2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Women

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The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Women is a biathlon competition for women. It started on Sunday December 7, 2008 in Östersund and is scheduled to finish on Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist is Sandrine Bailly of France.

Competition format[]

This is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.[1] The contestants ski a distance of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490 ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.

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.

Points are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.

2007-08 Top 3 Standings[]

Medal Athlete Points[2]
Gold: France Sandrine Bailly 300
Silver: Germany Andrea Henkel 289
Bronze: Germany Kati Wilhelm 253

Medal winners[]

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund Martina Beck
 Germany
32:42.4
(0+0+0+0)
Svetlana Sleptsova
 Russia
33:11.6
(0+1+1+1)
Kati Wilhelm
 Germany
33:14.4
(0+1+2+0)
Hochfilzen Martina Beck
 Germany
33:41.28
(0+0+1+0)
Svetlana Sleptsova
 Russia
33:59.56
(1+0+1+2)
Simone Hauswald
 Germany
34:00.40
(0+1+2+2)
Ruhpolding Magdalena Neuner
 Germany
32:56.5
(1+1+1+1)
Kati Wilhelm
 Germany
33:18.2
(1+0+0+2)
Tora Berger
 Norway
33:25.5
(1+0+0+1)
Antholz Anna Boulygina
 Russia
32:49.8
(0+1+0+1)
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
 Finland
32:52.1
(0+0+0+1)
Darya Domracheva
 Belarus
32:52.1
(1+0+1+0)
World Championships Helena Jonsson
 Sweden
34:12.3
(2+0+0+0)
Kati Wilhelm
 Germany
34:30.6
(1+1+3+1)
Olga Zaitseva
 Russia
34:36.4
(0+3+1+2)
Trondheim Andrea Henkel
 Germany
30:08.8
(0+0+0+0)
Olga Zaitseva
 Russia
30:21.7
(0+0+0+1)
Marie-Laure Brunet
 France
30:37.1
(0+0+0+1)
Khanty-Mansiysk Magdalena Neuner
 Germany
27:53.0
(1+0+0+1)
Michela Ponza
 Italy
28:21.8
(0+0+0+0)
Marie Dorin
 France
28:23.5
(0+0+1+0)

Final standings[]

# Name ÖST HOC RUH ANT WCH TRO KHA Total[3]
1 Germany Kati Wilhelm 48 36 54 40 54 40 22 272
2 Norway Tora Berger 40 43 48 28 32 43 40 246
3 Germany Martina Beck 60 60 20 32 38 25 29 244
4 Germany Andrea Henkel 43 32 29 38 60 32 234
5 Germany Magdalena Neuner 24 14 60 34 30 23 60 231
6 Sweden Helena Jonsson 34 40 36 21 60 31 25 226
7 Russia Olga Zaitseva 18 28 34 19 48 54 36 219
8 Belarus Darya Domracheva 36 0 32 48 40 38 20 214
9 Sweden Anna Carin Olofsson 23 30 38 43 26 2 38 198
10 Finland Kaisa Mäkäräinen 7 0 27 54 43 29 18 178
11 Russia Svetlana Sleptsova 54 54 43 13 164
12 France Marie-Laure Brunet 20 10 16 36 48 30 160
13 China Liu Xianying 29 38 40 36 12 155
14 Romania Éva Tófalvi 38 9 30 20 20 32 13 153
15 Italy Michela Ponza 14 13 12 17 28 18 54 144
16 Germany Simone Hauswald 48 15 29 20 28 140
17 France Marie Dorin 11 11 24 2 23 19 48 136
18 Ukraine Vita Semerenko 30 0 7 22 30 43 132
19 Russia Anna Boulygina 0 1 60 21 13 31 126
20 Norway 6 27 18 0 36 34 121
21 Moldova Natalia Levchenkova 19 29 8 25 34 0 115
22 Russia Olga Medvedtseva 27 31 28 27 113
23 Poland Magdalena Gwizdon 26 34 5 0 27 19 111
24 France Sylvie Becaert 16 9 31 4 28 17 105
25 China Wang Chunli 32 8 31 6 0 26 103
26 Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko 28 26 24 19 97
27 Norway Solveig Rogstad 31 18 18 1 23 91
28 Slovenia Teja Gregorin 23 11 22 17 2 75
29 Germany Kathrin Hitzer 0 22 22 30 74
30 Estonia Eveli Saue 0 4 0 26 9 12 15 66
31 Russia 17 21 22 6 66
32 Germany 27 21 14 62
33 Ukraine Valj Semerenko 25 26 3 7 61
34 Canada Zina Kocher 0 19 14 17 0 8 58
35 Belarus Olga Kudrashova 1 5 21 29 0 56
36 Russia Iana Romanova 23 15 16 54
37 Czech Republic Veronika Vítková 31 11 11 53
38 Belarus Olga Nazarova 3 25 15 7 0 50
39 France Sandrine Bailly 0 4 1 24 21 50
40 Slovakia Anastasiya Kuzmina 16 1 24 9 0 50
41 Norway Ann Kristin Flatland 12 20 11 0 43
42 Poland Krystyna Pałka 0 8 0 34 42
43 China Song Chaoqing 0 6 23 13 0 42
44 Italy Katja Haller 5 12 0 16 9 42
45 Germany Tina Bachmann 14 27 41
46 Poland 0 13 0 25 1 39
47 Norway 0 19 5 10 34
48 China Kong Yingchao 15 15 30
49 China 22 7 0 0 29
50 France 13 16 0 29
51 Czech Republic Magda Rezlerova 3 14 0 7 5 29
52 Ukraine 9 10 0 10 29
53 Belarus Nadezhda Skardino 0 0 0 4 24 28
54 Russia 26 26
55 Russia Natalia Sokolova 25 25
56 Bulgaria Pavlina Filipova 2 0 9 14 25
57 Kazakhstan Elena Khrustaleva 24 0 24
58 Russia Olga Anisimova 0 18 5 23
59 Latvia Madara Liduma 21 0 0 0 21
60 Estonia Kadri Lehtla 4 0 16 20
61 Slovenia Andreja Mali 8 0 0 0 8 4 20
62 Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik 6 12 0 0 18
63 China Liu Yuan-Yuan 0 17 0 17
64 Germany Sabrina Buchholz 17 17
65 Sweden Sofia Domeij 2 15 0 0 0 17
66 Romania Dana Plotogea 0 0 0 10 6 0 16
67 Poland Agnieszka Grzybek 3 3 8 0 14
68 Norway Synnøve Solemdal 12 12
69 Czech Republic Zdenka Vejnarova 0 0 0 11 11
70 Ukraine Lilia Vaygina-Efremova 10 0 10
71 Lithuania Diana Rasimovičiūtė 0 0 0 10 10
72 Norway Liv Kjersti Eikeland 0 0 7 0 7
73 Sweden Anna Maria Nilsson 0 0 4 0 0 3 7
74 France 0 0 6 6
75 Czech Republic Veronika Zvaricova 5 5
76 Poland 0 3 3
77 Kazakhstan Anna Lebedeva 0 2 0 2
78 United States Lanny Barnes 2 2
79 Romania Mihaela Purdea 0 1 0 0 0 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 2008-12-26.
  3. ^ Standings Pursuit women[permanent dead link]
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