2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Women

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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: Germany Magdalena Neuner 186
Silver: Germany Kati Wilhelm 138
Bronze: Italy 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]
   Sweden Helena Jonsson 48 60 48 29 54 210
2 Germany Kati Wilhelm 60 48 11 40 38 186
3 Germany Simone Hauswald 31 24 29 54 60 174
4 Russia Olga Zaitseva 26 36 60 32 34 162
5 Germany Andrea Henkel 29 40 40 25 48 157
6 Norway Tora Berger 32 26 60 28 146
7 Belarus Darya Domracheva 0 22 38 43 43 146
8 Germany Magdalena Neuner 43 38 36 27 29 146
9 Finland Kaisa Mäkäräinen 38 54 24 20 24 140
10 Russia Olga Medvedtseva 54 32 18 36 '140
11 France Marie-Laure Brunet 34 30 34 34 17 132
12 Sweden Anna Carin Olofsson 43 21 22 31 117
13 Slovakia Anastasiya Kuzmina 54 36 25 115
14 Ukraine Valj Semerenko 19 31 25 12 40 115
15 Russia Anna Boulygina 23 18 38 32 111
16 Germany Martina Beck 29 30 21 30 110
17 Ukraine Vita Semerenko 20 20 43 17 23 106
18 Romania Éva Tófalvi 25 26 27 23 16 101
19 Moldova Natalia Levchenkova 36 28 16 15 11 95
20 France Sandrine Bailly 14 48 21 83
21 Norway 32 24 26 82
22 Russia Svetlana Sleptsova 40 22 19 81
23 Italy Michela Ponza 15 18 16 27 76
24 France Sylvie Becaert 27 26 22 75
25 China Liu Xianying 17 21 23 14 75
26 Slovenia Teja Gregorin 28 28 15 71
27 Norway Ann Kristin Flatland 30 34 64
28 Slovenia Andreja Mali 16 14 13 14 57
29 Poland Magdalena Gwizdon 23 19 13 55
30 France Marie Dorin 31 20 51
31 Belarus Olga Kudrashova 27 19 46
32 Germany Kathrin Hitzer 28 17 45
33 Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko 25 20 45
34 Czech Republic Veronika Vítková 31 12 43
35 China Wang Chunli 14 16 11 41
36 China 22 13 35
37 Belarus Nadezhda Skardino 18 15 33
38 Norway Solveig Rogstad 30 30
39 China Kong Yingchao 24 24
40 Ukraine Lilia Vaygina-Efremova 21 21
41 Bulgaria Pavlina Filipova 19 19
42 Russia 18 18
43 Italy Katja Haller 17 17
44 Belarus Olga Nazarova 15 15
45 Lithuania Diana Rasimovičiūtė 13 13
46 Kazakhstan Elena Khrustaleva 12 12

References[]

  1. ^ "2007/08 Final standings". Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
  2. ^ Standings Mass start Women[permanent dead link]
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