Biathlon European Championships 2015

The 22nd Biathlon European Championships were held in Otepää, Estonia from January 28 to February 3, 2015.

There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for Open and Junior, relay races for Open and a mixed relay for junior.

Schedule of events

The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 20 km Individual details	Alexey Volkov Russia	53.23.2 (0+0+0+2)	Serhiy Semenov Ukraine	54.28.8 (1+2+1+0)	Vladimir Iliev Bulgaria	54.54.4 (0+0+2+2)
Men's 10 km Sprint details	Alexey Slepov Russia	22.38.0 (0+0)	Lars Helge Birkeland Norway	22.52.5 (0+1)	Antonin Guigonnat France	23.15.8 (1+0)
Men's 12.5 km Pursuit details	Alexey Slepov Russia	33.21.0 (1+0+1+1)	Krasimir Anev Bulgaria	34.05.3 (1+1+0+1)	Anton Babikov Russia	34.11.7 (0+0+2+2)
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay details	Ukraine Artem Tyshchenko Serhiy Semenov Artem Pryma Dmytro Pidruchnyi	1:11:05.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Håvard Bogetveit Andreas Dahlø Wærnes Vegard Bjørn Gjermundshaug Lars Helge Birkeland	1:12:02.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Belarus Vladimir Chepelin Dmitriy Dyuzhev Dzmitry Abasheu Yuryi Liadov	1:12:05.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2)

Russian team (Alexey Volkov, Anton Babikov, Aleksandr Pechenkin, Alexey Slepov) which finished first (1:10:50.9), later was disqualified because of an anti-doping rule violation by Aleksandr Pechenkin.^[2]^[3] The medals were reallocated accordingly.^[4]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 15 km individual details	Luminița Pișcoran Romania	51.15.7 (1+3+1+0)	Christina Rieder Austria	51:36.3 (1+0+1+1)	Ekaterina Yurlova Russia	52:03.2 (0+4+1+2)
Women's 7.5 km sprint details	Coline Varcin France	20:26.4 (0+0)	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak Poland	20:36.1 (0+1)	Ekaterina Shumilova Russia	20:36.5 (1+0)
Women's 10 km pursuit details	Ekaterina Shumilova Russia	33.07.4 (0+0+2+0)	Iryna Varvynets Ukraine	33:39.3 (0+0+2+0)	Ekaterina Yurlova Russia	34:01.5 (0+1+1+1)
Women's 4 x 6 km relay details	Iryna Varvynets	1:09:58.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Annika Knoll Tina Bachmann Maren Hammerschmidt Karolin Horchler	1:10:17.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Anaïs Chevalier Chloé Chevalier Julia Simon Coline Varcin	1:10:19.9 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km sprint	Fabien Claude	Eduard Latypov	Aleksandr Dediukhin
Men's 12.5 km pursuit	Eduard Latypov	Rene Zahkna	Alexander Povarnitsyn
Men's 20 km individual	Aristide Bègue	Rene Zahkna	Maksym Ivko

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's 7.5 km sprint	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Dunja Zdouc	Uliana Kaisheva
Women's 10 km pursuit	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Uliana Kaisheva	Dunja Zdouc
Women's 15 km individual	Victoria Slivko	Dunja Zdouc	Yuliya Zhuravok

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 km relay	Uliana Kaisheva Victoria Slivko Dmitrii Shamaev Alexander Povarnitsyn	France Emily Battendier Lena Arnaud Aristide Bègue Fabien Claude	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Yuliya Zhuravok Maksym Ivko Anton Myhda