| Biathlon World Championships 1981 | |
| Host City: | Lahti |
| Country: | Finland |
| Events: | 3 |
| Previous: | Ruhpolding 1979 |
The 18th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1981 in Lahti, Finland.[1]
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heikki Ikola | 0 | 1:13:07.2 | |||
| 2 | 1:14:09.6 | ||||
| 3 | 1:14:51.1 |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Ullrich | 1 | 33:08.5 | |||
| 0 | 33:10.1 | ||||
| 0 | 33:13.5 |
| Medal | Name | Nation | Penalties | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Germany Mathias Jung Matthias Jacob Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch | |||||
| West Germany Peter Angerer Peter Schweiger Fritz Fischer Franz Bernreiter | |||||
| Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin Anatoly Alyabyev Vladimir Barnashov Vladimir Gavrikov |
| width=50 | Place | width=120 | Nation | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| 2 |  Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 |  France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |