2006–07 Biathlon World Cup

The 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season lasted from 29 November 2006 to 18 March 2007.

2006–07 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Michael Greis	Andrea Henkel
Nations Cup	Russia	Germany
Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Andrea Henkel
Sprint	Michael Greis	Anna Carin Olofsson
Pursuit	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Kati Wilhelm
Mass start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Kati Wilhelm
Relay	Russia	France
Competition
←2005–06 2007–08→

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 2007 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.

Calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2006–07 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
Östersund	29. November–3. December	●	●	●
Hochfilzen	8.–10. December		●	●		●
Hochfilzen 1	13.–16. December	● (Women)	● (Men x2, Women x1)			●
Oberhof	3.–7. January		●	●		●
Ruhpolding	10.–14. January		●		●	●
Pokljuka	17.–21. January		●	●	●
Antholz	3.–11. February	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Lahti	28. February–4. March	●	●	●
Holmenkollen	8.–11. March	● (Men)	● (Women)	●	●
Khanty-Mansijsk	15.–18. March		●	●	●
Total		4	10	8	5	5

• ¹ Rescheduled from Osrblie

Scores and leader bibs

• For the seventh 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.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	21	26	25	72
2	Norway	16	7	8	31
3	Russia	10	13	7	30
4	France	9	9	7	25
5	Sweden	4	6	4	14
6	Austria	2	0	1	3
7	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
8	Poland	1	1	1	3
9	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
10	China	0	0	3	3
11	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		64	64	64	192

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 2006	Östersund	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Andreas Birnbacher	Michael Greis	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
1	2 December 2006	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Michael Greis		Detail
1	3 December 2006	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
2	8 December 2006	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Michael Greis	Matthias Simmen		Detail
2	9 December 2006	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
3	14 December 2006	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Michael Greis	Maxim Tchoudov	Björn Ferry		Detail
3	16 December 2006	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Rösch	Sven Fischer	Michael Greis	Detail
4	6 January 2007	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Nikolay Kruglov	Michael Greis	René-Laurent Vuillermoz		Detail
4	7 January 2007	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Nikolay Kruglov	Dmitry Yaroshenko	Maxim Tchoudov		Detail
5	13 January 2007	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Halvard Hanevold	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
5	14 January 2007	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Christoph Sumann		Detail
6	18 January 2007	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Alexander Wolf	Björn Ferry	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
6	20 January 2007	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Christoph Sumann	Alexander Wolf	Vincent Defrasne		Detail
6	21 January 2007	Pokljuka	15 km Mass Start	Christoph Sumann	Vincent Defrasne	Andreas Birnbacher		Detail
WC	3 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Michal Šlesingr	Andriy Deryzemlya		Detail
WC	4 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Maxim Tchoudov	Vincent Defrasne		Detail
WC	6 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
WC	11 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Michael Greis	Andreas Birnbacher	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
7	1 March 2007	Lahti	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Simon Fourcade	Alexander Wolf	Michael Greis	Detail
7	3 March 2007	Lahti	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Alexander Os	Hans Martin Gjedrem		Detail
7	4 March 2007	Lahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis	Sven Fischer		Detail
8	8 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis	Dmitry Yaroshenko		Detail
8	10 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis		Detail
8	11 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer		Detail
9	15 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Michael Rösch	Maxim Tchoudov	Andrei Makoveev		Detail
9	17 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Maxim Tchoudov	Björn Ferry	Stian Eckhoff		Detail
9	18 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Ivan Tcherezov	Michael Greis	Sven Fischer		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	29 November 2006	Östersund	15 km Individual	Irina Malgina	Liv-Kjersti Eikeland	Zina Kocher	Irina Malgina	Detail
1	1 December 2006	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Kati Wilhelm	Martina Glagow	Andrea Henkel	Detail
1	3 December 2006	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Linda Grubben	Anna Carin Olofsson	Magdalena Gwizdoń		Detail
2	8 December 2006	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Kong Yingchao		Detail
2	9 December 2006	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Linda Grubben	Anna Carin Olofsson		Detail
3	13 December 2006	Hochfilzen	15 km Individual	Andrea Henkel	Martina Glagow	Oksana Khvostenko		Detail
3	15 December 2006	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Anna Carin Olofsson	Sandrine Bailly	Andrea Henkel		Detail
4	5 January 2007	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Martina Glagow		Detail
4	7 January 2007	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Linda Grubben	Sandrine Bailly	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
5	12 January 2007	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Sandrine Bailly	Anna Carin Olofsson	Florence Baverel-Robert		Detail
5	14 January 2007	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Anna Carin Olofsson	Kati Wilhelm	Linda Grubben	Anna Carin Olofsson	Detail
6	17 January 2007	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Anna Carin Olofsson	Tatiana Moiseeva	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
6	19 January 2007	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Kati Wilhelm	Tatiana Moiseeva	Natalya Sokolova		Detail
6	21 January 2007	Pokljuka	12.5 km Mass Start	Oksana Khvostenko	Kati Wilhelm	Tadeja Brankovič		Detail
WC	3 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Anna Carin Olofsson	Natalia Guseva		Detail
WC	4 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Neuner	Linda Grubben	Anna Carin Olofsson		Detail
WC	7 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Linda Grubben	Florence Baverel-Robert	Martina Glagow		Detail
WC	10 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Andrea Henkel	Martina Glagow	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
7	28 February 2007	Lahti	15 km Individual	Andrea Henkel	Florence Baverel-Robert	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
7	2 March 2007	Lahti	7.5 km Sprint	Martina Glagow	Kati Wilhelm	Ekaterina Iourieva	Kati Wilhelm	Detail
7	4 March 2007	Lahti	10 km Pursuit	Martina Glagow	Kati Wilhelm	Kathrin Hitzer		Detail
8	8 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Andrea Henkel	Ekaterina Iourieva	Magdalena Neuner	Anna Carin Olofsson	Detail
8	10 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Kati Wilhelm	Kati Wilhelm	Detail
8	11 March 2007	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Kathrin Hitzer	Ekaterina Iourieva		Detail
9	15 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Anna Carin Olofsson		Detail
9	17 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Neuner	Anna Carin Olofsson	Andrea Henkel	Anna Carin Olofsson	Detail
9	18 March 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Helena Jonsson	Oksana Khvostenko	Kathrin Hitzer	Andrea Henkel	Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	10 December 2006	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov Sergei Rozhkov	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Sven Fischer Andreas Birnbacher	France Julien Robert Vincent Defrasne Ferréol Cannard Raphael Poiree
3	17 December 2006	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Frode Andresen Lars Berger Halvard Hanevold	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Germany Ricco Gross Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis
4	4 January 2007	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Germany Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Lars Berger Emil Hegle Svendsen Halvard Hanevold
5	11 January 2007	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Halvard Hanevold Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Germany Ricco Gross Michael Rösch Andreas Birnbacher Alexander Wolf
WC	10 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov	Norway Halvard Hanevold Lars Berger Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Ricco Gross Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	10 December 2006	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Anisimova Irina Malgina Natalia Guseva	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	Norway Tora Berger Ann Kristin Flatland Jori Morkve Linda Grubben
3	17 December 2006	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	France Florence Baverel-Robert Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Tatiana Moiseeva Anna Boulygina Natalia Guseva	China Kong Yingchao Dong Xue Yin Qiao Liu Xianying
4	3 January 2007	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	France Florence Baverel-Robert Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Kathrin Hitzer Kati Wilhelm	China Kong Yingchao Dong Xue Yin Qiao Liu Xianying
5	10 January 2007	Ruhpolding	4x6 km Relay	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Anisimova Irina Malgina Natalia Guseva	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm	France Florence Baverel-Robert Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly
WC	11 February 2007	Antholz-Anterselva	4x6 km Relay	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm	France Florence Baverel-Robert Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	Norway Tora Berger Ann Kristin Flatland Jori Morkve Linda Grubben

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Michael Greis	794
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	736
3.	Raphaël Poirée	709
4.	Ivan Tcherezov	673
5.	Dmitry Yaroshenko	619

• Final standings after 27 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Raphaël Poirée 150 2. Michael Greis 135 3. Ivan Tcherezov 105 4. Michal Šlesingr 103 5. Dmitry Yaroshenko 97 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Michael Greis 299 2. Björn Ferry 272 3. Nikolay Kruglov 242 4. Halvard Hanevold 232 5. Sven Fischer 223 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Dmitry Yaroshenko 271 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 265 3. Ivan Tcherezov 208 4. Maxim Tchoudov 200 5. Michael Greis 191 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 180 2. Christoph Sumann 153 3. Raphaël Poirée 147 4. Ivan Tcherezov 145 5. Vincent Defrasne 139 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Russia 196 2. Norway 189 3. Germany 178 4. Austria 154 5. Czech Republic 144 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Russia 6084 2.  Germany 6059 3.  Norway 5992 4.  France 5321 5.  Austria 5065 Final standings after 19 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Andrea Henkel	870
2.	Kati Wilhelm	863
3.	Anna Carin Olofsson	860
4.	Magdalena Neuner	720
5.	Florence Baverel-Robert	671

• Final standings after 27 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Andrea Henkel 140 2. Anna Carin Olofsson 111 3. Martina Glagow 109 4. Florence Baverel-Robert 104 5. Tora Berger 92 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Anna Carin Olofsson 351 2. Kati Wilhelm 317 3. Andrea Henkel 313 4. Magdalena Neuner 285 5. Sandrine Bailly 254 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Kati Wilhelm 284 2. Magdalena Neuner 283 3. Andrea Henkel 267 4. Anna Carin Olofsson 263 5. Linda Grubben 232 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Kati Wilhelm 169 2. Oksana Khvostenko 148 3. Ekaterina Iourieva 136 4. Kathrin Hitzer 134 5. Helena Jonsson 126 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. France 189 2. Germany 188 3. Russia 180 4. Norway 166 5. China 157 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 6272 2.  Russia 5659 3.  France 5618 4.  Norway 5351 5.  China 5208 Final standings after 19 races.

Post-season brief on participants

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First World Cup career victory:

•  Magdalena Gwizdoń (POL), 27, in her 9th season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; first podium was 2004-05 WC 2 IN in Holmenkollen
•  Helena Jonsson (SWE), 22, in her 2nd season — the WC 9 Mass start in Khanty-Mansyisk; also her first individual podium
•  Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 29, in her 11th season — the WC 6 Mass start in Pokljuka; first podium was 1998-99 WC 8 MS in Holmenkollen
•  Irina Malgina (RUS), 33, in her 5th season — the WC 1 Individual in Östersund; also her first individual podium
•  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 19, in her 2nd season — the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof; also her first individual podium
•  Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) 24, in his 3rd season — the WC 9 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansyisk; first podium was 2005-06 WC 3 IN in Brezno-Osrblie
•  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 26, in his 4th season — the WC 9 Mass start in Khanty-Mansyisk; first podium was 2004-05 WC 3 MS in Östersund

First podium placement:

•  Liv Kjersti Eikeland (NOR), 27, in her 5th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
•  Simon Fourcade (FRA), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Individual in Lahti
•  Hans Martin Gjedrem (NOR), 26, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Lahti
•  Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 20, in her 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Pursuit in Lahti
•  Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 30, in his 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund
•  Zina Kocher (CAN), 23, in her 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
•  Andrei Makoveev (RUS), 23, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansyisk
•  Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS), 25, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Sprint in Pokljuka
•  Alexander Os (NOR), 27, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Sprint in Lahti
•  Matthias Simmen (SUI), 34, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint;  Switzerland's first podium placement
•  Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 24, in his 5th season — no. 2 in the BWCH Sprint in Antholz
•  Natalya Sokolova (BLR), 33, in her 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Pursuit in Pokljuka
•  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding

Achievements

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

Men  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 11 (74) first places  Raphaël Poirée (FRA), 6 (44) first places  Michael Greis (GER), 2 (5) first places  Nikolay Kruglov (RUS), 2 (3) first places  Christoph Sumann (AUT), 2 (3) first places  Alexander Wolf (GER), 1 (3) first place  Michael Rösch (GER), 1 (2) first place  Maxim Chudov (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Women  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 7 (7) first places  Andrea Henkel (GER), 6 (10) first places  Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE), 3 (9) first places  Linda Grubben (NOR), 3 (8) first places  Martina Glagow (GER), 2 (11) first places  Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 1 (16) first place  Kati Wilhelm (GER), 1 (16) first place  Irina Malgina (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Magdalena Gwizdoń (POL), 1 (1) first place  Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 1 (1) first place  Helena Jonsson (SWE), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired during or after the 2006–07 season:

•  Ricco Gross (GER)
•  Sven Fischer (GER)
•  Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA)
•  Egil Gjelland (NOR)
•  Sergei Rozhkov (RUS)
•  Sergei Tchepikov (RUS)
•  Irina Nikulchina (BUL)
•  Christelle Gros (FRA)
•  Florence Baverel-Robert (FRA)
•  Katrin Apel (GER)
•  Linda Grubben (NOR)
•  Irina Malgina (RUS)
•  Sona Mihokova (SVK)
•  Nina Lemesh (UKR)
•  Olena Petrova (UKR)