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2007–08 Biathlon World Cup

Biathlon competition

Field	Value
title	2007–08 Biathlon World Cup
competition1	Overall
competition1men	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
competition1ladies	GER Magdalena Neuner
competition2	Nations Cup
competition2men	NOR Norway
competition2ladies	GER Germany
competition3	Individual
competition3men	FRA Vincent Defrasne
competition3ladies	GER Martina Glagow
competition4	Sprint
competition4men	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
competition4ladies	GER Magdalena Neuner
competition5	Pursuit
competition5men	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
competition5ladies	FRA Sandrine Bailly
competition6	Mass start
competition6men	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
competition6ladies	GER Magdalena Neuner
competition7	Relay
competition7men	NOR Norway
competition7ladies	NOR Norway
previous	2006–07
next	2008–09

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.

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 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.

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
FIN Kontiolahti	29 November–2 December	●	●	●			details
AUT Hochfilzen	6–9 December		●	●		●	details
SLO Pokljuka	12–16 December	●	●			●	details
GER Oberhof	2–6 January		●		●	●	details
GER Ruhpolding	8–13 January		●	●		●	details
ITA Antholz	16–20 January		●	●	●		details
SWE Östersund	8–17 February	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
KOR Pyeongchang	28 February–2 March		●	●			details
RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	5–9 March		●	●	●		details
NOR Holmenkollen	12–16 March		●	●	●		details

Medal table

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib
(After competition)	Det.
1	29 November 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	20 km Individual	FRA Vincent Defrasne	NOR Halvard Hanevold	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	FRA Vincent Defrasne	Detail
1	1 December 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko	GER Carsten Pump	Detail
1	2 December 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	12.5 km Pursuit	RUS Ivan Tcherezov	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko	RUS Ivan Tcherezov	Detail
2	7 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Andrei Makoveev	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
2	8 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko	GER Daniel Graf	Detail
3	13 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	20 km Individual	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	GER Alexander Wolf	UKR Serhiy Sednev	Detail
3	15 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko	SWE Mattias Nilsson	Detail
4	5 January 2008	GER Oberhof	10 km Sprint	POL Tomasz Sikora	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
4	6 January 2008	GER Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Nikolay Kruglov	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
5	12 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	GER Michael Greis	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	GER Alexander Wolf	Detail
5	13 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	GER Michael Greis	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
6	18 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	GER Michael Greis	RUS Nikolay Kruglov	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
6	19 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	SWE Björn Ferry	RUS Nikolay Kruglov	GER Michael Greis	Detail
6	20 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	SWE Björn Ferry	GER Michael Greis	Detail
WC	9 February 2008	SWE Östersund	10 km Sprint	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	NOR Halvard Hanevold	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
WC	10 February 2008	SWE Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	GER Alexander Wolf	Detail
WC	14 February 2008	SWE Östersund	20 km Individual	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Maxim Maksimov	Detail
WC	17 February 2008	SWE Östersund	15 km Mass Start	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	Detail
7	27 February 2008	KOR Pyeongchang	10 km Sprint	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR Halvard Hanevold	AUT Friedrich Pinter	Detail
7	29 February 2008	KOR Pyeongchang	12.5 km Pursuit	GER Michael Greis	NOR Halvard Hanevold	NOR Alexander Os	Detail
8	6 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	RUS Andrei Makoveev	Detail
8	8 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	POL Tomasz Sikora	RUS Andrei Makoveev	Detail
8	9 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	POL Tomasz Sikora	GER Daniel Graf	CZE Michal Šlesingr	Detail
9	13 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	GER Michael Rösch	AUT Friedrich Pinter	Detail
9	15 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	RUS Ivan Tcherezov	AUT Friedrich Pinter	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
9	16 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	CZE Michal Šlesingr	RUS Nikolay Kruglov	NOR Halvard Hanevold	Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib
(After competition)	Det.
1	29 November 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	15 km Individual	GER Martina Glagow	RUS Tatiana Moiseeva	GER Simone Denkinger	GER Martina Glagow	Detail
1	30 November 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	GER Martina Glagow	GER Kati Wilhelm	NOR Tora Berger	Detail
1	2 December 2007	FIN Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	NOR Tora Berger	GER Andrea Henkel	GER Martina Glagow	Detail
2	7 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	FRA Sandrine Bailly	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	GER Kati Wilhelm	Detail
2	8 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	FRA Sandrine Bailly	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	GER Kati Wilhelm	FRA Sandrine Bailly	Detail
3	13 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	15 km Individual	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	ITA Michela Ponza	GER Martina Glagow	GER Martina Glagow	Detail
3	15 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	FRA Sandrine Bailly	FIN Kaisa Mäkäräinen	GER Magdalena Neuner	Detail
4	5 January 2008	GER Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	NOR Tora Berger	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	GER Magdalena Neuner	Detail
4	6 January 2008	GER Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	GER Magdalena Neuner	RUS Olga Anisimova	RUS Tatiana Moiseeva	Detail
5	11 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	FIN Kaisa Varis	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	SWE Helena Jonsson	Detail
5	13 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	NOR Solveig Rogstad	GER Kati Wilhelm	FIN Kaisa Mäkäräinen	GER Kati Wilhelm	Detail
6	17 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	GER Kati Wilhelm	GER Andrea Henkel	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	Detail
6	19 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	GER Andrea Henkel	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	NOR Tora Berger	Detail
6	20 January 2008	ITA Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	GER Andrea Henkel	SWE Anna Carin Olofsson	GER Kati Wilhelm	Detail
WC	9 February 2008	SWE Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	GER Andrea Henkel	RUS Albina Akhatova	UKR Oksana Khvostenko	GER Andrea Henkel	Detail
WC	10 February 2008	SWE Östersund	10 km Pursuit	GER Andrea Henkel	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	RUS Albina Akhatova	Detail
WC	14 February 2008	SWE Östersund	15 km Individual	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	GER Martina Glagow	UKR Oksana Khvostenko	Detail
WC	16 February 2008	SWE Östersund	12.5 km Mass Start	GER Magdalena Neuner	NOR Tora Berger	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva	Detail
7	28 February 2008	KOR Pyeongchang	7.5 km Sprint	GER Magdalena Neuner	FRA Sandrine Bailly	ITA Michela Ponza	FRA Sandrine Bailly	Detail
7	1 March 2008	KOR Pyeongchang	10 km Pursuit	FRA Sandrine Bailly	ITA Michela Ponza	RUS Albina Akhatova	Detail
8	6 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	GER Magdalena Neuner	FRA Sandrine Bailly	RUS Albina Akhatova	Detail
8	8 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	GER Kathrin Hitzer	FRA Sandrine Bailly	GER Andrea Henkel	Detail
8	9 March 2008	RUS Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	GER Kathrin Hitzer	GER Magdalena Neuner	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	GER Magdalena Neuner	Detail
9	13 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	NOR Tora Berger	GER Kati Wilhelm	Detail
9	15 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova	GER Kati Wilhelm	CHN Liu Xianying	Detail
9	16 March 2008	NOR Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	GER Kati Wilhelm	NOR Solveig Rogstad	ITA Michela Ponza	Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline
2	9 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay
3	16 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay
4	4 January 2008	GER Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay
5	10 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay
WC	16 February 2008	SWE Östersund	4x7.5 km Relay

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline
2	9 December 2007	AUT Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay
3	16 December 2007	SLO Pokljuka	4x6 km Relay
4	3 January 2008	GER Oberhof	4x6 km Relay
5	9 January 2008	GER Ruhpolding	4x6 km Relay
WC	17 February 2008	SWE Östersund	4x6 km Relay

Mixed

Event	Date	Place	Discipline
WC	12 February 2008	SWE Östersund	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km
Mixed Relay
7	2 March 2008	KOR Pyeongchang	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km
Mixed Relay

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
2.	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko
3.	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen
4.	GER Michael Greis
5.	RUS Ivan Tcherezov

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Pos.	Points
1.	FRA Vincent Defrasne
2.	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen
3.	NOR Halvard Hanevold
4.	RUS Maxim Tchoudov
5.	AUT Friedrich Pinter

Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
2.	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko
3.	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen
4.	GER Michael Greis
5.	SWE Björn Ferry

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
2.	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko
3.	SWE Björn Ferry
4.	GER Michael Greis
5.	RUS Ivan Tcherezov

Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen
2.	RUS Nikolay Kruglov
3.	RUS Dmitry Yaroshenko
4.	GER Michael Greis
5.	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR Norway
2.	RUS Russia
3.	GER Germany
4.	SWE Sweden
5.	AUT Austria

Final standings after 5 races.

Nation

Pos.	Points
1.	NOR
2.	RUS
3.	GER
4.	AUT
5.	SWE

Final standings after 18 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.	Points
1.	GER Magdalena Neuner
2.	FRA Sandrine Bailly
3.	GER Andrea Henkel
4.	GER Kati Wilhelm
5.	GER Martina Glagow

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Pos.	Points
1.	GER Martina Glagow
2.	RUS Tatiana Moiseeva
3.	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva
4.	SWE Helena Jonsson
5.	SLO Teja Gregorin

Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint

Pos.	Points
1.	GER Magdalena Neuner
2.	FRA Sandrine Bailly
3.	GER Kati Wilhelm
4.	GER Andrea Henkel
5.	RUS Svetlana Sleptsova

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.	Points
1.	FRA Sandrine Bailly
2.	GER Andrea Henkel
3.	GER Kati Wilhelm
4.	NOR Tora Berger
5.	GER Magdalena Neuner

Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start

Pos.	Points
1.	GER Magdalena Neuner
2.	GER Kati Wilhelm
3.	ITA Michela Ponza
4.	SWE Helena Jonsson
5.	RUS Ekaterina Iourieva

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Pos.	Points
1.	GER Germany
2.	RUS Russia
3.	FRA France
4.	NOR Norway
5.	UKR Ukraine

Final standings after 5 races.

Nation

Pos.	Points
1.	GER
2.	RUS
3.	FRA
4.	NOR
5.	SWE

Final standings after 18 races.

Achievements

;First World Cup career victory:

Tora Berger, 26, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
Dmitri Yaroshenko 31, in his 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Östersund
Emil Hegle Svendsen, 22, in his 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Ruhpolding
Ekaterina Iourieva, 24, in her 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Lahti
Kaisa Varis, 32, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
Svetlana Sleptsova, 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, 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 5 Pursuit in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
Björn Ferry, 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, 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 8 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk; first podium was 2006–07 Pursuit in Lahti
Michal Šlesingr, 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, 31, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti
Daniel Graf, 26, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
Serhiy Sednev, 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
Kaisa Mäkäräinen, 24, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka
Olga Anisimova, 35, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof
Maxim Maksimov, 28, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the World Championships 2008 Individual in Östersund
Friedrich Pinter, 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, 7 (81) first places
Emil Hegle Svendsen, 6 (6) first places
Michael Greis, 4 (9) first places
Tomasz Sikora, 2 (4) first places
Ivan Tcherezov, 2 (3) first places
Vincent Defrasne, 1 (3) first places
Maxim Tchoudov, 1 (2) first places
Dmitri Yaroshenko, 1 (1) first place
Björn Ferry, 1 (1) first place
Michal Šlesingr, 1 (1) first place ;Women
Sandrine Bailly 4 (20) first places
Andrea Henkel, 4 (14) first places
Magdalena Neuner, 4 (11) first places
Svetlana Sleptsova, 3 (3) first places
Kati Wilhelm, 2 (18) first places
Martina Glagow, 2 (13) first places
Tora Berger, 2 (2) first places
Ekaterina Iourieva, 2 (2) first places
Kathrin Hitzer, 2 (2) first places
Solveig Rogstad, 1 (1) first place
Kaisa Varis, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 2007–08 season:

Ludwig Gredler
Ferréol Cannard
Julien Robert
Alexei Aidarov
Nathalie Santer
Saskia Santer
Kaisa Varis
Delphyne Peretto
Jenny Adler
Ute Niziak
Gunn Margit Andreassen
Tatiana Moiseeva
Petra Slezakova

References and notes

References

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