2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Men

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The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Men will start on January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish on March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. The defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

Competition format[]

In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time; the first across the finish line wins. In this 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race). The rest of the shooting bouts are at the lane of the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, shoot at lane five). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).

2007-08 Top 3 Standings[]

Medal Athlete Points[1]
Gold: Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 180
Silver: Russia Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 143
Bronze: Russia Dmitri Yaroshenko 128

Medal winners[]

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Oberhof
Christoph Sumann
 Austria
38:11.9
(1+0+1+0)
Carl Johan Bergman
 Sweden
38:21.6
(0+0+1+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
38:21.8
(0+1+1+0)
Antholz
Christoph Stephan
 Germany
37:19.9
(0+0+0+1)
Dominik Landertinger
 Austria
37:20.1
(1+2+0+0)
Ivan Tcherezov
 Russia
37:22.7
(0+0+1+1)
World Championships
Dominik Landertinger
 Austria
38:32.5
(2+0+0+1)
Christoph Sumann
 Austria
38:41.4
(2+0+0+1)
Ivan Tcherezov
 Russia
38:46.4
(2+0+0+0)
Trondheim
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
41:12.9
(0+0+0+0)
Simon Eder
 Austria
41:52.0
(0+0+1+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
42:06.3
(1+0+0+1)
Khanty-Mansiysk
Simon Eder
 Austria
37:14.4
(0+0+0+0)
Dominik Landertinger
 Austria
37:26.5
(0+0+0+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
37:31.4
(2+0+0+1)

Final standings[]

# Name OBE ANT WCH TRO KHA Total[2]
1 Austria Dominik Landertinger 54 60 40 54 208
2 Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 48 40 43 60 48 199
3 Austria Christoph Sumann 60 43 54 18 40 197
4 Austria Simon Eder 28 34 54 60 176
5 Russia Ivan Tcherezov 48 48 43 31 170
6 Germany Christoph Stephan 19 60 20 38 28 146
7 Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen 43 29 48 26 146
8 Russia Maxim Tchoudov 40 38 36 28 23 142
9 Sweden Carl Johan Bergman 54 20 14 36 27 137
10 Poland Tomasz Sikora 28 36 38 25 32 134
11 Germany Michael Roesch 36 22 40 16 34 132
12 France Simon Fourcade 29 29 32 15 38 128
13 Austria Daniel Mesotitsch 25 34 16 26 29 114
14 Ukraine Andriy Deryzemlya 38 27 18 23 25 113
15 Norway Halvard Hanevold 34 15 28 14 36 113
16 Sweden Björn Ferry 27 26 27 30 110
17 Russia Andrei Makoveev 31 17 19 22 89
18 Germany Alexander Wolf 17 30 22 19 88
19 Italy Christian De Lorenzi 30 13 31 12 11 86
20 France Vincent Jay 26 32 24 82
21 Italy Markus Windisch 15 23 25 13 16 79
22 Austria Friedrich Pinter 25 31 21 77
23 Norway Alexander Os 12 31 20 13 76
24 Norway Lars Berger 24 18 12 21 12 75
25 France Martin Fourcade 26 29 18 73
26 Germany Michael Greis 24 0 34 14 72
27 Belarus 21 21 11 15 68
28 Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr 14 30 20 64
29 Germany Andreas Birnbacher 20 43 63
30 United States Tim Burke 13 17 17 47
31 Canada Jean Philippe Leguellec 19 24 43
32 Russia Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 22 16 38
33 Austria Tobias Eberhard 32 32
35 Belarus Sergey Novikov 32 32
35 Slovenia Janez Maric 30 30
36 United States Jay Hakkinen 13 17 30
37 Slovenia Klemen Bauer 27 27
38 Switzerland Simon Hallenbarter 24 24
39 Ukraine Roman Pryma 23 23
39 United States Lowell Bailey 23 23
41 Croatia Jakov Fak 22 22
42 Sweden Mattias Nilsson 21 21
43 Sweden David Ekholm 19 19
44 Norway Ronny Hafsas 18 18
45 France Vincent Defrasne 16 0 16
46 Sweden Magnús Jónsson 15 15
47 Ukraine Vyacheslav Derkach 14 14

References[]

  1. ^ "2007/08 Final standings". Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
  2. ^ Standings Mass start Men
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