Biathlon at the Winter World University Games

Biathlon at the Winter World University Games
Biathlon at the Winter World University Games
Events	10 (men: 5; women: 5)
Games
	1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1970; 1973; 1972; 1975; 1975; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985; 1987; 1989; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997; 1999; 2001; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021; 2025;

Biathlon events have been contested at the Universiade as an optional sport in 1983, 1989 and 1993, becoming a compulsory sport after 1997.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Winner	Second	Third
XI	1983	Sofia	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Romania	Bulgaria
XIV	1989	Sofia	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Bulgaria
XVI	1993	Zakopane	Poland	Russia	China	Belarus
XVIII	1997	Muju County	South Korea	Russia	France	Czech Republic
XIX	1999	Poprad	Slovakia	Slovakia	Poland	Russia
XX	2001	Zakopane	Poland	Russia	Poland	Belarus
XXI	2003	Forni Avoltri	Italy	Ukraine	Russia	Belarus
XXII	2005	Seefeld in Tirol	Austria	Russia	Ukraine	Poland
XXIII	2007	Cesana San Sicario	Italy	Belarus	Ukraine	Russia
XXIV	2009	Harbin	China	Russia	Ukraine	China
XV	2011	Erzurum	Turkey	Ukraine	Russia	Bulgaria
XXVI	2013	Tesero	Italy	Russia	Poland	Ukraine
XXVII	2015	Osrblie	Slovakia	Russia	Ukraine	Czech Republic/ Slovakia
XXVIII	2017	Almaty	Kazakhstan	Russia	Kazakhstan	France
XXIX	2019	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	Russia	Norway	Czech Republic
XXX	2023	Lake Placid	United States	Kazakhstan	Canada	Czech Republic

Events

Event	83	89	93	97	99	01	03	05	07	09	11	13	15	17	Years
Men's individual 20 km	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	14
Men's sprint 10 km	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	14
Men's pursuit 12,5 km					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10
Men's mass start 15 km							•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
Men's relay 4 x 7,5 km	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•						9
Women's individual 15 km		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13
Women's sprint 7,5 km		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13
Women's pursuit 10 km					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10
Women's mass start 12,5 km							•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
Women's relay 4 x 6 km		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•						8
Mixed 2 x 6 km / 2 x 7,5 km										•	•	•	•	•	5

Medalists

Men

Individual 15 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2023	Vadim Kurales	Ørjan Moseng	Axel Garnier

Individual 20 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983	Taras Dolny	Andrei Nepein	Leonid Novikov
1985–1987	not included in the program
1989	Jan Matoush	Leonid Reztsov	Gennady Karpinkin
1991	not included in the program
1993	Pavel Mouslimov	Franck Perrot	Tan Hongbin
1995	not included in the program
1997	Marian Malek	Guenther Beck	Andrei Ovtcharenko
1999	Vladimir Beresnev	Tomasz Sikora	Marek Matiasko
2001	Tomasz Sikora	Victor Gain	Roustam Valioulin
2003	Olexander Bilanenko	Pavol Hurajt	Alexei Korobeinikov
2005	Olexander Bilanenko	Alexandr Syman	Pavol Hurajt
2007	Sergei Novikov	Serhiy Sednev	Roman Pryma
2009	Artem Gusev	Remy Borgeot	Serhiy Semenov
2011	Alexey Trustov	Krasimir Anev	Matej Kazar
2013	Sergei Kliachin	Aleksandr Mingalev	Milanko Petrović
2015	Dmytro Rusinov	Vadim Filimonov	Yuri Shopin
2017	Baptiste Jouty	Sergei Korastylev	Semyon Suchilov
2019	Nikita Porshnev	Semyon Suchilov	Félix Cottet-Puinel

Sprint 10 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983	Taras Dolny	Leonid Novikov	Andrei Nepein
1985–1987	not included in the program
1989	Jan Matoush	Konstantin Vaigin	Gennady Karpinkin
1991	not included in the program
1993	Franck Perrot	Gennady Karpinkin	Nicolai Dobrokhvalov
1995	not included in the program
1997	Franck Perrot	Anton Kalinin	Guenther Beck
1999	Tomasz Sikora	Andrei Prokounin	Vladimir Beresnev
2001	Tomasz Sikora	Roustam Valioulin	Sergei Novikov
2003	Andriy Deryzemlya	Filipp Shoulman	Vladimir Berestnev
2005	Andrei Makoveev	Olexander Bilanenko	Alexandr Syman
2007	Sergei Novikov	Sergey Tarasov	Serhiy Sednev
2009	Artem Gusev	Oleg Berezhnoy	Jaroslav Soukup
2011	Artem Pryma	Sergii Semenov	Evgeniy Garanichev
2013	Milanko Petrović	Vitaliy Kilchytskyy	Dmytro Pidruchnyi
2015	Yaroslav Ivanov	Maksim Burtasov	Yuri Shopin
2017	Semyon Suchilov	Dmitry Ivanov	Roman Yeryomin
2019	Eduard Latypov	Dmitry Ivanov	Nikita Porshnev
2023	Bekentay Turlubekov	Bjorn Westervelt	Alexandr Mukhin

Pursuit 12,5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985–1997	not included in the program
1999	Tomasz Sikora	Vladimir Beresnev	Aliaksandr Syman
2001	Tomasz Sikora	Guenther Beck	Pavol Hurajt
2003	Vyacheslav Derkach	Alexei Korobeinikov	Andriy Deryzemlya
2005	Andrei Makoveev	Andriy Deryzemlya	Olexander Bilanenko
2007	Andrei Makoveev	Jaroslav Soukup	Sergey Tarasov
2009	Oleg Berezhnoy	Artem Gusev	Jaroslav Soukup
2011	Sergii Semenov	Artem Pryma	Evgeniy Garanichev
2013	Aleksandr Pechenkin	Sergei Kliachin	Alexei Almoukov
2015	Yuri Shopin	Yaroslav Ivanov	Maksim Burtasov
2017	Sergey Korastylev	Dmitry Ivanov	Semen Suchilov
2019	Dmitry Ivanov	Eduard Latypov	Nikita Porshnev
2023	Bjorn Westervelt	Dmytrii Hrushchak	Wojciech Janik

Mass start 15 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–2001	not included in the program
2003	Andriy Deryzemlya	Vyacheslav Derkach	Vladimir Berestnev
2005	Mikhail Kochkin	Roman Pryma	Jaroslav Soukup
2007	Andrei Makoveev	Oleg Berezhnoy	Serhiy Sednev
2009	Jaroslav Soukup	Alexey Trustov	Artem Gusev
2011	Roman Pryma	Krasimir Anev	Alexey Trustov
2013	Dmytro Pidruchnyi	Tomáš Krupčík	Dmitrii Elkhin
2015	Vitaliy Kilchytskyy	Dmytro Rusinov	Yuri Shopin
2017	Baptiste Jouty	Roman Yeryomin	Anton Pantov
2019	Espen Uldal	Maksim Varabei	Adam Václavík
2023	Axel Garnier	Alexandr Mukhin	Ørjan Moseng

Relay 4 x 7,5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983	Soviet Union	Romania	Bulgaria
1985–1987	not included in the program
1989	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	China
1991	not included in the program
1993	Belarus	Russia	China
1995	not included in the program
1997	Russia	Ukraine	Czech Republic
1999	Russia	Ukraine	Belarus
2001	Belarus	Russia	Poland
2003	Russia	Belarus	Ukraine
2005	Russia	Ukraine	Slovakia
2007	Belarus	Ukraine	Russia
2009–2019	not included in the program

Women

Individual 15 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–1987	not included in the program
1989	Maria Manolova	Elena Batsevich	Wang Jingge
1991	not included in the program
1993	Elena Doumnova	Agata Suszka	Alla Elsoukova
1995	not included in the program
1997	Elena Maslova	Emmanuelle Termier	Rachel Steer
1999	Martina Schwarzbacherova	Adriana Babik	Oksana Khvostenko
2001	Martina Schwarzbacherova	Celine Drezet	Olga Nazarova
2003	Ksenia Zikounkova	Olga Nazarova	Marina Bortchoukova
2005	Yekaterina Yuryeva	Oksana Yakovleva	Natalya Burdyga
2007	Oksana Yakovleva	Nadezhda Skardino	Vita Semerenko
2009	Anna Kunaeva	Nadezhda Chastina	Franziska Hildebrand
2011	Daria Virolaynen	Franziska Hildebrand	Darya Yurkevich
2013	Natalia Prekopova	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak	Jitka Landova
2015	Alina Raikova	Ekaterina Avvakumova	Paulina Fialkova
2017	Alina Raikova	Galina Vishnevskaya	Nadiia Bielkina
2019	Natalia Gerbulova	Ekaterina Moshkova	Elena Chirkova

Sprint 7,5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–1987	not included in the program
1989	Louisa Cherepanova	Natalia Ivanova	Song Aiqin
1991	not included in the program
1993	Wang Jinfen	Elena Doumnova	Wang Jinping
1995	not included in the program
1997	Elena Maslova	Rachel Steer	Kamila Horakova
1999	Martina Schwarzbacherova	Marcela Pavkovcekova	Sona Mihokova
2001	Irina Malguina	Olga Zaitseva	Iryna Tananaika
2003	Olga Nazarova	Tatiana Moiseeva	Natalya Burdyga
2005	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Oksana Khvostenko	Natalya Burdyga
2007	Darya Domracheva	Valj Semerenko	Vita Semerenko
2009	Nadezhda Chastina	Marina Korovina	Agnieszka Grzybek
2011	Vita Semerenko	Evgeniya Sedova	Emilia Yordanova
2013	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak	Monika Hojnisz	Tatiana Semenova
2015	Paulina Fialkova	Evgeniya Pavlova	Jitka Landova
2017	Galina Vishnevskaya	Iana Bondar	Anastasiya Egorova
2019	Ekaterina Moshkova	Irina Kazakevich	Tamara Voronina
2023	Anna Nędza-Kubiniec	Shilo Rousseau	Tereza Jandová

Pursuit 10 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985–1997	not included in the program
1999	Agata Suszka	Martina Schwarzbacherova	Anna Murinova
2001	Irina Malguina	Martina Schwarzbacherova	Olga Zaitseva
2003	Oksana Khvostenko	Joulia Makarova	Radka Doskocilova
2005	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Oksana Khvostenko	Natalya Burdyga
2007	Vita Semerenko	Valj Semerenko	Ludmilla Kolinchik
2009	Anna Kunaeva	Liu Yuan-Yuan	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak
2011	Vita Semerenko	Daria Virolaynen	Evgeniya Sedova
2013	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak	Monika Hojnisz	Tatiana Semenova
2015	Evgeniya Pavlova	Paulina Fialkova	Kristina Smirnova
2017	Nadiia Bielkina	Olga Shesterikova	Larissa Kuklina
2019	Ekaterina Moshkova	Irina Kazakevich	Tamara Voronina
2023	Shilo Rousseau	Anna Nędza-Kubiniec	Barbara Skrobiszewska

12.5 km short individual

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2023	Anna Nędza-Kubiniec	Shilo Rousseau	Tereza Jandová

Mass start 12,5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–2001	not included in the program
2003	Oksana Khvostenko	Tatiana Moiseeva	Raisa Matveeva
2005	Oksana Khvostenko	Liudmila Ananka	Ksenia Zikunkova
2007	Nadezhda Skardino	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	Valj Semerenko
2009	Song Chaoqing	Anna Sorokina	Nadezhda Chastina
2011	Maria Sadilova	Anna Kunaeva	Franziska Hildebrand
2013	Jitka Landova	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak	Iryna Varvynets
2015	Jitka Landova	Eva Puskarcikova	Iana Bondar
2017	Galina Vishnevskaya	Iana Bondar	Larisa Kuklina
2019	Ekaterina Moshkova	Elizaveta Kaplina	Elena Chirkova
2023	Kristýna Otcovská	Pauline Machut	Anna Blanc

Relay 4 x 6 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–1987	not included in the program
1989	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	China
1991	not included in the program
1993	Russia	China	Finland
1995	not included in the program
1997	Russia	Ukraine	Czech Republic
1999	Slovakia	Russia	Poland
2001	Russia	Belarus	Ukraine
2003	Russia	Ukraine	Belarus
2005	Ukraine	Belarus	Russia
2007	Belarus	Ukraine	Russia
2009–2019	not included in the program

Mixed

Relay 2 x 6 km / 2 x 7,5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983–2017	not included in the program
2009	Russia	France	Ukraine
2011	Ukraine	Russia	Bulgaria
2013	Russia	Ukraine	Czech Republic
2015	Russia	Kazakhstan	Ukraine
2017	Russia	Kazakhstan	Ukraine
2019	Russia	Czech Republic	France
2023	Czech Republic	France	Ukraine

Medal table

Last updated after the 2023 Winter Universiade


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	50	41	38	129
2	Ukraine (UKR)	22	30	23	75
3	Belarus (BLR)	10	11	13	34
4	Poland (POL)	10	8	6	24
5	Soviet Union (URS)	6	6	4	16
6	Slovakia (SVK)	6	5	8	19
7	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	6	5	3	14
8	France (FRA)	5	7	4	16
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	5	4	14	23
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	1	0	4
11	China (CHN)	2	3	7	12
12	Canada (CAN)	2	1	0	3
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	3	6
14	United States (USA)	1	2	1	4
15	Norway (NOR)	1	1	1	3
16	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	1	2
17	Austria (AUT)	0	2	1	3
18	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
19	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
20	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
20	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		131	131	131	393

References

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Biathlon at the Winter World University Games

Events	10 (men: 5; women: 5)
Games
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1970 1970 1973 1972 1975 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2025