| World Team Challenge | |
| Status: | active |
| Genre: | sports event |
| Date: | December |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Location: | Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country: | Germany |
The World Team Challenge is an international biathlon competition, which has been held every year between Christmas and New Year since 2002 in Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen.Previously a similar competition was held at the same time of year in Ruhpolding, but since 2001 the venue was changed due to financial troubles.[1] The competition isn't part of the World Cup.
| Years | Winners | |||
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| 1 | Martina Glagow | |||
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| 7 |  Oksana Khvostenko | |||
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| 9 |  Svetlana Sleptsova | |||
| 10 |  Kaisa Mäkäräinen | |||
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| 13 | Valj Semerenko | |||
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| 16 | Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht | |||
| 17 | Dorothea Wierer | |||
| 18 | Marte Olsbu Røiseland | |||
| 19 | Evgeniya Pavlova | |||
| 20 | Felix Leitner | Lisa Theresa Hauser | ||
| 21 | ||||
| 22 | 2023[2] |  Fabien Claude | ||
| Rank | Country | Victories |
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| 1 | 5 | |
| 3 | 3.5 | |
| 4 | 3 | |
| 5 | 2 | |
| 6 | 1.5 | |
| 7 | 1 | |
| 8 | 0.5 | |
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