The 7th World Team Challenge 2008 (officially: VELTINS-Biathlon-WTC 08) was a commercial biathlon competition, that was held at the 27th of December, 2008, at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The winners were Andriy Deryzemlya and Oksana Khvostenko from Ukraine.
Participants edit
20 sportsmen (10 male, 10 female) participated as mixed teams. Host country was represented by 3 teams. Beside that, one German athlete competed in a mixed pair with a partner from Austria. There were representatives from 7 countries, including one outside Europe.
Results edit
| Rank | Name | Country | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andriy Deryzemlya / Oksana Khvostenko |  Ukraine |
32:21,6 |
| 2 | Christoph Sumann / Martina Beck |  Austria /  Germany |
+0:14,6 |
| 3 | Dmitri Yaroshenko / Ekaterina Iourieva |  Russia |
+0:32,8 |
| 4 | Michael Rösch / Kati Wilhelm | Germany |
+0:57,0 |
| 5 | Rune Brattsveen / Tora Berger |  Norway |
+1:44,0 |
| 6 | Alexander Wolf / Andrea Henkel | Germany |
+1:58,8 |
| 7 | Michael Greis / Kathrin Hitzer | Germany |
+2:10,9 |
| 8 | Vincent Defrasne / Sylvie Becaert |  France |
+2:40,2 |
| 9 | Jay Hakkinen / Lanny Barnes |  United States |
LAP |
| 10 | Emil Hegle Svendsen / Solveig Rogstad | Norway |
LAP |