2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

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.

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

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

Medal winners

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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

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

References

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  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