2015–16 Biathlon World Cup

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season began on 29 November 2015 in Östersund, Sweden, and ended on 19 March 2016 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.^[1] The defending overall champions from the 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup were Martin Fourcade of France and Darya Domracheva of Belarus, but Domracheva missed the season due to illness.^[2]

2015–16 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dorothea Wierer
Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Mass start	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Relay	Norway	Germany
Mixed	Norway
Competition
←2014–15 2016–17→

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2015–16 season.^[1]

Stage	Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Östersund	29 November–6 December	●	●	●			●	●	details
2	Hochfilzen	11–13 December		●	●		●			details
3	Pokljuka	17–20 December		●	●	●				details
4	Ruhpolding[nb 1]	8–10 January		●	●	●				details
5	Ruhpolding	13–17 January	●			●	●			details
6	Antholz-Anterselva	21–24 January		●	●		●			details
7	Canmore	4–7 February		●		●		●	●	details
8	Presque Isle	11–13 February		●	●		●			details
WC	Holmenkollen	3–13 March	●	●	●	●	●	●		World Championships
9	Khanty-Mansiysk	17–19 March		●	●	Cancelled				details
Total: 65 (30 men's, 30 women's, 5 mixed)			3	9	8	5	5	3	2

Men

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	2 December 2015	Östersund	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Simon Schempp	Alexey Volkov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
	5 December 2015		10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
	6 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Martin Fourcade	Detail
2	11 December 2015	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	12 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Simon Schempp	Anton Shipulin		Detail
3	17 December 2015	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
	19 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	20 December 2015		15 km Mass Start	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
4	8 January 2016	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	9 January 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Eder	Martin Fourcade	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
	10 January 2016		15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Ondřej Moravec	Tarjei Bø		Detail
5	13 January 2016	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Simon Eder	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	16 January 2016		15 km Mass Start	Erik Lesser	Martin Fourcade	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
6	22 January 2016	Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Maxim Tsvetkov	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	23 January 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø		Detail
7	4 February 2016	Canmore	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp		Detail
	6 February 2016		15 km Mass Start	Dominik Windisch	Benedikt Doll	Quentin Fillon Maillet		Detail
8	11 February 2016	Presque Isle	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	12 February 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin		Detail
WCH	5 March 2016	Oslo	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Serhiy Semenov		Detail
	6 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	10 March 2016		20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dominik Landertinger	Simon Eder		Detail
	13 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
9	18 March 2016	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Julian Eberhard	Simon Schempp	Arnd Peiffer		Detail
	19 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Erik Lesser		Detail
	20 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Cancelled due to strong winds				Detail

Men's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2015	Hochfilzen	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Norway Henrik L'Abée-Lund Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	Russia	Detail
5	15 January 2016	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Shipulin	Austria Sven Grossegger Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	Russia /  Norway	Detail
6	24 January 2016	Anterselva	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Lars Helge Birkeland Johannes Thingnes Bø Erlend Bjøntegaard	Russia	Detail
8	13 February 2016	Presque Isle	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Daniel Böhm Benedikt Doll	Norway	Detail
WCH	12 March 2016	Oslo	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green		Detail

Standings

Overall Rank after all 25 races[4] Points Martin Fourcade 1151 2. Johannes Thingnes Bø 820 3. Anton Shipulin 806 4. Simon Schempp 769 5. Simon Eder 714 6. Tarjei Bø 708 7. Evgenii Garanichev 659 8. Benedikt Doll 602 9. Dominik Landertinger 600 10. Emil Hegle Svendsen 595

Individual Rank after all 3 races[5] Points Martin Fourcade 140 2. Simon Eder 138 3. Dominik Landertinger 105 4. Anton Shipulin 100 5. Johannes Thingnes Bø 90

Sprint Rank after all 9 races[6] Points Martin Fourcade 379 2. Simon Schempp 316 3. Johannes Thingnes Bø 298 4. Arnd Peiffer 262 5. Anton Shipulin 251

Pursuit Rank after all 8 races[7] Points Martin Fourcade 391 2. Anton Shipulin 300 3. Johannes Thingnes Bø 278 4. Tarjei Bø 267 5. Simon Eder 254

Mass start Rank after all 5 races[8] Points Martin Fourcade 242 2. Quentin Fillon Maillet 162 3. Anton Shipulin 155 4. Johannes Thingnes Bø 154 5. Evgenii Garanichev 153

Relay Rank after all 5 races[9] Points 1.  Norway 282 2.  Russia 255 3.  Germany 236 4.  France 217 5.  Austria 209

Nation Rank after all 22 races[10] Points 1.  Norway 7808 2.  Germany 7518 3.  Russia 7178 4.  France 7113 5.  Austria 6795

Women

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	3 December 2015	Östersund	15 km Individual	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert	Olena Pidhrushna	Dorothea Wierer	Detail
	5 December 2015		7.5 km Sprint	Gabriela Soukalová	Federica Sanfilippo	Olena Pidhrushna	Gabriela Soukalová	Detail
	6 December 2015		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Dorothea Wierer	Franziska Hildebrand		Detail
2	11 December 2015	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Franziska Hildebrand	Maren Hammerschmidt	Miriam Gössner		Detail
	12 December 2015		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Maren Hammerschmidt	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
3	18 December 2015	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier	Franziska Hildebrand		Detail
	19 December 2015		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Marie Dorin Habert	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert	Detail
	20 December 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová	Olga Podchufarova	Gabriela Soukalová	Detail
4	8 January 2016	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Franziska Hildebrand	Gabriela Soukalová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
	9 January 2016		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Gabriela Soukalová	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
	10 January 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Laura Dahlmeier	Marie Dorin Habert	Tiril Eckhoff		Detail
5	14 January 2016	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Dorothea Wierer	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
	16 January 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Gabriela Soukalová	Franziska Hildebrand	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
6	21 January 2016	Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Podchufarova	Dorothea Wierer	Ekaterina Yurlova		Detail
	23 January 2016		10 km Pursuit	Ekaterina Yurlova	Selina Gasparin	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
7	5 February 2016	Canmore	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Pidhrushna	Krystyna Guzik	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
	6 February 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
8	11 February 2016	Presque Isle	7.5 km Sprint	Gabriela Soukalová	Susan Dunklee	Krystyna Guzik		Detail
	12 February 2016		10 km Pursuit	Gabriela Soukalová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert		Detail
WCH	5 March 2016	Oslo	7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
	6 March 2016		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert		Detail
	9 March 2016		15 km Individual	Marie Dorin Habert	Anaïs Bescond	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
	13 March 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
9	17 March 2016	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová	Marte Olsbu		Detail
	19 March 2016		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
	20 March 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Cancelled due to strong winds				Detail

Women's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2015	Hochfilzen	4 × 6 km Relay	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Federica Sanfilippo Dorothea Wierer	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß	Ukraine Yuliia Dzhima Olga Abramova Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	Italy	Detail
5	17 January 2016	Ruhpolding	4 × 6 km Relay	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	Germany Karolin Horchler Miriam Gössner Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer	Italy /  Ukraine	Detail
6	24 January 2016	Anterselva	4 × 6 km Relay	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Gabriela Soukalová Veronika Vítková	Russia Ekaterina Shumilova Anastasia Zagoruiko Ekaterina Yurlova Olga Podchufarova	Italy	Detail
8	13 February 2016	Presque Isle	4 × 6 km Relay	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Gabriela Soukalová Veronika Vítková	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Natalya Burdyga Yuliia Dzhima Olena Pidhrushna	Germany Franziska Preuß Luise Kummer Miriam Gössner Karolin Horchler		Detail
WCH	11 March 2016	Oslo	4 × 6 km Relay	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	Germany	Detail

Standings

Overall Rank after all 25 races[11] Points Gabriela Soukalová 1074 2. Marie Dorin Habert 1028 3. Dorothea Wierer 944 4. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 892 5. Franziska Hildebrand 793 6. Laura Dahlmeier 786 7. Olena Pidhrushna 754 8. Veronika Vítková 705 9. Anaïs Bescond 666 10. Krystyna Guzik 566

Individual Rank after all 3 races[12] Points Dorothea Wierer 154 2. Marie Dorin Habert 152 3. Gabriela Soukalová 128 4. Franziska Hildebrand 112 5. Anaïs Bescond 107

Sprint Rank after all 9 races[13] Points Gabriela Soukalová 413 2. Marie Dorin Habert 336 3. Dorothea Wierer 327 4. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 309 5. Olena Pidhrushna 299

Pursuit Rank after all 8 races[14] Points Gabriela Soukalová 354 2. Dorothea Wierer 348 3. Marie Dorin Habert 331 4. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 324 5. Laura Dahlmeier 265

Mass start Rank after all 5 races[15] Points Gabriela Soukalová 241 2. Marie Dorin Habert 236 3. Laura Dahlmeier 228 4. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 179 5. Franziska Hildebrand 169

Relay Rank after all 5 races[16] Points 1.  Germany 236 2.  France 228 3.  Czech Republic 228 4.  Italy 227 5.  Ukraine 202

Nation Rank after all 22 races[17] Points 1.  Germany 7417 2.  France 7176 3.  Czech Republic 6944 4.  Italy 6822 5.  Ukraine 6573

Mixed

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Det.
1	29 November 2015	Östersund	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland	Canada Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith	Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm	Detail
1	29 November 2015	Östersund	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Norway Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	Detail
7	7 February 2016	Canmore	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	France Marie Dorin Habert Martin Fourcade	Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder	Norway Hilde Fenne Lars Helge Birkeland	Detail
7	7 February 2016	Canmore	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Italy Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	Norway Marte Olsbu Synnøve Solemdal Alexander Os Håvard Bogetveit	Detail
WC	3 March 2016	Oslo Holmenkollen	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Marte Olsbu Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Detail

Standings: Mixed

Mixed relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	264
2.	Germany	252
3.	France	223
4.	Russia	191
5.	Canada	183

• Final standings after 5 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	17	14	6	37
2	Germany	14	18	13	45
3	Norway	11	8	15	34
4	Czech Republic	5	6	5	16
5	Italy	5	5	5	15
6	Russia	5	4	10	19
7	Finland	4	2	3	9
8	Austria	2	3	2	7
9	Ukraine	2	1	4	7
10	Canada	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
Totals (13 entries)		65	65	65	195

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Men  Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 27, in his 9th season — the WC 3 Mass Start in Pokljuka; first podium was 2013–14 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva  Dominik Windisch (ITA), 26, in his 9th season — the WC 7 Mass Start in Canmore; it also was his first podium  Julian Eberhard (AUT), 29, in his 8th season — the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk; it also was his first podium

Women  Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 25, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Individual in Östersund; first podium was 2013–14 Pursuit in Pokljuka  Franziska Hildebrand (GER), 28, in her 5th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2014–15 Sprint in Nové Město  Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 23, in her 4th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2014–15 Pursuit in Hochfilzen

First World Cup podium

Men  Maxim Tsvetkov (RUS), 24, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva  Dominik Windisch (ITA), 26, in his 9th season — no. 1 WC 7 Mass Start in Canmore  Julian Eberhard (AUT), 29, in his 8th season — no. 1 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiyk

Women  Federica Sanfilippo (ITA), 25, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund  Maren Hammerschmidt (GER), 26, in her 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen  Marte Olsbu (NOR), 25, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

Men  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 10 (47) first places  Simon Schempp (GER), 5 (10) first places  Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 3 (11) first places  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 1 (94) first place  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (8) first place  Simon Eder (AUT), 1 (3) first place  Erik Lesser (GER), 1 (2) first place  Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 1 (1) first place  Dominik Windisch (ITA), 1 (1) first place  Julian Eberhard (AUT), 1 (1) first place

Women  Laura Dahlmeier (GER), 5 (7) first places  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 4 (19) first places  Gabriela Soukalová (CZE), 4 (12) first places  Marie Dorin Habert (FRA), 3 (5) first places  Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 3 (3) first places  Franziska Hildebrand (GER), 2 (2) first places  Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS), 1 (2) first place  Olena Pidhrushna (UKR), 1 (2) first place  Tiril Eckhoff (NOR), 1 (2) first place  Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Men  Friedrich Pinter (AUT)[18]  Scott Perras (CAN)[19]  Indrek Tobreluts (EST)[20]  Andreas Birnbacher (GER)[21]  Christian De Lorenzi (ITA)[22]  Christian Martinelli (ITA)[23]  Alexander Os (NOR)[24]  Krzysztof Pływaczyk (POL)  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)[25]  Miroslav Matiaško (SVK)[26]

Women  Zina Kocher (CAN)[27]  Audrey Vaillancourt (CAN)[18]  Barbora Tomešová (CZE)[28]  Daria Yurlova (EST)  Annukka Siltakorpi (FIN)  Marine Bolliet (FRA)[29]  Elena Khrustaleva (KAZ)  Marina Lebedeva (KAZ)  Marija Kaznacenko (LTU)  Bente Landheim (NOR)  Jori Mørkve (NOR)[30]  Elise Ringen (NOR)[31]  Olga Vilukhina (RUS)  Martina Chrapánová (SVK)[32]  Natália Prekopová (SVK)[33]  Natalya Burdyga (UKR)[19]  Annelies Cook (USA)[34]  Hannah Dreissigacker (USA)[28]

Footnotes

1. Originally scheduled in Oberhof on 7–10 January, relocated in Ruhpolding due to lack of snow.^[3]