2007–08 Biathlon World Cup

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The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) 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.

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.

Place	Points
1st	50
2nd	46
3rd	43
4th	40
5th	37
6th	34
7th	32
8th	30
9th	28
10th	26
11th	24
12th	22
13th	20
14th	18
15th	16
16th	15
17th	14
18th	13
19th	12
20th	11
21st	10
22nd	9
23rd	8
24th	7
25th	6
26th	5
27th	4
28th	3
29th	2
30th	1

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	Mixed 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	2

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
9	Ukraine	0	1	3	4
11	Finland	0	1	1	2
12	Belarus	0	1	0	1
13	China	0	0	1	1
Total		64	64	64	192

WC results with intermediate Top 10 WC standings

World Cup 1; Kontiolahti, Finland; 29 Nov–2 Dec

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
29 November	Women 15 km IN IBU Report	1. Martina Glagow (GER) 46:28.8 (0)	4. Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE) 5. Helena Jonsson (SWE) 6. Teja Gregorin (SLO) 7. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 8. Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR) 9. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) 10. Zdeňka Vejnarová (CZE)
		2. Tatiana Moiseyeva (RUS) +6.7 (0)
		3. Simone Denkinger (GER) +1:02.7 (2)
		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)	4. Sergei Rozhkov (RUS) 5. Daniel Graf (GER) 6. Alexey Churin (RUS) 7. Friedrich Pinter (AUT) 8. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS) 9. Jay Hakkinen (USA) 10. Tomasz Sikora (POL)
		2. Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +23.6 (1)
		3. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) +30.2 (1)
		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) 21:24.1 (0)	4. Andrea Henkel (GER), 5. Kaisa Varis (FIN), 6. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 7. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 8. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 9. Simone Denkinger (GER), 10. Sandrine Bailly (FRA)
		2. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +0.3 (1)
		3. Tora Berger (NOR) +0.6 (0)
		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)	4. Alexander Os (NOR), 5. Björn Ferry (SWE), 6. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 7. Friedrich Pinter (AUT), 8. Zhang Chengye (CHN), 9. Rune Brattsveen (NOR), 10. Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT)
		2. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) +12.7 (1)
		3. Carsten Pump (GER) +23.3 (0)
		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)	4. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 5. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS), 6. Kati Wilhelm (GER), 7. Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 8. Simone Denkinger (GER), 9. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 10. Teja Gregorin (SLO)
		2. Andrea Henkel (GER) +18.8 (2)
		3. Martina Glagow (GER) +42.5 (1)
		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 Tcherezov (RUS) 32:51.9 (0)	4. Björn Ferry (SWE), 5. Rune Brattsveen (NOR), 6. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 7. Alexey Churin (RUS), 8. Zhang Chengye (CHN), 9. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS), 10. Friedrich Pinter (AUT)
		2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +27.7 (4)
		3. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) +1:00.5 (3)
		Tcherezov 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, Tcherezov and Yaroshenko were head to head at the final shooting, but only Tcherezov kept his nerve.

Total WC standings at the end of WC 1

Individual biathletes: Standings from the previous WC season shown in brackets.

Men
1. (4.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	102
2. (2.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	98
3.(19.)	Friedrich Pinter (AUT)	90
4. (5.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	89
5.(15.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	82
6.(38.)	Zhang Chengye (CHN)	80
7.(12.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	77
8.( 7.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	77
9.(73.)	Alexey Churin (RUS)	77
10.(18.)	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	74

Women
1. (7.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	143
2.(23.)	Simone Denkinger (GER)	101
3. (1.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	99
4. (8.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	98
5.(14.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	93
6. (2.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	90
7. (3.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	84
8.(12.)	Teja Gregorin (SLO)	78
9.(55.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	72
10.(17.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	71

World Cup 2; Hochfilzen, Austria; 7–9 Dec

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
7 December	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) 23:57.8 (1)	4. Carl Johan Bergman (SWE), 5. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 6. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 7. Tomasz Sikora (POL), 8. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 9. Michael Greis (GER), 10. Alexander Os (NOR)
		2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +37.7 (2)
		3. Andrey Makoveyev (RUS) +51.0 (2)
		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 Tcherezov 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)	4. Tora Berger (NOR), 5. Sabrina Buchholz (GER), 6. Andrea Henkel (GER), 7. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 8. Liu Xianying (CHN), 9. Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE), 10. Olga Anisimova (RUS)
		2. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS) +18.8 (0)
		3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +33.9 (0)
		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) 34:57.31 (5)	4. Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 5. Carl Johan Bergman (SWE), 6. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 7. Alexander Os (NOR), 8. Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 9. Björn Ferry (SWE), 10. Michael Greis (GER)
		2. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) +28.7 (5)
		3. Daniel Graf (GER) +1:01.6 (0)
		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)	4. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5. Martina Glagow (GER), 6. Anne Ingstadbjørg (NOR), 7. Helena Jonsson (SWE), 8. Teja Gregorin (SLO), 9. Sylvie Becaert (FRA), 10. Andrea Henkel (GER)
		2. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS) +31.4 (4)
		3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +32.6 (1)
		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)	4. France (1+11), 5. Switzerland (0+10), 6. Sweden (3+14), 7. Belarus (0+6), 8. Austria (1+18), 9. Italy (0+10), 10. Ukraine (2+13)
		2. Russia (Tcherezov, Tchoudov, Kruglov, Yaroshenko) +2:25.5 (2+10)
		3. Germany (Rösch, Graf, Pump, Greis) +2:56.6 (0+9)
		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)	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)
		2. Russia (Sleptsova, Anisimova, Moiseyeva, Youriyeva) +19.3 (0+10)
		3. Sweden (Högberg, Olofsson, Nilsson, Jonsson) +20.3 (0+5)
		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.

Men
1. (2.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	194
2. (4.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	185
3. (1.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	159
4. (8.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	129
5. (5.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	128
6. (7.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	116
7.(13.)	Alexander Os (NOR)	116
8.(10.)	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	113
9.(20.)	Daniel Graf (GER)	98
10.(9.)	Alexey Churin (RUS)	94

Women
1. (4.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	198
2. (1.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	195
3. (6.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	176
4. (3.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	159
5.(12.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	149
6. (5.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	139
7. (7.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	134
8. (8.)	Teja Gregorin (SLO)	123
9.(10.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	119
10.(2.)	Simone Denkinger (GER)	116

Relay:

Standings from the previous WC season shown in brackets.

Men
1. (2.)	Norway	50
2. (1.)	Russia	46
3. (3.)	Germany	43
4. (6.)	France	40
5.(11.)	Switzerland	37

Women
1. (2.)	Germany	50
2. (3.)	Russia	46
3. (8.)	Sweden	43
4. (1.)	France	40
5. (5.)	China	37

World Cup 3; Pokljuka, Slovenia; 13–16 Dec

Four Norwegian women, including World Cup No. 6 Tora Berger, skipped the meet;^[2] the Swedish biathletes struggled with a cold, with World Cup No. 4 Björn Ferry missing both the individual and the sprint.^[3]

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
13 December	Men 20 km IN IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 51:58.1 (0)	4. Berezhnoy (UKR), 5. Pinter (AUT), 6. Rösch (GER), 7. Defrasne (FRA), 8. Clegg (CAN), 9. Birnbacher (GER), 10. Bilanenko (UKR)
		2. Alexander Wolf (GER) +46.6 (1)
		3. Serguei Sednev (UKR) +1:55.9 (1)
		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. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS) 43:47.3 (0)	4. Olofsson (SWE), 5. Jonsson (SWE), 6. Nilsson (SWE), 7. Neuner (GER), 8. Peretto (FRA), 9. Moiseyeva (RUS), 10. Denkinger (GER)
		2. Michela Ponza (ITA) +55.1 (0)
		3. Martina Glagow (GER) +1:18.2 (1)
		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) 23:44.4 (1)	4. Fourcade (FRA), 5. Aidarov (UKR), 6. Kruglov (RUS), 7. Andresen (NOR), 8. Graf (GER), 9. Šlesingr (CZE), 10. Birnbacher (GER)
		2. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) +4.9 (1)
		3. Mattias Nilsson Jr. (SWE) +11.8 (0)
		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)	4. Jonsson (SWE), 5. Glagow (GER), 6. Nilsson (SWE), 7. Guseva (RUS), 8. Youriyeva (RUS), 9. Hitzer (GER), 10. Sleptsova (RUS)
		2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN) +9.2 (1)
		3. Magdalena Neuner (GER) +20.7 (3)
		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 Datacenter	1. Russia (Makoveev, Tchoudov, Yaroshenko, Kruglov) 1:16:58.10 (0+3)	4. Norway (2+19), 5. Italy (3+11), 6. Ukraine (2+11), 7. France (1+12), 8. Czech Republic (3+12), 9. Latvia (1+7), 10. Belarus (2+9)
		2. Germany (Rösch, Wolf, Birnbacher, Greis) +2:35.0 (1+11)
		3. Austria (Mesotitsch, Pinter, Landertinger, Eder) +3:11.4 (0+16)
		Russia won with the biggest separation from the second place in the season. Germany used seven spare rounds more in standing that did not save her from the penalty loop. Austria has engaged to 8 spare rounds in both prone and standing shooting to finish third. At the shooting range Hanevold and Bjørndalen repeated results of Kruglov and Yaroshenko in the previous relay race, making Norway the fourth.
	Women 4×6 km RL IBU Datacenter	1. Germany (Glagow, Buchholz, Neuner, Henkel) 1:13:52.40 (0+6)	4. Ukraine (0+5), 5. Slovenia (0+10), 6. Sweden (0+11), 7. China (0+6), 8. Italy (0+6), 9. Norway (1+12), 10. Poland (1+12)
		2. Russia (Sleptsova, Neupokoeva, Guseva, Iourieva) +42.5 (0+3)
		3. France (Peretto, Brunet, Becaert, Bailly) +2:02.6 (0+6)

World Cup 4; Oberhof, Germany; 3–6 Jan

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
3 January	Women 4×6 km RL IBU Report	1. Germany (Denkinger, Henkel, Hitzer, Wilhelm) 1:15:41.11 (2+7)	4. Norway (0+11), 5. Belarus (0+9), 6. Ukraine (0+6), 7. Poland (0+6), 8. Italy (0+5), 9. Romania (0+12), 10. Latvia (4+21)
		2. France (Peretto, Becaert, Macabies, Bailly) +12.2 (0+7)
		3. Russia (Sleptsova, Neupokoeva, Moiseeva, Guseva), +26.0 (1+5)

4 January	Men 4×7.5 km RL IBU Report	1. Norway (Svendsen, Os, Hanevold, Bjørndalen) 1:21:40.00 (0+15)	4. Sweden (1+11), 5. France (0+7), 6. Belarus (2+15), 7. Ukraine (4+14), 8. Austria (5+17), 9. Italy (5+15), 10. Czech Republic (5+13)
		2. Russia (Tcherezov, Tchoudov, Yaroshenko, Kruglov) +3.4 (1+11)
		3. Germany (Rösch, Wolf, Birnbacher, Greis) +48.6 (2+12)

5 January	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Tora Berger (NOR) 23:58.2 (0)	4. Vita Semerenko (UKR), 5. Wilhelm (GER), 6. Ponza (ITA), 7. Valj Semerenko (UKR), 8. Mäkäräinen (FIN), 9. Olofsson (GER), 10. Khrustaleva (KAZ)
		2. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) +5.5 (2)
		3. Magdalena Neuner (GER) +10.7 (4)

	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Tomasz Sikora (POL) 28:13.3 (0)	4. Greis (GER), 5. Nilsson Jr (SWE), 6. Yaroshenko (RUS), 7. Vítek (CZE), 8. Tchoudov (RUS), 9. Aidarov (UKR), 10. Andresen (NOR)
		2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +16.2 (3)
		3. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) +16.7 (2)

6 January	Women 12.5 km MS IBU Report	1. Magdalena Neuner (GER) 40:46.15 (2)	4. Henkel (GER), 5. Liu (CHN), 6. Jonsson (SWE), 7. Mäkäräinen (FIN), 8. Becaert (FRA), 9. Gwizdon (POL), 10. Olofsson (SWE)
		2. Olga Anisimova (RUS) +59.2 (2)
		3. Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS) +1:03.7 (3)

	Men 15 km MS IBU Report	1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 38:58.98 (2)	4. Yaroshenko (RUS), 5. Tchoudov (RUS), 6. Greis (GER), 7. Wolf (GER), 8. Pump (GER), 9. Fourcade (FRA), 10. Zhang (CHN)
		2. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS) +34.1 (1)
		3. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) +54.1 (3)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 4

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	351
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	311
3.(6.)	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)	193
4.(10.)	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	192
5. (4.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	185
6.(15.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	184
7. (12.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	183
8. (3.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	173
9. (22.)	Michael Greis (GER)	154
10. (7.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	149

Women
1. (1.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	303
2. (2.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	289
3. (8.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	277
4. (4.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	263
5. (6.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	245
6. (7.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	242
7. (5.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	232
8. (3.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	229
9.(10.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	195
10. (12.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	180

Relay:

Men
1. (1.)	Russia	142
2. (2.)	Norway	140
3. (3.)	Germany	132
4. (5.)	France	109
5. (4.)	Austria	103

Women
1. (1.)	Germany	150
2. (2.)	Russia	135
3. (3.)	France	129
4. (5.)	Ukraine	106
5. (8.)	Norway	102

World Cup 5; Ruhpolding, Germany; 9–13 Jan

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
9 January	Women 4×6 km RL IBU Report	1. Germany (Hitzer, Neuner, Buchholz, Wilhelm) 1:17:56.08 (3+10)	4. France (0+6), 5. Sweden (0+8), 6. Romania (0+7), 7. China (0+9), 8. Belarus (0+12), 9. Poland (0+7), 10. Slovakia (0+10)
		2. Norway (Berger, Ingstadbjørg, Rogstad, Flatland) +24.3 (0+9)
		3. Russia (Sleptsova, Anisimova, Iourieva, Guseva), +1:15.9 (1+10)

10 January	Men 4×7.5 km RL IBU Report	1. Norway (Svendsen, Brattsveen, Hanevold, Bjørndalen) 1:27:06.93 (0+4)	4. Sweden (0+10), 5. Italy (0+6), 6. Austria (2+12), 7. France (2+5), 8. United States (1+10), 9. Czech Republic (2+18), 10. Latvia (1+11)
		2. Russia (Tcherezov, Kruglov, Yaroshenko, Tchoudov) +19.3 (0+6)
		3. Germany (Rösch, Wolf, Pump, Greis) +45.3 (0+7)

11 January	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) 24:25.4 (0)	4. Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 5. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS), 6. Sabrina Buchholz (GER), 7. Sylvie Becaert (FRA), 8. Andrea Henkel (GER), 9. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 10. Martina Glagow (GER)
		2. Helena Jonsson (SWE) +18.3 (0)
		3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +21.2 (2)
		Kaisa Varis was DSQ
12 January	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Michael Greis (GER) 24:59.2 (0)	4. Daniel Graf (GER), 5. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 6. Simon Hallenbarter (SUI), 7. Björn Ferry (SWE), 8. Christoph Stephan (GER), 9. Michael Rösch (GER), 10. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)
		2. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) +19.8 (1)
		3. Alexander Wolf (GER) +30.5 (1)

13 January	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Solveig Rogstad (NOR) 33:43.29 (0)	4. Tora Berger (NOR), 5. Andrea Henkel (GER), 6. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 7. Sylvie Becaert (FRA), 8. Dijana Grudiček-Ravnikar (SLO), 9. Simone Denkinger (GER), 10. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)
		2. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +12.6 (2)
		3. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN) +30.9 (1)

	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Michael Greis (GER) 36:23.42 (1)	4. Björn Ferry (SWE), 5. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 6. Daniel Graf (GER), 7. Zhang Chengye (CHN), 8. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 9. Alexander Wolf (GER), 10. Vincent Defrasne (FRA)
		2. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) +28.2 (3)
		3. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) +53.9 (1)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 5

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	425
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	367
3. (7.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	275
4. (9.)	Michael Greis (GER)	254
5. (6.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	243
6. (5.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	224
7. (11.)	Daniel Graf (GER)	222
8. (10.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	221
9. (8.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	207
10. (3.)	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)	193

Women
1. (4.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	349
2. (1.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	343
3. (2.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	334
4. (3.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	313
5. (5.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	310
6. (7.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	295
7. (8.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	281
8. (6.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	273
9. (10.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	252
10. (9.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	251

Relay:

Men
1. (2.)	Norway	190
2. (1.)	Russia	188
3. (3.)	Germany	175
4. (4.)	France	141
5. (5.)	Austria	137

Women
1. (1.)	Germany	200
2. (2.)	Russia	178
3. (3.)	France	169
4. (5.)	Norway	148
5. (4.)	Ukraine	130

World Cup 6; Antholz-Anterselva, Italy; 17–20 Jan

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
17 January	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Kati Wilhelm (GER) 21:36.4 (0)	4. Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE), 5. Simone Denkinger (GER), 6. Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 7. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 8. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 9. Sabrina Buchholz (GER), 10. Tora Berger (NOR)
		2. Andrea Henkel (GER) +10.5 (0)
		3. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) +26.9 (0)

18 January	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Michael Greis (GER) 25:05.4 (0)	4. Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 5. Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 6. Björn Ferry (SWE), 7. Simon Fourcade (FRA), 8. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 9. Simon Eder (AUT), 10. Alexander Wolf (GER)
		2. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS) +3.4 (0)
		3. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +6.4 (0)

19 January	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Andrea Henkel (GER) 32:51.39 (1)	4. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 6. Martina Glagow (GER), 7. Michela Ponza (ITA), 8. Eva Tofalvi (ROU), 9. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 10. Kati Wilhelm (GER)
		2. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) +33.4 (2)
		3. Tora Berger (NOR) +46.5 (2)

	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Björn Ferry (SWE) 32:46.65 (1)	4. Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 5. Simon Fourcade (FRA), 6. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 7. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 8. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 9. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 10. Halvard Hanevold (NOR)
		2. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS) +26.5 (2)
		3. Michael Greis (GER) +28.7 (4)

20 January	Women 12.5 km MS IBU Report	1. Andrea Henkel (GER) 36:07.37 (1)	4. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 6. Helena Jonsson (SWE), 7. Michela Ponza (ITA), 8. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS), 9. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 10. Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR)
		2. Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE) +16.1 (0)
		3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +28.8 (2)

	Men 15 km MS IBU Report	1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 36:26.99 (1)	4. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 5. Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 6. Alexander Wolf (GER), 7. Simon Hallenbarter (SUI), 8. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 9. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 10. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)
		2. Björn Ferry (SWE) +20.5 (1)
		3. Michael Greis (GER) +26.3 (2)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 6

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	550
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	439
3. (4.)	Michael Greis (GER)	390
4. (3.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	365
5. (8.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	351
6. (10.)	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)	299
7. (9.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	279
8. (5.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	271
9. (6.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	261
10. (7.)	Daniel Graf (GER)	260

Women
1. (1.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	468
2. (5.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	456
3. (3.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	440
4. (4.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	423
5. (2.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	398
6. (8.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	374
7. (9.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	354
8. (7.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	349
9.(10.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	336
10. (6.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	329

World Championships 2008; Östersund, Sweden; 9–17 Feb

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
9 February	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Andrea Henkel (GER) 19:43.1 (0)	4. Tora Berger (NOR), 5. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 6. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 7. Magdalena Gwizdon (POL), 8. Julie Bonnevie Svendsen (NOR), 9. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS), 10. Dijana Grudiček-Ravnikar (SLO)
		2. Albina Akhatova (RUS) ++12.7 (0)
		3. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR) +23.2 (0)

	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) 22:25.4 (0)	4. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 5. Michael Rösch (GER), 6. Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 7. Daniel Graf (GER), 8. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 9. Tim Burke (USA), 10. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)
		2. Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +19.8 (0)
		3. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +30.0 (2)

10 February	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Andrea Henkel (GER) 28:56.00 (0)	4. Tora Berger (NOR), 5. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 6. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 7. Martina Glagow (GER), 8. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 9. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 10. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR)
		2. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS) +20.5 (0)
		3. Albina Akhatova (RUS) +38.5 (0)

	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 31:04.51 (2)	4. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 5. Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 6. Simon Fourcade (FRA), 7. Michael Rösch (GER), 8. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 9. Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 10. Tim Burke (USA)
		2. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) +10.1 (4)
		3. Alexander Wolf (GER) +42.8 (1)

14 February	Women 15 km IN IBU Report	1. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS) 44:23.8 (0)	4. Tora Berger (NOR), 5. Tatiana Moiseyeva (RUS), 6. Teja Gregorin (SLO), 7. Iana Romanova (RUS), 8. Natalia Levchenkova (MDA), 9. Olga Kudrashova (BLR), 10. Solveig Rogstad (NOR)
		2. Martina Glagow (GER) +1:13.3 (1)
		3. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR) +2:24.4 (1)

	Men 20 km IN IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 51:51.9 (1)	4. Simon Fourcade (FRA), 5. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 6. Christian De Lorenzi (ITA), 7. Zdeněk Vítek (CZE), 8. Rustam Valiullin (BLR), 9. Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR), 10. Michal Šlesingr (CZE)
		2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +31.4 (2)
		3. Maxim Maksimov (RUS) +34.8 (0)

16 February	Men 4×7.5 km RL IBU Report	1. Russia (Tcherezov, Kruglov, Yaroshenko, Tchoudov) 1:21:00.70 (0+5)	4. Austria (0+10), 5. France (0+8), 6. Sweden (3+10), 7. Czech Republic (0+14), 8. Belarus (0+9), 9. Slovakia (0+11), 10. Ukraine (1+11)
		2. Norway (Svendsen, Brattsveen, Hanevold, Bjørndalen) +49.2 (0+7)
		3. Germany (Rösch, Wolf, Birnbacher, Greis) +1:42.5 (2+14)

	Women 12.5 km MS IBU Report	1. Magdalena Neuner (GER) 39:36.53 (4)	4. Vita Semerenko (UKR), 5. Helena Jonsson (SWE), 6. Martina Glagow (GER), 7. Liu Xianying (CHN), 8. Kati Wilhelm (GER), 9. Michela Ponza (ITA), 10. Albina Akhatova (RUS)
		2. Tora Berger (NOR) +3.0 (1)
		3. Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS) +29.5 (2)

17 February	Men 15 km MS IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 36:12.64 (1)	4. Maxim Maksimov (RUS), 5. Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 6. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 7. Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 8. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 9. Björn Ferry (SWE), 10. Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR)
		2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) +0.4 (1)
		3. Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) +24.9 (3)

	Women 4×6 km RL IBU Report	1. Germany (Glagow, Henkel, Neuner, Wilhelm) 1:10:12.6 (1+9)	4. Russia (0+8), 5. Belarus (0+6), 6. Norway (1+8), 7. Poland (0+8), 8. Sweden (1+8), 9. Slovakia (0+7), 10. Italy (0+11)
		2. Ukraine (Yakovleva, Vita Semerenko, Valj Semerenko, Khvostenko) +30.9 (0+4)
		3. France (Peretto, Brunet, Becaert, Bailly) +1:35.7 (2+13)

Total WC standings at the end of World Championship

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	735
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	563
3. (4.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	541
4. (8.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	415
5. (5.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	412
6. (3.)	Michael Greis (GER)	410
7. (7.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	392
8. (14.)	Halvard Hanevold (NOR)	339
9. (11.)	Alexander Wolf (GER)	328
10. (9.)	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	324

Women
1. (2.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	576
2. (3.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	542
3. (5.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	532
4. (1.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	531
5. (4.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	524
6. (8.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	521
7. (9.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	505
8. (7.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	436
9. (10.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	418
10. (6.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	394

Relay:

Men
1. (1.)	Norway	196
2. (2.)	Russia	192
3. (3.)	Germany	175
4. (7.)	Sweden	148
5. (5.)	Austria	147

Women
1. (1.)	Germany	200
2. (2.)	Russia	178
3. (3.)	France	173
4. (4.)	Norway	154
5. (5.)	Ukraine	152

World Cup 7; Pyeongchang, South Korea; 28 Feb–2 Mar

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
27 February	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 25:57.4 (1)	4. Daniel Graf (GER), 5. Björn Ferry (SWE), 6. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 7. Simon Eder (AUT), 8. Klemen Bauer (SLO), 9. Andrei Prokunin (RUS), 10. Michael Greis (GER)
		2. Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +29.9 (1)
		3. Friedrich Pinter (AUT) +30.2 (1)

28 February	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Magdalena Neuner (GER) 20:32.1 (2)	4. Albina Akhatova (RUS), 5. Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS), 6. Oksana Neupokoeva (RUS), 7. Dijana Grudiček-Ravnikar (SLO), 8. Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA), 9. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 10. Sofia Domeij (SWE)
		2. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) +14.3 (1)
		3. Michela Ponza (ITA) +22.3 (0)

29 February	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Michael Greis (GER) 32:49.56 (3)	4. Michael Rösch (GER), 5. Friedrich Pinter (AUT), 6. Alexander Wolf (GER), 7. Tomasz Sikora (POL), 8. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 9. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 10. Simon Eder (AUT)
		2. Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +12.4 (3)
		3. Alexander Os (NOR) +17.0 (4)

1 March	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 31:29.89 (1)	4. Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA), 5. Andrea Henkel (GER), 6. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 7. Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 8. Oksana Neupokoeva (RUS), 9. Kati Wilhelm (GER), 10. Kathrin Hitzer (GER)
		2. Michela Ponza (ITA) +54.9 (1)
		3. Albina Akhatova (RUS) +1:00.1 (2)

2 March	Mixed 2×6+2×7.5 km RL IBU Report	1. Norway (Flatland, Rogstad, Gjedrem, Os) 1:13:39.32 (2+7)	4. Russia (0+1-), 5. Poland (1+11), 6. Slovenia (0+10), 7. Ukraine (0+11), 8. Germany (2+9), 9. Sweden (2+13), 10. Belarus (1+9)
		2. Italy (Ponza, Haller, Vuillermoz, De Lorenzi) +4.1 (0+10)
		3. France (Carraz-Collin, Macabies, Fourcade, Boeuf) +4.2 (0+8)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 7

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	735
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	589
3. (3.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	541
4. (4.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	495
5. (6.)	Michael Greis (GER)	486
6. (5.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	469
7. (8.)	Halvard Hanevold (NOR)	431
8. (7.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	405
9. (9.)	Alexander Wolf (GER)	384
10. (11.)	Daniel Graf (GER)	372

Women
1. (2.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	638
2. (1.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	627
3. (5.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	608
4. (4.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	572
5. (3.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	532
6. (6.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	521
7. (7.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	520
8. (9.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	444
9. (8.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	436
10. (10.)	Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE)	394

World Cup 8; Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia; 6–9 Mar

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
6 March	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 25:24.9 (0)	4. Ondřej Moravec (CZE), 5. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 6. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS), 7. Björn Ferry (SWE), 8. Rune Brattsveen (NOR), 9. Ronny Hafsås (NOR), 10. Alexey Churin (RUS)
		2. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) +10.0 (0)
		3. Andrei Makoveev (RUS) +32.5 (1)

	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Magdalena Neuner (GER) 21:46.5 (1)	4. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 5. Andrea Henkel (GER), 6. Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 7. Darya Domracheva (BLR), 8. Olga Anisimova (RUS), 9. Michela Ponza (ITA), 10. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)
		2. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) +10.1 (0)
		3. Albina Akhatova (RUS) +16.0 (0)

8 March	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 35:50.48 (2)	4. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 5. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS), 6. Artem Goussev (RUS), 7. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 8. Björn Ferry (SWE), 9. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 10. Michal Šlesingr (CZE)
		2. Tomasz Sikora (POL) +16.8 (0)
		3. Andrei Makoveev (RUS) +23.1 (3)

	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Kathrin Hitzer (GER) 33:51.68 (1)	4. Albina Akhatova (RUS), 5. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 6. Michela Ponza (ITA), 7. Darya Domracheva (BLR), 8. Kati Wilhelm (GER), 9. Martina Glagow (GER), 10. Valj Semerenko (UKR)
		2. Sandrine Bailly (FRA) +1.5 (2)
		3. Andrea Henkel (GER) +22.2 (2)

9 March	Men 15 km MS IBU Report	1. Tomasz Sikora (POL) 41:20.88 (1)	4. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 5. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS), 6. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 7. Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 8. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 9. Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 10. Alexander Wolf (GER)
		2. Daniel Graf (GER) +15.1 (2)
		3. Michal Šlesingr (CZE) +15.1 (2)

	Women 12.5 km MS IBU Report	1. Kathrin Hitzer (GER) 38:04.93 (2)	4. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 5. Sylvie Becaert (FRA), 6. Magdalena Gwizdon (POL), 7. Michela Ponza (ITA), 8. Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 9. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS), 10. Tora Berger (NOR)
		2. Magdalena Neuner (GER) +19.2 (5)
		3. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) +28.8 (2)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 8

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	851
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	682
3. (4.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	594
4. (6.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	553
5. (3.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	541
6. (5.)	Michael Greis (GER)	498
7. (7.)	Halvard Hanevold (NOR)	464
8. (8.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	463
9. (13.)	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	420
10.(14.)	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)	418

Women
1. (2.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	741
2. (3.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	741
3. (2.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	727
4. (4.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	623
5. (6.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	599
6. (5.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	585
7. (7.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	567
8. (8.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	488
9. (9.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	479
10. (11.)	Michela Ponza (ITA)	472

World Cup 9; Holmenkollen, Norway; 13–16 Mar

Race results

Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
13 March	Women 7.5 km SP IBU Report	1. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) 21:47.6 (1)	4. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 5. Andrea Henkel (GER), 6. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS), 7. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 8. Martina Glagow (GER), 9. Liu Xianying (CHN), 10. Teja Gregorin (SLO)
		2. Tora Berger (NOR) +7.4 (0)
		3. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +9.9 (0)

	Men 10 km SP IBU Report	1. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 25:19.9 (0)	4. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 5. Frode Andresen (NOR), 6. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 7. Stian Eckhoff (NOR), 8. Michael Greis (GER), 9. Andrei Prokunin (RUS), 10. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)
		2. Michael Rösch (GER) +24.5 (0)
		3. Friedrich Pinter (AUT) +31.1 (1)

15 March	Women 10 km PU IBU Report	1. Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS) 33:01.54 (1)	4. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 5. Tora Berger (NOR), 6. Martina Glagow (GER), 7. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 8. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 9. Eveli Saue (EST), 10. Teja Gregorin (SLO)
		2. Kati Wilhelm (GER) +27.7 (1)
		3. Liu Xianying (CHN) +47.8 (1)

	Men 12.5 km PU IBU Report	1. Ivan Tcherezov (RUS) 35:10.96 (2)	4. Michael Greis (GER), 5. Michael Rösch (GER), 6. Alexander Os (NOR), 7. Tim Burke (USA), 8. Simon Eder (AUT), 9. Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 10. Mattias Nilsson Jr. (SWE)
		2. Friedrich Pinter (AUT) +22.1 (3)
		3. Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) +47.4 (5)

16 March	Women 12.5 km MS IBU Report	1. Kati Wilhelm (GER) 37:43.06 (0)	4. Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 5. Martina Glagow (GER), 6. Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 7. Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 8. Helena Jonsson (SWE), 9. Magdalena Neuner (GER), 10. Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)
		2. Solveig Rogstad (NOR) +53.0 (1)
		3. Michela Ponza (ITA) +1:03.9 (1)

	Men 15 km MS IBU Report	1. Michal Šlesingr (CZE) 39:11.97 (1)	4. Andrei Makoveev (RUS), 5. Zhang Chengye (CHN), 6. Michael Rösch (GER), 7. Simon Eder (AUT), 8. Tim Burke (USA), 9. Michael Greis (GER), 10. Daniel Graf (GER)
		2. Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS) +0.1 (1)
		3. Halvard Hanevold (NOR) +5.1 (2)

Total WC standings at the end of WC 9

Men
1. (1.)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	869
2. (2.)	Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS)	696
3. (3.)	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	687
4. (6.)	Michael Greis (GER)	596
5. (8.)	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	573
6. (4.)	Björn Ferry (SWE)	568
7. (5.)	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	541
8. (7.)	Halvard Hanevold (NOR)	512
9.(10.)	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (RUS)	493
10. (12.)	Andreas Birnbacher (GER)	481

Women
1. (2.)	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	818
2. (1.)	Sandrine Bailly (FRA)	805
3. (3.)	Andrea Henkel (GER)	766
4. (4.)	Kati Wilhelm (GER)	749
5. (6.)	Martina Glagow (GER)	679
6. (5.)	Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS)	671
7. (7.)	Tora Berger (NOR)	664
8. (9.)	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	579
9. (8.)	Helena Jonsson (SWE)	544
10. (10.)	Michela Ponza (ITA)	515

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
Yekaterina Youriyeva (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)

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 7 (81) first places
Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 6 (6) first places
Sandrine Bailly (FRA) 4 (20) first places
Andrea Henkel (GER), 4 (14) first places
Magdalena Neuner (GER), 4 (11) first places
Michael Greis (GER), 4 (9) first places
Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 3 (3) first place
Kati Wilhelm (GER), 2 (18) first places
Martina Glagow (GER), 2 (12) first places
Tomasz Sikora (POL), 2 (4) first places
Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 2 (3) first places
Tora Berger (NOR), 2 (2) first places
Yekaterina Youriyeva (RUS), 2 (2) first places
Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 2 (2) first places
Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 1 (3) first places
Maxim Tchoudov (RUS), 1 (2) first places
Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 1 (1) first place
Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Björn Ferry (SWE), 1 (1) first place
Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 1 (1) first place
Kaisa Varis (FIN), 1 (1) first place

References and notes

↑ World Cup Schedule
↑ (Norwegian) Tilbake i verdenscupen, Ole Martin Rudstaden, Ringerikes Blad, retrieved 15 December 2007
↑ (Swedish) Sjuk Ferry missar världscuplopp, TT, retrieved from SVT 15 December 2007

2007–08 World Cup seasons in the winter sports

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Biathlon World Cup seasons

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