The 3rd Biathlon World Championships were held in 1961 in Umeå, Sweden.[*Sports 123 biathlon results The men's 20 km individual and team were the only competitions.
Men's results
20 km individual
MedalNameNationPenaltiesResultBehind Kalevi Huuskonen 1 1:32:11 Aleksandr Privalov 3 1:35:07 2:56 Paavo Repo 4 1:35:20 3:09 Each shot missing the target gave a penalty of 2 minutes.
20 km team
MedalNameNationPenaltiesResultBehind Finland 11 4:45:38 Soviet Union 11 4:51:35 5:57 Sweden 12 5:06:11 20:33
The times of the top 3 athletes from each nation in the individual race were added together.
Medal table Place Nation Total 1 2 0 1 3 2 0 2 0 2 3 0 0 1 1
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