2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 2 Explained

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 2 was the second event^[1] of the season and was held in Hochfilzen, Austria, from 13 to 16 December 2018.

Schedule of events

The events took place at the following times.^[1]

Date	Time	Events
13 December	14:15 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
14 December	14:15 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
15 December	11:30 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit
	14:45 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
16 December	11:15 CET	4 x 6 km Women's Relay
	14:00 CET	4 x 7.5 km Men's Relay

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint^[2]	Johannes Thingnes Bø	24:49.2 (0+1)	Martin Fourcade	24:57.8 (0+0)	Benedikt Doll	24:59.4 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit^[3]	Martin Fourcade	32:22.3 (0+0+0+0)	Arnd Peiffer	32:36.0 (1+0+0+0)	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	32:38.4 (0+0+0+0)
4 x 7,5 km Men Relay^[4]	Peppe Femling Martin Ponsiluoma Torstein Stenersen Sebastian Samuelsson	1:16:10.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Lars Helge Birkeland Henrik L'Abée-Lund Tarjei Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:16:14.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Simon Schempp Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:16:39.4 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint^[5]	Dorothea Wierer	21:04.9 (0+1)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	21:05.5 (0+1)	Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht	21:29.3 (0+0)
10 km Pursuit^[6]	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	30:53.1 (1+0+1+1)	Paulína Fialková	30:54.6 (0+0+1+1)	Dorothea Wierer	30:55.9 (2+0+1+1)
4 x 6 km Women Relay^[7]	Lisa Vittozzi Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer Federica Sanfilippo	1:10:58.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Emma Nilsson Hanna Öberg	1:11:07.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Anaïs Chevalier Julia Simon Célia Aymonier Anaïs Bescond	1:11:10.5 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Event schedule . IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com . International Biathlon Union . 12 January 2018.
2. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - men 10 km sprint . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 14 December 2018.
3. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - men 12.5 km pursuit . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 15 December 2018.
4. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - men 4 x 7,5 km relay . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 16 December 2018.
5. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - women 7.5 km sprint . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 13 December 2018.
6. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - women 10 km pursuit . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 15 December 2018.
7. Web site: Hochfilzen final results - women 4 x 6 km relay . PDF . 12 January 2019 . 16 December 2018.