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Biathlon World Championships 1962

1962 edition of the Biathlon World Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ855677 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 4th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1962 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The men's 20 km individual and team were the only competitions.

Men's results

20 km individual

Each shot missing the target gave a penalty of 2 minutes.

20 km team

The times of the top 3 athletes from each nation in the individual race were added together.

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“Biathlon World Championships 1962” enters the record as 1962 edition of the Biathlon World Championships. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Biathlon, World and Championships can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Biathlon World Championships 1962” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.