2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Women

The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Women will start at Sunday January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish Sunday March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.

Competition format[]

In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this 12.5 kilometres (7.8 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.) with rest of the shooting bouts being at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, you 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:	Magdalena Neuner	186
Silver:	Kati Wilhelm	138
Bronze:	Michela Ponza	135

Medal winners[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Oberhof	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	39:55.2 (0+0+2+0)	Olga Medvedtseva  Russia	40:01.0 (0+0+1+1)	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	40:07.0 (1+1+0+0)
Antholz	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	36:51.2 (0+0+0+1)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	37:05.6 (0+0+0+2)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	37:06.0 (1+2+0+0)
World Championships	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	34:18.3 (0+0+1+1)	Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia	34:25.8 (0+0+1+1)	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	34:30.6 (0+0+1+1)
Trondheim	Tora Berger  Norway	39:29.7 (0+0+0+1)	Simone Hauswald  Germany	39:30.7 (1+0+0+1)	Sandrine Bailly  France	39:31.8 (0+0+0+1)
Khanty-Mansiysk	Simone Hauswald  Germany	36:54.6 (0+1+0+0)	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	37:09.7 (0+0+0+0)	Andrea Henkel  Germany	37:21.5 (1+0+1+1)

Final standings[]

#	Name	OBE	ANT	WCH	TRO	KHA	Total[2]
	Helena Jonsson	48	60	48	29	54	210
2	Kati Wilhelm	60	48	11	40	38	186
3	Simone Hauswald	31	24	29	54	60	174
4	Olga Zaitseva	26	36	60	32	34	162
5	Andrea Henkel	29	40	40	25	48	157
6	Tora Berger	32	–	26	60	28	146
7	Darya Domracheva	0	22	38	43	43	146
8	Magdalena Neuner	43	38	36	27	29	146
9	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	38	54	24	20	24	140
10	Olga Medvedtseva	54	–	32	18	36	'140
11	Marie-Laure Brunet	34	30	34	34	17	132
12	Anna Carin Olofsson	–	43	21	22	31	117
13	Anastasiya Kuzmina	–	–	54	36	25	115
14	Valj Semerenko	19	31	25	12	40	115
15	Anna Boulygina	–	23	18	38	32	111
16	Martina Beck	–	29	30	21	30	110
17	Vita Semerenko	20	20	43	17	23	106
18	Éva Tófalvi	25	26	27	23	16	101
19	Natalia Levchenkova	36	28	16	15	11	95
20	Sandrine Bailly	–	–	14	48	21	83
21		–	32	–	24	26	82
22	Svetlana Sleptsova	40	–	22	–	19	81
23	Michela Ponza	15	18	–	16	27	76
24	Sylvie Becaert	–	27	–	26	22	75
25	Liu Xianying	17	21	23	14	–	75
26	Teja Gregorin	–	–	28	28	15	71
27	Ann Kristin Flatland	30	34	–	–	–	64
28	Andreja Mali	16	14	–	13	14	57
29	Magdalena Gwizdon	23	–	–	19	13	55
30	Marie Dorin	–	–	–	31	20	51
31	Olga Kudrashova	27	19	–	–	–	46
32	Kathrin Hitzer	28	17	–	–	–	45
33	Oksana Khvostenko	–	25	20	–	–	45
34	Veronika Vítková	–	–	31	–	12	43
35	Wang Chunli	14	16	–	11	–	41
36		22	13	–	–	–	35
37	Nadezhda Skardino	18	15	–	–	–	33
38	Solveig Rogstad	–	–	–	30	–	30
39	Kong Yingchao	24	–	–	–	–	24
40	Lilia Vaygina-Efremova	21	–	–	–	–	21
41	Pavlina Filipova	–	–	19	–	–	19
42		–	–	–	–	18	18
43	Katja Haller	–	–	17	–	–	17
44	Olga Nazarova	–	–	15	–	–	15
45	Diana Rasimovičiūtė	–	–	13	–	–	13
46	Elena Khrustaleva	–	–	12	–	–	12

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