Season 3

Biathlon is a winter discipline that includes two events: rifle shooting and cross-country skiing. Cross-country skiing races in freestyle technique take place on a track that is covered multiple times, depending on the length of the race. Each lap, athletes undergo a shooting test — one standing, one in the prone position — firing five shots (the number of attempts changes according to the speciality). The targets have variable diameters (45 mm for shooting in the prone position, 115 mm for standing), placed 50 m from the firing line. A missed target results in a penalty: an extra 150 m to ski (a penalty loop) or one minute added to the overall time (in individual races). The men's and women's races will take place in Antholz/Anterselva, an international biathlon centre in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.