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The 34th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1999 in Kontiolahti, Finland.^[1] Due to the cold, the individual and the mass start events were moved to Oslo, Norway. The mass start was contested for the first time in the world championships.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint details	Frank Luck  Germany	28:05.6 (0+0)	Patrick Favre  Italy	28:27.6 (0+0)	Frode Andresen  Norway	28:46.4 (1+1)
12.5 km pursuit details	Ricco Groß  Germany	35:37.8 (0+0+0+0)	Frank Luck  Germany	36:05.0 (0+0+1+2)	Sven Fischer  Germany	36:18.7 (1+0+1+1)
20 km individual details	Sven Fischer  Germany	53:53.2 (1+0+0+0)	Ricco Groß  Germany	54:01.9 (0+0+0+0)	Vadim Sashurin  Belarus	54:30.5 (0+0+0+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Petr Ivashko Vadim Sashurin Oleg Ryzhenkov	1:23:19.3 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3)	Russia Viktor Maigourov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Rozhkov Pavel Rostovtsev	1:23:42.4 (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:23:56.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (3+3) (0+2)
15 km mass start details	Sven Fischer  Germany	39:39.9 (1+1+0+0)	Vladimir Drachev  Russia	39:49.8 (0+0+1+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	39:57.3 (0+0+0+0)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7.5 km sprint details	Martina Zellner  Germany	26:59.9 (0+2)	Magdalena Forsberg  Sweden	27:04.4 (0+1)	Olena Zubrilova  Ukraine	27:08.2 (1+2)
10 km pursuit details	Olena Zubrilova  Ukraine	32:17.5 (0+1+1+0)	Martina Schwarzbacherová  Slovakia	33:19.5 (0+1+0+0)	Martina Zellner  Germany	33:25.1 (1+0+0+1)
15 km individual details	Olena Zubrilova  Ukraine	43:28.1 (0+0+0+0)	Corinne Niogret  France	45:32.0 (0+0+0+0)	Albina Akhatova  Russia	46:41.7 (0+0+1+0)
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm Katrin Apel Martina Zellner	1:36:56.0 (0+4) (0+3) (0+1) (1+4)	Russia Nadezhda Talanova Galina Koukleva Olga Romasko Albina Akhatova	1:37:34.3 (0+3) (0+4) (0+2) (0+1)	France Delphyne Heymann-Burlet Florence Baverel Christelle Gros Corinne Niogret	1:37:42.9 (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2)
12.5 km mass start details	Olena Zubrilova  Ukraine	40:08.2 (0+2+2+0)	Olena Petrova  Ukraine	40:11.3 (0+0+1+1)	Magdalena Forsberg  Sweden	40:16.9 (1+0+2+0)

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	6	2	2	10
2	Ukraine	3	1	1	5
3	Belarus	1	0	1	2
4	Russia	0	3	1	4
5	France	0	1	1	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
7	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
9	Norway	0	0	3	3