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2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men

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The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men started on Saturday 6 December 2008 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 26 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

The small crystal globe winner for the category was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

[[Biathlon#Sprint|Competition format]]

The 10 km sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 m. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

2007–08 Top 3 standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	383
Silver:	RUS Dmitri Yaroshenko	291
Bronze:	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	253

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Östersund
details	Emil Hegle Svendsen
25:42.3
(0+1)	Tomasz Sikora
25:55.0
(0+1)	Simon Fourcade
26:10.4
(0+0)
Hochfilzen
details	Emil Hegle Svendsen
26:08.1
(0+0)	Ivan Tcherezov
26:34.4
(0+1)	Alexander Os
26:41.0
(1+0)
Hochfilzen
details	Lars Berger
25:23.1
(0+0)	Alexander Os
26:01.0
(0+1)	Carl Johan Bergman
26:14.7
(0+1)
Oberhof
details	Maxim Tchoudov
25:49.5
(0+0)	Michael Rösch
26:02.2
(0+0)	Tomasz Sikora
26:14.7
(1+0)
Ruhpolding
details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
23:25.8
(0+0)	Dominik Landertinger
23:59.2
(0+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen
24:01.1
(0+1)
Antholz-Anterselva
details	Emil Hegle Svendsen
24:52.5
(0+0)	Bjoern Ferry
24:56.1
(0+0)	Tomasz Sikora
24:59.2
(0+0)
World Championships
details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
24:16.5
(1+1)	Lars Berger
24:17.7
(1+1)	Halvard Hanevold
24:29.0
(0+0)
Vancouver
details	Lars Berger
24:06.5
(0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
24:20.6
(0+0)	Christoph Sumann
24:46.0
(0+0)
Trondheim
details	Michael Greis
26:11.3
(0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
26:29.6
(1+0)	Simon Eder
26:43.1
(0+0)
Khanty-Mansiysk
details	Arnd Peiffer
25:51.1
(0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
26:14.2
(0+1)	Christoph Sumann
26:18.4
(0+0)

Final standings

#	Name	ÖST	HOC	HOC	OBE	RUH	ANT	WCH	VAN	TRO	KHA	Total
1.	NOR Ole Einar Bjørndalen	43	29	–	18	60	–	60	54	54	54	372
2	POL Tomasz Sikora	54	43	36	48	29	48	25	26	28	23	337
3	NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen	60	60	–	17	48	60	–	–	30	43	318
4	GER Michael Greis	27	34	40	–	1	36	36	36	60	36	306
5	RUS Maxim Tchoudov	16	36	8	60	31	28	40	14	43	29	297
6	NOR Alexander Os	25	48	54	31	29	10	43	0	40	4	284
7	AUT Christoph Sumann	5	32	38	2	30	38	0	48	22	48	263
8	RUS Ivan Tcherezov	34	54	32	–	23	25	3	34	38	15	258
9	NOR Halvard Hanevold	30	23	23	16	21	40	48	15	29	27	257
10	SWE Carl Johan Bergman	31	21	48	24	40	43	0	29	20	0	256
11	SWE Björn Ferry	6	40	30	23	16	54	1	–	36	32	238
12	NOR Lars Berger	11	–	60	0	8	7	54	60	34	0	234
13	AUT Daniel Mesotitsch	21	19	28	0	17	30	12	32	17	28	204
14	FRA Simon Fourcade	48	11	34	0	15	14	38	43	0	0	203
15	AUT Dominik Landertinger	0	0	–	28	54	19	24	–	23	34	182
16	AUT Simon Eder	–	–	3	26	9	22	34	21	48	16	179
17	CZE Michal Šlesingr	0	0	11	43	24	32	9	17	16	24	176
18	AUT Friedrich Pinter	0	0	19	27	34	24	–	12	27	31	174
19	GER Michael Rösch	0	17	9	54	36	13	27	0	13	0	169
20	RUS Andrei Makoveev	20	12	11	31	0	0	17	7	25	26	149
21	AUT Tobias Eberhard	0	3	29	32	0	31	–	16	14	21	146
22	GER Christoph Stephan	22	4	21	40	4	29	19	0	0	6	145
23	GER Arnd Peiffer	–	–	–	36	11	16	–	19	0	60	142
24	GER Andreas Birnbacher	–	31	0	38	32	0	–	–	1	40	142
25	SUI Simon Hallenbarter	0	0	14	–	6	10	32	18	24	38	142
26	BLR Rustam Valiullin	32	9	12	29	2	0	0	31	0	17	132
27	USA Tim Burke	0	–	0	20	0	26	30	0	32	18	126
28	ITA Christian De Lorenzi	40	2	0	4	43	0	14	22	0	0	125
29	GER Alexander Wolf	26	30	23	0	0	0	0	13	3	30	125
30	SLO Janez Maric	0	0	0	0	38	0	31	38	15	0	122
31	FRA Martin Fourcade	–	–	31	0	19	0	23	30	18	0	121
32	RUS Evgeny Ustyugov	–	–	–	0	13	34	0	27	13	25	112
33	NOR Ronny Hafsas	38	1	–	34	27	–	–	3	0	5	108
34	ITA Markus Windisch	36	10	0	10	25	0	22	0	0	0	103
35	FRA Vincent Defrasne	2	0	43	14	26	12	0	1	–	–	98
36	SWE Mattias Nilsson	0	38	0	9	0	4	15	23	0	0	89
37	USA Jay Hakkinen	18	27	0	25	19	0	–	0	0	–	89
38	RUS Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	19	25	26	13	–	0	0	–	–	–	83
39	CAN Jean Philippe Leguellec	28	24	0	–	0	20	0	0	0	10	82
40	UKR Vyacheslav Derkach	14	0	17	0	–	21	0	10	0	19	81
41	SLO Klemen Bauer	0	0	0	5	0	17	28	5	9	12	76
42	UKR Andriy Deryzemlya	0	7	25	7	–	0	29	4	0	0	72
43	CZE Jaroslav Soukup	17	0	0	22	0	0	4	–	5	20	68
44	BLR Sergey Novikov	13	22	15	0	–	0	10	2	6	0	68
45	CZE Tomáš Holubec	8	29	0	0	0	0	0	10	19	0	66
46	UKR Roman Pryma	15	20	16	0	–	0	13	0	0	0	64
47	NOR Frode Andresen	24	0	–	–	14	–	–	25	0	–	63
48	SVK Pavol Hurajt	7	0	0	0	0	–	21	0	26	3	57
49	SWE Jörgen Brink	0	15	0	0	–	–	–	40	0	0	55
50	CRO Jakov Fak	4	0	0	0	–	–	27	10	8	0	49
51	FRA Vincent Jay	0	13	24	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	48
52	SWE Magnús Jónsson	10	–	0	0	12	5	20	0	–	0	47
53	NOR Stian Eckhoff	–	19	27	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	46
54	SWE David Ekholm	0	0	0	0	0	27	–	6	10	0	43
55	ITA Rene Laurent Vuillermoz	0	0	6	0	0	24	2	11	–	–	43
56	CZE Roman Dostál	29	0	0	11	0	0	–	–	0	–	40
57	GER Daniel Böhm	–	–	–	12	–	–	–	21	0	7	40
58	GER Simon Schempp	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	24	–	14	38
59	EST Roland Lessing	0	0	0	–	5	0	0	–	31	–	36
60	NOR Hans Martin Gjedrem	–	–	18	0	–	18	–	0	–	–	36
61	SUI Thomas Frei	0	26	0	–	0	–	0	0	7	0	33
62	SUI Matthias Simmen	23	0	4	–	–	6	0	0	0	–	33
63	GER Toni Lang	0	14	0	19	0	0	–	–	–	–	33
64	RUS Maxim Maksimov	0	6	2	0	20	0	–	1	3	–	32
65	NOR Rune Brattsveen	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	22	29
66	SWE Fredrik Lindström	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	28	0	–	28
67	LAT Ilmārs Bricis	0	0	–	1	10	–	16	0	0	–	27
68	CZE Zdeněk Vítek	1	0	0	–	22	–	0	0	0	1	24
69	USA Lowell Bailey	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	21	0	24
70	UKR Olexander Bilanenko	0	0	0	–	0	11	0	0	0	11	22
71	CHN Zhang Chengye	0	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	–	21
72	FRA Alexis Bœuf	–	–	21	0	0	0	–	–	0	0	21
73	SUI Ivan Joller	0	0	0	–	–	0	11	0	0	8	19
74	ITA Christian Martinelli	0	0	0	–	0	0	18	0	–	–	18
75	AUT Julian Eberhard	0	5	13	–	0	0	–	0	–	–	18
76	BLR Alexandr Syman	12	0	0	0	–	0	6	0	0	–	18
77	UKR Serguei Sednev	0	0	0	0	–	15	–	0	0	2	17
78	FRA Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	0	16	–	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	16
79	FIN Paavo Puurunen	–	–	5	–	0	0	0	–	11	–	16
80	SVK Dušan Šimočko	0	0	0	15	0	–	0	0	0	–	15
81	JPN Hidenori Isa	0	0	0	6	8	1	0	–	–	–	15
82	RUS Artem Gusev	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	0	13	13
83	ITA Mattia Cola	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	0	12
84	EST Indrek Tobreluts	9	0	0	0	–	0	0	–	0	0	9
85	GER Christoph Knie	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	8
86	BLR Sergey Sadovnikov	–	–	–	–	0	8	–	0	0	0	8
87	KAZ Alexsandr Chervyhkov	0	0	–	0	0	–	8	–	–	–	8
88	CHN Zhang Qing	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	7
89	BUL Krasimir Anev	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	–	0	–	5
90	EST Priit Viks	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	–	–	0	3
91	CAN Robin Clegg	3	0	–	–	0	0	0	0	–	–	3
92	EST Kauri Koiv	–	0	0	0	0	2	0	–	0	0	2
93	FRA Lois Habert	0	0	1	–	–	0	–	0	–	–	1

References

[http://services.biathlonresults.com/cups.aspx?CupId=BT0809SWRLCP__SMIN Standings Sprint men]

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