World Team Challenge

The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.

World Team Challenge
World Team Challenge 2005
Statusactive
Genresports event
Date(s)December
Frequencyannual
Location(s)Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
CountryGermany
Inaugurated2002 (2002)

Statistics

Winners by edition
# Years Winners
12002Germany Michael GreisGermany Martina Glagow
22003Norway Ole Einar BjørndalenNorway Gunn Margit Andreassen
32004Norway Ole Einar BjørndalenNorway Liv Kjersti Eikeland
42005Norway Ole Einar BjørndalenNorway Linda Tjørhom
52006Norway Ole Einar BjørndalenNorway Linda Grubben
62007Russia Dmitri YaroshenkoRussia Ekaterina Iourieva
72008Ukraine Andriy DeryzemlyaUkraine Oksana Khvostenko
82009Austria Christoph SumannGermany Kati Wilhelm
92010 aRussia Evgeny UstyugovRussia Svetlana Sleptsova
102011Sweden Carl Johan BergmanFinland Kaisa Mäkäräinen
112012Russia Anton ShipulinRussia Ekaterina Yurlova
122013Germany Florian GrafGermany Laura Dahlmeier
132014Ukraine Serhiy SemenovUkraine Valj Semerenko
142015France Martin FourcadeFrance Marie Dorin-Habert
152016Germany Simon SchemppGermany Vanessa Hinz
162017Russia Alexey VolkovRussia Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht
172018Italy Lukas HoferItaly Dorothea Wierer
182019Norway Vetle Sjåstad ChristiansenNorway Marte Olsbu Røiseland
192020Russia Matvey EliseevRussia Evgeniya Pavlova
202021Austria Felix LeitnerAustria Lisa Theresa Hauser
212022France Fabien ClaudeFrance Julia Simon
  • ^a The 2010 event was rescheduled for March 2011 because of the roof destruction.

Successful nations
Rank Country Victories
1 Norway5
 Russia
3 Germany3.5
4 France2
 Ukraine
6 Austria1.5
7 Italy1
8 Finland0.5
 Sweden

Participating nations
Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
 Austria** *• *•••••••••••
 Belarus••**•
 Belgium*
 Canada•••
 China••
 Czech Republic••••••••••••
 Finland••***••
 France•• •••• •• ••••••••••••
 Germany• • • •• • • • •• • • •• • • • •• • • • • •• • • • •• • • *• * *• • •• •• • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
 Italy••••••••••••••
 Japan••
 Norway• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••• ••• •••*••
 Poland••
 Romania*
 Russia• ••••••••••••••••••••
 Slovakia•
 Slovenia••••
 Sweden• **••
 Switzerland••••••
 United States••••
 Ukraine••••••••••*•••••
Legend to the table
• - one pair; 
•• - two pairs and so on; 
* - one athlete in a mixed pair.

References
  1. "From crazy idea to a successful biathlon competition" (in German). FC Schalke 04 Arena Management. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

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