2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 Explained

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 was the opening event^[1] of the season and was held in Östersund, Sweden, from 29 November until 6 December 2015.

Schedule of events

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Date	Time	Events
November 29	13:45 CET	Single Mixed Relay
	15:30 CET	Mixed Relay
December 2	17:15 CET	Men's 20 km Individual
December 3	17:15 CET	Women's 15 km Individual
December 5	12:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	15:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
December 6	11:00 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	13:30 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
20 km Individual details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	50:14.5 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Schempp	50:41.6 (0+0+1+0)	Alexey Volkov	50:52.7 (0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade	24:02.0 (1+1)	Arnd Peiffer	24:53.6 (0+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	24:57.2 (1+1)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Martin Fourcade	31:22.4 (1+0+1+1)	Arnd Peiffer	31:57.5 (0+1+0+0)	Quentin Fillon Maillet	32:17.6 (0+0+1+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km Individual details	Dorothea Wierer	42:17.0 (0+0+0+0)	Marie Dorin-Habert	42:31.1 (0+2+0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna	42:54.8 (0+0+0+0)
7.5 km Sprint details	Gabriela Soukalová	19:46.2 (0+0)	Federica Sanfilippo	20:01.2 (0+0)	Olena Pidhrushna	20:24.6 (1+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	30:45.1 (1+0+1+0)	Dorothea Wierer	30:47.0 (0+0+1+0)	Franziska Hildebrand	30:48.4 (0+0+0+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Single Mixed Relay details	Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland	36:27.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith	36:39.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm	36:40.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	1:11:42.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp	1:12:16.2 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	1:12:54.1 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

• , 17th place in Individual
• , 18th place in Individual
• , 25th place in Individual
• , 33rd place in Individual
• , 55th place in Individual
• , 56th place in Individual
• , 64th place in Individual
• , 80th place in Individual
• , 83rd place in Individual
• , 1st place in Individual
• , 2nd place in Sprint
• , 8th place in Individual
• , 15th place in Individual
• , 29th place in Individual
• , 31st place in Individual
• , 40th place in Individual
• , 61st place in Individual

First World Cup race

• , 47th place in Individual
• , 87th place in Individual
• , 96th place in Individual
• , 69th place in Individual
• , 79th place in Individual

Oldest winner of a biathlon world cup race in history

• , 41 years and 309 days

Notes and References

1. Web site: Event schedule . IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com . International Biathlon Union . 21 October 2015.
2. Web site: Events. October 21, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160216001826/http://www5.biathlonworld.com/en/events.html?EventId=BT1516SWRLCP01. February 16, 2016. dead.