Biathlon Junior World Championships 2004

The 2004 Biathlon Junior World Championships was held in Haute Maurienne Vanoise, France from January 25 to January 31 2004. 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	Marion Blondeau France	37:09.4 (0+0+0+0)	Sirli Hanni Estonia	37:40.8 (0+0+1+0)	Inna Mozhevitina Kazakhstan	38:46.4 (1+2+0+1)
6 km sprint details	Michaela Balatková Czech Republic	22:51.5 (0+3)	Marion Blondeau France	22:54.0 (1+2)	Inna Mozhevitina Kazakhstan	23:06.3 (1+4)
7.5 km pursuit details	Inna Mozhevitina Kazakhstan	28:18.5 (0+0+1+0)	Michaela Balatková Czech Republic	30:55.6 (2+1+0+2)	Marion Blondeau France	31:27.1 (2+0+2+1)
3 × 6 km relay details	France Marie Dorin Marion Blondeau Melanie Vincent-Droz	1:07:19.4 (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1)	Norway Anne Marit Gjermundshaug Stine Øvreberg Birgitte Røksund	1:07:50.6 (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Slovakia Viktória Groneová Eliska Svikruhová Bibiana Svejkovská	1:10:08.9 (0+3) (0+2) (0+3) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2)

Junior Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Jenny Adler Germany	47:12.5 (1+1+1+1)	Hanna Möller Germany	48:19.9 (0+0+0+3)	Uliana Denisova Russia	48:25.3 (1+1+0+2)
7.5 km sprint details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	23:03.9 (0+2)	Kathrin Hitzer Germany	23:44.1 (1+0)	Pauline Jacquin France	23:45.7 (0+0)
10 km pursuit details	Jenny Adler Germany	35:44.3 (0+0+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	35:54.0 (1+0+1+3)	Uliana Denisova Russia	35:56.2 (0+1+2+0)
3 × 6 km relay details	Germany Jenny Adler Magdalena Neuner Anne Preußler	1:00:44.4 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Russia Uliana Denisova Ekaterina Iourieva Anastasiya Shipulina	1:03:35.4 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (2+3) (0+0)	France Célia Bourgeois Anne Lise Bailly Pauline Jacquin	1:04:15.1 (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)

Youth Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
12.5 km individual details	Pavel Borisov Russia	40:22.6 (1+1+0+0)	Peter Dokl Slovenia	35:29.6 (0+0+0+2)	Klemen Bauer Slovenia	40:23.3 (1+1+0+1)
7.5 km sprint details	Jean-Philippe Leguellec Canada	22:09.4 (1+0)	Klemen Bauer Slovenia	22:44.5 (1+2)	Stian Navik Norway	22:47.2 (1+0)
10 km pursuit details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	33:53.7 (1+1+1+2)	Jean-Philippe Leguellec Canada	34:00.1 (3+0+3+0)	Stian Navik Norway	34:04.5 (1+1+0+1)
3 × 7.5 km relay details	Norway Ronny Hafsås Stian Navik Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:06:42.4 (0+3) (2+3) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+3)	Canada Jean-Philippe Leguellec Marc-André Bédard François Leboeuf	1:07:24.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3)	Slovenia Peter Dokl Andraz Semrov Klemen Bauer	1:07:36.7 (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (1+3) (0+2) (3+3)

Junior Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km individual details	Hansjörg Reuter Germany	48:43.6 (0+1+0+2)	Simon Fourcade France	49:05.0 (1+1+1+0)	Oleh Berezhnyi Ukraine	49:21.9 (0+0+1+0)
10 km sprint details	Simon Fourcade France	26:57.1 (0+0)	Michael Rösch Germany	27:16.8 (1+1)	Simon Eder Austria	27:25.9 (1+0)
12.5 km pursuit details	Simon Fourcade France	37:21.3 (1+0+0+0)	Michael Rösch Germany	38:09.4 (0+0+3+1)	Serhiy Sednev Ukraine	38:39.6 (0+1+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Germany Hansjörg Reuter Christoph Knie Steve Renner Michael Rösch	1:24:48.1 (0+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (1+2)	Czech Republic Milan Faltus Ondřej Moravec Miroslav Tomeš Michal Šlesingr	1:25:29.7 (1+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Russia Alexandre Kudryashev Vladimir Shemelov Artem Ushakov Vladimir Moiseev	1:27:52.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	6	5	0	11
2	France (FRA)*	4	2	3	9
3	Norway (NOR)	2	1	2	5
4	Canada (CAN)	1	2	0	3
	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	0	3
6	Russia (RUS)	1	1	3	5
7	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	2	3
8	Slovenia (SLO)	0	2	2	4
9	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
11	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		16	16	16	48

External links

• Official IBU website (in English)