2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Men

None The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Men will start on January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish on March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. The defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Competition format In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time; the first across the finish line wins. In this 15 km mi competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race). The rest of the shooting bouts are at the lane of the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, shoot at lane five). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously). 2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointshttp://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMMS 2007/08 Final standings 2009-01-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20090117013036/http://data.biathlonworld.com/DATA/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMMS 2009-01-17 dead Gold:NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen180Silver:RUS Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.143Bronze:RUS Dmitri Yaroshenko128 Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeOberhofdetailsChristoph Sumann 38:11.9(1+0+1+0)Carl Johan Bergman 38:21.6(0+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 38:21.8(0+1+1+0)AntholzdetailsChristoph Stephan 37:19.9(0+0+0+1)Dominik Landertinger 37:20.1(1+2+0+0)Ivan Tcherezov 37:22.7(0+0+1+1)World ChampionshipsdetailsDominik Landertinger 38:32.5(2+0+0+1)Christoph Sumann 38:41.4(2+0+0+1)Ivan Tcherezov 38:46.4(2+0+0+0)TrondheimdetailsOle Einar Bjørndalen 41:12.9(0+0+0+0)Simon Eder 41:52.0(0+0+1+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 42:06.3(1+0+0+1)Khanty-MansiyskdetailsSimon Eder 37:14.4(0+0+0+0)Dominik Landertinger 37:26.5 (0+0+0+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 37:31.4(2+0+0+1) Final standings # Name OBE ANT WCH TRO KHA TotalStandings Mass start Men 1 AUT Dominik Landertinger – 54 60 40 54 208 2 NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 48 40 43 60 48 199 3 AUT Christoph Sumann 60 43 54 18 40 197 4 AUT Simon Eder – 28 34 54 60 176 5 RUS Ivan Tcherezov – 48 48 43 31 170 6 GER Christoph Stephan 19 60 20 38 28 146 7 NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 43 – 29 48 26 146 8 RUS Maxim Tchoudov 40 38 36 28 23 142 9 SWE Carl Johan Bergman 54 20 14 36 27 137 10 POL Tomasz Sikora 28 36 38 25 32 134 11 GER Michael Roesch 36 22 40 16 34 132 12 FRA Simon Fourcade 29 29 32 15 38 128 13 AUT Daniel Mesotitsch 25 34 16 26 29 114 14 UKR Andriy Deryzemlya 38 27 18 23 25 113 15 NOR Halvard Hanevold 34 15 28 14 36 113 16 SWE Björn Ferry 27 26 – 27 30 110 17 RUS Andrei Makoveev 31 – 17 19 22 89 18 GER Alexander Wolf 17 30 – 22 19 88 19 ITA Christian De Lorenzi 30 13 31 12 11 86 20 FRA Vincent Jay 26 – – 32 24 82 21 ITA Markus Windisch 15 23 25 13 16 79 22 AUT Friedrich Pinter – 25 – 31 21 77 23 NOR Alexander Os 12 31 – 20 13 76 24 NOR Lars Berger 24 18 12 21 12 75 25 FRA Martin Fourcade – – 26 29 18 73 26 GER Michael Greis – 24 0 34 14 72 27 BLR Roman Valiullin 21 21 – 11 15 68 28 CZE Michal Šlesingr – 14 – 30 20 64 29 GER Andreas Birnbacher 20 – – – 43 63 30 USA Tim Burke – – 13 17 17 47 31 CAN Jean Philippe Leguellec – 19 – 24 – 43 32 RUS Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 22 16 – – – 38 33 AUT Tobias Eberhard – 32 – – – 32 35 BLR Sergey Novikov 32 – – – – 32 35 SLO Janez Maric – – 30 – – 30 36 USA Jay Hakkinen 13 17 – – – 30 37 SLO Klemen Bauer – – 27 – – 27 38 SUI Simon Hallenbarter – – 24 – – 24 39 UKR Roman Pryma 23 – – – – 23 39 USA Lowell Bailey – – 23 – – 23 41 CRO Jakov Fak – – 22 – – 22 42 SWE Mattias Nilsson – – 21 – – 21 43 SWE David Ekholm – – 19 – – 19 44 NOR Ronny Hafsas 18 – – – – 18 45 FRA Vincent Defrasne 16 0 – – – 16 46 SWE Magnús Jónsson – – 15 – – 15 47 UKR Vyacheslav Derkach 14 – – – – 14 References Biathlon World Cup - Mass Start Men, 2008-09