2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Women

The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Women started at Thursday December 4, 2008 in Östersund and finished Wednesday March 11, 2009 in at the pre-Olympic biathlon event. The defending titlist was Martina Beck of Germany.

Competition format[]

The format consists of a 15 kilometre (9.3 mi) individual race and 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.

2007–2008 Top 3 Standings[]

Medal	Athlete	Points[1]
Gold:	Martina Beck	139
Silver:	Tatiana Moiseeva	111
Bronze:	Ekaterina Iourieva	107

Medal winners[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	45:05.1 (0+0+0+0)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	45:44.8 (1+0+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	46:20.5 (0+0+0+1)
Hochfilzen	Éva Tófalvi  Romania	50:20.5 (0+0+0+0)	Svetlana Sleptsova  Russia	50:52.9 (0+1+0+1)	Simone Hauswald  Germany	52:13.3 (0+2+0+1)
World Championships	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	44:03.1 (0+1+0+0)	Teja Gregorin  Slovenia	44:42.6 (0+0+0+1)	Tora Berger  Norway	44:49.6 (0+0+0+1)
Vancouver	Simone Hauswald  Germany	42:44.6 (0+0+0+0)	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	43:23.9 (0+0+0+1)	Vita Semerenko  Ukraine	43:50.4 (0+0+1+0)

Final standings[]

#	Name	ÖST	HOC	WCH	VAN	Total[2]
1.	Magdalena Neuner	48	38	–	43	129
2	Éva Tófalvi	6	60	36	27	123
3	Tora Berger	38	–	48	36	122
4	Kati Wilhelm	54	–	60	1	115
5	Olga Zaitseva	13	32	27	54	113
6	Helena Jonsson	60	14	34	17	111
7	Vita Semerenko	34	20	29	48	111
8	Simone Hauswald	–	48	–	60	108
9	Andrea Henkel	31	9	31	40	102
10	Oksana Khvostenko	43	27	20	29	99
11	Anna Carin Olofsson	29	23	43	0	95
12	Svetlana Sleptsova	23	54	–	16	94
13	Liu Xianying	40	34	0	18	92
14	Darya Domracheva	32	25	30	–	87
15	Teja Gregorin	3	–	54	26	83
16	Martina Beck	36	28	13	19	83
17	Sandrine Bailly	0	10	32	38	80
18		30	16	15	28	74
19	Katja Haller	12	33	24	0	67
20	Olga Medvedtseva	0	43	22	0	65
21	Nadezhda Skardino	25	29	9	8	63
22	Natalia Levchenkova	27	0	23	11	61
23		21	–	5	34	60
24	Michela Ponza	8	19	3	31	58
25	Valj Semerenko	16	0	15	25	56
26	Marie-Laure Brunet	22	–	26	–	48
27	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	0	36	11	–	47
28		14	0	25	7	46
29	Solveig Rogstad	5	40	0	0	45
30	Anastasiya Kuzmina	–	–	12	32	44
31	Agnieszka Grzybek	–	21	21	0	42
32	Eveli Saue	0	11	0	30	41
33	Veronika Vítková	–	0	40	–	40
34	Andreja Mali	0	26	0	13	39
35	Sylvie Becaert	0	0	19	20	39
36	Elena Khrustaleva	0	0	38	–	38
37	Pavlina Filipova	9	0	28	–	37
38		17	18	–	–	35
39	Wang Chunli	0	30	0	4	34
40	Kong Yingchao	10	24	–	–	34
41	Iana Romanova	–	–	17	15	32
42		–	17	–	13	30
43	Madara Liduma	19	0	10	0	29
44		28	0	–	–	28
45	Liv Kjersti Eikeland	26	0	–	0	26
46		0	22	4	–	26
47	Lilia Vaygina-Efremova	20	6	–	–	26
48	Magda Rezlerova	18	7	0	0	25
49		0	0	–	24	24
50	Jenny Jonsson	0	0	–	23	23
51	Liudmila Ananko	23	0	–	–	23
52		0	1	–	22	23
53	Marie Dorin	0	0	8	14	22
54		–	–	–	21	21
55	Anna Boulygina	4	–	16	0	20
56	Haley Johnson	0	0	18	0	18
57	Kathrin Hitzer	3	15	0	–	18
58		11	5	0	0	16
59	Olga Nazarova	0	2	8	6	16
60	Olga Kudrashova	15	0	0	0	15
61	Diana Rasimovičiūtė	0	12	0	3	15
62	Anna Maria Nilsson	0	13	0	0	13
63	Lubomira Kalinova	0	0	0	10	10
64	Zdenka Vejnarova	0	0	0	9	9
65	Ann Kristin Flatland	–	8	0	–	8
66	Sofia Domeij	7	0	0	0	7
67	Zina Kocher	0	0	6	0	6
68	Kari Henneseid Eie	0	0	–	5	5
69	Kadri Lehtla	0	4	0	–	4
70	Song Chaoqing	0	3	–	0	3
71	Liudmila Kalinchik	0	0	–	2	2
72	Andrijana Stipanicic	–	0	2	0	2
73	Magdalena Gwizdoń	0	0	1	0	1
74	Sabrina Buchholz	1	–	–	–	1

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