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Bernhard Glass
Bernhard Glass (born 1957, Stapelburg), East German luger, 1980 Lake Placid Olympic champion in men's singles (2:54.796); 1979 European bronze; later German and Canadian national luge coach.
Bernhard Lehmann
Bernhard Lehmann, East German bobsledder born 1948 in Großräschen; 1976 Olympic four-man gold as brakeman with Nehmer, two silvers as pilot at Sarajevo 1984, bronze at Calgary 1988, later NRW coach.
Bernhard Russi
Bernhard Russi (born 1948, Andermatt), Swiss alpine skier: 1970 world downhill champion, 1972 Sapporo Olympic downhill gold, 1976 silver, two downhill World Cup titles, ten World Cup wins, later FIS Olympic course designer.
Berni Gruber
Berni Gruber (Bernhard Gruber, born 1982) is an Austrian nordic combined skier: 2010 Olympic team gold, three Olympic bronzes, nine World Championship medals, first Austrian world champion in the sport, retired 2021.
Bernt Evensen
Bernt Sverre Evensen (Bæla), 1905–1979, Norwegian speed skater and track cyclist; first Norwegian Olympic speed skating champion, 1928 500 m gold tied with Clas Thunberg, World allround champion 1927 and 1934.
Biathlon
Biathlon: Olympic winter sport combining cross-country skiing (skating technique) with .22 rifle shooting; rifle minimum 3.5 kg. Formats include sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, relay; misses cost penalty loops or time. Military origins, Olympic since 1960.
Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Biathlon at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: 11 events at Alpensia Biathlon Centre, 7–23 February 2018. Germany led with 3 golds; Dahlmeier and Fourcade starred; France won the mixed relay; Russian stars excluded.
Biathlon European Championships
IBU Open European Championships Biathlon (OECH), annual European biathlon championships first held 1994 in Kontiolahti; open-age event for IBU federations, age cap 26, 33 editions through 2026, held 2026 in Sjusjøen, Norway.
Biathlon in China
Biathlon in China is a small winter sports program that debuted at the 1980 Olympics and was rebuilt with foreign coaching after Beijing hosted the 2022 Games.
Biathlon in Kazakhstan
Biathlon in Kazakhstan is the winter sport of cross-country skiing combined with rifle shooting, inherited from the Soviet system; Elena Khrustaleva won silver at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Biathlon Junior World Championships
IBU Youth/Junior World Championships Biathlon (YJWCH), annual biathlon world titles for youth 16-19 and junior 20-22; 18 races per edition; 30th edition Arber 2026, Germany.
Biathlon rifle
Biathlon rifle: the .22 LR (5.6 mm) rimfire rifle biathletes carry on skis and fire at 50 m knock-down targets; minimum 3.5 kg, Anschütz 1827 Fortner straight-pull is the standard, IBU rules govern specs and safety.
Biathlon World Championships
The IBU Biathlon World Championships are the annual title events for biathlon, first held in Saalfelden, Austria, in 1958 and skipped in Olympic seasons; Norway leads the all-time medal table.
Biathlon World Championships 2009
The 2009 IBU Biathlon World Championships, held at Alpensia Biathlon Center in PyeongChang, South Korea, from 13 to 22 February 2009, were the first hosted in South Korea.
Biathlon World Championships 2021
2021 IBU Biathlon World Championships, Pokljuka, Slovenia, 9–21 February 2021; 52nd edition, 337 athletes from 38 countries, 12 races; Norway led with 7 gold, 14 medals; Laegreid and Davidova won individual titles.
Biathlon World Championships relay and mixed relay results
The Biathlon World Championships relay results cover the men's 4 × 7.5 km relay, first held in 1974, plus the women's relay and the mixed relay formats, with Norway leading the medal tables.
Biathlon World Championships sprint results
The Biathlon World Championships sprint is a 10 km men's and 7.5 km women's race, part of the championships since 1974 for men and 1984 for women.
Biathlon World Cup
The Biathlon World Cup (IBU World Cup) is the International Biathlon Union's annual series of ski-and-shoot races across three trimesters, with 21 individual competitions plus relays, a Total Score title, and formats including sprint, pursuit, individual, and mass start.
Biathlon World Cup discipline standings
The Biathlon World Cup discipline standings are the IBU's per-discipline classifications in sprint, pursuit, individual, and mass start; Martin Fourcade leads men's mass start with 15 wins.
Biathlon World Cup overall champions
The Biathlon World Cup overall champions are the season points leaders. Martin Fourcade holds the men's record with 7 overall globes and Magdalena Forsberg the women's with 6.
Biathlon World Cup relay competitions
The Biathlon World Cup relay competitions are the IBU circuit's team events: men's 4x7.5 km, women's 4x6 km, mixed, and single mixed relays, with season-long national standings.
Biathlon World Cup seasons, 2009/10–2018/19
The Biathlon World Cup seasons, 2009/10–2018/19, are ten annual circuits of elite biathlon competition; Emil Hegle Svendsen won the 2009/10 men's overall title with 828 points.
Biathlon World Cup venues and calendar
The Biathlon World Cup calendar is the annual sequence of stage venues for the IBU's top series, with nine to ten meetings per winter at a stable core of European venues.
Big air (snowboarding)
Big air snowboarding is a judged freestyle discipline in which each rider performs a single jump off one large kicker, joined to the Winter Olympic program at PyeongChang 2018.
Big Sky Resort
Big Sky Resort, Montana ski resort opened 1973 by broadcaster Chet Huntley, owned by Boyne Resorts since 1976. 5,850 skiable acres, 11,166-foot Lone Peak, 40 lifts, third largest in North America.
Big Snow American Dream
Big Snow American Dream, indoor real-snow ski resort at American Dream mall, East Rutherford NJ; opened December 2019; 160-foot vertical drop, 4 skiable acres, 28°F year-round.
Bill Demong
Bill Demong (born 1980), American Nordic combined skier, five-time Olympian 1998-2014; won 2010 Vancouver large hill gold, the first U.S. Olympic Nordic skiing gold, plus 2009 World Championship gold and nine World Cup wins.
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson (1960–2016), American alpine ski racer; won the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic downhill gold, first American Olympic skiing gold medalist; three World Cup downhill wins; career ended by a 2001/2002 training crash.
Billy Fiske
Billy Fiske (William Mead Lindsley Fiske III), American bobsled driver who won Olympic gold in 1928 and 1932, then joined the RAF posing as a Canadian; first American citizen killed serving the RAF in WWII.
Birger Ruud
Birger Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper who won Olympic gold at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Games and silver in 1948, considered among the greatest ski jumpers ever.