2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

None The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Men started at Wednesday, December 3, 2008, in Östersund and ended on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in Vancouver at the pre-olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist was Vincent Defrasne of France. Competition format The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds. 2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointshttp://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMIN 2007/08 Final standings 2008-12-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20081206024350/http://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMIN 2008-12-06 dead Gold:FRA Vincent Defrasne104Silver:NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen100Bronze:NOR Halvard Hanevold82 Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsMichael Greis 58:52.5(0+1+0+0)Alexander Os 59:43.0(0+0+0+2)Emil Hegle Svendsen 59:47.5(0+2+0+0)HochfilzendetailsMaxim Tchoudov56:00.3 (0+1+0+0)Ivan Tcherezov 56:47.9 (0+0+2+0)Björn Ferry 56:48.8(0+0+1+0)World ChampionshipsdetailsOle Einar Bjørndalen 52:28.0(0+0+2+1)Christoph Stephan 52:42.1(1+0+0+0)Jakov Fak 52:45.1(0+0+0+1)VancouverdetailsVincent Jay 49:53.9(0+0+0+0)Daniel Böhm50:12.9(0+1+0+0)Jeremy Teela 50:17.2(0+1+0+0) Final standings # Name ÖST HOC WCH VAN TotalStandings Individual men 1. GER Michael Greis 60 43 22 43 146 2 RUS Ivan Tcherezov 30 54 36 22 120 3 RUS Maxim Tchoudov 28 60 33 26 119 4 NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 17 27 60 23 110 5 AUT Christoph Sumann 34 38 24 28 100 6 SWE Carl Johan Bergman 32 34 – 32 98 7 AUT Daniel Mesotitsch 40 36 21 0 97 8 FRA Vincent Jay 13 0 18 60 91 9 POL Tomasz Sikora 29 22 32 30 91 10 UKR Andriy Deryzemlya 38 0 34 10 82 11 NOR Alexander Os 54 10 13 0 77 12 CRO Jakov Fak 0 26 48 0 74 13 UKR Serguei Sednev 43 18 0 13 74 14 SWE Björn Ferry 24 48 – – 72 14 NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 24 – – 72 16 GER Alexander Wolf 14 30 11 27 71 17 NOR Frode Andresen 25 – – 38 63 18 FRA Vincent Defrasne 0 7 20 34 61 19 GER Michael Rösch 21 13 23 15 59 20 UKR Olexander Bilanenko 2 31 25 0 58 21 UKR Vyacheslav Derkach 31 8 – 16 55 22 GER Christoph Stephan 0 0 54 – 54 23 GER Daniel Böhm – – – 54 54 24 AUT Dominik Landertinger 15 – 38 – 53 25 RUS Nikolay Kruglov 23 29 – – 52 26 BLR Alexander Syman 27 23 0 0 50 27 USA Jeremy Teela 0 0 0 48 48 28 BLR Sergey Novikov 0 12 16 20 48 29 FRA Simon Fourcade 0 – 43 4 47 30 CZE Roman Dostál 20 1 26 – 47 31 SWE David Ekholm 6 0 40 0 46 32 NOR Halvard Hanevold 36 3 0 6 45 33 USA Tim Burke – 0 27 18 45 34 USA Lowell Bailey 26 0 19 0 45 35 SWE Mattias Nilsson 0 0 15 29 44 36 AUT Simon Eder – 0 – 40 40 37 UKR Roman Pryma 0 40 0 0 40 38 ITA Markus Windisch 11 0 29 0 40 39 NOR Ronny Hafsas 0 – – 36 36 40 CZE Zdeněk Vítek 0 19 12 5 36 41 FRA Martin Fourcade – 5 28 0 33 42 ITA Christian de Lorenzi 0 32 0 0 32 43 NOR Hans Martin Gjedrem – 21 – 11 32 44 SUI Ivan Joller 0 0 – 31 31 45 CZE Jaroslav Soukup 0 0 30 – 30 46 EST Roland Lessing 5 25 0 – 30 47 GER Toni Lang 0 28 – – 28 48 AUT Friedrich Pinter 19 0 0 9 28 49 FRA Jean-Guillaume Béatrix 0 6 – 21 27 50 GER Andreas Birnbacher 10 17 – – 27 51 ITA Christian Martinelli 7 – 0 19 26 52 CZE Michal Šlesingr 0 9 3 14 26 53 RUS Evgeny Ustyugov – – 0 25 25 54 GER Arnd Peiffer – – – 24 24 55 NOR Lars Berger 16 – 7 0 23 56 RUS Andrei Makoveev 22 0 – 0 22 57 CZE Tomas Holubec 0 20 – 0 20 58 GER Daniel Graf 18 0 – – 18 59 GER Simon Schempp – – – 17 17 59 KAZ Sergey Naumik – – 17 – 17 61 BLR Rustam Valiullin 3 0 14 0 17 62 ITA Nicola Pozzi 0 16 0 – 16 63 UKR Oleg Berezhnoy 0 15 – – 15 64 FRA Lois Habert 0 14 – 0 14 65 CAN Robin Clegg 0 – 2 12 14 66 BLR Sergey Sadovnikov – – 10 3 13 67 SLO Janez Maric 0 12 0 0 12 68 SVK Marek Matiasko 12 0 0 – 12 69 RUS Maxim Maksimov 0 0 4 7 11 70 CAN Jean Philippe Leguellec 0 2 0 8 10 71 CZE Ondřej Moravec 9 0 – 0 9 72 BUL Vladimir Iliev 0 0 9 – 9 73 KAZ Dias Keneshev 0 0 8 – 8 74 JPN Hidenori Isa 8 0 0 – 8 75 SVK Miroslav Matiaško – – 6 – 6 76 BUL Krasimir Anev 0 0 5 – 5 77 SUI Simon Hallenbarter 0 4 0 0 4 78 LAT Kristaps Libietis 4 0 0 0 4 79 SUI Thomas Frei 0 0 0 2 2 80 SVK Pavol Hurajt 0 0 1 0 1 81 LAT Ilmārs Bricis 1 – 0 – 1 82 BLR Evgeny Abramenko 0 0 – 1 1 References Biathlon World Cup - Individual Men, 2008-09