Biathlon Junior World Championships 2006

The 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships was held in Presque Isle, United States from January 28 to February 3, 2006. There was to be a total of 16 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women.

Medal winners

Youth Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km individual details	Veronika Vítková Czech Republic	39:12.5 (2+2+0+1)	Irina Starykh Russia	39:29.0 (0+2+0+2)	Olena Pidhrushna Ukraine	39:52.5 (2+1+1+0)
6 km sprint details	Olga Vilukhina Russia	19:42.0 (1+0)	Irina Starykh Russia	20:14.6 (0+1)	Tamara Barič Slovenia	20:26.3 (1+2)
7.5 km pursuit details	Tamara Barič Slovenia	23:18.5 (2+0+1+0)	Iris Schwabl Austria	24:03.9 (1+1+0+2)	Olga Vilukhina Russia	24:13.7 (1+0+2+2)
3 × 6 km relay details	Austria Iris Schwabl Anna Hufnagl Elisabeth Mayer	59:13.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Russia Olga Vilukhina Evgenia Seledtsova Irina Starykh	59:53.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (2+3) (0+1) (0+3)	France Marine Dusser Marine Bolliet Laure Soulie	1:00:15.6 (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2)

Junior Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Marion Blondeau France	41:40.1 (0+1+0+2)	Pauline Macabies France	42:04.4 (0+1+2+0)	Carolin Hennecke Germany	42:42.1 (1+1+1+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Carolin Hennecke Germany	22:13.1 (1+0)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	22:17.9 (1+3)	Marion Blondeau France	22:28.9 (1+1)
10 km pursuit details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	31:30.2 (0+1+0+1)	Marion Blondeau France	34:09.0 (1+0+2+2)	Darya Domracheva Belarus	35:36.9 (2+1+2+1)
3 × 6 km relay details	Germany Stephanie Müller Magdalena Neuner Carolin Hennecke	1:01:39.8 (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (2+3) (0+0) (0+2)	France Pauline Macabies Marie Dorin Marion Blondeau	1:02:09.5 (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Kunaeva Ekaterina Shumilova	1:02:40.2 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3)

Youth Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Tarjei Bø Norway	33:37.1 (0+0+0+1)	Łukasz Szczurek Poland	35:29.6 (1+0+0+1)	Dominik Landertinger Austria	36:00.3 (0+1+1+0)
7.5 km sprint details	Arild Askestad Norway	19:45.9 (1+1)	Florian Graf Germany	20:01.7 (2+1)	Alexander Ogarkov Russia	20:05.7 (1+0)
10 km pursuit details	Arild Askestad Norway	29:24.6 (1+1+0+1)	Tarjei Bø Norway	30:06.4 (2+1+2+1)	Alexander Ogarkov Russia	30:08.3 (0+1+2+1)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Russia Anton Shipulin Alexander Starykh Alexander Ogarkov	59:14.5 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	Austria Sven Grossegger Daniel Salvenmoser Dominik Landertinger	59:33.2 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Belarus Yuryi Liadov Igor Tabola Evgeny Abramenko	1:02:23.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (1+3)

Junior Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km individual details	Evgeny Ustyugov Russia	43:14.1 (0+1+0+1)	Kiril Vasilev Bulgaria	44:07.1 (0+0+0+1)	Petr Hradecký Czech Republic	44:47.5 (0+1+0+3)
10 km sprint details	Petr Hradecký Czech Republic	26:48.1 (0+1)	Vincent Jay France	27:06.9 (1+1)	Jean-Philippe Leguellec Canada	27:10.5 (1+0)
12.5 km pursuit details	Evgeny Ustyugov Russia	33:18.1 (1+2+0+1)	Kiril Vasilev Bulgaria	33:24.6 (0+0+0+1)	Petr Hradecký Czech Republic	33:46.8 (1+2+0+1)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	France Alexis Bœuf Damien Gehin Arnaud Langel Vincent Jay	1:25:20.4 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2)	Russia Kirill Shcherbakov Alexander Kopytov Alexey Chudov Evgeny Ustyugov	1:25:29.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (2+3) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Norman Jahn Daniel Böhm Jens Zimmer Christoph Stephan	1:25:55.0 (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+3)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	4	4	12
2	Germany (GER)	3	2	2	7
3	Norway (NOR)	3	1	0	4
4	France (FRA)	2	4	2	8
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	2	4
6	Austria (AUT)	1	2	1	4
7	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
9	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
10	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		16	16	16	48

External links

• Official IBU website (in English)