2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8 Explained

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8^[1] was held from 9 March until 12 March 2017. Initially it was planned to be held in Tyumen, Russia, but IBU cancelled the host rights for Russia.^[2] On 7 January 2017, IBU announced that Stage 8 will be held in Kontiolahti, Finland.^[3]

Schedule of events

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Date	Time	Events
March 10	14:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	17:45 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
March 11	12:00 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	15:15 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit
March 12	13:30 CET	Single Mixed Relay
	16:15 CET	2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade	22:17.0 (0+1)	Ondřej Moravec	22:17.6 (0+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen	22:26.4 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Arnd Peiffer	30:35.0 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Eder	30:35.3 (0+0+1+1)	Emil Hegle Svendsen	30:37.3 (0+0+1+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Tiril Eckhoff	19:18.4 (0+0)	Laura Dahlmeier	19:36.7 (0+1)	Darya Domracheva	19:38.8 (0+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Laura Dahlmeier	29:54.4 (0+1+0+0)	Marie Dorin Habert	30:10.9 (1+0+0+1)	Lisa Vittozzi	30:14.3 (0+1+0+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Single Mixed Relay details	Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder	31:35.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Susan Dunklee Lowell Bailey	32:07.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Laura Dahlmeier Roman Rees	32:08.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	Marie Dorin Habert Anaïs Bescond Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:11:34.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)	Nadine Horchler Maren Hammerschmidt Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer	1:11:45.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2)	Iryna Varvynets Olga Abramova Serhiy Semenov Dmytro Pidruchnyi	1:12:01.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

• , 12th place in Sprint
• , 7th place in Sprint
• , 14th place in Sprint

First World Cup race

Notes and References

1. Web site: Event schedule . IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com . International Biathlon Union . 15 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121204112219/http://datacenter.biathlonresults.com/?view=schedule_schedule . 4 December 2012 . dead . dmy-all.
2. Web site: IBU Press Release: Extraordinary IBU Executive Board Meeting.
3. Web site: Kontiolahti, Finland to Host BMW IBU World Cup 8.
4. Web site: Events. March 11, 2017.