2007–08 Biathlon World Cup
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The 2007−08 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) is a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 28 November 2007.
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 the subpage /Progression 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.
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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 Template:Yel bib number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red Template:Red bib bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red Template:Yel n red bib 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.
WC results with intermediate Top 10 WC standings
World Cup 1;
Kontiolahti, Finland;
29 Nov–2 Dec
Race results
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| 29 November | Women 15 km IN IBU Report |
1.  Martina Glagow (GER) 46:28.8 (0)
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2.  Tatiana Moiseyeva (RUS) +6.7 (0)
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| 3. Simone Denkinger (GER) +1:02.7 (2)
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| With all shootings finished, Moiseyeva held a 12-second lead on Glagow, and looked on course for her first BWC win after race leader Magda Rezlerová missed two shots on her standing shoot for a 12th place. However, Glagow rallied in the final loop and was ahead in goal. Last season's Total and Individual World Cup winner Andrea Henkel missed three shots and finished 18th. | |||
| Men 20 km IN IBU report |
1.  Vincent Defrasne (FRA) 51:25.2 (0)
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2.  Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +23.6 (1)
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| 3. Maxim Choudov (RUS) +30.2 (1)
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| Defrasne was one of only two biathletes to hit 20 targets, the other being the Russian Churin, who recorded 6th place in his third BWC start. Total World Cup holder Ole Einar Bjørndalen missed six times and finished 29th despite the fastest ski time. The race was held in near-darkness with a floodlit shooting range. | |||
| 30 November | Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report |
1. Martina Glagow (GER) Template:Yel bib 21:24.1 (0)
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| 2. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +0.3 (1)
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| 3. Tora Berger (NOR) +0.6 (0)
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| Glagow took the second consecutive victory in a very close race, where Berger was 0.6 seconds away from the first victory of her career. Wilhelm caught 12 seconds in the final loop to snatch second place, while Henkel, who led after the standing shoot, finished fourth some three seconds off the pace. | |||
| 1 December | Men 10 km SP IBU report |
1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 23:13.4 (0)
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| 2. Dmitry Yaroshenko (RUS) +12.7 (1)
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| 3. Carsten Pump (GER) +23.3 (0)
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| Bjørndalen's first victory of the season, though Yaroshenko was 18 seconds faster over the first lap and ended with a better course time than Bjørndalen. Pump took his first podium place of his career. | |||
| 2 December | Women 7.5 km PU IBU Report |
1. Tora Berger (NOR) 31:59.7 (1)
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| 2. Andrea Henkel (GER) +18.8 (2)
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| 3. Martina Glagow (GER) Template:Yel bib +42.5 (1)
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| Berger took her first World Cup victory, with flawless shooting through the first three shoots before missing one shot on the final standing shoot. Wilhelm was second into the standing shoot, but struggled with the rifle and finished sixth after two penalty loops. Glagow remained in the overall lead, while world champion Neuner finished 17th after seven penalty loops. | |||
| Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report |
1. Ivan Cherezov (RUS) 32:51.9 (0)
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| 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +27.7 (4)
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| 3. Dmitry Yaroshenko (RUS) Template:Red bib +1:00.5 (3)
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| Cherezov advanced from sixth place with flawless shooting and the fourth fastest ski time. Bjørndalen squandered his advantage from the sprint with one missed shot on each of the prone shoots. Bjørndalen, Cherezov and Yaroshenko were head to head at the final shooting, but only Cherezov kept his nerve. | |||
Total WC standings at the end of WC 1
Individual biathletes: Standings from the previous WC season shown in brackets.
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World Cup 2;
Hochfilzen, Austria;
7–9 Dec
Race results
| Date | Event | Podium | Top 10 |
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| 7 December | Men 10 km SP IBU Report |
1. Dmitry Yaroshenko (RUS) 23:57.8 (1)
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| 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) Template:Red bib +37.7 (2)
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| 3. Andrey Makoveyev (RUS) +51.0 (2)
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| Yaroshenko's first World Cup victory, in dominant style, with the fastest course time, 23 seconds faster than Bjørndalen in second to have the two tied at the top of the Sprint Cup standings. Bjørndalen took over the overall lead, five points ahead of Cherezov and Yaroshenko. 3rd-placed Makoveyev lost time on both shootings, but was also a faster skier than Bjørndalen. | |||
| Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report |
1. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 21:53.0 (0)
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| 2. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS) +18.8 (0)
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| 3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +33.9 (0)
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| After the prone shoot, Neuner was first, Henkel third and Martina Glagow sixth, but with four, three and two misses respectively, none of them managed the podium. Bailly took full advantage, and though she was beaten by 34 seconds she took her first victory since January 2007. Youriyeva repeated her career-best performance with second, while Wilhelm took over the Sprint Cup lead. | |||
| 8 December | Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report |
1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) Template:Yel bib 34:57.31 (5)
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| 2. Dmitry Yaroshenko (RUS) +28.7 (5)
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| 3. Daniel Graf (GER) +1:01.6 (0)
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| Bjørndalen caught Yaroshenko after a Russian miss on the first shoot, then Bjørndalen missed once on the second, and after one miss each on the third they came in together on the final standing shoot. Both missed three times out of five, but Bjørndalen shot faster, and gained 21 seconds on the final 2.5 km lap. Graf advanced 11 places and took his first career podium, which also was the first for the German men this year. | |||
| Women 10 km PU IBU Report |
1. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 31:37.79 (1)
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| 2. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS) +31.4 (4)
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| 3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +32.6 (1)
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| The top three defended their spots from the sprint, with Wilhelm losing 36 seconds to Youriyeva in the final two laps to surrender second place despite Youriyeva's three penalty loops on the second standing shoot. Bailly was intangible, hitting the first 19 targets before a miss on the final standing shoot to take over the lead both in the Pursuit Cup and the Total Cup. | |||
| 9 December | Men 4×7.5 km RL IBU report |
1. Norway (Svendsen, Os, Hanevold, Bjørndalen) 1:18:31.26 (0+6)
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| 2. Russia (Cherezov, Choudov, Kruglov, Yaroshenko) +2:25.5 (2+10)
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| 3. Germany (Rösch, Graf, Pump, Greis) +2:56.6 (0+9)
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| Norway took a dominant victory, winning by more than two minutes after Kruglov and Yaroshenko both shot penalty loops on the standing shoots, while Hanevold and Bjørndalen hit 10 targets each. The margin of victory was the largest in the World Cup for over ten years. | |||
| Women 4×6 km RL IBU Report |
1. Germany (Glagow, Henkel, Denkinger, Wilhelm) 1:23:35.00 (0+10)
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4. France (0+9), 5.  China (0+8), 6. Norway (1+10), 7. Ukraine (0+4), 8.  Slovenia (0+11), 9. Belarus (0+10), 10. Italy (0+7)
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| 2. Russia (Sleptsova, Anisimova, Moiseyeva, Youriyeva) +19.3 (0+10)
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| 3. Sweden (Högberg, Olofsson, Nilsson, Jonsson) +20.3 (0+5)
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| WCh gold medallists and Nations Cup leaders Germany led for 24 km, despite Henkel's three misses on the standing shoot. France were briefly in second place on the third leg with a swift race and a faultless prone shoot, but Bailly missed three times on the standing shoot and could not catch Russia. Sweden advanced from tenth after the first leg, 80 seconds down, up to a podium place after the final standing shoot. | |||
Total WC standings at the end of WC 2
Individual biathletes:
Standings from the previous WC meet shown in brackets.
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Relay:
Standings from the previous WC season shown in brackets.
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World Cup 3;
Pokljuka, Slovenia;
13–16 Dec
Four Norwegian women, including World Cup No. 6 Tora Berger, skipped the meet;[1] the Swedish biathletes struggled with a cold, with World Cup No. 4 Björn Ferry missing both the individual and the sprint.[2]
Race results
| Date | Event | Podium | Top 10 |
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| 13 December | Men 20 km IN IBU Report |
1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 51:58.1 (0)
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| 2. Alexander Wolf (GER) +46.6 (1)
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| 3. Sergey Sednev (UKR) +1:55.9 (1)
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| 22-year-old Svendsen took his first WC victory after being one of three to complete the race without penalties. Svendsen started early, and by the time he finished, the seeded group were still at the second or third shoots. 23-year-old Sednev scored his first WC podium, beating fellow Ukrainian Berezhnoy, who would also have been a first-time podium visitor, by 0.3 seconds. Ukraine, like Germany, had three men in the Top 10. | |||
| Women 15 km IN IBU Report |
1. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS) 43:47.3 (0)
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| 2. Michela Ponza (ITA) +55.1 (0)
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| 3. Martina Glagow (GER) Template:Yel n red bib +1:18.2 (1)
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| 24-year-old Youriyeva became the second biathlete of the day to notch up a career first WC victory. It did not look that way throughout, as she trailed Magdalena Neuner by 50 seconds after two loops, with the German having completed three shoots without mistake. However, Neuner encountered fierce winds on the final standing shoot, missing four times and crashing to seventh. | |||
| 15 December | Men 10 km SP IBU Report |
1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) Template:Yel n red bib 23:44.4 (1)
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| 2. Dmitry Yaroshenko (RUS) Template:Red bib +4.9 (1)
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| 3. Mattias Nilsson Jr. (SWE) +11.8 (0)
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| Simon Fourcade led after the standing shoot, having hit 10 targets, ahead of Nilsson, Yaroshenko, Aidarov and Bjørndalen. However, Bjørndalen rallied with the fastest final lap, beating Yaroshenko by 13 seconds to snatch victory and have the Sprint Cup lead for himself. Nilsson managed to beat Fourcade in the final lap, taking his first podium for two seasons. | |||
| Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report |
1. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 21:32.6 (1)
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2.  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN) +9.2 (1)
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| 3. Magdalena Neuner (GER) +20.7 (3)
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| Bailly scored her third victory of the season, and Mäkäräinen entered the WC podium for the first time in her career. They both missed one target, while the race's fastest skier, Neuner, despite missing three shots, managed to get the third podium place. She was the only one of the Top 10 that had three misses; no Top 10'ers shot perfectly. Bailly took over the Sprint Cup lead from Kati Wilhelm, who came in 18th with three penalties. Glagow kept her yellow bib. | |||
| 16 December | Men 4×7.5 km RL IBU Report |
1. Russia (Makoveev, Tchoudov, Yaroshenko, Kruglov) 1:16:58.10 (0+3)
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| 2. Germany (Rösch, Wolf, Birnbacher, Greis) +2:35.0 (1+11)
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| 3. Austria (Mesotitsch, Pinter, Landertinger, Eder) +3:11.4 (0+16)
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| Women 4×6 km RL IBU Report |
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Total WC standings at the end of WC 3
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World Cup 4;
Oberhof, Germany;
3–6 Jan
World Cup 5;
Ruhpolding, Germany;
9–13 Jan
World Cup 6;
Antholz-Anterselva, Italy;
17–20 Jan
World Championships 2008;
Östersund, Sweden;
9–17 Feb
World Cup 7;
Pyeong Chang, South Korea;
28 Feb–2 Mar
World Cup 8;
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia;
6–9 Mar
World Cup 9;
Holmenkollen, Norway;
13–16 Mar
References and notes
- ^ Template:No icon Tilbake i verdenscupen, Ole Martin Rudstaden, Ringerikes Blad, retrieved 15 December 2007
- ^ Template:Sv icon Sjuk Ferry missar världscuplopp, TT, retrieved from SVT 15 December 2007