2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

Biathlon World Cup
2008–09
Men

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Nation

Women

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Nation

World Cup locations

Östersund | Hochfilzen | Hochfilzen (2) | Oberhof | Ruhpolding
Antholz-Anterselva | Vancouver | Trondheim | Khanty-Mansiysk

World Championships

The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Men will start at Wednesday, December 3, 2008, in Östersund and will finish Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in Vancouver at the pre-olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is 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

Medal Athlete Points[1]
Gold:France Vincent Defrasne104
Silver:Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen100
Bronze:Norway Halvard Hanevold82

Medal winners

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund
details
Michael Greis
 Germany
58:52.5
(0+1+0+0)
Alexander Os
 Norway
59:43.0
(0+0+0+2)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
59:47.5
(0+2+0+0)
Hochfilzen
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Maxim Tchoudov
 Russia
56:00.3
(0+1+0+0)
Ivan Tcherezov
 Russia
56:47.9
(0+0+2+0)
Björn Ferry
 Sweden
56:48.8
(0+0+1+0)
World Championships
details
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
52:28.0
(0+0+2+1)
Christoph Stephan
 Germany
52:42.1
(1+0+0+0)
Jakov Fak
 Croatia
52:45.1
(0+0+0+1)
Vancouver
details
Vincent Jay
 France
49:53.9
(0+0+0+0)
Daniel Böhm
 Germany
50:12.9
(0+1+0+0)
Jeremy Teela
 United States
50:17.2
(0+1+0+0)

Final standings

# Name ÖST HOC WCH VAN Total[2]
   Germany Michael Greis 60 43 22 43 146
2 Russia Ivan Tcherezov 30 54 36 22 120
3 Russia Maxim Tchoudov 28 60 33 26 119
4 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 17 27 60 23 110
5 Austria Christoph Sumann 34 38 24 28 100
6 Sweden Carl Johan Bergman 32 34 32 98
7 Austria Daniel Mesotitsch 40 36 21 0 97
8 France Vincent Jay 13 0 18 60 91
9 Poland Tomasz Sikora 29 22 32 30 91
10 Ukraine Andriy Deryzemlya 38 0 34 10 82
11 Norway Alexander Os 54 10 13 0 77
12 Croatia Jakov Fak 0 26 48 0 74
13 Ukraine Serguei Sednev 43 18 0 13 74
14 Sweden Björn Ferry 24 48 72
14 Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 24 72
16 Germany Alexander Wolf 14 30 11 27 71
17 Norway Frode Andresen 25 38 63
18 France Vincent Defrasne 0 7 20 34 61
19 Germany Michael Rösch 21 13 23 15 59
20 Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko 2 31 25 0 58
21 Ukraine Vyacheslav Derkach 31 8 16 55
22 Germany Christoph Stephan 0 0 54 54
23 Germany Daniel Böhm 54 54
24 Austria Dominik Landertinger 15 38 53
25 Russia Nikolay Kruglov 23 29 52
26 Belarus Alexander Syman 27 23 0 0 50
27 United States Jeremy Teela 0 0 0 48 48
28 Belarus Sergey Novikov 0 12 16 20 48
29 France Simon Fourcade 0 43 4 47
30 Czech Republic Roman Dostál 20 1 26 47
31 Sweden David Ekholm 6 0 40 0 46
32 Norway Halvard Hanevold 36 3 0 6 45
33 United States Tim Burke 0 27 18 45
34 United States Lowell Bailey 26 0 19 0 45
35 Sweden Mattias Nilsson 0 0 15 29 44
36 Austria Simon Eder 0 40 40
37 Ukraine Roman Pryma 0 40 0 0 40
38 Italy Markus Windisch 11 0 29 0 40
39 Norway Ronny Hafsas 0 36 36
40 Czech Republic Zdeněk Vítek 0 19 12 5 36
41 France Martin Fourcade 5 28 0 33
42 Italy Christian de Lorenzi 0 32 0 0 32
43 Norway Hans Martin Gjedrem 21 11 32
44 Switzerland Ivan Joller 0 0 31 31
45 Czech Republic Jaroslav Soukup 0 0 30 30
46 Estonia Roland Lessing 5 25 0 30
47 Germany Toni Lang 0 28 28
48 Austria Friedrich Pinter 19 0 0 9 28
49 France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix 0 6 21 27
50 Germany Andreas Birnbacher 10 17 27
51 Italy Christian Martinelli 7 0 19 26
52 Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr 0 9 3 14 26
53 Russia Evgeny Ustyugov 0 25 25
54 Germany Arnd Peiffer 24 24
55 Norway Lars Berger 16 7 0 23
56 Russia Andrei Makoveev 22 0 0 22
57 Czech Republic Tomas Holubec 0 20 0 20
58 Germany Daniel Graf 18 0 18
59 Germany Simon Schempp 17 17
59 Kazakhstan Sergey Naumik 17 17
61 Belarus Rustam Valiullin 3 0 14 0 17
62 Italy Nicola Pozzi 0 16 0 16
63 Ukraine Oleg Berezhnoy 0 15 15
64 France Lois Habert 0 14 0 14
65 Canada Robin Clegg 0 2 12 14
66 Belarus Sergey Sadovnikov 10 3 13
67 Slovenia Janez Maric 0 12 0 0 12
68 Slovakia Marek Matiasko 12 0 0 12
69 Russia Maxim Maksimov 0 0 4 7 11
70 Canada Jean Philippe Leguellec 0 2 0 8 10
71 Czech Republic Ondřej Moravec 9 0 0 9
72 Bulgaria Vladimir Iliev 0 0 9 9
73 Kazakhstan Dias Keneshev 0 0 8 8
74 Japan Hidenori Isa 8 0 0 8
75 Slovakia Miroslav Matiaško 6 6
76 Bulgaria Krasimir Anev 0 0 5 5
77 Switzerland Simon Hallenbarter 0 4 0 0 4
78 Latvia Kristaps Libietis 4 0 0 0 4
79 Switzerland Thomas Frei 0 0 0 2 2
80 Slovakia Pavol Hurajt 0 0 1 0 1
81 Latvia Ilmārs Bricis 1 0 1
82 Belarus Evgeny Abramenko 0 0 1 1

References

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