenko (RUS)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Ekaterina Sidorenko (RUS)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)	Anastasia Kuznetsova (RUS)
2009	Oberhof	Natalya Sokolova (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Elena Khrustaleva (KAZ)

Mass start (5 km)

This event was first held in 2003. It was not held in 2006, and last held in 2007.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2003	Forni Avoltri	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Olena Zubrilova (BLR)
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Olga Nazarova (BLR)	Lubov Ermolaeva (RUS)	Svetlana Khandohina (BLR)
2005	Muonio	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)	Olga Nazarova (BLR)
2007	Otepää	Natalya Sokolova (BLR)	Elena Khrustaleva (KAZ)	Natalia Sorokina (RUS)

Relay (4 × 3 km)

This event was first held in 1997 and last held in 2005. From 1997 to 2002 the distance was 4 × 4 km.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997	Kraków	Belarus Irina Tananaiko Natalia Permiakova Natalia Moroz Svetlana Paramygina	Slovakia Martina Halinárová Anna Murínová Marcela Pavkovčeková Soňa Mihoková	Poland Magdalena Grzywa Iwona Grzywa Adrianna Babik Dorota Gruca
1998	Brezno-Osrblie	Belarus Irina Tananaiko Natalia Ryzhenkova Natalia Murschtschakina Svetlana Paramygina	Slovakia Martina Schwarzbacherová Anna Murínová Tatiana Kutlíková Marcela Pavkovčeková	Russia Olga Palikova Elena Safarova Elena Dumnova Nadezhda Talanova
1999	Minsk	Russia Natalia Levchenkova Evgenia Mikhaylova Natalya Sokolova Svetlana Ishmouratova	Belarus Inna Sheshkil Natalia Permiakova Irina Tananaiko Svetlana Paramygina	Ukraine Oksana Glova Oksana Yakovleva Tetiana Lytovchenko Iryna Merkushina
2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	Belarus Irina Tananaiko Svetlana Paramygina Ludmila Arlouskaya Olga Nazarova	Russia Svetlana Dementyeva Evguenia Koutsepalova Natalya Sokolova Evgenia Mikhaylova	United States Ann Sorenson Kristina Sabasteanski Jill Troutner Nicole Hunt
2001	Duszniki-Zdrój	Russia Raisa Matveeva Evgenia Mikhaylova Natalya Sokolova Oksana Neupokoeva	Belarus Irina Tananaiko Ksenia Zikounkova Ludmila Arlouskaya Olga Nazarova	Ukraine Tetiana Lytovchenko Olena Demydenko Lyudmyla Sahaydak Olena Zubrilova
2002	Jablonec nad Nisou	Russia Raisa Matveeva Natalia Artsybacheva Olesya Fedoseeva Lubov Ermolaeva	Belarus Olena Zubrilova Ksenia Zikounkova Ludmila Arlouskaya Olga Nazarova	Czech Republic Pavla Matyášová Zdeňka Vejnarová Irena Česneková Kateřina Holubcová
2003	Forni Avoltri	Belarus Ekaterina Ivanova Olena Zubrilova Liudmila Ananko Olga Nazarova	Russia Inna Kasimova Oksana Neupokoeva Natalia Artsybacheva Tatiana Moiseeva	Italy Maryke Ciaramidaro Romina Demetz Katja Haller Dominique Vallet
2004	Brezno-Osrblie	Belarus Svetlana Khandohina Ekaterina Ivanova Liudmila Kalinchik Olga Nazarova	Russia Lubov Ermolaeva Anna Sotnikova Natalia Artsybacheva Oksana Neupokoeva	Slovakia Zuzana Hasillová Anna Murínová Petra Slezáková Soňa Mihoková
2005	Muonio	Belarus Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova Ksenia Zikounkova Natalya Sokolova	Russia Lubov Ermolaeva Evgenia Mikhaylova Ekaterina Sidorenko Tatiana Moiseeva	Czech Republic Tereza Hlavsová Pavla Matyášová Klára Moravcová Michaela Balatková

Mixed

Relay (2 × 3 km + 2 × 4 km)

This event was only held in 2006 and 2007.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2006	Ufa	Russia Ekaterina Sidorenko Evgenia Mikhaylova Dmitriy Nikiforov Sergey Balandin	Czech Republic Pavla Matyášová Zdeňka Vejnarová Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec	Belarus Tatyana Shyntar Natalya Sokolova Alexandr Ustinov Vitalii Pertzev
2007	Otepää	Russia Evgenia Mikhaylova Anna Sorokina Alexey Katrenko Ivan Bogdanov	Ukraine Svetlana Krykonchuk Lyudmyla Pysarenko Oleg Berezhnoy Olexander Bilanenko	Czech Republic Pavla Matyášová Zdeňka Vejnarová Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec

Total medals by country

Updated after the 2024 Championships.

Roller skiing (since 2006)

Men

Super-Sprint (7.5 km)

From 2019 to 2022 the distance was 5 km

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2019	Minsk	Timofey Lapshin (KOR)	Klemen Bauer (SLO)	Eduard Latypov (RUS)
2021	Nové Město	George Buta (ROU)	Yaroslav Kostyukov (RBU)	Florent Claude (BEL)
2022	Ruhpolding	Philipp Horn (GER)	Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE)	Peppe Femling (SWE)
2023	Brezno/Osrblie	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)	Tomáš Mikyska (CZE)	Artem Tyshchenko (UKR)
2024	Otepää	Dmytro Pidruchnyi (UKR)	Artem Tyshchenko (UKR)	Tomáš Mikyska (CZE)

Sprint (7.5 km)

From 2006 to 2018 the distance was 10 km

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2006	Ufa	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	Danilo Kodela (SLO)
2007	Otepää	Mikhail Kochkin (RUS)	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Roland Lessing (EST)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	Kirill Shcherbakov (RUS)
2009	Oberhof	Christoph Stephan (GER)	Michael Rösch (GER)	Christoph Knie (GER)
2010	Duszniki-Zdrój	Dušan Šimočko (SVK)	Matej Kazár (SVK)	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)
2011	Nové Město	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Vladimir Iliev (BUL)
2012	Ufa	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	Anton Shipulin (RUS)
2013	Forni Avoltri	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	Tomáš Hasilla (SVK)	Simon Kočevar (SLO)
2014	Tyumen	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	Michael Rösch (BEL)	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)
2015	Cheile Grădiștei	Vladimir Iliev (BUL)	Artem Pryma (UKR)	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)
2016	Otepää	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)	Lukas Kristejn (CZE)	Sergey Klyachin (RUS)
2017	Chaykovskiy	Vladimir Chepelin (BLR)	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	Tomas Hasilla (SVK)
2018	Nové Město	Michal Krčmář (CZE)	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	Tomáš Krupčík (CZE)
2019	Minsk	Timofey Lapshin (KOR)	Alexander Povarnitsyn (RUS)	Eduard Latypov (RUS)
2021	Nové Město	Michal Krčmář (CZE)	Matej Baloga (SVK)	Cornel Puchianu (ROU)
2022	Ruhpolding	Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE)	Peppe Femling (SWE)	Niklas Hartweg (CHE)
2023	Brezno/Osrblie	Florent Claude (BEL)	Vytautas Strolia (LTU)	Jesper Nelin (SWE)
2024	Otepää	Jakub Stvrtecky (CZE)	Emilien Claude (FRA)	Thierry Langer (BEL)

Pursuit (10 km)

From 2006 to 2018 the distance was 12.5 km

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2006	Ufa	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Krzysztof Pływaczyk (POL)	Maksim Sokovnin (RUS)
2007	Otepää	Aleksander Grizman (RUS)	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Mikhail Kochkin (RUS)
2008	Haute Maurienne	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	Matthias Simmen (SWI)
2009	Oberhof	Michael Rösch (GER)	Christoph Stephan (GER)	Alexander Wolf (GER)
2010	Duszniki-Zdrój	Matej Kazár (SVK)	Timofey Lapshin (RUS)	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)
2011	Nové Město	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	Krasimir Anev (BUL)
2012	Ufa	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	Maxim Chudov (RUS)	Andrei Makoveev (RUS)
2013	Forni Avoltri	Klemen Bauer (SLO)	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	Markus Windisch (ITA)
2014	Tyumen	Michael Rösch (BEL)	Klemen Bauer (SLO)	Krasimir Anev (BUL)
2015	Cheile Grădiștei	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)	Artem Pryma (UKR)	Matej Kazár (SVK)
2016	Otepää	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)	Sergey Klyachin (RUS)	Oleksander Zhyrnyi (UKR)
2017	Chaykovskiy	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	Krasimir Anev (BUL)
2018	Nové Město	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	Michal Krčmář (CZE)	Artem Pryma (UKR)
2019	Minsk	Martin Otčenáš (SVK)	Eduard Latypov (RUS)	Klemen Bauer (SLO)
2021	Nové Město	Michal Krčmář (CZE)	Florent Claude (BEL)	Yaroslav Kostyukov (RBU)

Mass Start (12,5 km)

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2022	Ruhpolding	Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE)	Roman Rees (GER)	Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE)
2023	Brezno/Osrblie	Taras Lesiuk (UKR)	Dmitrii Shamaev (ROU)	Vytautas Strolia (LTU)
2024	Otepää	Rene Zahkna (EST)	Jonáš Mareček (CZE)	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)