The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Women is a biathlon competition for women. It started on Sunday December 7, 2008 in Östersund and is scheduled to finish on Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist is Sandrine Bailly of France.

This is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.^[1] The contestants ski a distance of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490 ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.

To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.

Points are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.

Medal	Athlete	Points[2]
Gold:	Sandrine Bailly	300
Silver:	Andrea Henkel	289
Bronze:	Kati Wilhelm	253

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund	Martina Beck  Germany	32:42.4 (0+0+0+0)	Svetlana Sleptsova  Russia	33:11.6 (0+1+1+1)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	33:14.4 (0+1+2+0)
Hochfilzen	Martina Beck  Germany	33:41.28 (0+0+1+0)	Svetlana Sleptsova  Russia	33:59.56 (1+0+1+2)	Simone Hauswald  Germany	34:00.40 (0+1+2+2)
Ruhpolding	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	32:56.5 (1+1+1+1)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	33:18.2 (1+0+0+2)	Tora Berger  Norway	33:25.5 (1+0+0+1)
Antholz	Anna Boulygina  Russia	32:49.8 (0+1+0+1)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	32:52.1 (0+0+0+1)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	32:52.1 (1+0+1+0)
World Championships	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	34:12.3 (2+0+0+0)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	34:30.6 (1+1+3+1)	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	34:36.4 (0+3+1+2)
Trondheim	Andrea Henkel  Germany	30:08.8 (0+0+0+0)	Olga Zaitseva  Russia	30:21.7 (0+0+0+1)	Marie-Laure Brunet  France	30:37.1 (0+0+0+1)
Khanty-Mansiysk	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	27:53.0 (1+0+0+1)	Michela Ponza  Italy	28:21.8 (0+0+0+0)	Marie Dorin  France	28:23.5 (0+0+1+0)

#	Name	ÖST	HOC	RUH	ANT	WCH	TRO	KHA	Total[3]
1	Kati Wilhelm	48	36	54	40	54	40	22	272
2	Tora Berger	40	43	48	28	32	43	40	246
3	Martina Beck	60	60	20	32	38	25	29	244
4	Andrea Henkel	43	32	29	38	–	60	32	234
5	Magdalena Neuner	24	14	60	34	30	23	60	231
6	Helena Jonsson	34	40	36	21	60	31	25	226
7	Olga Zaitseva	18	28	34	19	48	54	36	219
8	Darya Domracheva	36	0	32	48	40	38	20	214
9	Anna Carin Olofsson	23	30	38	43	26	2	38	198
10	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	7	0	27	54	43	29	18	178
11	Svetlana Sleptsova	54	54	43	–	13	–	–	164
12	Marie-Laure Brunet	20	10	–	16	36	48	30	160
13	Liu Xianying	29	38	40	36	12	–	–	155
14	Éva Tófalvi	38	9	30	20	20	32	13	153
15	Michela Ponza	14	13	12	17	28	18	54	144
16	Simone Hauswald	–	48	–	15	29	20	28	140
17	Marie Dorin	11	11	24	2	23	19	48	136
18	Vita Semerenko	30	0	7	–	22	30	43	132
19	Anna Boulygina	0	–	1	60	21	13	31	126
20	Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen	6	27	18	–	0	36	34	121
21	Natalia Levchenkova	19	29	8	25	34	0	–	115
22	Olga Medvedtseva	27	31	28	–	27	–	–	113
23	Magdalena Gwizdon	26	34	5	0	–	27	19	111
24	Sylvie Becaert	16	–	9	31	4	28	17	105
25	Wang Chunli	32	8	31	6	0	26	–	103
26	Oksana Khvostenko	28	26	–	24	19	–	–	97
27	Solveig Rogstad	31	18	–	–	18	1	23	91
28	Teja Gregorin	–	23	11	22	–	17	2	75
29	Kathrin Hitzer	0	22	22	30	–	–	–	74
30	Eveli Saue	0	4	0	26	9	12	15	66
31	Oksana Neupokoeva	17	21	–	–	–	22	6	66
32	Juliane Doll	–	–	–	27	–	21	14	62
33	Valj Semerenko	25	–	26	–	3	–	7	61
34	Zina Kocher	–	0	19	14	17	0	8	58
35	Olga Kudrashova	1	5	21	29	–	0	–	56
36	Iana Romanova	–	–	–	23	–	15	16	54
37	Veronika Vítková	–	–	–	–	31	11	11	53
38	Olga Nazarova	–	3	25	–	15	7	0	50
39	Sandrine Bailly	0	–	4	–	1	24	21	50
40	Anastasiya Kuzmina	–	–	16	1	24	9	0	50
41	Ann Kristin Flatland	12	20	–	–	11	0	–	43
42	Krystyna Pałka	–	–	0	8	0	34	–	42
43	Song Chaoqing	0	6	23	13	0	–	–	42
44	Katja Haller	5	12	–	0	16	–	9	42
45	Tina Bachmann	–	–	–	–	–	14	27	41
46	Weronika Novakowska	–	0	13	0	25	–	1	39
47	Anne Ingstadbjoerg	0	19	–	5	–	10	–	34
48	Kong Yingchao	15	15	–	–	–	–	–	30
49	Dong Xue	22	7	0	–	–	0	–	29
50	Julie Carraz-Collin	13	16	0	–	–	–	–	29
51	Magda Rezlerova	3	–	14	0	7	5	–	29
52	Olena Pidrushna	9	–	10	–	–	0	10	29
53	Nadezhda Skardino	0	0	0	–	–	4	24	28
54	Olga Vulikhina	–	–	–	–	–	–	26	26
55	Natalia Sokolova	–	25	–	–	–	–	–	25
56	Pavlina Filipova	2	0	–	9	14	–	–	25
57	Elena Khrustaleva	–	24	–	–	0	–	–	24
58	Olga Anisimova	–	–	0	18	–	–	5	23
59	Madara Liduma	21	0	–	0	–	0	–	21
60	Kadri Lehtla	4	–	–	–	0	16	–	20
61	Andreja Mali	8	0	–	0	0	8	4	20
62	Liudmila Kalinchik	–	–	6	12	0	0	–	18
63	Liu Yuan-Yuan	0	–	17	0	–	–	–	17
64	Sabrina Buchholz	–	17	–	–	–	–	–	17
65	Sofia Domeij	–	2	15	0	–	0	0	17
66	Dana Plotogea	0	0	0	10	6	0	–	16
67	Agnieszka Grzybek	–	–	3	3	8	–	0	14
68	Synnøve Solemdal	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	12
69	Zdenka Vejnarova	0	0	0	11	–	–	–	11
70	Lilia Vaygina-Efremova	10	0	–	–	–	–	–	10
71	Diana Rasimovičiūtė	0	0	0	–	10	–	–	10
72	Liv Kjersti Eikeland	0	–	0	7	–	0	–	7
73	Anna Maria Nilsson	–	0	0	4	0	0	3	7
74	Pauline Macabies	–	0	0	–	–	6	–	6
75	Veronika Zvaricova	–	–	–	–	5	–	–	5
76	Paulina Bobak	–	–	–	0	–	3	–	3
77	Anna Lebedeva	–	0	2	–	0	–	–	2
78	Lanny Barnes	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	2
79	Mihaela Purdea	0	1	–	–	0	0	0	1