Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Biathlon at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Seefeld Arena Seefeld
Dates	15–19 January
Competitors	100 from 33 nations

Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Sprint		boys'		girls'
Pursuit		boys'		girls'
Mixed relay			mixed
CC skiing/Biathlon relay			mixed

Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the temporary Biathlon Course at the Seefeld Arena venue in Innsbruck, Austria.^[1][2]

Events

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	1	0	5
2	Russia	1	1	1	3
3	China	1	0	1	2
4	Estonia	0	2	0	2
5	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
6	Norway	0	1	0	1
7	France	0	0	2	2
8	United States	0	0	1	1
Total		6	6	6	18

Boys' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint	Cheng Fangming  China	19:21.7	Rene Zahkna  Estonia	19:43.0	Aristide Begue  France	19:48.5
Pursuit	Niklas Homberg  Germany	28:43.1	Rene Zahkna  Estonia	28:52.6	Cheng Fangming  China	28:57.7

Girls' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint	Franziska Preuß  Germany	17:27.7	Galina Vishnevskaya  Kazakhstan	17:55.2	Uliana Kaysheva  Russia	18:00.9
Pursuit	Uliana Kaysheva  Russia	26:01.3	Franziska Preuß  Germany	26:29.2	Galina Vishnevskaya  Kazakhstan	27:44.4

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed relay	Germany (GER)	1:11:06.8	Norway (NOR)	1:13:11.7	France (FRA)	1:13:27.8
Cross-country Biathlon mixed relay	Germany (GER)	1:04:23.4	Russia (RUS)	1:05:22.5	United States (USA)	1:05:23.0

Qualification system

Qualification summary

NOC	Men	Women	Total
Armenia		1	1
Australia	1		1
Austria	2	2	4
Belarus	2	2	4
Bulgaria	2	2	4
Canada	2	2	4
China	1	2	3
Croatia	1		1
Czech Republic	2	2	4
Estonia	2	2	4
Finland	2	2	4
France	2	2	4
Germany	2	2	4
Great Britain	1		1
Hungary	1		1
Italy	2	2	4
Kazakhstan	1	2	3
Latvia	2	1	3
Lithuania	1	1	2
Moldova		1	1
New Zealand		1	1
Norway	2	2	4
Poland	2	2	4
Romania	1	2	3
Russia	2	2	4
Serbia	1		1
Slovakia	2	2	4
Slovenia	2	2	4
South Korea	1	1	2
Sweden	2	2	4
Switzerland	2	1	3
Ukraine	2	2	4
United States	2	2	4
Total athletes	50	49	99
Total NOCs	30	29	32

References