Biathlon
 Biathlon pictogram | |
| Highest governing body | International Biathlon Union |
|---|---|
| Characteristics | |
| Team members | Single competitors or relay teams |
| Mixed sex | Yes |
| Equipment | Skis, poles, rifle |
| Presence | |
| Olympic | 1924 (military patrol) 1960 (officially) |
| Part of a series of articles on Sports | |
| Summer Sports | |
| Track and field athletics Football (soccer) | |
| Water sports | |
| Martial arts | |
| Net sports | |
| Ice hockey· Skating Skiing·Curling | |
Biathlon (not to be confused with duathlon) is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Another popular variant is summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery.
Related pages
Biathlon's two sports disciplines:
Other multi-discipline sports (otherwise unrelated to biathlon):
Other websites
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Biathlon.
- Event & Competition Rules Authorized by the IBU Congress, June 1998 Archived 2004-12-04 at the Wayback Machine – The official IBU rule book, with annexes
- Biathlonworld.Com – A cooperation between IBU and EBU; with race results/statistics, TV schedules, live competition results, etc.
- Russian Biathlon Union Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine(rus)
- Russian Biathlon Union[permanent dead link](eng)
- Biathlon Canada
- Biathlon Alberta
- U.S. Biathlon Association
- U.S. Archery Biathlon Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- History of Biathlon Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Veltins Biathlon World Team Challenge
- Biathlon on OLN TV Archived 2006-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Biathlon on DVD
- Biathlon Russia Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Biathlon Ukraine
- BiathlonFrance.com