1988–89 Biathlon World Cup

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1988–89 World Cup
Discipline Men Women
Overall Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Soviet Union Elena Golovina
Nations Cup East Germany East Germany Soviet Union Soviet Union
Individual Soviet Union Alexandr Popov Soviet Union Elena Golovina
Sprint Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Soviet Union Elena Golovina
Competition

The 1988–89 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 15 December 1988 in Albertville, France, and ended on 19 March 1989 in Steinkjer, Norway. It was the twelfth season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Calendar[]

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1988–89 season.[1][2][3][4]

Location Date Individual Sprint Team event Relay
France Albertville 15-18 December ● [1][2][3][5][6] ● [1][2][3][7][8] ●
People's Republic of Bulgaria Borovets 19–22 January ● [1][2][3][9][10] ● [1][2][3][11][12] ●
West Germany Ruhpolding 26–29 January ● [1][2][3][13][14] ● [1][2][3][15][16] ●
Austria Feistritz 7–12 February ● ● ● ●
Finland Hämeenlinna 2–5 March ● [1][2][3][17] ● [1][2][3][18] ●
Sweden Östersund 9–12 March ● [1][2][3][19][20] ● [1][2][3][21][22] ●
Norway Steinkjer 16–19 March ● [1][2][3][23][24] ● [1][2][3][25][26] ●
Total 6 6 3 3
  • 1989 World Championship races were not included in the 1988–89 World Cup scoring system.
  • The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

World Cup Podium[]

Men[]

Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib
(After competition) 		Det.
1 15 December 1988 France Albertville 20 km Individual East Germany Birk Anders Soviet Union Alexandr Popov East Germany Frank-Peter Roetsch East Germany Birk Anders [1][2][3][27][28]
1 17 December 1988 France Albertville 10 km Sprint East Germany Frank Luck Norway Eirik Kvalfoss East Germany Birk Anders [1][2][3][29][30]
2 19 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets 20 km Individual Czechoslovakia Jan Matouš France Thierry Gerbier Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Norway Eirik Kvalfoss [1][2][3][31][32]
2 21 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets 10 km Sprint East Germany Birk Anders West Germany Ernst Reiter East Germany Frank-Peter Roetsch [1][2][3][11][33]
3 26 January 1989 West Germany Ruhpolding 20 km Individual Soviet Union Sergei Bulygin Soviet Union Alexandr Popov East Germany Frank-Peter Roetsch East Germany Frank-Peter Roetsch [1][2][3][34][35]
3 28 January 1989 West Germany Ruhpolding 10 km Sprint East Germany Frank-Peter Roetsch Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Soviet Union Alexandr Popov [1][2][3][15][36]
4 2 March 1989 Finland Hämeenlinna 20 km Individual Soviet Union Alexandr Popov Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Soviet Union Sergei Tchepikov Norway Eirik Kvalfoss [1][2][3][37]
4 4 March 1989 Finland Hämeenlinna 10 km Sprint Norway Eirik Kvalfoss Soviet Union Juri Kashkarov Soviet Union Valeriy Medvedtsev [1][2][3][18]
5 9 March 1989 Sweden Östersund 20 km Individual Soviet Union Sergei Tchepikov Soviet Union Valeriy Medvedtsev Soviet Union Alexandr Popov [1][2][3][38][39]
5 11 March 1989 Sweden Östersund 10 km Sprint Italy Johann Passler Sweden East Germany André Sehmisch [1][2][3][21][40]
6 16 March 1989 Norway Steinkjer 20 km Individual West Germany Fritz Fischer Soviet Union Alexandr Popov West Germany Ernst Reiter [1][2][3][41][42]
6 18 March 1989 Norway Steinkjer 10 km Sprint West Germany Fritz Fischer Soviet Union Sergei Tchepikov France Thierry Gerbier [1][2][3][25][43]

Women[]

Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib
(After competition) 		Det.
1 15 December 1988 France Les Saisies 15 km Individual Bulgaria Mariya Manolova Norway Anne Elvebakk West Germany Petra Schaaf Bulgaria Mariya Manolova
1 17 December 1988 France Les Saisies 7.5 km Sprint Bulgaria Nadezhda Aleksieva Soviet Union Bulgaria
2 19 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets 15 km Individual Soviet Union Soviet Union Elena Golovina Soviet Union Luiza Tcherepanova Soviet Union Elena Golovina
2 21 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets 7.5 km Sprint Soviet Union Elena Golovina Bulgaria Norway Elin Kristiansen
3 26 January 1989 West Germany Ruhpolding 15 km Individual West Germany Soviet Union Soviet Union Elena Golovina
3 28 January 1989 West Germany Ruhpolding 7.5 km Sprint Soviet Union Svetlana Davidova Soviet Union Elena Golovina Bulgaria Mariya Manolova
4 2 March 1989 Finland Hämeenlinna 15 km Individual Soviet Union Elena Golovina Soviet Union Svetlana Davidova Soviet Union
4 4 March 1989 Finland Hämeenlinna 7.5 km Sprint Soviet Union Elena Golovina Soviet Union Finland
5 9 March 1989 Sweden Östersund 15 km Individual Bulgaria Iva Shkodreva Bulgaria Soviet Union Svetlana Davidova
5 11 March 1989 Sweden Östersund 7.5 km Sprint Soviet Union Norway Anne Elvebakk Bulgaria
6 16 March 1989 Norway Steinkjer 15 km Individual West Germany Norway Mona Bollerud Norway Elin Kristiansen
6 18 March 1989 Norway Steinkjer 7.5 km Sprint Norway Anne Elvebakk Soviet Union Svetlana Davidova Norway Synnøve Thoresen

Men's team[]

Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 22 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets[1][2][11] 4x7.5 km Relay  West Germany
Ernst Reiter

Herbert Fritzenwenger
Fritz Fischer
  East Germany
Frank Luck
André Sehmisch
Birk Anders
Frank-Peter Roetsch
  Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Kos
Martin Rypl
Jan Matouš
Jiří Holubec
3 29 January 1989 Germany Ruhpolding[1][2][15][44] 4x7.5 km Relay  East Germany
Frank Luck
André Sehmisch
Frank-Peter Roetsch
Birk Anders
  Soviet Union
Dmitry Vasilyev
Sergei Tchepikov
Alexandr Popov
Valeriy Medvedtsev
  West Germany
Ernst Reiter

Herbert Fritzenwenger
Fritz Fischer
5 12 March 1989 Sweden Östersund[1][2][21] 4x7.5 km Relay  Soviet Union
Juri Kashkarov
Sergei Tchepikov
Alexandr Popov
Valeriy Medvedtsev
  Norway
Geir Einang
Frode Løberg
Gisle Fenne
Eirik Kvalfoss
  East Germany
Frank Luck
André Sehmisch
Raik Dittrich
Birk Anders

Women's team[]

Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 22 January 1989 Bulgaria Borovets[1][2][11] 3x6 km Relay  West Germany


Petra Schaaf
  Norway
Synnøve Thoresen
Elin Kristiansen
Anne Elvebakk
  Soviet Union


Anna Kuzmina
3 29 January 1989 Germany Ruhpolding[1][2][15][45] 3x6 km Relay  Soviet Union

Svetlana Davidova
Elena Golovina
  Finland
Tuija Vuoksiala
Pirjo Mattila

 Bulgaria

Nadezhda Aleksieva
Mariya Manolova
5 12 March 1989 Sweden Östersund[1][2][21] 3x6 km Relay  Soviet Union

Elena Golovina
Svetlana Davidova
  Bulgaria

Iva Shkodreva
Nadezhda Aleksieva
  Norway
Synnøve Thoresen
Elin Kristiansen
Anne Elvebakk

Standings: Men[]

Overall[]

Pos. Points
   Norway Eirik Kvalfoss 195
2. Soviet Union Alexandr Popov 184
3. Soviet Union Sergei Tchepikov 164
4. East Germany Birk Anders 157
5. Soviet Union Valeriy Medvedtsev 149
  • Final standings after 12 races.

[1][2][21]

Standings: Women[]

[1][2][21]

Overall[]

Pos. Points
   Soviet Union Elena Golovina 210
2. Soviet Union 187
3. Soviet Union Svetlana Davidova 185
4. Bulgaria 176
5. Norway Anne Elvebakk 165
  • Final standings after 12 races.

Achievements[]

Men[]

First World Cup career victory
  •  Birk Anders (GDR), 21, in his 3rd season — the WC 1 Individual in Albertville; it also was his first podium
  •  Frank Luck (GDR), 21, in his 3rd season — the WC 1 Sprint in Albertville; it also was his first podium
  •  Sergei Bulygin (URS), 25, in his 7th season — the WC 3 Individual in Ruhpolding; first podium was the 1984–85 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
  •  Sergei Tchepikov (URS), 22, in his 3rd season — the WC 5 Individual in Östersund; first podium was the 1988–89 Individual in Hämeenlinna
First World Cup podium
  •  Thierry Gerbier (FRA), 23, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 2 Individual in Borovets
  •  Sergei Tchepikov (URS), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Individual in Hämeenlinna
  •   (SWE), in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 5 Sprint in Östersund
Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Women[]

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)
  •  Elena Golovina (URS), 3 (3) first places
  •  Martina Stede (GER), 2 (2) first places
  •  Mariya Manolova (BUL), 1 (1) first place
  •  Nadezhda Aleksieva (BUL), 1 (1) first place
  •  Natalia Ivanova (URS), 1 (1) first place
  •  Svetlana Davidova (URS), 1 (1) first place
  •  Iva Shkodreva (BUL), 1 (1) first place
  •  Natalia Prikazchikova (URS), 1 (1) first place
  •  Anne Elvebakk (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Retirements[]

The following notable biathletes retired after the 1988–89 season:


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