Biathlon Interview Questions & Answers

Question 1. What Is Biathlon?

Answer :

A championship in which cross country skiing and rifle shooting are combined. It is the equivalent of military pentathlon in the winter Olympic Games.

Question 2. Over What Distances Are The Skiing Conducted?

Answer :

10 km, 20 km, and 4 * 7.5 km relay.

Question 3. Who Was The First World Champion?

Answer :

Adolf Wiklund of Sweden.

Question 4. In Which Year Was The Game First Introduced Into The Winter Olympics?

Answer :

1960

Question 5. When Was The World Cup Instituted?

Answer :

In 1979.

Question 6. What Is The Name Of The Biathlete That Has The Most Individual Biathlon World Cup Competition Wins To His Name (any Discipline Except Relays)?

Answer :

Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is a sporting Goliath, but a very nice, caring and modest man as well. His great rivals are Poiree and Greis, but they have been nowhere near as successful. Mike Dixon was a good biathlete in is own right, and certainly the best that Britain has ever produced, but he was never as good as the other three.

Question 7. Which German Biathlete Won 3 Gold Medals At The 2006 Olympic Winter Games In Turin, The Best Performance Of Any Athlete?

Answer :

Greis, surprisingly for some did better than anyone else at the 2006 Winter Olympics, although it was not just Bjoerndalen, but the whole of the Norwegian team, who underperformed in Turin. Roesch and Gross helped Greis to gold in the relay, but were nowhere near as good individually.

Question 8. Which Kind Of Weapon Is Used In Biathlon?

Answer :

The rifle, carried on the athlete's back, should be a .22 caliber and have a minimum weight of 3.5 kg. According to the official IBU rules, "the rifles may not be of automatic or semi-automatic design. Loading or unloading may be executed only by the competitor's muscle force."

Question 9. During Which Kind Of Biathlon Competition Would You Never Find Yourself In A Penalty Lap?

Answer :

Typically, a biathlete has to complete an extra lap of 150 meters for each missed target. In the individual competition however, which is 20 km for men and 15 km for women, each missed target adds a 1 minute penalty to the biathlete's total time.

Question 10. When Was The World Championship First Held?

Answer :

In 1958.

Question 11. Which Equipment Are Used In Biathlon?

Answer :

Skies and Rifle.

Question 12. What Kind Of Targets Is Used From 1980 Winter Olympics?

Answer :

Newer electronic targets which are used in all major competitions such as world cups, world championships and the Olympics.

Question 13. Which Are The Major International Biathlon Events?

Answer :

Olympic Games, World championships and world cup.

Question 14. What Is The Weight Of The Rifle In Biathlon?

Answer :

3.5 kg.

Question 15. In Which Year Did Raphael Poiree Last Win The Overall World Cup?

Answer :

Bjoerndalen and Poiree have really fought it out since the late 1990s, although there are now other people, such as Michael Greis, who are closing in on their dominance. Poiree has now retired, but his final race was one of the most thrilling finishes ever, comparing only with that of Deyzemlya's Mass Start mentioned above.

Question 16. Which Norwegian Biathlete Won An Amazing Total Of Four Gold Medals At The 2002 Olympics In Salt Lake City?

Answer :

After "just" one Gold and one Silver medal in Nagano, Bjoerndalen won a Gold medal in every biathlon race held at the 2002 Olympics. He was the first biathlete ever to accomplish this. The Olympic program for biathlon consists of the individual competition, the sprint, the pursuit, and the relay.

Frode Andresen was in the Norwegian relay team together with Bjoerndalen, while Ricco Gross won a silver medal with the German team. Johan Olav Koss was a famous Norwegian speed skater.

Question 17. What Is The Name Of The Governing Body For Biathlon?

Answer :

The UIPMB was founded in 1948, standardizing the rules for both pentathlon and biathlon. The International Biathlon Union was founded as a tree of the UIPM in July 1993, and they separated formally in 1998.

Question 18. The Range Of Target Shooting Distance Is?

Answer :

50 metres.

Question 19. Which Are The Two Common Variations On Biathlon?

Answer :

The summer biathlon and archery biathlon.

Question 20. Which Country Bagged The Maximum Number Of Medals In 1960 Winter Olympics?

Answer :

Russia.

Question 21. How Many Countries Participated In 1968 Winter Olympics?

Answer :

37 countries.

Question 22. Which City Was The Host Of 1968 Olympics?

Answer :

France.

Question 23. Who Won The 20 Km Gold In Biathlon?

Answer :

Magnar Solberg (Norway).

Question 24. In 1980 Winter Olympics Who Won The Gold In 10 Km?

Answer :

Frank Ulrich (Germany).

Question 25. Which Country Won The Relay?

Answer :

Russia.

Question 26. Where Were The 2002 Olympic Winter Games In Biathlon Held?

Answer :

Utah, USA.

Question 27. How Many Events Were There In This Competition?

Answer :

23.

Question 28. In 2006 Winter Olympics Which Country Won The Most Medals In Biathlon?

Answer :

Germany.

Question 29. How Many Olympic Gold Medals (including Relays) Has Ole Einar Bjoerndalen Won?

Answer :

It is surprising that a man as successful as Bjoerndalen has not taken more Olympic Golds, although it was phenomenal when he took the clean sweep of Gold Medals at Salt Lake City in 2002. He got 4 Golds at Salt Lake City, and 1, in the sprint at Nagano in 1998. Although he medaled at Turin, he did not get gold. Bjoerndalen has 9 Olympic medals.