Biathlon World Championship 1978

The 16th biathlon world championship was held in Hochfilzen ( Austria ) from March 1 to 6, 1978 . The first championship, which used small-caliber weapons.

The only world championship in which the Soviet biathletes did not win a single medal.

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Men

Sprint 10 km

Finish protocol
A place	A country	Sportsman	Time	Misses
one	GDR	Frank Ulrich	32: 17.4	0 + 0
2	GDR	Eberhard Rösch	+20.7	0 + 0
3	GDR	Klaus Siebert	+45.4	0 + 0

20 km Individual

Finish protocol
A place	A country	Sportsman	Time	Misses
one	Norway	Odd Lierhus	1: 05: 26.3	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	GDR	Frank Ulrich	+9.4	1 + 1 + 0 + 0
3	GDR	Eberhard Rösch	+37.9	0 + 1 + 0 + 1

4 x 7.5 km relay

Finish protocol
A place	A country	Sportsman	Time	Misses
one	GDR	Manfred Beer Frank Ulrich Klaus Siebert Eberhard Rösch	1: 37: 47.6	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1
2	Norway	Odd Lierhus Sigleif Johansen Roar nielsen Thor Svendsberget	1: 40: 28.5	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0
3	Germany	Gerard Winkler Andreas Schweiger Hans Estner Heinrich Meringer	1: 40: 35.1	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0

Medal

A place	A country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
one	GDR	2	2	2	6
2	Norway	one	one	0	2
3	Germany	0	0	one	one