2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

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The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Men started at Sunday December 7, 2008 in Östersund and will finish Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

Competition format[]

In a pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race,[1] most commonly a sprint. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. The distance is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi), skied over five laps; there are four shooting bouts (two prone, two standing, in that order), and each miss means a penalty loop of 150 m. To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.

2007-08 Top 3 Standings[]

Medal Athlete Points[2]
Gold: Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 247
Silver: Russia Dmitri Yaroshenko 233
Bronze: Sweden Björn Ferry 221

Medal winners[]

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund Tomasz Sikora
 Poland
34:55.5
(0+2+0+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
34:58.0
(1+2+0+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
35:00.4
(0+1+2+0)
Hochfilzen Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
35:46.3
(1+0+1+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
35:55.7
(0+0+2+0)
Tomasz Sikora
 Poland
35:58.35
(1+0+0+2)
Ruhpolding Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
36:17.4
(0+1+0+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
36:51.8
(1+0+0+0)
Dominik Landertinger
 Austria
37:03.9
(1+1+0+0)
Antholz Björn Ferry
 Sweden
33:19.4
(0+0+1+0)
Simon Eder
 Austria
33:37.0
(0+0+0+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
33:44.1
(1+0+1+1)
World Championships Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
31:46.70
(0+2+0+2)
Maxim Tchoudov
 Russia
32:28.40
(0+0+1+2)
Alexander Os
 Norway
32:39.50
(0+0+2+1)
Trondheim Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
33:36.3
(1+0+1+0)
Simon Eder
 Austria
34:01.4
(0+0+1+0)
Tomasz Sikora
 Poland
34:01.6
(0+1+1+0)
Khanty-Mansiysk Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
33:03.3
(0+0+1+1)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
33:03.4
(1+0+0+1)
Christoph Sumann
 Austria
33:27.1
(0+0+2+0)

Final standings[]

# Name ÖST HOC RUH ANT WCH TRO KHA Total[3]
1. Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 54 54 60 60 60 54 342
2 Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 60 54 48 38 60 308
3 Poland Tomasz Sikora 60 48 34 43 43 48 32 276
4 Germany Michael Greis 43 36 27 38 28 43 43 231
5 Sweden Björn Ferry 31 40 7 60 10 34 40 215
6 Austria Simon Eder 23 54 27 54 28 186
7 Russia Maxim Tchoudov 29 27 21 26 54 17 29 186
8 Russia Ivan Tcherezov 23 2 40 34 15 29 19 160
9 Austria Christoph Sumann 9 32 32 32 6 48 159
10 Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr 0 30 27 22 40 38 157
11 Norway Halvard Hanevold 38 20 24 38 36 0 156
12 Austria Dominik Landertinger 19 48 25 7 31 14 144
13 Norway Alexander Os 27 18 11 48 32 7 143
14 France Simon Fourcade 40 0 29 22 31 21 143
15 Germany Michael Rösch 13 38 31 32 27 0 141
16 Sweden Carl Johan Bergman 22 29 43 23 19 3 138
17 Germany Alexander Wolf 34 30 6 20 23 8 13 128
18 Austria Daniel Mesotitsch 25 8 13 28 17 12 27 122
19 France Martin Fourcade 26 16 34 20 22 118
20 Canada Jean Philippe Leguellec 24 34 18 36 0 0 5 117
21 United States Tim Burke –5 30 20 28 34 112
22 Russia Evgeny Ustyugov 19 19 21 15 36 110
23 Norway Lars Berger 3 36 40 21 100
24 Italy Christian De Lorenzi 5 38 24 0 29 96
25 Italy Markus Windisch 26 22 25 18 91
26 Russia Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 32 43 9 83
27 Germany Andreas Birnbacher 7 20 25 30 82
28 Czech Republic Jaroslav Soukup 18 2 17 0 30 10 77
29 Czech Republic Zdeněk Vítek 14 14 17 13 18 0 76
30 Austria Friedrich Pinter 4 31 2 23 15 75
31 Sweden Mattias Nilsson 0 19 0 0 14 24 17 74
32 Ukraine Andriy Deryzemlya 12 24 36 72
33 Germany Christoph Stephan 36 21 0 15 0 0 72
34 France Vincent Jay 0 31 13 2 26 72
35 Belarus Rustam Valiullin 28 16 0 18 62
36 Slovakia Pavol Hurajt 11 5 0 22 24 62
37 Ukraine Serguei Sednev 8 1 40 8 57
38 Ukraine Vyacheslav Derkach 16 14 0 5 20 55
39 Russia Maxim Maksimov 0 28 22 0 2 52
40 Switzerland Simon Hallenbarter 17 0 0 12 0 23 52
41 Russia Andrei Makoveev 0 6 1 0 24 14 6 51
42 France Vincent Defrasne 17 28 1 1 47
43 Austria Tobias Eberhard 10 9 21 4 0 44
44 Germany Arnd Peiffer 8 9 0 26 43
45 Sweden Magnús Jónsson 0 16 0 26 42
46 Norway Ronny Hafsas 22 0 15 0 4 41
47 United States Jay Hakkinen 30 0 10 40
48 Italy Rene Laurent Vuillermoz 10 0 29 0 39
49 Slovenia Janez Maric 0 14 6 16 0 36
50 Switzerland Ivan Joller 23 0 11 0 34
51 Belarus Sergey Novikov 20 5 0 0 9 0 34
52 Switzerland Matthias Simmen 0 25 7 0 32
53 Czech Republic Tomáš Holubec 2 15 4 11 32
54 Germany Simon Schempp 31 31
55 Slovenia Klemen Bauer 0 30 0 0 30
56 United States Lowell Bailey 19 10 29
57 Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko 0 18 9 27
58 China Zhang Chengye 13 0 4 10 27
59 Norway Stian Eckhoff 26 26
60 Finland Paavo Puurunen 0 25 0 25
61 Russia 25 25
62 Croatia Jakov Fak 0 16 3 0 19
63 Estonia Roland Lessing 0 0 5 13 18
64 Germany Toni Lang 7 11 0 18
65 Norway Frode Andresen 6 11 17
66 Norway Rune Brattsveen 16 16
67 Czech Republic Roman Dostál 15 0 15
68 Canada Robin Clegg 0 3 12 0 0 15
69 Russia Anton Shipulin 12 12
69 Ukraine 12 12
69 Norway Hans Martin Gjedrem 12 12
72 Russia 11 11
73 Japan Hidenori Isa 4 0 6 10
74 Sweden Jörgen Brink 0 9 9
75 Italy 9 9
76 Ukraine Roman Pryma 0 0 0 8 8
77 France Alexis Bœuf 7 0 7
78 Belarus Alexandr Syman 0 5 0 5
79 China Zhang Qing 4 4
80 France 0 3 3
81 Latvia Ilmārs Bricis 0 3 3
81 Slovakia Dušan Šimočko 3 3
83 Sweden David Ekholm 0 0 0 0 2 2
84 Italy Mattia Cola 0 1 1
85 United States Jeremy Teela 1 0 0 1
86 Germany 1 1

References[]

  1. ^ To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race– the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line.
  2. ^ "2007/08 Final standings". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
  3. ^ Standings Pursuit men
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