1996–97 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Sven Fischer	Magdalena Forsberg
Nations Cup	Germany	Germany
Individual	Ricco Groß	Uschi Disl
Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Uschi Disl
Pursuit	Viktor Maigourov	Magdalena Forsberg
Relay	Germany	Russia
Competition
←1995–96 1997–98→

The 1996–97 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 1996 in Lillehammer, Norway, and ended on 16 March 1997 in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was the 20th season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 1996–97 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay
Lillehammer	30 November–1 December		●	●
Östersund	5–8 December	●	●			●
Holmenkollen	12–15 December		●	●		●
Oberhof	4–5 January		●	●
Ruhpolding	9–12 January	●	●
Antholz	16–19 January	●	●			●
Osrblie	1–17 February	●	●	●		●
Nagano	6–9 March	●	●			●
Novosibirsk	13–16 March	●	●		●
Total		6	9	4	1	5

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 1996	Lillehammer	10 km Sprint	Sven Fischer	Sergei Tarasov	Pavel Rostovtsev	Sven Fischer	Detail
1	1 December 1996	Lillehammer	12.5 km Pursuit	Sven Fischer	Pavel Rostovtsev	René Cattarinussi		Detail
2	5 December 1996	Östersund	20 km Individual	Wilfried Pallhuber	Vesa Hietalahti	Pavel Mouslimov	Pavel Mouslimov	Detail
2	7 December 1996	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Vadim Sashurin	Frode Andresen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
3	12 December 1996	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Viktor Maigourov	Frode Andresen	Sven Fischer	Sven Fischer	Detail
3	14 December 1996	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Viktor Maigourov	Sven Fischer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
4	4 January 1997	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Pavel Mouslimov	Halvard Hanevold		Detail
4	5 January 1997	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Viktor Maigourov	Ludwig Gredler		Detail
5	9 January 1997	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Ricco Groß	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Viktor Maigourov		Detail
5	11 January 1997	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Pavel Rostovtsev	Sven Fischer		Detail
6	16 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Ludwig Gredler	Ricco Groß	Sergei Rozhkov		Detail
6	18 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Viktor Maigourov	Pieralberto Carrara	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
WC	1 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Sprint	Wilfried Pallhuber	René Cattarinussi	Oleg Ryzhenkov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
WC	2 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km Pursuit	Viktor Maigourov	Sergei Tarasov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
WC	7 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	20 km Individual	Ricco Groß	Oleg Ryzhenkov	Ludwig Gredler		Detail
7	6 March 1997	Nagano	20 km Individual	Mark Kirchner	Vesa Hietalahti	Oleg Ryzhenkov		Detail
7	8 March 1997	Nagano	10 km Sprint	Sven Fischer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	René Cattarinussi		Detail
8	13 March 1997	Novosibirsk	20 km Individual	Pavel Mouslimov	Ricco Groß	Sven Fischer	Sven Fischer	Detail
8	15 March 1997	Novosibirsk	10 km Sprint	Ludwig Gredler	Ricco Groß	Sergei Tarasov		Detail

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 1996	Lillehammer	7.5 km Sprint	Petra Behle	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Olga Melnik	Petra Behle	Detail
1	1 December 1996	Lillehammer	10 km Pursuit	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Galina Koukleva	Magdalena Forsberg	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Detail
2	5 December 1996	Östersund	15 km Individual	Anna Volkova	Yu Shumei	Svetlana Paramygina	Petra Behle	Detail
2	7 December 1996	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Melnik	Svetlana Paramygina	Gunn Margit Andreassen		Detail
3	12 December 1996	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Uschi Disl	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Galina Koukleva		Detail
3	14 December 1996	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Uschi Disl	Galina Koukleva	Olga Romasko	Magdalena Forsberg	Detail
4	4 January 1997	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Hildegunn Mikkelsplass	Kathi Schwaab		Detail
4	5 January 1997	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Annette Sikveland		Detail
5	9 January 1997	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Annette Sikveland	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	Corinne Niogret		Detail
5	11 January 1997	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Petra Behle	Uschi Disl	Olga Romasko		Detail
6	16 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Tetyana Vodopyanova	Annette Sikveland	Uschi Disl		Detail
6	18 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Uschi Disl	Ann-Elen Skjelbreid	Corinne Niogret		Detail
WC	1 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Romasko	Olena Zubrilova	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
WC	2 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Olga Romasko		Detail
WC	6 February 1997	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Individual	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Ekaterina Dafovska		Detail
7	6 March 1997	Nagano	15 km Individual	Andreja Grašič	Uschi Disl	Anna Stera		Detail
7	8 March 1997	Nagano	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Romasko	Uschi Disl	Ekaterina Dafovska		Detail
8	13 March 1997	Novosibirsk	15 km Individual	Svetlana Paramygina	Uschi Disl	Anna Volkova		Detail
8	15 March 1997	Novosibirsk	7.5 km Sprint	Petra Behle	Andreja Grašič	Svetlana Paramygina		Detail

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	8 December 1996	Östersund	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Peter Sendel Frank Luck Sven Fischer	Norway Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Alexander Popov Vadim Sashurin
3	15 December 1996	Holmenkollen	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Peter Sendel Mark Kirchner Frank Luck	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Egil Gjelland Dag Bjørndalen Frode Andresen	Russia Sergei Rozhkov Pavel Mouslimov Pavel Rostovtsev Alexei Kobelev
5	12 January 1997	Ruhpolding	Team event	Austria Hannes Obererlacher Reinhard Neuner Wolfgang Perner Ludwig Gredler	Norway Halvard Hanevold Egil Gjelland Jon Age Tyldum Dag Bjørndalen	Russia Sergei Tarasov Eduard Ryabov Pavel Mouslimov Sergei Rozhkov
6	19 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Mark Kirchner Carsten Heymann Frank Luck	Italy Rene Cattarinussi Wilfried Pallhuber Patrick Favre Pieralberto Carrara	Norway Bard Mjolne Sylfest Glimsdal Jon Age Tyldum Ole Einar Bjørndalen
WC	5 February 1997	Osrblie	Team event	Belarus Oleg Ryzhenkov Petr Ivashko Alexander Popov Vadim Sashurin	Germany Carsten Heymann Mark Kirchner Frank Luck Peter Sendel	Poland Wieslaw Ziemianin Jan Ziemianin Wojciech Kozub Tomasz Sikora
WC	9 February 1997	Osrblie	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	Norway Egil Gjelland Jon Age Tyldum Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Italy Rene Cattarinussi Wilfried Pallhuber Patrick Favre Pieralberto Carrara
7	9 March 1997	Nagano	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Viktor Maigourov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Alexei Kobelev	Norway Frode Andresen Jon Age Tyldum Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Slovenia Jože Poklukar Tomaž Žemva Janez Ožbolt Matjaž Poklukar

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	8 December 1996	Östersund	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Anna Volkova Olga Romasko	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Hildegunn Mikkelsplass Gunn Margit Andreassen
3	15 December 1996	Holmenkollen	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Nadezhda Talanova Olga Romasko	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Hildegunn Mikkelsplass Gunn Margit Andreassen
6	19 January 1997	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Nadezhda Talanova Olga Romasko	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Liv Grete Skjelbreid Gunn Margit Andreassen	France Delphyne Burlet Christelle Gros Veronique Claudel Corinne Niogret
WC	9 February 1997	Osrblie	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Liv Grete Skjelbreid Gunn Margit Andreassen	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Nadezhda Talanova Olga Romasko
7	9 March 1997	Nagano	4x7.5 km Relay	Ukraine Nina Lemesh Olena Petrova Valentina Tserbe-Nessina Tetyana Vodopyanova	Russia Nadezhda Talanova Olga Melnik Anna Volkova Olga Romasko	China Yu Shumei Sun Ribo Liu Jinfeng Liu Xianying

Pos.		Points
1.	Sven Fischer	314
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	303
3.	Viktor Maigourov	294
4.	Ricco Groß	281
5.	Pavel Mouslimov	255

• Final standings after 19 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Ricco Groß 134 2. Pavel Mouslimov 101 3. Mark Kirchner 82 4. Carsten Heymann 82 5. Sven Fischer 79 Final standings after 6 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 158 2. Sven Fischer 157 3. Viktor Maigourov 136 4. Ludwig Gredler 127 5. Frode Andresen 124 Final standings after 9 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Viktor Maigourov 86 2. Sven Fischer 78 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 78 4. René Cattarinussi 60 5. Pavel Rostovtsev 50 Final standings after 4 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Germany 120 2. Norway 104 3. Russia 95 4. Belarus 90 5. Italy 88 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 5225 2.  Russia 5098 3.  Norway 4883 4.  Italy 4857 5.  Belarus 4542 Final standings after 20 races.

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	340
2.	Uschi Disl	333
3.	Simone Greiner-Petter-M.	283
4.	Olga Romasko	240
5.	Corinne Niogret	240

• Final standings after 19 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Uschi Disl 110 2. Magdalena Forsberg 106 3. Svetlana Paramygina 86 4. Annette Sikveland 85 5. Corinne Niogret 84 Final standings after 6 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Uschi Disl 164 2. Simone Greiner-Petter-M. 156 3. Magdalena Forsberg 150 4. Olga Romasko 140 5. Petra Behle 135 Final standings after 9 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Magdalena Forsberg 84 2. Simone Greiner-Petter-M. 75 3. Olga Romasko 70 4. Galina Kukleva 64 5. Uschi Disl 59 Final standings after 4 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Russia 116 2. Germany 103 3. Norway 100 4. Ukraine 90 5. France 89 Final standings after 5 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 5176 2.  Russia 4955 3.  Norway 4902 4.  Italy 4791 5.  Ukraine 4526 Final standings after 20 races.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	18	14	5	37
2	Russia	13	9	13	35
3	Norway	4	13	9	26
4	Sweden	4	0	2	6
5	Italy	2	3	3	8
6	Ukraine	2	3	0	5
7	Belarus	2	2	5	9
8	Austria	2	0	2	4
9	Slovenia	1	1	1	3
10	Finland	0	2	0	2
11	China	0	1	1	2
12	France	0	0	4	4
13	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
14	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		48	48	48	144

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

The following notable biathletes retired after the 1996–97 season:

•  Hervé Flandin (FRA)
•  Stéphane Bouthiaux (FRA)
•  Mariya Manolova (BUL)
•  Veronique Claudel (FRA)
•  Svetlana Panyutina (RUS)

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