2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men

None The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men started on Saturday 6 December 2008 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 26 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. The small crystal globe winner for the category was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Competition format The 10 km sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 m. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds. 2007–08 Top 3 standings Medal Athlete PointsGold:NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 383Silver:RUS Dmitri Yaroshenko 291Bronze:NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 253 Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Östersunddetails Emil Hegle Svendsen 25:42.3 (0+1) Tomasz Sikora 25:55.0 (0+1) Simon Fourcade 26:10.4 (0+0) Hochfilzendetails Emil Hegle Svendsen 26:08.1 (0+0) Ivan Tcherezov 26:34.4 (0+1) Alexander Os 26:41.0 (1+0) Hochfilzendetails Lars Berger 25:23.1 (0+0) Alexander Os 26:01.0 (0+1) Carl Johan Bergman 26:14.7 (0+1) Oberhofdetails Maxim Tchoudov 25:49.5 (0+0) Michael Rösch 26:02.2 (0+0) Tomasz Sikora 26:14.7 (1+0) Ruhpoldingdetails Ole Einar Bjørndalen 23:25.8 (0+0) Dominik Landertinger 23:59.2 (0+0) Emil Hegle Svendsen 24:01.1 (0+1) Antholz-Anterselvadetails Emil Hegle Svendsen 24:52.5 (0+0) Bjoern Ferry 24:56.1 (0+0) Tomasz Sikora 24:59.2 (0+0)World Championshipsdetails Ole Einar Bjørndalen 24:16.5 (1+1) Lars Berger 24:17.7 (1+1) Halvard Hanevold 24:29.0 (0+0) Vancouverdetails Lars Berger 24:06.5 (0+0) Ole Einar Bjørndalen 24:20.6 (0+0) Christoph Sumann 24:46.0 (0+0) Trondheimdetails Michael Greis 26:11.3 (0+0) Ole Einar Bjørndalen 26:29.6 (1+0) Simon Eder 26:43.1 (0+0) Khanty-Mansiyskdetails Arnd Peiffer 25:51.1 (0+0) Ole Einar Bjørndalen 26:14.2 (0+1) Christoph Sumann 26:18.4 (0+0) Final standings # Name ÖST HOC HOC OBE RUH ANT WCH VAN TRO KHA TotalStandings Sprint men 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 43 29 – 18 60 – 60 54 54 54 372 2 POL Tomasz Sikora 54 43 36 48 29 48 25 26 28 23 337 3 NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 60 60 – 17 48 60 – – 30 43 318 4 GER Michael Greis 27 34 40 – 1 36 36 36 60 36 306 5 RUS Maxim Tchoudov 16 36 8 60 31 28 40 14 43 29 297 6 NOR Alexander Os 25 48 54 31 29 10 43 0 40 4 284 7 AUT Christoph Sumann 5 32 38 2 30 38 0 48 22 48 263 8 RUS Ivan Tcherezov 34 54 32 – 23 25 3 34 38 15 258 9 NOR Halvard Hanevold 30 23 23 16 21 40 48 15 29 27 257 10 SWE Carl Johan Bergman 31 21 48 24 40 43 0 29 20 0 256 11 SWE Björn Ferry 6 40 30 23 16 54 1 – 36 32 238 12 NOR Lars Berger 11 – 60 0 8 7 54 60 34 0 234 13 AUT Daniel Mesotitsch 21 19 28 0 17 30 12 32 17 28 204 14 FRA Simon Fourcade 48 11 34 0 15 14 38 43 0 0 203 15 AUT Dominik Landertinger 0 0 – 28 54 19 24 – 23 34 182 16 AUT Simon Eder – – 3 26 9 22 34 21 48 16 179 17 CZE Michal Šlesingr 0 0 11 43 24 32 9 17 16 24 176 18 AUT Friedrich Pinter 0 0 19 27 34 24 – 12 27 31 174 19 GER Michael Rösch 0 17 9 54 36 13 27 0 13 0 169 20 RUS Andrei Makoveev 20 12 11 31 0 0 17 7 25 26 149 21 AUT Tobias Eberhard 0 3 29 32 0 31 – 16 14 21 146 22 GER Christoph Stephan 22 4 21 40 4 29 19 0 0 6 145 23 GER Arnd Peiffer – – – 36 11 16 – 19 0 60 142 24 GER Andreas Birnbacher – 31 0 38 32 0 – – 1 40 142 25 SUI Simon Hallenbarter 0 0 14 – 6 10 32 18 24 38 142 26 BLR Rustam Valiullin 32 9 12 29 2 0 0 31 0 17 132 27 USA Tim Burke 0 – 0 20 0 26 30 0 32 18 126 28 ITA Christian De Lorenzi 40 2 0 4 43 0 14 22 0 0 125 29 GER Alexander Wolf 26 30 23 0 0 0 0 13 3 30 125 30 SLO Janez Maric 0 0 0 0 38 0 31 38 15 0 122 31 FRA Martin Fourcade – – 31 0 19 0 23 30 18 0 121 32 RUS Evgeny Ustyugov – – – 0 13 34 0 27 13 25 112 33 NOR Ronny Hafsas 38 1 – 34 27 – – 3 0 5 108 34 ITA Markus Windisch 36 10 0 10 25 0 22 0 0 0 103 35 FRA Vincent Defrasne 2 0 43 14 26 12 0 1 – – 98 36 SWE Mattias Nilsson 0 38 0 9 0 4 15 23 0 0 89 37 USA Jay Hakkinen 18 27 0 25 19 0 – 0 0 – 89 38 RUS Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 19 25 26 13 – 0 0 – – – 83 39 CAN Jean Philippe Leguellec 28 24 0 – 0 20 0 0 0 10 82 40 UKR Vyacheslav Derkach 14 0 17 0 – 21 0 10 0 19 81 41 SLO Klemen Bauer 0 0 0 5 0 17 28 5 9 12 76 42 UKR Andriy Deryzemlya 0 7 25 7 – 0 29 4 0 0 72 43 CZE Jaroslav Soukup 17 0 0 22 0 0 4 – 5 20 68 44 BLR Sergey Novikov 13 22 15 0 – 0 10 2 6 0 68 45 CZE Tomáš Holubec 8 29 0 0 0 0 0 10 19 0 66 46 UKR Roman Pryma 15 20 16 0 – 0 13 0 0 0 64 47 NOR Frode Andresen 24 0 – – 14 – – 25 0 – 63 48 SVK Pavol Hurajt 7 0 0 0 0 – 21 0 26 3 57 49 SWE Jörgen Brink 0 15 0 0 – – – 40 0 0 55 50 CRO Jakov Fak 4 0 0 0 – – 27 10 8 0 49 51 FRA Vincent Jay 0 13 24 8 0 3 0 0 0 0 48 52 SWE Magnús Jónsson 10 – 0 0 12 5 20 0 – 0 47 53 NOR Stian Eckhoff – 19 27 – – – – – – – 46 54 SWE David Ekholm 0 0 0 0 0 27 – 6 10 0 43 55 ITA Rene Laurent Vuillermoz 0 0 6 0 0 24 2 11 – – 43 56 CZE Roman Dostál 29 0 0 11 0 0 – – 0 – 40 57 GER Daniel Böhm – – – 12 – – – 21 0 7 40 58 GER Simon Schempp – – – – – – – 24 – 14 38 59 EST Roland Lessing 0 0 0 – 5 0 0 – 31 – 36 60 NOR Hans Martin Gjedrem – – 18 0 – 18 – 0 – – 36 61 SUI Thomas Frei 0 26 0 – 0 – 0 0 7 0 33 62 SUI Matthias Simmen 23 0 4 – – 6 0 0 0 – 33 63 GER Toni Lang 0 14 0 19 0 0 – – – – 33 64 RUS Maxim Maksimov 0 6 2 0 20 0 – 1 3 – 32 65 NOR Rune Brattsveen – – 7 – – – – – – 22 29 66 SWE Fredrik Lindström – 0 – – – – – 28 0 – 28 67 LAT Ilmārs Bricis 0 0 – 1 10 – 16 0 0 – 27 68 CZE Zdeněk Vítek 1 0 0 – 22 – 0 0 0 1 24 69 USA Lowell Bailey 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 21 0 24 70 UKR Olexander Bilanenko 0 0 0 – 0 11 0 0 0 11 22 71 CHN Zhang Chengye 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 – 21 72 FRA Alexis Bœuf – – 21 0 0 0 – – 0 0 21 73 SUI Ivan Joller 0 0 0 – – 0 11 0 0 8 19 74 ITA Christian Martinelli 0 0 0 – 0 0 18 0 – – 18 75 AUT Julian Eberhard 0 5 13 – 0 0 – 0 – – 18 76 BLR Alexandr Syman 12 0 0 0 – 0 6 0 0 – 18 77 UKR Serguei Sednev 0 0 0 0 – 15 – 0 0 2 17 78 FRA Jean-Guillaume Béatrix 0 16 – 0 – – – 0 – – 16 79 FIN Paavo Puurunen – – 5 – 0 0 0 – 11 – 16 80 SVK Dušan Šimočko 0 0 0 15 0 – 0 0 0 – 15 81 JPN Hidenori Isa 0 0 0 6 8 1 0 – – – 15 82 RUS Artem Gusev – – – – – – – 0 0 13 13 83 ITA Mattia Cola – 8 – – – – – – 4 0 12 84 EST Indrek Tobreluts 9 0 0 0 – 0 0 – 0 0 9 85 GER Christoph Knie – – – – – – – – – 8 8 86 BLR Sergey Sadovnikov – – – – 0 8 – 0 0 0 8 87 KAZ Alexsandr Chervyhkov 0 0 – 0 0 – 8 – – – 8 88 CHN Zhang Qing – – – – – – 7 – – – 7 89 BUL Krasimir Anev 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 – 0 – 5 90 EST Priit Viks 0 0 0 – 3 0 0 – – 0 3 91 CAN Robin Clegg 3 0 – – 0 0 0 0 – – 3 92 EST Kauri Koiv – 0 0 0 0 2 0 – 0 0 2 93 FRA Lois Habert 0 0 1 – – 0 – 0 – – 1 References Biathlon World Cup - Sprint Men, 2008-09