Biathlon World Championship Men Individual History 1958-2025

Biathlon World Championship Men Individual History 1958-2025

Classical Event included in All World Championships. Medals

Event	Gold			Silver			Bronze
2025 Men 20km Individual	Perrot ũric	FRA	47:58.1 1	Tommaso Giacomel	ITA	48:50.5 1	Quentin Fillon Maillet	FRA	49:57.6 3
2024 Men 20km Individual	Johannes Thingnes Bø	NOR	34:50.2 1	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	LAT	35:05.3 0	Quentin Fillon Maillet	FRA	35:23.2 1
2021 Men 20km Individual	Sturla Holm Lægreid	NOR	49:27.6	Arnd Peiffer	GER	49:44.5	Johannes Dale	NOR	50:08.5
2020 Men 20km Individual	Martin Fourcade	FRA	49:43.1 1	Johannes Thingnes Bø	NOR	50:40.1 2	Dominik Landertinger	AUT	51:05.2 1
2019 Men 20km Individual	Arnd Peiffer	GER	52:42.4	Vladimir Iliev	BUL	53:51.1	Tarjei Bø	NOR	53:51.5
2017	Lowell Bailey	USA		Ondřej Moravec	CZE		Martin Fourcade	FRA
2016	Martin Fourcade	FRA		Dominik Landertinger	AUT		Simon Eder	AUT
2015	Martin Fourcade	FRA		Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR		Ondřej Moravec	CZE
2013	Martin Fourcade	FRA		Tim Burke	USA		Fredrik Lindström	SWE
2012	Jakov Fak	SLO		Simon Fourcade	FRA		Jaroslav Soukup	CZE
2011	Tarjei Bø	NOR		Maxim Maksimov	RUS		Christoph Sumann	AUT
2009	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR		Christoph Stephan	GER		Jakov Fak	CRO
2008	Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR		Maxim Maksimov	RUS
2007	Raphaël Poirée	FRA		Michael Greis	GER		Michal Šlesingr	CZE
2005	Roman Dostál	CZE		Michael Greis	GER		Ricco Groß	GER
2004	Raphaël Poirée	FRA		Tomasz Sikora	POL		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR
2003	Halvard Hanevold	NOR		Vesa Hietalahti	FIN		Ricco Groß	GER
2001	Paavo Puurunen	FIN		Vadim Sashurin	BLR		Ilmārs Bricis	LAT
2000	Wolfgang Rottmann	AUT		Ludwig Gredler	AUT		Frank Luck	GER
1999	Sven Fischer	GER		Ricco Groß	GER		Vadim Sashurin	BLR
1997	Ricco Groß	GER		Oleg Ryzhenkov	BLR		Ludwig Gredler	AUT
1996	Sergei Tarasov	RUS		Vladimir Drachev	RUS		Vadim Sashurin	BLR
1995	Tomasz Sikora	POL		Jon Åge Tyldum	NOR		Oleg Ryzhenkov	BLR
1993	Andreas Zingerle	ITA		Sergei Tarasov	RUS		Sergei Tchepikov	RUS
1991	Mark Kirchner	GER		Alexandr Popov	URS		Eirik Kvalfoss	NOR
1990	Valeriy Medvedtsev	URS		Sergei Tchepikov	URS		Anatoliy Zdanovich	URS
1989	Eirik Kvalfoss	NOR		Gisle Fenne	NOR		Fritz Fischer	FRG
1987	Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR		Josh Thompson	USA		Jan Matouš	TCH
1986	Valeriy Medvedtsev	URS		André Sehmisch	GDR		Alfred Eder	AUT
1985	Juri Kashkarov	URS		Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR		Tapio Piipponen	FIN
1983	Frank Ullrich	GDR		Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR		Peter Angerer	FRG
1982	Frank Ullrich	GDR		Eirik Kvalfoss	NOR		Terje Krokstad	NOR
1981	Heikki Ikola	FIN		Frank Ullrich	GDR		Erkki Antila	FIN
1979	Klaus Siebert	GDR		Alexander Tikhonov	URS		Sigleif Johansen	NOR
1978	Odd Lirhus	NOR		Frank Ullrich	GDR		Eberhard Rösch	GDR
1977	Heikki Ikola	FIN		Sigleif Johansen	NOR		Alexander Tikhonov	URS
1975	Heikki Ikola	FIN		Nikolay Kruglov	URS		Esko Saira	FIN
1974 Men 20km Individual	Juhani Suutarinen	FIN	1:12.04.7	Gheorghe Gîrniţă	ROU	1:13.28.9	Tor Svendsberget	NOR	1:13.37.1
1973	Alexander Tikhonov	URS		Gennady Kovalyev	URS		Tor Svendsberget	NOR
1971	Dieter Speer	GDR		Alexander Tikhonov	URS		Magnar Solberg	NOR
1970	Alexander Tikhonov	URS		Tor Svendsberget	NOR		Viktor Mamatov	URS
1969	Alexander Tikhonov	URS		Rinnat Safin	URS		Magnar Solberg	NOR
1967	Viktor Mamatov	URS		Stanisław Szczepaniak	POL		Jon Istad	NOR
1966	Jon Istad	NOR		Józef Gąsienica Sobczak	POL		Vladimir Gundartsev	URS
1965	Olav Jordet	NOR		Nikolay Puzanov	URS		Antti Tyrväinen	FIN
1963	Vladimir Melanin	URS		Antti Tyrväinen	FIN		Hannu Posti	FIN
1962	Vladimir Melanin	URS		Antti Tyrväinen	FIN		Valentin Pshenitsyn	URS
1961	Kalevi Huuskonen	FIN		Aleksandr Privalov	URS		Paavo Repo	FIN
1959	Vladimir Melanin	URS		Dmitri Sokolov	URS		Sven Agge	SWE
1958	Adolf Wiklund	SWE		Olle Gunneriusson	SWE		Viktor Butakov	URS

Medals		G	S	B	All
1.	Soviet Union	10	10	6	26
2.	Norway	10	8	11	29
3.	France	7	1	3	11
4.	Finland	6	3	6	15
5.	East Germany	5	5	1	11
6.	Germany	4	5	3	12
7.	Russia	1	3	2	6
8.	Poland	1	3		4
9.	Austria	1	2	5	8
10.	United States	1	2		3
11.	Czechia	1	1	3	5
12.	Sweden	1	1	2	4
13.	Italy	1	1		2
14.	Slovenia	1			1
15.	Belarus		2	3	5
16.	Latvia		1	1	2
17.	Bulgaria		1		1
17.	Romania		1		1
19.	West Germany			2	2
20.	Croatia			1	1
20.	Czechoslovakia			1	1
Total (21 nations		50	50	50	150

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