World Team Challenge

World Team Challenge
World Team Challenge 2005
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	December
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Inaugurated	2002 (2002)

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.