2011–12 Biathlon World Cup

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 30 November 2011 in Östersund, Sweden and ended on 18 March 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

2011–12 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Fourcade	Magdalena Neuner
Nations Cup	Russia	Russia
Individual	Simon Fourcade	Helena Ekholm
Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Magdalena Neuner
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Darya Domracheva
Mass start	Andreas Birnbacher	Darya Domracheva
Relay	France	France
Mixed	Russia
Competition
←2010–11 2012–13→

2011–12 World Cup in Östersund

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2011–12 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Details
Östersund	30 November–4 December	●	●	●				details
Hochfilzen	7 December–11 December		●	●		●		details
Hochfilzen	15–18 December		●	●			●	details
Oberhof	4–8 January		●		●	●		details
Nové Město	11–15 January	●	●	●				details
Antholz-Anterselva	19–22 January		●		●	●		details
Holmenkollen	2–5 February		●	●	●			details
Kontiolahti	10–12 February		●	●			●	details
Ruhpolding	29 February–11 March	●	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Khanty-Mansiysk	16–18 March		●	●	●			details
Total		3	10	8	5	4	3

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 2011	Östersund	20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Michal Šlesingr	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Detail
	2 December 2011	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Carl Johan Bergman	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	4 December 2011	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Jaroslav Soukup		Detail
2	9 December 2011	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Carl Johan Bergman	Andrei Makoveev	Benjamin Weger		Detail
	10 December 2011	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tarjei Bø	Benjamin Weger	Carl Johan Bergman	Detail
3	15 December 2011	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Martin Fourcade	Timofey Lapshin	Tarjei Bø	Detail
	17 December 2011	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Andreas Birnbacher	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Simon Fourcade		Detail
4	7 January 2012	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Simon Fourcade	Evgeny Ustyugov		Detail
	8 January 2012	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Andreas Birnbacher	Simon Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
5	12 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	20 km Individual	Andrei Makoveev	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Björn Ferry		Detail
	14 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Simon Fourcade	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	15 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	12.5 km Pursuit	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade	Simon Fourcade		Detail
6	20 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Fredrik Lindström	Evgeny Garanichev	Martin Fourcade	Martin Fourcade	Detail
	21 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Andreas Birnbacher	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade		Detail
7	2 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Evgeny Garanichev	Arnd Peiffer	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	4 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Arnd Peiffer	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Evgeny Garanichev	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	5 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Andreas Birnbacher	Evgeny Garanichev		Detail
8	11 February 2012	Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Timofey Lapshin	Benjamin Weger	Martin Fourcade	Detail
	12 February 2012	Kontiolahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Martin Fourcade	Dmitry Malyshko		Detail
WC	3 March 2012	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Carl Johan Bergman		Detail
	4 March 2012	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Carl Johan Bergman	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	6 March 2012	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Jakov Fak	Simon Fourcade	Jaroslav Soukup		Detail
	11 March 2012	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Björn Ferry	Fredrik Lindström		Detail
9	16 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Fredrik Lindström		Detail
	17 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	18 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Arnd Peiffer	Anton Shipulin		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	1 December 2011	Östersund	15 km Individual	Darya Domracheva	Anna Maria Nilsson	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Detail
	3 December 2011	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner	Detail
	4 December 2011	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
2	9 December 2011	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
	10 December 2011	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Olga Zaitseva	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
3	16 December 2011	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Zaitseva	Darya Domracheva	Helena Ekholm		Detail
	17 December 2011	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Olga Zaitseva	Helena Ekholm	Darya Domracheva		Detail
4	6 January 2012	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
	8 January 2012	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel		Detail
5	11 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	15 km Individual	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Helena Ekholm	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	13 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Zaitseva	Tora Berger	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	15 January 2012	Nové Město na M.	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Helena Ekholm	Marie-Laure Brunet		Detail
6	19 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	22 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Anastázia Kuzminová	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
7	2 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Tora Berger		Detail
	4 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Neuner	Olga Zaitseva	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	5 February 2012	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Andrea Henkel	Darya Domracheva	Helena Ekholm		Detail
8	11 February 2012	Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	12 February 2012	Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva		Detail
WC	3 March 2012	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Vita Semerenko		Detail
	4 March 2012	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Magdalena Neuner	Olga Vilukhina		Detail
	7 March 2012	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Tora Berger	Marie-Laure Brunet	Helena Ekholm		Detail
	11 March 2012	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Tora Berger	Marie-Laure Brunet	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
9	16 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Vita Semerenko	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	17 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Vita Semerenko		Detail
	18 March 2012	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	11 December 2011	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Rune Brattsveen Lars Berger Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	Russia Anton Shipulin Andrei Makoveev Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko	France Vincent Jay Simon Fourcade Alexis Boeuf Martin Fourcade
4	5 January 2012	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Italy Christian De Lorenzi Markus Windisch Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer	Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeniy Garanichev Evgeny Ustyugov Alexey Volkov	Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman
6	22 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Fourcade Alexis Boeuf Martin Fourcade	Germany Michael Rösch Andreas Birnbacher Florian Graf Arnd Peiffer	Austria Simon Eder Tobias Eberhard Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger
WC	9 March 2012	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Rune Brattsveen Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Fourcade Alexis Boeuf Martin Fourcade	Germany Simon Schempp Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis Arnd Peiffer

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	11 December 2011	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Fanny Horn Elise Ringen Synnove Solemdal Tora Berger	France Marie-Laure Brunet Anais Bescond Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin Habert	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Natalia Guseva Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Zaitseva
4	4 January 2012	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Olga Vilukhina	Norway Fanny Horn Elise Ringen Synnove Solemdal Tora Berger	France Marie Dorin Habert Anais Bescond Marine Bolliet Sophie Boilley
6	21 January 2012	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Marie Dorin Habert	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Liudmila Kalinchik Natassia Dubarezava Darya Domracheva	Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Olga Vilukhina
WC	10 March 2012	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner Miriam Gössner Andrea Henkel	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Marie Dorin Habert	Norway Fanny Horn Elise Ringen Synnove Solemdal Tora Berger

Mixed Relay

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
3	18 December 2011	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Vilukhina Olga Zaitseva Alexey Volkov Anton Shipulin	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr	France Marie Dorin Habert Sophie Boilley Alexis Boeuf Simon Fourcade
8	10 February 2012	Kontiolahti	4x7.5 km Relay	France Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Vincent Jay	Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Olena Pidhrushna Andriy Deryzemlya Serhiy Sednev	Slovakia Jana Gereková Anastasiya Kuzmina Matej Kazár Miroslav Matiaško
WC	1 March 2012	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Tora Berger Synnove Solemdal Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	Slovenia Andreja Mali Teja Gregorin Klemen Bauer Jakov Fak	Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Martin Fourcade	1100
2.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	1035
3.	Andreas Birnbacher	837
4.	Arnd Peiffer	736
5.	Simon Fourcade	716

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Simon Fourcade 125 2. Jakov Fak 113 3. Emil Hegle Svendsen 108 4. Martin Fourcade 107 5. Jaroslav Soukup 99 Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 423 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 378 3. Carl Johan Bergman 287 4. Arnd Peiffer 270 5. Andrei Makoveev 261 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 384 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 348 3. Arnd Peiffer 257 4. Tarjei Bø 257 5. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 239 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Andreas Birnbacher 260 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 218 3. Martin Fourcade 202 4. Fredrik Lindström 175 5. Anton Shipulin 172 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. France 198 2. Norway 190 3. Russia 189 4. Germany 183 5. Austria 166 Final standings after 4 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Russia 7070 2.  France 7044 3.  Germany 6901 4.  Norway 6712 5.  Sweden 6333 Final standings after 20 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Neuner	1216
2.	Darya Domracheva	1188
3.	Tora Berger	1056
4.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	1011
5.	Helena Ekholm	898

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Helena Ekholm 138 2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 116 3. Darya Domracheva 116 4. Magdalena Neuner 114 5. Tora Berger 109 Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Magdalena Neuner 571 2. Darya Domracheva 471 3. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 402 4. Tora Berger 374 5. Olga Zaitseva 334 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Darya Domracheva 392 2. Magdalena Neuner 372 3. Tora Berger 361 4. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 330 5. Olga Zaitseva 313 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Darya Domracheva 250 2. Tora Berger 242 3. Marie-Laure Brunet 202 4. Andrea Henkel 197 5. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 190 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. France 216 2. Norway 205 3. Russia 192 4. Germany 179 5. Belarus 177 Final standings after 4 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Russia 7089 2.  Germany 7084 3.  France 6857 4.  Norway 6716 5.  Belarus 6490 Final standings after 20 races.

Standings: Mixed

Mixed Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Russia	143
2.	France	138
3.	Germany	128
4.	Ukraine	115
5.	Sweden	114

• Final standings after 3 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	17	9	10	36
2	Norway	14	12	6	32
3	France	11	12	8	31
4	Russia	8	8	12	28
5	Belarus	6	6	6	18
6	Sweden	3	6	7	16
7	Finland	2	5	3	10
8	Slovenia	1	1	1	3
9	Italy	1	0	0	1
10	Czech Republic	0	2	2	4
	Ukraine	0	2	2	4
12	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
13	Switzerland	0	0	3	3
14	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		63	64	62	189

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Andrei Makoveev (RUS), 29, in his 8th season — the WC 5 Individual in Nové Město; first podium was 2006-07 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk
•  Fredrik Lindström (SWE), 22, in his 4th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz; it also was his first podium
•  Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS), 23, in his 2nd season — the WC 7 Sprint in Holmenkollen; first podium was 2011-12 Sprint in Antholz
•  Jakov Fak (SLO), 24, in his 6th season — the World Championships Individual in Ruhpolding; first podium was 2008-09 Individual in Pyeong Chang

First World Cup podium

•  Anna Maria Nilsson (SWE), 28, in her 10th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
•  Jaroslav Soukup (CZE), 29, in his 9th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Pursuit in Östersund
•  Timofey Lapshin (RUS), 23, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen (2)
•  Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS), 23, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz
•  Dmitry Malyshko (RUS), 24, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Pursuit in Kontiolahti
•  Olga Vilukhina (RUS), 23, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the World Championships Pursuit in Ruhpolding

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

Men  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 8 (14) first places  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 4 (28) first places  Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 3 (4) first places  Arnd Peiffer (GER), 2 (6) first places  Carl Johan Bergman (SWE), 2 (3) first places  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 1 (93) first place  Tarjei Bø (NOR), 1 (6) first place  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (2) first place  Andrei Makoveev (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Fredrik Lindström (SWE), 1 (1) first place  Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Jakov Fak (SLO), 1 (1) first place

Women  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 10 (34) first places  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 6 (9) first places  Tora Berger (NOR), 4 (16) first places  Olga Zaitseva (RUS), 3 (12) first places  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 2 (5) first places  Andrea Henkel (GER), 1 (21) first place

Retirements

Following are notable biathletes who announced their retirement:

•  Ekaterina Vinogradova (ARM)
•  Nina Klenovska (BUL)
•  Wang Chunli (CHN)
•  Eveli Saue (EST)
•  Sabrina Buchholz (GER)
•  Magdalena Neuner (GER)
•  Katja Haller (ITA)
•  Christa Perathoner (ITA)
•  Kari Eie (NOR)
•  Birgitte Roeksund (NOR)
•  Anna Bogaliy-Titovets (RUS)
•  Uliana Denisova (RUS)
•  Helena Ekholm (SWE)
•  Anna Maria Nilsson (SWE)
•  Laura Spector (USA)
•  Tomasz Sikora (POL)
•  Frode Andresen (NOR)
•  Ilmars Bricis (LAT) (comeback in 2016–17 season)