2010–11 Biathlon World Cup

2010–11 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Tarjei Bø	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Helena Ekholm
Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Magdalena Neuner
Pursuit	Tarjei Bø	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Mass start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Darya Domracheva
Relay	Norway	Germany
Mixed	France
Competition
←2009–10 2011–12→

The 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 29 November 2010 in Östersund, Sweden and ended 20 March 2011 in Holmenkollen, Norway.

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2010–11 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Details
Östersund	1–5 December	●	●	●				details
Hochfilzen	10–12 December		●	●		●		details
Pokljuka	16–19 December	●	●				●	details
Oberhof	5–9 January		●		●	●		details
Ruhpolding	12–16 January	●	●	●				details
Antholz-Anterselva	20–23 January		●		●	●		details
Presque Isle	4–6 February		●	●			●	details
Fort Kent	10–13 February		●	●	●			details
Khanty-Mansiysk	3–13 March	●	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Holmenkollen	17–20 March		●	●	●			details
Total		4	10	7	5	4	3

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	2 December 2010	Östersund	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	4 December 2010	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	5 December 2010	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Jakov Fak		Detail
2	10 December 2010	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Serhiy Sednev	Alexis Bœuf		Detail
	11 December 2010	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Tarjei Bø	Simon Eder	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
3	16 December 2010	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Daniel Mesotitsch	Benjamin Weger	Serhiy Sednev		Detail
	18 December 2010	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Björn Ferry	Tarjei Bø	Michael Greis	Tarjei Bø	Detail
4	7 January 2011	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Arnd Peiffer	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
	9 January 2011	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
5	12 January 2011	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Martin Fourcade	Dominik Landertinger		Detail
	14 January 2011	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Lars Berger	Martin Fourcade	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
	16 January 2011	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Björn Ferry	Martin Fourcade	Michael Greis		Detail
6	20 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Anton Shipulin	Michael Greis	Lars Berger		Detail
	22 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Björn Ferry	Anton Shipulin		Detail
7	4 February 2011	Presque Isle	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Fourcade	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
	6 February 2011	Presque Isle	12.5 km Pursuit	Alexis Bœuf	Ivan Tcherezov	Carl Johan Bergman		Detail
8	10 February 2011	Fort Kent	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Michal Šlesingr	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	12 February 2011	Fort Kent	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	13 February 2011	Fort Kent	15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Tomasz Sikora	Tarjei Bø		Detail
WC	5 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	6 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	8 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	20 km Individual	Tarjei Bø	Maxim Maksimov	Christoph Sumann		Detail
	12 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Lukas Hofer	Tarjei Bø		Detail
9	17 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Andreas Birnbacher	Björn Ferry	Alexander Wolf		Detail
	19 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tarjei Bø	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	20 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Evgeny Ustyugov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	1 December 2010	Östersund	15 km Individual	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Marie-Laure Brunet	Helena Ekholm	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Detail
	3 December 2010	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Miriam Gössner	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	5 December 2010	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Miriam Gössner	Helena Ekholm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
2	10 December 2010	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Anastázia Kuzminová	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
	12 December 2010	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Helena Ekholm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Darya Domracheva		Detail
3	16 December 2010	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie-Laure Brunet		Detail
	18 December 2010	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Anastázia Kuzminová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
4	8 January 2011	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Ann Kristin Flatland	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel		Detail
	9 January 2011	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Helena Ekholm	Andrea Henkel	Svetlana Sleptsova		Detail
5	13 January 2011	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Olga Zaitseva	Andrea Henkel	Helena Ekholm		Detail
	15 January 2011	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	16 January 2011	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
6	21 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Anastázia Kuzminová	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
	23 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Tora Berger	Marie-Laure Brunet	Darya Domracheva		Detail
7	4 February 2011	Presque Isle	7.5 km Sprint	Helena Ekholm	Tora Berger	Valentyna Semerenko	Helena Ekholm	Detail
	6 February 2011	Presque Isle	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Marie Dorin	Darya Domracheva		Detail
8	11 February 2011	Fort Kent	7.5 km Sprint	Andrea Henkel	Miriam Gössner	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	12 February 2011	Fort Kent	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Neuner	Marie Dorin		Detail
	13 February 2011	Fort Kent	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Darya Domracheva	Andrea Henkel	Detail
WC	5 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Anastázia Kuzminová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	6 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner	Helena Ekholm		Detail
	9 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Individual	Helena Ekholm	Tina Bachmann	Vita Semerenko	Helena Ekholm	Detail
	12 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
9	17 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Tora Berger	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	19 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Anastázia Kuzminová	Darya Domracheva	Andrea Henkel		Detail
	20 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	Olga Zaitseva		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	12 December 2010	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Alexander Os Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Tobias Eberhard Christoph Sumann Dominik Landertinger	France Vincent Jay Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Lois Habert Martin Fourcade
4	5 January 2011	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Christoph Stephan Alexander Wolf Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	Czech Republic Zdeněk Vítek Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr	Norway Alexander Os Lars Berger Rune Brattsveen Ole Einar Bjørndalen
6	23 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Christoph Stephan Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	Italy Christian De Lorenzi Rene-Laurent Vuillermoz Lukas Hofer Markus Windisch	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen Alexander Os Tarjei Bø
WC	11 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Alexander Os Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeny Ustyugov Maxim Maksimov Ivan Tcherezov	Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko Andriy Deryzemlya Serhiy Semenov Serhiy Sednev

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	11 December 2010	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Andrea Henkel	Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko Olena Pidhrushna Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko	Norway Synnove Solemdal Ann Kristin Flatland Fanny Horn Tora Berger
4	6 January 2011	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	Sweden Jenny Jonsson Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Ekholm	France Anais Bescond Marie Dorin Pauline Macabies Marie-Laure Brunet	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Nadzeya Pisarava Liudmila Kalinchik
6	22 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	4x6 km Relay	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Natalia Sorokina Olga Zaitseva	Sweden Jenny Jonsson Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Ekholm	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Kathrin Hitzer Miriam Gössner Andrea Henkel
WC	13 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	4x6 km Relay	Germany Andrea Henkel Miriam Gössner Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner	France Anais Bescond Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Nadzeya Pisarava Liudmila Kalinchik

Mixed Relay

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
3	19 December 2010	Pokljuka	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Sweden Helena Ekholm Anna Carin Zidek Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman	Ukraine Olena Pidhrushna Vita Semerenko Serhiy Semenov Serhiy Sednev	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Vincent Jay Martin Fourcade
7	5 February 2011	Presque Isle	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Alexander Wolf Daniel Böhm	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Vincent Jay Alexis Boeuf	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Natalia Guseva Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov
WC	3 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Norway Tora Berger Ann Kristin Flatland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø	Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Alexis Boeuf Martin Fourcade

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Tarjei Bø	1110
2.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	1105
3.	Martin Fourcade	990
4.	Arnd Peiffer	735
5.	Ivan Tcherezov	711

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Emil Hegle Svendsen 188 2. Tarjei Bø 172 3. Martin Fourcade 133 4. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 126 5. Michael Greis 113 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Tarjei Bø 393 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 369 3. Arnd Peiffer 333 4. Martin Fourcade 307 5. Michael Greis 293 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Tarjei Bø 334 2. Martin Fourcade 320 3. Emil Hegle Svendsen 304 4. Ivan Tcherezov 229 5. Simon Eder 183 Final standings after 7 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Emil Hegle Svendsen 244 2. Martin Fourcade 230 3. Tarjei Bø 211 4. Evgeny Ustyugov 149 5. Lukas Hofer 148 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Norway 216 2. Germany 199 3. Ukraine 163 4. Italy 161 5. Austria 154 Final standings after 4 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Norway 7428 2.  Germany 6990 3.  Russia 6507 4.  Austria 6381 5.  France 6351 Final standings after 21 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	1010
2.	Andrea Henkel	983
3.	Helena Ekholm	979
4.	Tora Berger	965
5.	Magdalena Neuner	955

• Final standings after 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Helena Ekholm 174 2. Valj Semerenko 159 3. Olga Zaitseva 138 4. Tora Berger 134 5. Marie Laure Brunet 132 Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Magdalena Neuner 404 2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 395 3. Tora Berger 356 4. Andrea Henkel 353 5. Anastázia Kuzminová 329 Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 343 2. Andrea Henkel 305 3. Helena Ekholm 280 4. Tora Berger 269 5. Darya Domracheva 255 Final standings after 7 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Darya Domracheva 237 2. Magdalena Neuner 230 3. Andrea Henkel 207 4. Tora Berger 206 5. Helena Ekholm 198 Final standings after 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Germany 206 2. Sweden 190 3. Russia 177 4. France 177 5. Belarus 175 Final standings after 4 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Germany 7236 2.  Russia 6813 3.  Sweden 6669 4.  France 6510 5.  Norway 6301 Final standings after 21 races.

Standings: Mixed

Mixed Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	France	150
2.	Germany	148
3.	Sweden	141
4.	Russia	129
5.	Italy	121

• Final standings after 3 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	25	9	11	45
2	Germany	15	15	8	38
3	Sweden	9	3	5	17
4	France	4	12	9	25
5	Russia	3	6	10	19
6	Finland	3	3	3	9
7	Slovakia	2	2	1	5
8	Belarus	1	3	8	12
9	Austria	1	2	2	5
10	Ukraine	0	3	4	7
11	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
12	Italy	0	1	1	2
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
15	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		63	63	64	190

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 27, in her 7th season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; first podium was 2007–08 Sprint in Pokljuka
•  Tarjei Bø (NOR), 22, in his 2nd season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; it also was his first podium
•  Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 28, in her 8th season — the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof; first podium was 2009–10 Sprint in Oberhof
•  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 23, in his 3rd season — the WC 6 Sprint in Anholz; it also was his first podium
•  Alexis Bœuf (FRA), 24, in his 4th season — the WC 7 Pursuit in Presque Isle; first podium was 2009–10 Individual in Antholz
•  Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 29, in his 10th season — the WC 9 Sprint in Oslo; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Pokliuka

First World Cup podium

•  Miriam Gössner (GER), 20, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund
•  Benjamin Weger (SUI), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
•  Valj Semerenko (UKR), 25, in her 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Presque Isle
•  Lukas Hofer (ITA), 21, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WCh Mass Start in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

Men  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 8 (24) first places  Tarjei Bø (NOR), 5 (5) first places  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 3 (6) first places  Björn Ferry (SWE), 2 (5) first places  Arnd Peiffer (GER), 2 (4) first places  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 1 (92) first place  Lars Berger (NOR), 1 (6) first place  Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 1 (3) first place  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Alexis Bœuf (FRA), 1 (1) first place  Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 1 (1) first place

Women  Tora Berger (NOR), 6 (12) first places  Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5 (24) first places  Helena Ekholm (SWE), 4 (13) first places  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 3 (3) first places  Andrea Henkel (GER), 2 (20) first places  Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 2 (3) first places  Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek (SWE), 1 (12) first places  Olga Zaitseva (RUS), 1 (9) first places  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 1 (3) first places  Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 1 (1) first places

Retirements

Following are notable biathletes who announced their retirement:

Mattias Nilsson (SWE)[2]  Vyacheslav Derkach (UKR)[3]  Olga Nazarova (BLR)  Zdenka Vejnarova (CZE)  Julie Carraz-Collin (FRA)  Anna Lebedeva (KAZ)  Inna Mozhevitina (KAZ)  Chu Kyoung-mi (KOR)  Gerda Krumina (LAT)  Madara Liduma (LAT)  Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen (NOR)  Solveig Rogstad (NOR)  Sofia Domeij (SWE)  Anna Carin Zidek (SWE)  Oksana Khvostenko (UKR)  Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar (SLO)[4]  Martina Halinárová (SVK)

References

1. "World Cup Schedule". Archived from the original on 2010-10-24. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
2. Jemteborn, Patrik (27 September 2011). "Heart Condition Ends Mattias Nilsson's Career". Biathlonworld. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
3. Kokesh, Jerry (9 May 2011). "Ukrainian Vyacheslav Derkach Retires". Biathlonworld. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
4. Finc, Mojca (21 December 2014). "Če je po vsakem porodu tako, bi imela Tadeja še pet otrok". Delo. Retrieved 6 February 2016.

External links

• IBU official site