Biathlon World Championships 1996

The 31st Biathlon World Championships were held in 1996 for the third time in Ruhpolding, Germany.^[1]

Men's results

20 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Sergei Tarasov	RUS		53:05.4
	Vladimir Drachev	RUS		53:49.9
	Vadim Sashurin	BLR		54:38.3

10 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Vladimir Drachev	RUS		26:52.3
	Viktor Maigourov	RUS
	René Cattarinussi	ITA

Team event

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Belarus Alexandr Popov Petr Ivashko	BLR		26:05.6
	Russia Viktor Maigourov Vladimir Drachev Pavel Muslimov Sergei Rozhkov	RUS
	Italy René Cattarinussi Pieralberto Carrara Patrick Favre Hubert Leitgeb	ITA

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Russia Alexei Kobelev	RUS		1:19:50.8
	Germany Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Frank Luck Sven Fischer	GER
	Belarus Alexandr Popov	BLR

Women's results

15 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Emmanuelle Claret	FRA		46:43.1
	Olga Melnik	RUS
	Olena Petrova	UKR

7.5 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Olga Romasko	RUS		22:30.5
	Ann-Elen Skjelbreid	NOR
	Magdalena Forsberg	SWE

Team event

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Germany Katrin Apel Petra Behle Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	GER		23:23.6
	Ukraine Tetyana Vodopyanova Olena Petrova Olena Zubrilova Nina Lemesh	UKR
	France Anne Briand Corinne Niogret Florence Baverel-Robert Emmanuelle Claret	FRA

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm Katrin Apel Petra Behle	GER		1:33:59.8
	France Corinne Niogret Florence Baverel-Robert Emmanuelle Claret Anne Briand	FRA
	Ukraine Tetyana Vodopyanova Olena Petrova Olena Zubrilova Valentina Tserbe-Nessina	UKR

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Russia	4	4	0	8
2	Germany	2	1	0	3
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	Belarus	1	0	2	3
5	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
6	Norway	0	1	0	1
7	Italy	0	0	2	2
8	Sweden	0	0	1	1

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