The Biathlon World Championships 2021 took place in Pokljuka, Slovenia, from 9 to 21 February 2021.

Host selection On 4 September 2016, Tyumen won the voting (25 votes) during the 12th IBU Congress in Chișinău in Moldova over Pokljuka in Slovenia (13 votes) and Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic (11 votes). Also Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, withdrew their bid for 2021 championships before the vote took place due to winning of an election for the host of the 2020 event.

Just before the Biathlon World Championships 2017 in Hochfilzen, Austria, IBU forced Russia to give back rights due to the doping scandal, for revote process after 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

On 9 September 2018, during the IBU Congress, Pokljuka was named the 2021 event host city without alternative with 49–1 votes.

Russia doping ban

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021–2022 World Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, on review of Russia's appeal of its case from WADA, ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.

Biathletes of the Russian national team perform at the tournament under the monochrome flag of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) as part of the RBU team. However, the IBU banned the use of the decoding of the abbreviation - the Russian Biathlon Union. Also, Russian biathletes are prohibited from using national symbols in social networks during the World Cup.Генеральный секретарь IBU Карлссон: «Мы следуем решению CAS – Россия не может быть упомянута, поэтому на чемпионате мира используется сокращение RBU»IBU: «Запрет на российскую символику в соцсетях распространяется только на этот ЧМ. Логинов может напомнить о победе в Антхольце, разместив фото с флагом»

Schedule All times are local (UTC+1).

Date Time Event 10 February 15:00 4 × 7.5 km M+W mixed relay 12 February 14:30 Men's 10 km sprint 13 February 14:30 Women's 7.5 km sprint14 February 13:15 Men's 12.5 km pursuit 15:30 Women's 10 km pursuit 16 February 12:05 Women's 15 km individual 17 February 14:30 Men's 20 km individual 18 February 15:15 6 km M + 7.5 km W single mixed relay20 February 11:45 Women's 4 × 6 km relay 15:00 Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay21 February 12:30 Women's 12.5 km mass start 15:15 Men's 15 km mass start

Medal summary Medal table

Top athletes All athletes with two or more medals.

Men 10 km sprintMen's sprint results 24:41.1(0+0) 24:52.3(0+0) 24:54.0(1+0) 12.5 km pursuitMen's pursuit results 31:22.1(0+0+0+0) 31:29.4(0+0+0+0) 31:30.2(0+1+1+0) 20 km individualMen's individual results 49:27.6(0+0+0+0) 49:44.5(0+0+0+0) 50:08.5(0+1+0+0) 4 × 7.5 km relayMen's relay results 1:12:27.4(0+1) (0+1)(0+0) (0+3)(0+1) (0+0)(0+0) (0+2) 1:13:00.5(0+3) (0+0)(0+1) (0+0)(0+2) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0) 1:13:18.3(0+2) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1) 15 km mass startMen's mass start results 36:27.2(0+0+0+1) 36:37.4(0+1+1+0) 36:40.0(1+1+0+0)

Women 7.5 km sprintWomen's sprint results 21:18.7(0+0) 21:30.7(0+1) 21:33.1(0+0) 10 km pursuitWomen's pursuit results 30:38.1(1+0+1+0) 30:55.4(1+0+0+0) 31:11.1(0+1+0+1) 15 km individualWomen's individual results 42:27.7(0+0+0+0) 42:55.6(0+0+1+0) 43:31.7(0+1+0+0) 4 × 6 km relayWomen's relay results 1:10:39.0(0+0) (0+1)(0+2) (0+1)(0+1) (0+2)(0+3) (0+1) 1:10:47.8(0+0) (0+0)(0+2) (0+0)(0+3) (0+0)(0+0) (0+0) 1:10:48.2(0+1) (0+0)(0+1) (0+2)(0+1) (0+0)(0+0) (0+2) 12.5 km mass startWomen's mass start results 36:05.7(0+0+0+0) 36:27.4(0+0+1+0) 36:28.7(1+0+1+1)

Mixed Mixed relay results 1:20:19.3(0+1) (0+1)(0+2) (0+2)(0+1) (0+3) 1:20:46.3(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1) 1:20:49.9(0+1) (0+2)(0+0) (0+1)(0+2) (0+0)Single mixed relay results 36:42.4(0+2) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+0)(0+1) (0+1) 36:45.2(0+1) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1)(0+3) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0) 37:15.4(0+2) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1)(0+2) (0+1)

Participating countries 37 nations competed.

RBU

References

External links Official website