| Biathlon World Championships 1973 | |
| Host City: | Lake Placid, New York |
| Country: | USA |
| Events: | 2 |
| Previous: | Hämeenlinna 1971 |
The 12th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1973 in Lake Placid, United States. It is the first time the championships took place outside Europe.[1]
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Tikhonov | 2 | 1:24:30.2 | |||
| 1 | 1:27:17.2 | ||||
| 5 | 1:28:08.2 |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Yuriy Kolmakov Gennady Kovalyev | |||||
| Norway Tor Svendsberget Esten Gjelten Ragnar Tveiten Kjell Hovda | |||||
| East Germany Dieter Speer Manfred Geyer Herbert Wiegand Günther Bartnick |
| width=50 | Place | width=120 | Nation | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| 2 |  Norway | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |