2007–08 Biathlon World Cup

Biathlon competition 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup Overall NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen GER Magdalena Neuner Nations Cup NOR Norway GER Germany Individual FRA Vincent Defrasne GER Martina Glagow Sprint NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen GER Magdalena Neuner Pursuit NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen FRA Sandrine Bailly Mass start NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen GER Magdalena Neuner Relay NOR Norway NOR Norway 2006–07 2008–09 The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 28 November 2007 and ended 16 March 2008. This article contains the top ten result listings and concise summary comments for each of the season's twenty-seven individual races and five relays for both genders, arranged by World Cup meet 1 through 9 (denoted WC 1–9), accompanied by the top ten Total Cup rankings after each of the meets plus the 2008 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores). For a list of the Total and Relay World Cup winners and runners-up of all World Cup seasons since 1977–78, see the Biathlon World Cup article. Scores and leader bibs For the eighth successive season, the race victory gives 50 points, a 2nd place gives 46 pts, a 3rd place 43 pts, a 4th place 40 pts, a fifth place 37 pts, a 6th place 34 pts, then further decreasing by two pts down to the 15th place (16 pts), then linearly decreasing by one point down to the 30th place (see the Place/Points table on the page's upper right). Equal placings, i.e. same-time finishes (ties) give an equal number of points. The sum of all WC points of the season, minus the score from a predetermined number of events (say, 3) give the biathlete's accumulated WC score (naturally, the races chosen to be eliminated from the total will be those with the lowest scores). Biathletes with an equal number of accumulated points are ranked by number of victories, 2nd places, 3rd places, and so on, in practice reducing the possibility of ties to just about nil. In addition to the Total WC score as described above, the points from races in each separate single-biathlete format—Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass start—accumulate toward separate scores with associated "sub-Cups" to be won. See the main Biathlon article for a detailed description of the race formats. In any given race, the biathlete with the highest accumulated Total WC score before the race wears a yellow number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red bib is worn. In the first races of the season, the winners of the previous season's Cups wear the associated bibs. There are also two multi-biathlete Cups to be won, namely the Relay and Nation Cups. The scores of the Relay races are awarded to each nation's team in the same manner as in the single-biathlete Cups. No leader bibs are worn during the Relays. For the Nation Cup, the combined scores of the three best biathletes from each nation in the Individual and Sprint races, as well as the Relay scores, are accumulated. The Nation Cup points scale is different from the World Cup points scale; each place from 1st through 30th scores 100 more points than in the World Cup, and from 31st down to 130th points are awarded on a scale from 100 to 1. Calendar Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2007–08 season.World Cup Schedule https://web.archive.org/web/20081218052430/http://www.biathlonworld.com/en/events.html?event_level=WC&event_class=S 2008-12-18 Location Date Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Details FIN Kontiolahti 29 November–2 December ● ● ● details AUT Hochfilzen 6–9 December ● ● ● details SLO Pokljuka 12–16 December ● ● ● details GER Oberhof 2–6 January ● ● ● details GER Ruhpolding 8–13 January ● ● ● details ITA Antholz 16–20 January ● ● ● details SWE Östersund 8–17 February ● ● ● ● ● World Championships KOR Pyeongchang 28 February–2 March ● ● details RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 5–9 March ● ● ● details NOR Holmenkollen 12–16 March ● ● ● details Total 3 10 8 5 5 Medal table flagcountry 24 11 21 20 15 10 11 23 17 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 0 1 0 3 2 0 1 3 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 World Cup podiums Men Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib (After competition) Det. 1 29 November 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 20 km Individual FRA Vincent Defrasne NOR Halvard Hanevold RUS Maxim Tchoudov FRA Vincent Defrasne Detail 1 1 December 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 10 km Sprint NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko GER Carsten Pump Detail 1 2 December 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 12.5 km Pursuit RUS Ivan Tcherezov NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko RUS Ivan Tcherezov Detail 2 7 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Andrei Makoveev NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail 2 8 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 12.5 km Pursuit NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko GER Daniel Graf Detail 3 13 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 20 km Individual NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen GER Alexander Wolf UKR Serhiy Sednev Detail 3 15 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 10 km Sprint NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko SWE Mattias Nilsson Detail 4 5 January 2008 GER Oberhof 10 km Sprint POL Tomasz Sikora NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail 4 6 January 2008 GER Oberhof 15 km Mass Start NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Nikolay Kruglov NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail 5 12 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 10 km Sprint GER Michael Greis RUS Maxim Tchoudov GER Alexander Wolf Detail 5 13 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 12.5 km Pursuit GER Michael Greis RUS Maxim Tchoudov NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail 6 18 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Sprint GER Michael Greis RUS Nikolay Kruglov NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail 6 19 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Pursuit SWE Björn Ferry RUS Nikolay Kruglov GER Michael Greis Detail 6 20 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 15 km Mass Start NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen SWE Björn Ferry GER Michael Greis Detail WC 9 February 2008 SWE Östersund 10 km Sprint RUS Maxim Tchoudov NOR Halvard Hanevold NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail WC 10 February 2008 SWE Östersund 12.5 km Pursuit NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Maxim Tchoudov GER Alexander Wolf Detail WC 14 February 2008 SWE Östersund 20 km Individual NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Maxim Maksimov Detail WC 17 February 2008 SWE Östersund 15 km Mass Start NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen RUS Maxim Tchoudov Detail 7 27 February 2008 KOR Pyeongchang 10 km Sprint NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR Halvard Hanevold AUT Friedrich Pinter Detail 7 29 February 2008 KOR Pyeongchang 12.5 km Pursuit GER Michael Greis NOR Halvard Hanevold NOR Alexander Os Detail 8 6 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Sprint NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen RUS Andrei Makoveev Detail 8 8 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Pursuit NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen POL Tomasz Sikora RUS Andrei Makoveev Detail 8 9 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 15 km Mass Start POL Tomasz Sikora GER Daniel Graf CZE Michal Šlesingr Detail 9 13 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 10 km Sprint NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen GER Michael Rösch AUT Friedrich Pinter Detail 9 15 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Pursuit RUS Ivan Tcherezov AUT Friedrich Pinter NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail 9 16 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 15 km Mass Start CZE Michal Šlesingr RUS Nikolay Kruglov NOR Halvard Hanevold Detail Women Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib (After competition) Det. 1 29 November 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 15 km Individual GER Martina Glagow RUS Tatiana Moiseeva GER Simone Denkinger GER Martina Glagow Detail 1 30 November 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 7.5 km Sprint GER Martina Glagow GER Kati Wilhelm NOR Tora Berger Detail 1 2 December 2007 FIN Kontiolahti 10 km Pursuit NOR Tora Berger GER Andrea Henkel GER Martina Glagow Detail 2 7 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 7.5 km Sprint FRA Sandrine Bailly RUS Ekaterina Iourieva GER Kati Wilhelm Detail 2 8 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 10 km Pursuit FRA Sandrine Bailly RUS Ekaterina Iourieva GER Kati Wilhelm FRA Sandrine Bailly Detail 3 13 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 15 km Individual RUS Ekaterina Iourieva ITA Michela Ponza GER Martina Glagow GER Martina Glagow Detail 3 15 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 7.5 km Sprint FRA Sandrine Bailly FIN Kaisa Mäkäräinen GER Magdalena Neuner Detail 4 5 January 2008 GER Oberhof 7.5 km Sprint NOR Tora Berger RUS Svetlana Sleptsova GER Magdalena Neuner Detail 4 6 January 2008 GER Oberhof 12.5 km Mass Start GER Magdalena Neuner RUS Olga Anisimova RUS Tatiana Moiseeva Detail 5 11 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 7.5 km Sprint FIN Kaisa Varis RUS Svetlana Sleptsova SWE Helena Jonsson Detail 5 13 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 10 km Pursuit NOR Solveig Rogstad GER Kati Wilhelm FIN Kaisa Mäkäräinen GER Kati Wilhelm Detail 6 17 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 7.5 km Sprint GER Kati Wilhelm GER Andrea Henkel RUS Svetlana Sleptsova Detail 6 19 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Pursuit GER Andrea Henkel RUS Svetlana Sleptsova NOR Tora Berger Detail 6 20 January 2008 ITA Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Mass Start GER Andrea Henkel SWE Anna Carin Olofsson GER Kati Wilhelm Detail WC 9 February 2008 SWE Östersund 7.5 km Sprint GER Andrea Henkel RUS Albina Akhatova UKR Oksana Khvostenko GER Andrea Henkel Detail WC 10 February 2008 SWE Östersund 10 km Pursuit GER Andrea Henkel RUS Ekaterina Iourieva RUS Albina Akhatova Detail WC 14 February 2008 SWE Östersund 15 km Individual RUS Ekaterina Iourieva GER Martina Glagow UKR Oksana Khvostenko Detail WC 16 February 2008 SWE Östersund 12.5 km Mass Start GER Magdalena Neuner NOR Tora Berger RUS Ekaterina Iourieva Detail 7 28 February 2008 KOR Pyeongchang 7.5 km Sprint GER Magdalena Neuner FRA Sandrine Bailly ITA Michela Ponza FRA Sandrine Bailly Detail 7 1 March 2008 KOR Pyeongchang 10 km Pursuit FRA Sandrine Bailly ITA Michela Ponza RUS Albina Akhatova Detail 8 6 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 7.5 km Sprint GER Magdalena Neuner FRA Sandrine Bailly RUS Albina Akhatova Detail 8 8 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Pursuit GER Kathrin Hitzer FRA Sandrine Bailly GER Andrea Henkel Detail 8 9 March 2008 RUS Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Mass Start GER Kathrin Hitzer GER Magdalena Neuner RUS Svetlana Sleptsova GER Magdalena Neuner Detail 9 13 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 7.5 km Sprint RUS Svetlana Sleptsova NOR Tora Berger GER Kati Wilhelm Detail 9 15 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 10 km Pursuit RUS Svetlana Sleptsova GER Kati Wilhelm CHN Liu Xianying Detail 9 16 March 2008 NOR Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Mass Start GER Kati Wilhelm NOR Solveig Rogstad ITA Michela Ponza Detail Men's team Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third 2 9 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 4x7.5 km Relay Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Michael Rösch Daniel Graf Carsten Pump Michael Greis 3 16 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 4x7.5 km Relay Andrei Makoveev Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder 4 4 January 2008 GER Oberhof 4x7.5 km Relay Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis 5 10 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 4x7.5 km Relay Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis WC 16 February 2008 SWE Östersund 4x7.5 km Relay Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis Women's team Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third 2 9 December 2007 AUT Hochfilzen 4x6 km Relay Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Tatiana Moiseeva Ekaterina Iourieva Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Olofsson Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson 3 16 December 2007 SLO Pokljuka 4x6 km Relay Martina Glagow Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Natalia Guseva Ekaterina Iourieva Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly 4 3 January 2008 GER Oberhof 4x6 km Relay Simone Denkinger Andrea Henkel Kathrin Hitzer Kati Wilhelm Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Pauline Macabies Sandrine Bailly Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Tatiana Moiseeva Natalia Guseva 5 9 January 2008 GER Ruhpolding 4x6 km Relay Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Kati Wilhelm Tora Berger Anne Ingstadbjorg Solveig Rogstad Ann Kristin Flatland Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Ekaterina Iourieva Natalia Guseva WC 17 February 2008 SWE Östersund 4x6 km Relay Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm Oksana Yakovlieva Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly Mixed Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third WC 12 February 2008 SWE Östersund 2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis BLR 1995 Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko 7 2 March 2008 KOR Pyeongchang 2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Hans Martin Gjedrem Alexander Os Michela Ponza Katja Haller René-Laurent Vuillermoz Christian De Lorenzi Julie Carraz-Collin Pauline Macabies Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf Standings: Men Overall Pos.Points 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 869 2. RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko 696 3. NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 687 4. GER Michael Greis 596 5. RUS Ivan Tcherezov 573 Final standings after 26 races. Individual Pos.Points 1. FRA Vincent Defrasne 104 2. NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 100 3. NOR Halvard Hanevold 82 4. RUS Maxim Tchoudov 80 5. AUT Friedrich Pinter 69 Final standings after 3 races. Sprint Pos.Points 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 383 2. RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko 291 3. NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 253 4. GER Michael Greis 233 5. SWE Björn Ferry 222 Final standings after 10 races. Pursuit Pos.Points 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 247 2. RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko 233 3. SWE Björn Ferry 221 4. GER Michael Greis 220 5. RUS Ivan Tcherezov 220 Final standings after 8 races. Mass start Pos.Points 1. NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen 180 2. RUS Nikolay Kruglov 143 3. RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko 128 4. GER Michael Greis 125 5. NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen 124 Final standings after 5 races. Relay Pos.Points 1. NOR Norway 196 2. RUS Russia 192 3. GER Germany 175 4. SWE Sweden 148 5. AUT Austria 147 Final standings after 5 races. Nation Pos.Points 1. NOR 5830 2. RUS 5744 3. GER 5450 4. AUT 4857 5. SWE 4750 Final standings after 18 races. Standings: Women Overall Pos.Points 1. GER Magdalena Neuner 815 2. FRA Sandrine Bailly 804 3. GER Andrea Henkel 764 4. GER Kati Wilhelm 746 5. GER Martina Glagow 675 Final standings after 26 races. Individual Pos.Points 1. GER Martina Glagow 139 2. RUS Tatiana Moiseeva 111 3. RUS Ekaterina Iourieva 107 4. SWE Helena Jonsson 98 5. SLO Teja Gregorin 81 Final standings after 3 races. Sprint Pos.Points 1. GER Magdalena Neuner 324 2. FRA Sandrine Bailly 318 3. GER Kati Wilhelm 303 4. GER Andrea Henkel 297 5. RUS Svetlana Sleptsova 293 Final standings after 10 races. Pursuit Pos.Points 1. FRA Sandrine Bailly 300 2. GER Andrea Henkel 289 3. GER Kati Wilhelm 253 4. NOR Tora Berger 238 5. GER Magdalena Neuner 231 Final standings after 8 races. Mass start Pos.Points 1. GER Magdalena Neuner 186 2. GER Kati Wilhelm 138 3. ITA Michela Ponza 135 4. SWE Helena Jonsson 135 5. RUS Ekaterina Iourieva 127 Final standings after 5 races. Relay Pos.Points 1. GER Germany 250 2. RUS Russia 178 3. FRA France 172 4. NOR Norway 154 5. UKR Ukraine 152 Final standings after 5 races. Nation Pos.Points 1. GER 5896 2. RUS 5578 3. FRA 5071 4. NOR 5044 5. SWE 4865 Final standings after 18 races. Achievements First World Cup career victory Tora Berger NOR, 26, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva Dmitri Yaroshenko RUS 31, in his 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Östersund Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR, 22, in his 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Ruhpolding Ekaterina Iourieva RUS, 24, in her 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Lahti Kaisa Varis FIN, 32, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium Svetlana Sleptsova RUS, 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; first podium was 2007–08 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof Solveig Rogstad NOR, 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 5 Pursuit in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium Björn Ferry SWE, 29, in his 7th season — the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Torino - Cesana San Sicario Kathrin Hitzer GER, 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 8 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk; first podium was 2006–07 Pursuit in Lahti Michal Šlesingr CZE, 25, in his 7th season — the WC 9 Mass Start in Holmenkollen; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva First World Cup podium Carsten Pump GER, 31, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti Daniel Graf GER, 26, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen Serhiy Sednev UKR, 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka Kaisa Mäkäräinen FIN, 24, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka Olga Anisimova RUS, 35, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof Maxim Maksimov RUS, 28, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the World Championships 2008 Individual in Östersund Friedrich Pinter AUT, 30, in his 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Pyeongchang Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses) Men Ole Einar Bjørndalen NOR, 7 (81) first places Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR, 6 (6) first places Michael Greis GER, 4 (9) first places Tomasz Sikora POL, 2 (4) first places Ivan Tcherezov RUS, 2 (3) first places Vincent Defrasne FRA, 1 (3) first places Maxim Tchoudov RUS, 1 (2) first places Dmitri Yaroshenko RUS, 1 (1) first place Björn Ferry SWE, 1 (1) first place Michal Šlesingr CZE, 1 (1) first place Women Sandrine Bailly FRA 4 (20) first places Andrea Henkel GER, 4 (14) first places Magdalena Neuner GER, 4 (11) first places Svetlana Sleptsova RUS, 3 (3) first places Kati Wilhelm GER, 2 (18) first places Martina Glagow GER, 2 (13) first places Tora Berger NOR, 2 (2) first places Ekaterina Iourieva RUS, 2 (2) first places Kathrin Hitzer GER, 2 (2) first places Solveig Rogstad NOR, 1 (1) first place Kaisa Varis FIN, 1 (1) first place Retirements Following notable biathletes retired after the 2007–08 season: Ludwig Gredler AUT Ferréol Cannard FRA Julien Robert FRA Alexei Aidarov UKR Nathalie Santer BEL Saskia Santer BEL Kaisa Varis FIN Delphyne Peretto FRA Jenny Adler GER Ute Niziak GER Gunn Margit Andreassen NOR Tatiana Moiseeva RUS Petra Slezakova SVK References and notes World Cup World Cup Category:Biathlon World Cup