| Biathlon World Championships 1997 | |
| Host City: | Brezno-Osrblie |
| Country: | Slovakia |
| Events: | 10 |
| Previous: | Ruhpolding 1996 |
The 32nd Biathlon World Championships were held in 1997 in Brezno-Osrblie, Slovakia.[1] The pursuit races were contested for the first time in the world championships.
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilfried Pallhuber | 0,0 | 0 | |||||
| 1 | 16,8 | ||||||
| 2 | 18,3 |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belarus Vadim Sashurin Oleg Ryzhenkov Alexandr Popov Petr Ivashko | |||||
| Germany Mark Kirchner Frank Luck Peter Sendel Carsten Heymann | |||||
| Poland Wieslaw Ziemianin Jan Ziemianin Wojciech Kozub Tomasz Sikora |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway Liv Grete Skjelbreid Ann Elen Skjelbreid Gunn Margit Andreassen Annette Sikveland | |||||
| Russia Olga Melnik Anna Volkova Nadezhda Talanova Olga Romasko | |||||
| Ukraine Valentina Tserbe-Nessina Tatyana Vodopyanova Olena Petrova Olena Zubrilova |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm Katrin Apel Petra Behle | |||||
| Norway Ann Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Liv Grete Skjelbreid Gunn Margit Andreassen | |||||
| Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Nadezhda Talanova Olga Romasko |
| width=50 | Place | width=120 | Nation | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Germany | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
| 3 |  Sweden | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 4 |  Norway | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 5 |  Belarus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 5 |  Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 7 |  Ukraine | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 8 |  Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 8 |  Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 8 |  Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |