# Biathlon European Championships 2014

The 21st Biathlon European Championships were held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic from January 29 to February 4, 2014.
There were total of 15 competitions held: sprint, pursuit and individual both for U26 and U21, relay races for U26 and a mixed relay for U21.

## Schedule of events

The schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.
| Date | Time | Event |
| January 29 | 10:00 | U21 Women's individual |
| January 29 | 13:30 | U21 Men's individual |
| January 30 | 10:00 | U26 Women's individual |
| January 30 | 13:30 | U26 Men's individual |
| January 31 | 10:00 | U21 Women's sprint |
| January 31 | 13:00 | U21 Men's sprint |
| February 1 | 10:00 | U26 Women's sprint |
| February 1 | 12:45 | U26 Men's sprint |
| February 2 | 09:15 | U26 Women's pursuit |
| February 2 | 10:15 | U21 Women's pursuit |
| February 2 | 12:30 | U26 Men's pursuit |
| February 2 | 13:30 | U21 Men's pursuit |
| February 3 | 12:00 | U21 Mixed relay |
| February 4 | 10:00 | U26 Women's relay |
| February 4 | 13:00 | U26 Men's relay |

## Results
### U26
#### Men's

It was the first time ever at the Biathlon European Championships when two sportsmen ranked the same podium place - Andrejs Rastorgujevs and David Komatz in sprint.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's 10 km sprint | Lars Helge Birkeland | Maxim Tsvetkov | Andrejs Rastorgujevs David Komatz |
| Men's 12.5 km pursuit | Maxim Tsvetkov | Lars Helge Birkeland | Anton Babikov |
| Men's 20 km individual | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Benedikt Doll | Maxim Tsvetkov |
| Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay | Austria Lorenz Wäger Michael Reiter Peter Brunner David Komatz | Norway Kristoffer Skjelvik Vetle Ravnsborg Gurigard Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland | Germany Michael Willeitner Matthias Bischl Benedikt Doll Florian Graf |

#### Women's

Audrey Vaillancourt from Canada became the first ever non-European biathlete to win a race at the Open Biathlon European Championships. Before that two Kazakh biathletes (Irina Moszewitina won a silver and Olga Dudczenko won a bronze medal in junior's individual race in 2005) and one American biathlete (Lowell Bailey won two bronze medals in the junior sprint and pursuit in 2001) had won medals. Victoria Padial from Spain became the first biathlete from her country to win a medal at the Biathlon European Championships (A Spanish biathlete has never won a medals at the Winter Olympics or World Championships). Mona Brorsson became the first Swedish biathlete to win a race at the Biathlon European Championships.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Women's 7.5 km sprint | Marte Olsbu | Victoria Padial | Iana Bondar |
| Women's 10 km pursuit | Mona Brorsson | Victoria Padial | Daria Virolaynen |
| Women's 15 km individual | Audrey Vaillancourt | Nastassia Kalina | Iryna Kryuko |
| Women's 4 x 6 km relay | Belarus Iryna Kryuko Ala Talkach Aksana Shymanovich Nastassia Kalina | Germany Karolin Horchler Annika Knoll Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt | Norway Ane Skrove Nossum Hilde Fenne Bente Landheim Marte Olsbu |

### U21
#### Men's

Rene Zahkna won first ever medal for Estonia at this kind of championships.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's sprint | Raman Yaliotnau | Adam Václavík | Maikol Demetz |
| Men's pursuit | Alexander Povarnitsyn | Artem Tyshchenko | Adam Václavík |
| Men's individual | Rene Zahkna | Ivan Alekhin | Artem Tyshchenko |

#### Women's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Women's sprint | Tuuli Tomingas | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva |
| Women's pursuit | Svetlana Mironova | Uliana Kaisheva | Dunja Zdouc |
| Women's individual | Anastasia Evsyunina | Anastasiya Merkushyna | Lisa Vittozzi |

#### Mixed

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 2 x 6 + 2 x 7.5 relay | Ukraine Yuliya Bryhynets Yuliya Zhuravok Andriy Dotsenko Artem Tyshchenko | Russia Anastasia Evsyunina Uliana Kaisheva Eduard Latypov Alexander Povarnitsyn | Estonia Meril Beilmann Tuuli Tomingas Johan Talihärm Rene Zahkna |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Estonia (EST) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 |

## Participating countries

33 nations competed
* Australia
* Austria
* Belarus
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Italy
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Moldova
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United States
* Uzbekistan