2009–10 Biathlon World Cup

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 2 December 2009 in Östersund, Sweden and ended 28 March 2010 with the Mixed Relay World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Races of the season were broadcast in Europe on Eurosport channel.

2009–10 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Magdalena Neuner
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Christoph Sumann	Anna Carin Zidek
Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Simone Hauswald
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Magdalena Neuner
Mass start	Evgeny Ustyugov	Magdalena Neuner
Relay	Norway	Russia
Competition
←2008–09 2010–11→

2009–10 Biathlon World Cup

Calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2009–10 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
Östersund	2–6 December	●	●			●	details
Hochfilzen	11–13 December		●	●		●	details
Pokljuka	17–20 December	●	●	●			details
Oberhof	6–10 January		●		●	●	details
Ruhpolding	13–17 January		●		●	●	details
Antholz	20–24 January	●	●	●			details
Vancouver	13–26 February	●	●	●	●	●	Winter Olympics
Kontiolahti	12–14 March		●	●			details
Oslo	18–21 March		●	●	●		details
Khanty-Mansiysk	25–27 March		●		●		details
Total		4	10	6	5	5

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	3 December 2009	Östersund	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tim Burke	Christoph Sumann	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	5 December 2009	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tim Burke		Detail
2	11 December 2009	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Nikolay Kruglov	Evgeny Ustyugov		Detail
	12 December 2009	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Simon Eder	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
3	17 December 2009	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Christoph Sumann	Simon Fourcade	Alexander Os	Christoph Sumann	Detail
	19 December 2009	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Ivan Tcherezov	Dominik Landertinger	Thomas Frei		Detail
	20 December 2009	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Evgeny Ustyugov	Roland Lessing	Simon Eder	Tim Burke	Detail
4	9 January 2010	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Evgeny Ustyugov	Michael Greis	Carl Johan Bergman	Evgeny Ustyugov	Detail
	10 January 2010	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Tim Burke	Tomasz Sikora	Tim Burke	Detail
5	14 January 2010	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Michael Greis	Evgeny Ustyugov	Detail
	16 January 2010	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Evgeny Ustyugov	Simon Eder		Detail
6	21 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Serhiy Sednev	Daniel Mesotitsch	Alexis Bœuf		Detail
	23 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Dominik Landertinger	Christoph Stephan		Detail
	24 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Daniel Mesotitsch	Arnd Peiffer	Dominik Landertinger	Simon Fourcade	Detail
OG	14 February 2010	Vancouver	10 km Sprint	Vincent Jay	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Jakov Fak	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	16 February 2010	Vancouver	12.5 km Pursuit	Björn Ferry	Christoph Sumann	Vincent Jay	Christoph Sumann	Detail
	18 February 2010	Vancouver	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sergey Novikov	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	21 February 2010	Vancouver	15 km Mass Start	Evgeny Ustyugov	Martin Fourcade	Pavol Hurajt	Evgeny Ustyugov	Detail
7	13 March 2010	Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	Ivan Tcherezov	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	14 March 2010	Kontiolahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Christian De Lorenzi	Vincent Jay		Detail
8	18 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Maxim Tchoudov	Christoph Sumann		Detail
	20 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Simon Schempp	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
	21 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Ivan Tcherezov	Christoph Sumann	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
9	26 March 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Ivan Tcherezov	Christian De Lorenzi	Andriy Deryzemlya		Detail
	27 March 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Dominik Landertinger	Arnd Peiffer	Halvard Hanevold		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	2 December 2009	Östersund	15 km Individual	Helena Jonsson	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Darya Domracheva	Helena Jonsson	Detail
	5 December 2009	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Olga Medvedtseva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
2	11 December 2009	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Helena Jonsson	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
	12 December 2009	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Helena Jonsson	Svetlana Sleptsova	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
3	17 December 2009	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Helena Jonsson	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Anastázia Kuzminová		Detail
	19 December 2009	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Svetlana Sleptsova	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	20 December 2009	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Svetlana Sleptsova	Magdalena Neuner	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets		Detail
4	8 January 2010	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Simone Hauswald	Helena Jonsson	Ann Kristin Flatland		Detail
	10 January 2010	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Andrea Henkel	Helena Jonsson	Tora Berger		Detail
5	13 January 2010	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Olga Medvedtseva	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	16 January 2010	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Helena Jonsson	Simone Hauswald	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
6	20 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Magdalena Neuner	Kati Wilhelm	Andrea Henkel		Detail
	22 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Sandrine Bailly		Detail
	24 January 2010	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Neuner	Ann Kristin Flatland		Detail
OG	13 February 2010	Vancouver	7.5 km Sprint	Anastázia Kuzminová	Magdalena Neuner	Marie Dorin		Detail
	16 February 2010	Vancouver	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Neuner	Anastázia Kuzminová	Marie-Laure Brunet		Detail
	18 February 2010	Vancouver	15 km Individual	Tora Berger	Elena Khrustaleva	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	21 February 2010	Vancouver	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Olga Zaitseva	Simone Hauswald		Detail
7	13 March 2010	Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	Darya Domracheva	Olga Zaitseva	Kati Wilhelm	Magdalena Neuner	Detail
	14 March 2010	Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Magdalena Neuner	Simone Hauswald		Detail
8	18 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Simone Hauswald	Darya Domracheva	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek		Detail
	20 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Simone Hauswald	Darya Domracheva	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek		Detail
	21 March 2010	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Simone Hauswald	Vita Semerenko	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
9	25 March 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Yana Romanova	Marie-Laure Brunet	Helena Jonsson		Detail
	27 March 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Sandrine Bailly	Anastázia Kuzminová		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	6 December 2009	Östersund	4x7.5 km Relay	France Vincent Jay Vincent Defrasne Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Lars Berger Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann
2	13 December 2009	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Austria Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Evgeny Ustyugov Nikolay Kruglov Maxim Tchoudov	Germany Christoph Stephan Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis Simon Schempp
4	7 January 2010	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	France Vincent Jay Vincent Defrasne Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade	Germany Christoph Stephan Michael Greis Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp
5	17 January 2010	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Tchoudov Evgeny Ustyugov	Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Tobias Eberhard Dominik Landertinger
OG	26 February 2010	Vancouver	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Austria Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Tchoudov Evgeny Ustyugov

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	6 December 2009	Östersund	4x6 km Relay	Germany Martina Beck Andrea Henkel Simone Hauswald Kati Wilhelm	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Boulygina Olga Zaitseva Olga Medvedtseva	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly
2	13 December 2009	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Boulygina Yana Romanova Olga Zaitseva	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly	Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson
4	6 January 2010	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Anna Boulygina Olga Medvedtseva Svetlana Sleptsova	Germany Martina Beck Simone Hauswald Tina Bachmann Andrea Henkel	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly
5	15 January 2010	Ruhpolding	4x6 km Relay	Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson	Russia Yana Romanova Anna Boulygina Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaitseva	Norway Liv-Kjersti Eikeland Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Tora Berger
OG	23 February 2010	Vancouver	4x6 km Relay	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaitseva	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly	Germany Kati Wilhelm Simone Hauswald Martina Beck Andrea Henkel

Mixed

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
7	12 March 2010	Kontiolahti	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Norway Ann Kristin Flatland Tora Berger Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø	Germany Kati Wilhelm Magdalena Neuner Erik Lesser Simon Schempp	Italy Katja Haller Karin Oberhofer Lukas Hofer Christian De Lorenzi
9 (WC)	28 March 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Germany Simone Hauswald Magdalena Neuner Simon Schempp Arnd Peiffer	Norway Ann Kristin Flatland Tora Berger Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sweden Helena Jonsson Anna Carin Zidek Björn Ferry Carl Johan Bergman

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	828
2.	Christoph Sumann	813
3.	Ivan Tcherezov	782
4.	Evgeny Ustyugov	752
5.	Martin Fourcade	719

• Final standings after 25 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Christoph Sumann 142 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 120 3. Daniel Mesotitsch 120 4. Serhiy Sednev 114 5. Pavol Hurajt 111 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Emil Hegle Svendsen 354 2. Ivan Tcherezov 344 3. Christoph Sumann 292 4. Evgeny Ustyugov 278 5. Dominik Landertinger 272 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 197 2. Simon Eder 196 3. Ivan Tcherezov 189 4. Evgeny Ustyugov 184 5. Dominik Landertinger 184 Final standings after 6 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Evgeny Ustyugov 197 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 163 3. Arnd Peiffer 161 4. Christoph Sumann 160 5. Dominik Landertinger 157 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Norway 228 2. Austria 210 3. Russia 205 4. France 195 5. Germany 179 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Norway 6250 2.  Russia 6161 3.  Austria 6107 4.  France 5846 5.  Germany 5760 Final standings after 19 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Neuner	933
2.	Simone Hauswald	857
3.	Helena Jonsson	820
4.	Andrea Henkel	786
5.	Anna Carin Zidek	778

• Final standings after 25 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Anna Carin Zidek 132 2. Andrea Henkel 126 3. Kati Wilhelm 121 4. Darya Domracheva 121 5. Helena Jonsson 120 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Simone Hauswald 346 2. Magdalena Neuner 334 3. Helena Jonsson 334 4. Anna Carin Zidek 327 5. Kati Wilhelm 303 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Magdalena Neuner 256 2. Simone Hauswald 217 3. Olga Zaitseva 207 4. Darya Domracheva 200 5. Andrea Henkel 195 Final standings after 6 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Magdalena Neuner 216 2. Simone Hauswald 198 3. Andrea Henkel 171 4. Helena Jonsson 168 5. Olga Zaitseva 154 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Russia 234 2. Germany 205 3. France 204 4. Sweden 191 5. Norway 165 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 6309 2.  Russia 6290 3.  France 5834 4.  Sweden 5829 5.  Ukraine 5456 Final standings after 19 races.

Medal table

(includes medals of the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	14	13	13	40
2	Russia	14	12	6	32
3	Norway	13	8	8	29
4	Sweden	8	5	6	19
5	France	5	7	9	21
6	Austria	4	7	7	18
7	Belarus	2	3	2	7
8	Slovakia	1	1	3	5
9	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
10	Italy	0	2	1	3
	United States	0	2	1	3
12	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
14	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		62	63	61	186

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS), 24, in his 2nd season — the WC 3 Pursuit in Pokljuka; first podium was 2009–10 Sprint in Hochfilzen
•  Serhiy Sednev (UKR), 26, in his 7th season — the WC 6 Individual in Antholz; first podium was 2007–08 Individual in Pokljuka
•  Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 25, in her 4th season — the 2010 Winter Olympics Sprint; first podium was 2009 World Championships Mass start in Pyeongchang
•  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 23, in her 4th season — the WC 7 Sprint in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2008–09 Sprint in Ruhpolding
•  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 21, in his 3rd season — the WC 7 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2010 Winter Olympics Mass start in Vancouver
•  Yana Romanova (RUS), 26, in her 3rd season — the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk; it also was her first podium

First World Cup podium

•  Tim Burke (USA), 27, in his 7th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
•  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS), 24, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen
•  Thomas Frei (SUI), 29, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka
•  Roland Lessing (EST), 31, in his 12th season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Pursuit in Pokljuka
•  Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 27, in her 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof
•  Alexis Bœuf (FRA), 23, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Individual in Antholz
•  Elena Khrustaleva (KAZ), 29, in her 5th season — no. 2 in the 2010 Winter Olympics Individual
•  Sergey Novikov (BLR), 29, in his 10th season — no. 2 in the 2010 Winter Olympics Individual
•  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 21, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the 2010 Winter Olympics Mass start
•  Christian De Lorenzi (ITA), 29, in his 7th season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Pursuit in Kontiolahti
•  Simon Schempp (GER), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 8 Pursuit in Oslo
•  Yana Romanova (RUS), 26, in her 3rd season — no. 1 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

Men  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 5 (16) first places  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 4 (7) first places  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 3 (91) first places  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS), 3 (3) first places  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 3 (3) first places  Christoph Sumann (AUT), 1 (5) first place  Björn Ferry (SWE), 1 (3) first place  Arnd Peiffer (GER), 1 (2) first place  Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 1 (2) first place  Vincent Jay (FRA), 1 (2) first place  Dominik Landertinger (AUT), 1 (2) first place  Serhiy Sednev (UKR), 1 (1) first place

Women  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5 (19) first places  Helena Jonsson (SWE), 4 (9) first places  Simone Hauswald (GER), 4 (7) first places  Andrea Henkel (GER), 2 (18) first places  Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek (SWE), 2 (11) first places  Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 2 (6) first places  Tora Berger (NOR), 2 (6) first places  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 2 (2) first places  Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 1 (1) first place  Yana Romanova (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes announced their retirement during or after the 2009–10 season:

•  Mikhail Siamionau (BLR)
•  Robin Clegg (CAN)^[2]
•  Roman Dostál (CZE)
•  Martten Kaldvee (EST)^[3]
•  Vincent Defrasne (FRA)^[4]
•  Halvard Hanevold (NOR)^[5]
•  Nikolay Kruglov (RUS)^[6]
•  Marek Matiaško (SVK)
•  Vyacheslav Derkach (UKR)
•  Liudmila Ananko (BLR)
•  Olga Kudrashova (BLR)
•  Natalya Sokolova (BLR)
•  Sandra Keith (CAN)^[7]
•  Dong Xue (CHN)
•  Liu Xianying (CHN)^[8]
•  Kong Yingchao (CHN)^[8]
•  Yu Shumei (CHN)
•  Magda Rezlerova (CZE)
•  Sandrine Bailly (FRA)^[4]
•  Sylvie Becaert (FRA)^[4]
•  Martina Beck (GER)^[9]
•  Simone Hauswald (GER)^[9]
•  Anne Preussler (GER)
•  Kati Wilhelm (GER)^[9]
•  Barbara Ertl (ITA)
•  Natalia Levchenkova (MDA)
•  Liv Kjersti Eikeland (NOR)
•  Anne Ingstadbjoerg (NOR)
•  Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen (NOR)
•  Dana Plotogea (ROM)
•  Mihaela Purdea (ROM)
•  Olga Medvedtseva (RUS)^[6]
•  Dijana Ravnikar (SLO)^[10](comeback in 2012/2013 season)
•  Lilia Vaygina-Efremova (UKR)
•  Oksana Yakovleva (UKR)

Notes

• Yellow mark means the leader in the overall standings, one will wear the yellow jersey in the next World Cup race. Red mark means the leader in the discipline, one will wear the red jersey during the next World Cup race in the discipline, unless the athlete is at the same time the leader in the overall standings, in which case one will wear combined yellow/read jersey.