2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men will start at Saturday December 13, 2009 in Hochfilzen and will finish Saturday March 20, 2010 in Oslo. Defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

Competition format

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 12.5 kilometres (7.8 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.

2008–09 Top 3 Standings

Medal Athlete Points[2]
Gold: Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 342
Silver: Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen 308
Bronze: Poland Tomasz Sikora 276

Medal winners

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Hochfilzen
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Emil Hegle Svendsen
 Norway
34:36.7
(0+0+0+1)
Simon Eder
 Austria
34:38.3
(0+1+0+0)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
 Norway
34:39.8
(0+1+2+0)
Pokljuka
details
Evgeny Ustyugov
 Russia
34:50.9
(0+1+1+0)
Roland Lessing
 Estonia
35:00.2
(0+0+0+0)
Simon Eder
 Austria
35:01.8
(1+0+0+1)
Antholz
details
Daniel Mesotitsch
 Austria
31:50.4
(0+0+0+1)
Arnd Peiffer
 Germany
31:52.1
(0+1+0+0)
Dominik Landertinger
 Austria
32:10.1
(1+1+1+0)
2010 Winter Olympics
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Björn Ferry
 Sweden
33:38.4
(0+0+0+1)
Christoph Sumann
 Austria
33:54.9
(0+0+1+1)
Vincent Jay
 France
34:06.6
(0+0+1+1)
Kontiolahti
details
Martin Fourcade
 France
32:35.1
(1+0+0+0)
Christian De Lorenzi
 Italy
32:45.2
(0+0+0+1)
Vincent Jay
 France
32:50.7
(0+0+0+0)
Oslo
details
Martin Fourcade
 France
33:46.9
(1+0+1+1)
Simon Schempp
 Germany
33:55.9
(0+0+0+0)
Ivan Tcherezov
 Russia
34:13.1
(0+0+0+1)

Standings

# Name HOC POK ANT OLY KON OSL Total[3]
1  Martin Fourcade (FRA) 27 43 7 60 60 197
2  Simon Eder (AUT) 54 48 23 43 28 13 196
3  Ivan Tcherezov (RUS) 19 34 29 38 40 48 189
4  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS) 40 60 2 26 20 38 184
5  Dominik Landertinger (AUT) 21 43 48 27 26 40 184
6  Christoph Sumann (AUT) 43 30 54 25 27 179
7  Vincent Jay (FRA) 30 25 48 48 23 174
8  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 60 34 36 43 173
9  Arnd Peiffer (GER) 14 40 54 4 32 20 160
10  Björn Ferry (SWE) 36 27 60 34 157
11  Simon Fourcade (FRA) 34 32 34 22 32 154
12  Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT) 25 12 60 0 9 29 135
13  Simon Schempp (GER) 8 31 29 54 122
14  Tomasz Sikora (POL) 25 38 23 30 116
15  Andreas Birnbacher (GER) 13 2 28 28 18 25 114
16  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 48 36 24 108
17  Carl Johan Bergman (SWE) 20 4 22 43 9 98
18  Klemen Bauer (SLO) 36 3 32 24 0 95
19  Christian De Lorenzi (ITA) 29 11 54 0 94
20  Sergey Novikov (BLR) 23 19 20 13 18 93
21  Tim Burke (USA) 31 38 0 0 17 86
22  Serguei Sednev (UKR) 23 32 31 0 86
23  Anton Shipulin (RUS) 11 16 36 21 84
24  Jean-Philippe Leguellec (CAN) 28 8 30 16 82
25  Pavol Hurajt (SVK) 0 14 25 34 7 80
26  Nikolay Kruglov (RUS) 38 15 26 79
27  Jakov Fak (CRO) 24 16 7 30 77
28  Michael Greis (GER) 15 40 21 76
29  Lars Berger (NOR) 32 26 18 0 76
30  Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) 28 0 19 26 73
31  Michal Šlesingr (CZE) 2 0 0 12 38 19 71
32  Halvard Hanevold (NOR) 30 17 24 0 71
33  Vincent Defrasne (FRA) 22 19 19 6 66
34  Friedrich Pinter (AUT) 18 18 13 17 0 66
35  Fredrik Lindström (SWE) 0 21 8 31 60
36  Roland Lessing (EST) 54 0 54
37  Alexander Os (NOR) 0 24 27 2 53
38  Christoph Stephan (GER) 40 11 0 51
39  Jaroslav Soukup (CZE) 17 8 22 0 3 50
40  Janez Maric (SLO) 0 6 0 0 11 28 45
41  Frode Andresen (NOR) 22 18 4 44
42  Alexander Wolf (GER) 11 17 0 16 44
43  Thomas Frei (SUI) 0 29 14 43
44  Simon Hallenbarter (SUI) 0 21 0 22 43
45  Tobias Eberhard (AUT) 0 31 11 42
46  Serhiy Semenov (UKR) 20 0 2 12 6 40
47  Victor Vasilyev (RUS) 10 0 15 15 40
48  Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR) 12 7 6 15 40
49  Brendan Green (CAN) 0 0 27 12 39
50  Alexey Volkov (RUS) 1 36 37
51  Paavo Puurunen (FIN) 16 14 7 0 37
52  Lukas Hofer (ITA) 26 9 0 35
53  Tarjei Bø (NOR) 29 4 33
54  Alexsandr Chervyhkov (KAZ) 9 13 0 0 10 32
55  Magnús Jónsson (SWE) 0 0 31 31
56  Mattias Nilsson (SWE) 24 5 29
57  Jeremy Teela (USA) 10 17 27
58  Benjamin Weger (SUI) 23 1 24
59  Rustam Valiullin (BLR) 6 0 8 8 22
60  Alexis Bœuf (FRA) 21 21
61  Hans Martin Gjedrem (NOR) 0 20 20
62  Matthias Simmen (SUI) 4 0 0 13 0 0 17
63  Dušan Šimočko (SVK) 16 16
64  Mattia Cola (ITA) 0 15 0 15
65  Yan Savitskiy (KAZ) 0 14 0 14
66  Tomas Holubec (CZE) 0 14 14
67  Ted Armgren (SWE) 12 12
68  Alexandr Syman (BLR) 1 10 11
69  Ondřej Moravec (CZE) 0 0 10 10
70  Kazuya Inomata (JPN) 10 10
71  Olexander Bilanenko (UKR) 7 1 2 10
72  Ilmārs Bricis (ITA) 9 0 9
73  Krasimir Anev (BUL) 9 0 9
74  Zhang Chengye (CHN) 0 6 6
75  Zdeněk Vítek (CZE) 0 3 3 6
76  Michail Kletcherov (BUL) 5 0 5
77  Vasja Rupnik (SLO) 0 5 0 0 5
78  Lowell Bailey (USA) 0 5 0 5
79  Tanguy Roche (FRA) 5 5
79  Vitali Tsvetau (BLR) 5 5
81  Claudio Böckli (SUI) 0 0 4 0 0 4
82  Michael Rösch (GER) 3 0 3
83  Ronny Hafsås (NOR) 0 3 0 3
84  Evgeny Abramenko (BLR) 1 1 2

References

  1. ^ To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race – the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line.
  2. ^ "2008/09 Final standings". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  3. ^ Standings Pursuit men