2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 2

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 2 was held in Hochfilzen, Austria, from 7 December until 9 December 2012.

Schedule of events

Date	Time	Events
December 7	11:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	14:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
December 8	12:45 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	15:00 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit
December 9	11:15 CET	Men's 4x7.5 km Relay
	14:00 CET	Women's 4x6 km Relay

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Tim
10 km Sprint details	Andreas Birnbacher Germany	25:31.1 (0+0)	Martin Fourcade France	25:31.5 (1+0)	Jakov Fak Slovenia	25:44.8 (0+1)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Jakov Fak Slovenia	34:14.8 (0+0+1+1)	Dmitry Malyshko Russia	34:15.7 (0+0+0+1)	Martin Fourcade France	34:23.4 (0+2+0+1)
4x7.5 km Relay details	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Henrik L'Abée-Lund	1:17:55.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	France Vincent Jay Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade	1:18:29.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Russia Anton Shipulin Andrei Makoveev Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko	1:18:41.8 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	22:24.7 (1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	22:29.4 (0+1)	Tora Berger Norway	22:37.6 (0+1)
10 km Pursuit details	Synnøve Solemdal Norway	31:13.4 (1+0+0+0)	Tora Berger Norway	31:43.6 (0+1+1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	31:46.7 (0+0+2+2)
4x6 km Relay details	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Synnøve Solemdal Hilde Fenne Tora Berger	1:11:45.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Ukraine Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Olena Pidhrushna	1:12:15.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Olga Zaitseva Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Vilukhina	1:12:30.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

• Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR), 15th place in Sprint
• Scott Perras (CAN), 25th place in Sprint
• Simon Desthieux (FRA), 37th place in Sprint
• Tomaas Krupcik (CZE), 56th place in Sprint and 55th place in Pursuit
• Alexei Almoukov (AUS), 58th place in Sprint and Pursuit
• Joel Sloof (NED), 62nd place in Sprint
• Dino Butkovic (CRO), 98th place in Sprint
• Anna Karin Strömstedt (SWE), 12th place in Sprint
• Nadine Horchler (GER), 13th place in Sprint and 10th place in Pursuit
• Ekaterina Shumilova (RUS), 16th place in Sprint and 8th place in Pursuit
• Rosanna Crawford (CAN), 24th place in Sprint
• Elin Mattsson (SWE), 32nd place in Sprint
• Alexia Runggaldier (ITA), 33rd place in Sprint and 28th in Pursuit
• Martina Chrapanova (SVK), 37th place in Sprint
• Nicole Gontier (ITA), 43rd place in Sprint
• Asa Lif (SWE), 61st place in Sprint
• Paulina Fialkova (SVK), 62nd place in Sprint
• Johanna Taliharm (EST), 66th place in Sprint
• Stefani Popova (BUL), 84th place in Sprint
• Synnøve Solemdal (NOR), 1st place in Pursuit

First World Cup race

• Lenart Oblak (SLO), 97th place in Sprint