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BIATHLON AT THE OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
While biathlon’s forerunner, military patrol, was held as an official competition at Chamonix 1924, it was a demonstration sport at the St Moritz editions in 1928 and 1948, and at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936. For years, it was considered to have been a demonstration sport in 1924, too, but research by Ture WIDLUND, the Swedish co-founder and first vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, indicated that military patrol (and curling) had the same status as all sports on the Olympic programme. The IOC restored the events to full medal status shortly before Torino 2006.
The IOC admitted biathlon as an Olympic sport in 1954, and it appeared in its current form at Squaw Valley 1960, where 30 athletes from nine nations contested the men’s 20km individual event. New disciplines were added at subsequent editions, including the 4x7.5km relay at Grenoble 1968, and the 10km sprint at Lake Placid 1980.
Although they had competed in biathlon for many years, women’s competitions did not become part of the Olympic programme until Albertville 1992, when the 15km individual, 3x7.5km relay and 7.5km sprint were added.
Men and women’s pursuit events were introduced at Salt Lake City 2002, men and women’s mass start at Torino 2006, and mixed relay at Sochi 2014, where the number of biathlon disciplines increased to 11. The same number will be contested at Beijing 2022.
The most successful nations in Olympic biathlon have been Germany with 52 medals (19 gold), Norway (41 medals, 16 gold), Russia (22 medals, 10 gold) and France (26 medals, 9 gold).
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