2007–08 Biathlon World Cup

The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 28 November 2007 and ended 16 March 2008.

2007–08 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Neuner
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Vincent Defrasne	Martina Glagow
Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Neuner
Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sandrine Bailly
Mass start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Neuner
Relay	Norway	Norway
Competition

This article contains the top ten result listings and concise summary comments for each of the season's twenty-seven individual races and five relays for both genders, arranged by World Cup meet 1 through 9 (denoted WC 1–9), accompanied by the top ten Total Cup rankings after each of the meets plus the 2008 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores).

• For detailed tables of the development of accumulated scores and related rankings in the Total, Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass start, Relay, and Nation Cups, see 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup statistics.
• For a list of the Total and Relay World Cup winners and runners-up of all World Cup seasons since 1977–78, see the Biathlon World Cup article.

Scores and leader bibs

• For the eighth successive season, the race victory gives 50 points, a 2nd place gives 46 pts, a 3rd place 43 pts, a 4th place 40 pts, a fifth place 37 pts, a 6th place 34 pts, then further decreasing by two pts down to the 15th place (16 pts), then linearly decreasing by one point down to the 30th place (see the Place/Points table on the page's upper right). Equal placings, i.e. same-time finishes (ties) give an equal number of points.
• The sum of all WC points of the season, minus the score from a predetermined number of events (say, 3) give the biathlete's accumulated WC score (naturally, the races chosen to be eliminated from the total will be those with the lowest scores). Biathletes with an equal number of accumulated points are ranked by number of victories, 2nd places, 3rd places, and so on, in practice reducing the possibility of ties to just about nil.
• In addition to the Total WC score as described above, the points from races in each separate single-biathlete format—Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass start—accumulate toward separate scores with associated "sub-Cups" to be won. See the main Biathlon article for a detailed description of the race formats.
• In any given race, the biathlete with the highest accumulated Total WC score before the race wears a yellow    number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red    bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red    bib is worn. In the first races of the season, the winners of the previous season's Cups wear the associated bibs.
• There are also two multi-biathlete Cups to be won, namely the Relay and Nation Cups. The scores of the Relay races are awarded to each nation's team in the same manner as in the single-biathlete Cups. No leader bibs are worn during the Relays. For the Nation Cup, the combined scores of the three best biathletes from each nation in the Individual and Sprint races, as well as the Relay scores, are accumulated. The Nation Cup points scale is different from the World Cup points scale; each place from 1st through 30th scores 100 more points than in the World Cup, and from 31st down to 130th points are awarded on a scale from 100 to 1.

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2007–08 season.[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
Kontiolahti	29 November–2 December	●	●	●			details
Hochfilzen	6–9 December		●	●		●	details
Pokljuka	12–16 December	●	●			●	details
Oberhof	2–6 January		●		●	●	details
Ruhpolding	8–13 January		●	●		●	details
Antholz	16–20 January		●	●	●		details
Östersund	8–17 February	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Pyeongchang	28 February–2 March		●	●			details
Khanty-Mansiysk	5–9 March		●	●	●		details
Holmenkollen	12–16 March		●	●	●		details
Total		3	10	8	5	5

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	24	11	21	56
2	Norway	20	15	10	45
3	Russia	11	23	17	51
4	France	5	4	3	12
5	Poland	2	1	0	3
6	Sweden	1	3	2	6
7	Czech Republic	1	0	1	2
8	Italy	0	3	2	5
9	Austria	0	1	3	4
	Ukraine	0	1	3	4
11	Finland	0	1	1	2
12	Belarus	0	1	0	1
13	China	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		64	64	64	192

World Cup Podium

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	29 November 2007	Kontiolahti	20 km Individual	Vincent Defrasne	Halvard Hanevold	Maxim Tchoudov	Vincent Defrasne	Detail
1	1 December 2007	Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Carsten Pump		Detail
1	2 December 2007	Kontiolahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Ivan Tcherezov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Ivan Tcherezov	Detail
2	7 December 2007	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Andrei Makoveev	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
2	8 December 2007	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Daniel Graf		Detail
3	13 December 2007	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Alexander Wolf	Serguei Sednev		Detail
3	15 December 2007	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Mattias Nilsson		Detail
4	5 January 2008	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Tomasz Sikora	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
4	6 January 2008	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Nikolay Kruglov	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
5	12 January 2008	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Michael Greis	Maxim Tchoudov	Alexander Wolf		Detail
5	13 January 2008	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Michael Greis	Maxim Tchoudov	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
6	18 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Michael Greis	Nikolay Kruglov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
6	19 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Björn Ferry	Nikolay Kruglov	Michael Greis		Detail
6	20 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Björn Ferry	Michael Greis		Detail
WC	9 February 2008	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Maxim Tchoudov	Halvard Hanevold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
WC	10 February 2008	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Maxim Tchoudov	Alexander Wolf		Detail
WC	14 February 2008	Östersund	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Maxim Maksimov		Detail
WC	17 February 2008	Östersund	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Maxim Tchoudov		Detail
7	27 February 2008	Pyeongchang	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Halvard Hanevold	Friedrich Pinter		Detail
7	29 February 2008	Pyeongchang	12.5 km Pursuit	Michael Greis	Halvard Hanevold	Alexander Os		Detail
8	6 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Andrei Makoveev		Detail
8	8 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tomasz Sikora	Andrei Makoveev		Detail
8	9 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Tomasz Sikora	Daniel Graf	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
9	13 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Michael Rösch	Friedrich Pinter		Detail
9	15 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ivan Tcherezov	Friedrich Pinter	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
9	16 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Michal Šlesingr	Nikolay Kruglov	Halvard Hanevold		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	29 November 2007	Kontiolahti	15 km Individual	Martina Glagow	Tatiana Moiseeva	Simone Denkinger	Martina Glagow	Detail
1	30 December 2007	Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	Martina Glagow	Kati Wilhelm	Tora Berger		Detail
1	2 December 2007	Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel	Martina Glagow		Detail
2	7 December 2007	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Sandrine Bailly	Ekaterina Iourieva	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
2	8 December 2007	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Sandrine Bailly	Ekaterina Iourieva	Kati Wilhelm	Sandrine Bailly	Detail
3	13 December 2007	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Ekaterina Iourieva	Michela Ponza	Martina Glagow	Martina Glagow	Detail
3	15 December 2007	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Sandrine Bailly	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
4	5 January 2008	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Svetlana Sleptsova	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
4	6 January 2008	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Olga Anisimova	Tatiana Moiseeva		Detail
5	11 January 2008	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Varis	Svetlana Sleptsova	Helena Jonsson		Detail
5	13 January 2008	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Solveig Rogstad	Kati Wilhelm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Kati Wilhelm	Detail
6	17 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Kati Wilhelm	Andrea Henkel	Svetlana Sleptsova		Detail
6	19 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Svetlana Sleptsova	Tora Berger		Detail
6	20 January 2008	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Andrea Henkel	Anna Carin Olofsson	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
WC	9 February 2008	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Andrea Henkel	Albina Akhatova	Oksana Khvostenko	Andrea Henkel	Detail
WC	10 February 2008	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Ekaterina Iourieva	Albina Akhatova		Detail
WC	14 February 2008	Östersund	15 km Individual	Ekaterina Iourieva	Martina Glagow	Oksana Khvostenko		Detail
WC	16 February 2008	Östersund	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Tora Berger	Ekaterina Iourieva		Detail
7	28 February 2008	Pyeongchang	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Sandrine Bailly	Michela Ponza		Detail
7	1 March 2008	Pyeongchang	10 km Pursuit	Sandrine Bailly	Michela Ponza	Albina Akhatova	Sandrine Bailly	Detail
8	6 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Sandrine Bailly	Albina Akhatova		Detail
8	8 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Kathrin Hitzer	Sandrine Bailly	Andrea Henkel		Detail
8	9 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Kathrin Hitzer	Magdalena Neuner	Svetlana Sleptsova		Detail
9	13 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Svetlana Sleptsova	Tora Berger	Kati Wilhelm	Magdalena Neuner	Detail
9	15 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Svetlana Sleptsova	Kati Wilhelm	Liu Xianying		Detail
9	16 March 2008	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Kati Wilhelm	Solveig Rogstad	Michela Ponza		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	9 December 2007	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko	Germany Michael Rösch Daniel Graf Carsten Pump Michael Greis
3	16 December 2007	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Andrei Makoveev Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder
4	4 January 2008	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis
5	10 January 2008	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis
WC	16 February 2008	Östersund	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	9 December 2007	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Tatiana Moiseeva Ekaterina Iourieva	Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Olofsson Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson
3	16 December 2007	Pokljuka	4x6 km Relay	Germany Martina Glagow Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Natalia Guseva Ekaterina Iourieva	France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly
4	3 January 2008	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	Germany Simone Denkinger Andrea Henkel Kathrin Hitzer Kati Wilhelm	France Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Pauline Macabies Sandrine Bailly	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Tatiana Moiseeva Natalia Guseva
5	9 January 2008	Ruhpolding	4x6 km Relay	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Kati Wilhelm	Norway Tora Berger Anne Ingstadbjorg Solveig Rogstad Ann Kristin Flatland	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Ekaterina Iourieva Natalia Guseva
WC	17 February 2008	Östersund	4x6 km Relay	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	Ukraine Oksana Yakovlieva Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko	France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly

Mixed

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
WC	12 February 2008	Östersund	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko
7	2 March 2008	Pyeongchang	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Norway Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Hans Martin Gjedrem Alexander Os	Italy Michela Ponza Katja Haller René-Laurent Vuillermoz Christian De Lorenzi	France Julie Carraz-Collin Pauline Macabies Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	869
2.	Dmitry Yaroshenko	696
3.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	687
4.	Michael Greis	596
5.	Ivan Tcherezov	573

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points    Vincent Defrasne 104 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 100 3. Halvard Hanevold 82 4. Maxim Tchoudov 80 5. Friedrich Pinter 69 Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points    Ole Einar Bjørndalen 383 2. Dmitry Yaroshenko 291 3. Emil Hegle Svendsen 253 4. Michael Greis 233 5. Björn Ferry 222 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points    Ole Einar Bjørndalen 247 2. Dmitry Yaroshenko 233 3. Björn Ferry 221 4. Michael Greis 220 5. Ivan Tcherezov 220 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points    Ole Einar Bjørndalen 180 2. Nikolay Kruglov 143 3. Dmitry Yaroshenko 128 4. Michael Greis 125 5. Emil Hegle Svendsen 124 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points    Norway 196 2. Russia 192 3. Germany 175 4. Sweden 148 5. Austria 147 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Norway 5830 2.  Russia 5744 3.  Germany 5450 4.  Austria 4857 5.  Sweden 4750 Final standings after 18 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
	Magdalena Neuner	815
2.	Sandrine Bailly	804
3.	Andrea Henkel	764
4.	Kati Wilhelm	746
5.	Martina Glagow	675

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points    Martina Glagow 139 2. Tatiana Moiseeva 111 3. Ekaterina Iourieva 107 4. Helena Jonsson 98 5. Teja Gregorin 81 Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points    Magdalena Neuner 324 2. Sandrine Bailly 318 3. Kati Wilhelm 303 4. Andrea Henkel 297 5. Svetlana Sleptsova 293 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points    Sandrine Bailly 300 2. Andrea Henkel 289 3. Kati Wilhelm 253 4. Tora Berger 238 5. Magdalena Neuner 231 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points    Magdalena Neuner 186 2. Kati Wilhelm 138 3. Michela Ponza 135 4. Helena Jonsson 135 5. Ekaterina Iourieva 127 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points    Germany 250 2. Russia 178 3. France 172 4. Norway 154 5. Ukraine 152 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 5896 2.  Russia 5578 3.  France 5071 4.  Norway 5044 5.  Sweden 4865 Final standings after 18 races.

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Tora Berger (NOR), 26, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) 31, in his 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Östersund
•  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 22, in his 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Ruhpolding
•  Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS), 24, in her 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Lahti
•  Kaisa Varis (FIN), 32, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
•  Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; first podium was 2007–08 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof
•  Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 5 Pursuit in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
•  Björn Ferry (SWE), 29, in his 7th season — the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Torino - Cesana San Sicario
•  Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 8 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk ; first podium was 2006–07 Pursuit in Lahti
•  Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 25, in his 7th season — the WC 9 Mass Start in Holmenkollen ; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva

First World Cup podium

•  Carsten Pump (GER), 31, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti
•  Daniel Graf (GER), 26, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
•  Serguei Sednev (UKR), 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
•  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 24, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka
•  Olga Anisimova (RUS), 35, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof
•  Maxim Maksimov (RUS), 28, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the World Championships 2008 Individual in Östersund
•  Friedrich Pinter (AUT), 30, in his 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Pyeongchang

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 7 (81) first places  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 6 (6) first places  Michael Greis (GER), 4 (9) first places  Tomasz Sikora (POL), 2 (4) first places  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 2 (3) first places  Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 1 (3) first places  Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 1 (2) first places  Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Björn Ferry (SWE), 1 (1) first place  Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 1 (1) first place

Women  Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 4 (20) first places  Andrea Henkel (GER), 4 (14) first places  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 4 (11) first places  Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 3 (3) first places  Kati Wilhelm (GER), 2 (18) first places  Martina Glagow (GER), 2 (13) first places  Tora Berger (NOR), 2 (2) first places  Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS), 2 (2) first places  Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 2 (2) first places  Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Kaisa Varis (FIN), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 2007–08 season:

•  Ludwig Gredler (AUT)
•  Ferréol Cannard (FRA)
•  Julien Robert (FRA)
•  Raphael Poiree (FRA)
•  Alexei Aidarov (UKR)
•  Nathalie Santer (BEL)
•  Gunn Margit Andreassen (NOR)
•  Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)

References and notes

1. World Cup Schedule Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine