2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

None The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Men started at Sunday December 7, 2008 in Östersund and will finish Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway. Competition format In a pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race,To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race– the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line. most commonly a sprint. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. The distance is 12.5 km mi, skied over five laps; there are four shooting bouts (two prone, two standing, in that order), and each miss means a penalty loop of 150 m. To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts. 2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointshttp://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMPU 2007/08 Final standings 2008-12-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20081206024410/http://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?CupId=BT0708SWRLCP__SMPU 2008-12-06 dead Gold:NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen247Silver:RUS Dmitri Yaroshenko233Bronze:SWE Björn Ferry221 Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersundTomasz Sikora 34:55.5(0+2+0+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 34:58.0(1+2+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 35:00.4(0+1+2+0)HochfilzenEmil Hegle Svendsen35:46.3(1+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 35:55.7(0+0+2+0)Tomasz Sikora 35:58.35(1+0+0+2)RuhpoldingOle Einar Bjørndalen 36:17.4(0+1+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 36:51.8(1+0+0+0)Dominik Landertinger 37:03.9(1+1+0+0)AntholzBjörn Ferry 33:19.4(0+0+1+0)Simon Eder 33:37.0(0+0+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 33:44.1(1+0+1+1)World ChampionshipsOle Einar Bjørndalen 31:46.70(0+2+0+2)Maxim Tchoudov 32:28.40(0+0+1+2)Alexander Os 32:39.50(0+0+2+1)TrondheimOle Einar Bjørndalen 33:36.3(1+0+1+0)Simon Eder 34:01.4(0+0+1+0)Tomasz Sikora 34:01.6(0+1+1+0)Khanty-MansiyskEmil Hegle Svendsen 33:03.3(0+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen33:03.4(1+0+0+1)Christoph Sumann 33:27.1(0+0+2+0) Final standings # Name ÖST HOC RUH ANT WCH TRO KHA TotalStandings Pursuit men 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 54 54 60 – 60 60 54 342 2 NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 60 54 48 – 38 60 308 3 POL Tomasz Sikora 60 48 34 43 43 48 32 276 4 GER Michael Greis 43 36 27 38 28 43 43 231 5 SWE Björn Ferry 31 40 7 60 10 34 40 215 6 AUT Simon Eder – – 23 54 27 54 28 186 7 RUS Maxim Tchoudov 29 27 21 26 54 17 29 186 8 RUS Ivan Tcherezov 23 2 40 34 15 29 19 160 9 AUT Christoph Sumann 9 32 32 32 – 6 48 159 10 CZE Michal Šlesingr – 0 30 27 22 40 38 157 11 NOR Halvard Hanevold 38 20 – 24 38 36 0 156 12 AUT Dominik Landertinger 19 – 48 25 7 31 14 144 13 NOR Alexander Os 27 18 – 11 48 32 7 143 14 FRA Simon Fourcade 40 0 29 22 31 – 21 143 15 GER Michael Rösch – 13 38 31 32 27 0 141 16 SWE Carl Johan Bergman 22 29 43 23 – 19 3 138 17 GER Alexander Wolf 34 30 6 20 23 8 13 128 18 AUT Daniel Mesotitsch 25 8 13 28 17 12 27 122 19 FRA Martin Fourcade – – 26 16 34 20 22 118 20 CAN Jean Philippe Leguellec 24 34 18 36 0 0 5 117 21 USA Tim Burke – –5 – 30 20 28 34 112 22 RUS Evgeny Ustyugov – – 19 19 21 15 36 110 23 NOR Lars Berger 3 – 36 – 40 21 – 100 24 ITA Christian De Lorenzi 5 38 24 0 29 – – 96 25 ITA Markus Windisch 26 22 25 – 18 – – 91 26 RUS Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 32 43 – 9 – – – 83 27 GER Andreas Birnbacher – 7 20 – – 25 30 82 28 CZE Jaroslav Soukup 18 – 2 17 0 30 10 77 29 CZE Zdeněk Vítek 14 14 17 – 13 18 0 76 30 AUT Friedrich Pinter 4 – 31 2 – 23 15 75 31 SWE Mattias Nilsson 0 19 0 0 14 24 17 74 32 UKR Andriy Deryzemlya 12 24 – – 36 – – 72 33 GER Christoph Stephan 36 21 0 15 0 0 – 72 34 FRA Vincent Jay 0 31 – 13 2 26 – 72 35 BLR Rustam Valiullin 28 16 – – 0 – 18 62 36 SVK Pavol Hurajt 11 – 5 – 0 22 24 62 37 UKR Serguei Sednev 8 1 – 40 – – 8 57 38 UKR Vyacheslav Derkach 16 – – 14 0 5 20 55 39 RUS Maxim Maksimov 0 28 22 0 – 2 – 52 40 SUI Simon Hallenbarter – 17 0 0 12 0 23 52 41 RUS Andrei Makoveev 0 6 1 0 24 14 6 51 42 FRA Vincent Defrasne 17 – 28 1 1 – – 47 43 AUT Tobias Eberhard – 10 9 21 – 4 0 44 44 GER Arnd Peiffer – – 8 9 – 0 26 43 45 SWE Magnús Jónsson 0 – 16 0 26 – – 42 46 NOR Ronny Hafsas 22 0 15 – – 0 4 41 47 USA Jay Hakkinen 30 0 10 – – – – 40 48 ITA Rene Laurent Vuillermoz 10 0 – 29 0 – – 39 49 SLO Janez Maric 0 – 14 – 6 16 0 36 50 SUI Ivan Joller – 23 – 0 11 – 0 34 51 BLR Sergey Novikov 20 5 – 0 0 9 0 34 52 SUI Matthias Simmen 0 25 – 7 – 0 – 32 53 CZE Tomáš Holubec 2 15 – 4 – 11 – 32 54 GER Simon Schempp – – – – – – 31 31 55 SLO Klemen Bauer – – – 0 30 0 0 30 56 USA Lowell Bailey – – – – 19 10 – 29 57 UKR Olexander Bilanenko – – 0 18 – – 9 27 58 CHN Zhang Chengye 13 0 4 10 – – – 27 59 NOR Stian Eckhoff – 26 – – – – – 26 60 FIN Paavo Puurunen – – 0 – 25 0 – 25 61 RUS Artem Gusev – – – – – – 25 25 62 CRO Jakov Fak 0 – – – 16 3 0 19 63 EST Roland Lessing 0 – 0 5 – 13 – 18 64 GER Toni Lang 7 11 0 – – – – 18 65 NOR Frode Andresen 6 – 11 – – – – 17 66 NOR Rune Brattsveen – – – – – – 16 16 67 CZE Roman Dostál 15 0 – – – – – 15 68 CAN Robin Clegg 0 3 12 0 0 – – 15 69 RUS Anton Shipulin – – – – – – 12 12 69 UKR Oleg Berezhnoy – 12 – – – – 12 69 NOR Hans Martin Gjedrem – – – 12 – – 12 72 RUS Sergey Balandin – – – – – – 11 11 73 JPN Hidenori Isa – 4 0 6 – – – 10 74 SWE Jörgen Brink 0 9 – – – – – 9 75 ITA Christian Martinelli – – – – 9 – – 9 76 UKR Roman Pryma 0 0 – 0 8 – – 8 77 FRA Alexis Bœuf – – – – – 7 0 7 78 BLR Alexandr Syman 0 – – – 5 0 – 5 79 CHN Zhang Qing – – – – 4 – – 4 80 FRA Lois Habert 0 – – 3 – – – 3 81 LAT Ilmārs Bricis – – 0 – 3 – – 3 81 SVK Dušan Šimočko – – 3 – – – – 3 83 SWE David Ekholm – 0 0 0 – 0 2 2 84 ITA Mattia Cola – 0 – – – 1 – 1 85 USA Jeremy Teela 1 – – – – 0 0 1 86 GER Christoph Knie – – – – – – 1 1 References Biathlon World Cup - Pursuit Men, 2008-09