The 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season lasted from 29 November 2006 to 18 March 2007.
This article contains the top ten result listings and concise summary comments for each of the season's twenty-seven individual races and five relays for both genders, arranged by World Cup meet 1 through 9 (denoted WC 1–9), accompanied by the top ten Total Cup rankings after each of the meets plus the 2007 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores).
For a list of the Total and Relay World Cup winners and runners-up of all World Cup seasons since 1977-78, see the Biathlon World Cup article.
Calendar Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2006–07 season. LocationDateIndividualSprintPursuitRelayDetails Östersund 29. November–3. December ● ● ● Hochfilzen 8.–10. December ● ● ● Hochfilzen 1 13.–16. December ● (Women) ● (Men x2, Women x1) ● Oberhof 3.–7. January ● ● ● Ruhpolding 10.–14. January ● ● ● Pokljuka 17.–21. January ● ● ● Antholz 3.–11. February ● ● ● ● ● World Championships Lahti 28. February–4. March ● ● ● Holmenkollen 8.–11. March ● (Men) ● (Women) ● ● Khanty-Mansijsk 15.–18. March ● ● ● Total 4 10 8 5 5 1 Rescheduled from Osrblie
Scores and leader bibs
For the seventh successive season, the race victory gives 50 points, a 2nd place gives 46 pts, a 3rd place 43 pts, a 4th place 40 pts, a fifth place 37 pts, a 6th place 34 pts, then further decreasing by two pts down to the 15th place (16 pts), then linearly decreasing by one point down to the 30th place (see the Place/Points table on the page's upper right). Equal placings, i.e. same-time finishes (ties) give an equal number of points. The sum of all WC points of the season, minus the score from a predetermined number of events (say, 3) give the biathlete's accumulated WC score (naturally, the races chosen to be eliminated from the total will be those with the lowest scores). Biathletes with an equal number of accumulated points are ranked by number of victories, 2nd places, 3rd places, and so on, in practice reducing the possibility of ties to just about nil. In addition to the Total WC score as described above, the points from races in each separate single-biathlete format—Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass start—accumulate toward separate scores with associated "sub-Cups" to be won. See the main Biathlon article for a detailed description of the race formats. In any given race, the biathlete with the highest accumulated Total WC score before the race wears a yellow number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red bib is worn. In the first races of the season, the winners of the previous season's Cups wear the associated bibs. There are also two multi-biathlete Cups to be won, namely the Relay and Nation Cups. The scores of the Relay races are awarded to each nation's team in the same manner as in the single-biathlete Cups. No leader bibs are worn during the Relays. For the Nation Cup, the combined scores of the three best biathletes from each nation in the Individual and Sprint races, as well as the Relay scores, are accumulated. The Nation Cup points scale is different from the World Cup points scale; each place from 1st through 30th scores 100 more points than in the World Cup, and from 31st down to 130th points are awarded on a scale from 100 to 1.
Medal table
World Cup podiums
Men Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib (After competition) Det. 1 30 November 2006 Östersund 20 km Individual Ole Einar Bjørndalen Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail 1 2 December 2006 Östersund 10 km Sprint Ole Einar Bjørndalen Dmitry Yaroshenko Michael Greis Detail 1 3 December 2006 Östersund 12.5 km Pursuit Ole Einar Bjørndalen Dmitry Yaroshenko Raphaël Poirée Detail 2 8 December 2006 Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint Ole Einar Bjørndalen Michael Greis Matthias Simmen Detail 2 9 December 2006 Hochfilzen 12.5 km Pursuit Ole Einar Bjørndalen Dmitry Yaroshenko Ivan Tcherezov Detail 3 14 December 2006 Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint Michael Greis Maxim Tchoudov Björn Ferry Detail 3 16 December 2006 Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint Raphaël Poirée Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis Detail 4 6 January 2007 Oberhof 10 km Sprint Nikolay Kruglov Michael Greis René-Laurent Vuillermoz Detail 4 7 January 2007 Oberhof 12.5 km Pursuit Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov Detail 5 13 January 2007 Ruhpolding 10 km Sprint Ole Einar Bjørndalen Halvard Hanevold Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail 5 14 January 2007 Ruhpolding 15 km Mass Start Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen Christoph Sumann Detail 6 18 January 2007 Pokljuka 10 km Sprint Alexander Wolf Björn Ferry Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail 6 20 January 2007 Pokljuka 12.5 km Pursuit Christoph Sumann Alexander Wolf Vincent Defrasne Detail 6 21 January 2007 Pokljuka 15 km Mass Start Christoph Sumann Vincent Defrasne Andreas Birnbacher Detail WC 3 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Sprint Ole Einar Bjørndalen Michal Šlesingr Andriy Deryzemlya Detail WC 4 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Pursuit Ole Einar Bjørndalen Maxim Tchoudov Vincent Defrasne Detail WC 6 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 20 km Individual Raphaël Poirée Michael Greis Michal Šlesingr Detail WC 11 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 15 km Mass Start Michael Greis Andreas Birnbacher Raphaël Poirée Detail 7 1 March 2007 Lahti 20 km Individual Raphaël Poirée Simon Fourcade Alexander Wolf Michael Greis Detail 7 3 March 2007 Lahti 10 km Sprint Raphaël Poirée Alexander Os Hans Martin Gjedrem Detail 7 4 March 2007 Lahti 12.5 km Pursuit Raphaël Poirée Michael Greis Sven Fischer Detail 8 8 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 20 km Individual Raphaël Poirée Michael Greis Dmitry Yaroshenko Detail 8 10 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Pursuit Ole Einar Bjørndalen Raphaël Poirée Michael Greis Detail 8 11 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 15 km Mass Start Ole Einar Bjørndalen Raphaël Poirée Sven Fischer Detail 9 15 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Sprint Michael Rösch Maxim Tchoudov Andrei Makoveev Detail 9 17 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Pursuit Maxim Tchoudov Björn Ferry Stian Eckhoff Detail 9 18 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 15 km Mass Start Ivan Tcherezov Michael Greis Sven Fischer Detail
Women Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib (After competition) Det. 1 29 November 2006 Östersund 15 km Individual Irina Malgina Liv-Kjersti Eikeland Zina Kocher Irina Malgina Detail 1 1 December 2006 Östersund 7.5 km Sprint Magdalena Gwizdoń Kati Wilhelm Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Detail 1 3 December 2006 Östersund 10 km Pursuit Linda Grubben Anna Carin Olofsson Magdalena Gwizdoń Detail 2 8 December 2006 Hochfilzen 7.5 km Sprint Andrea Henkel Magdalena Gwizdoń Kong Yingchao Detail 2 9 December 2006 Hochfilzen 10 km Pursuit Andrea Henkel Linda Grubben Anna Carin Olofsson Detail 3 13 December 2006 Hochfilzen 15 km Individual Andrea Henkel Martina Glagow Oksana Khvostenko Detail 3 15 December 2006 Hochfilzen 7.5 km Sprint Anna Carin Olofsson Sandrine Bailly Andrea Henkel Detail 4 5 January 2007 Oberhof 7.5 km Sprint Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel Martina Glagow Detail 4 7 January 2007 Oberhof 10 km Pursuit Linda Grubben Sandrine Bailly Magdalena Neuner Detail 5 12 January 2007 Ruhpolding 7.5 km Sprint Sandrine Bailly Anna Carin Olofsson Florence Baverel-Robert Detail 5 14 January 2007 Ruhpolding 12.5 km Mass Start Anna Carin Olofsson Kati Wilhelm Linda Grubben Anna Carin Olofsson Detail 6 17 January 2007 Pokljuka 7.5 km Sprint Anna Carin Olofsson Tatiana Moiseeva Kati Wilhelm Detail 6 19 January 2007 Pokljuka 10 km Pursuit Kati Wilhelm Tatiana Moiseeva Natalya Sokolova Detail 6 21 January 2007 Pokljuka 12.5 km Mass Start Oksana Khvostenko Kati Wilhelm Tadeja Brankovič Detail WC 3 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 7.5 km Sprint Magdalena Neuner Anna Carin Olofsson Natalia Guseva Detail WC 4 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Pursuit Magdalena Neuner Linda Grubben Anna Carin Olofsson Detail WC 7 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 15 km Individual Linda Grubben Florence Baverel-Robert Martina Glagow Detail WC 10 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Mass Start Andrea Henkel Martina Glagow Kati Wilhelm Detail 7 28 February 2007 Lahti 15 km Individual Andrea Henkel Florence Baverel-Robert Kati Wilhelm Detail 7 2 March 2007 Lahti 7.5 km Sprint Martina Glagow Kati Wilhelm Ekaterina Iourieva Kati Wilhelm Detail 7 4 March 2007 Lahti 10 km Pursuit Martina Glagow Kati Wilhelm Kathrin Hitzer Detail 8 8 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 7.5 km Sprint Andrea Henkel Ekaterina Iourieva Magdalena Neuner Anna Carin Olofsson Detail 8 10 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 10 km Pursuit Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel Kati Wilhelm Kati Wilhelm Detail 8 11 March 2007 Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Mass Start Magdalena Neuner Kathrin Hitzer Ekaterina Iourieva Detail 9 15 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 7.5 km Sprint Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel Anna Carin Olofsson Detail 9 17 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Pursuit Magdalena Neuner Anna Carin Olofsson Andrea Henkel Anna Carin Olofsson Detail 9 18 March 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Mass Start Helena Jonsson Oksana Khvostenko Kathrin Hitzer Andrea Henkel Detail
Men's team Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third 2 10 December 2006 Hochfilzen 4x7.5 km Relay 3 17 December 2006 Hochfilzen 4x7.5 km Relay 4 4 January 2007 Oberhof 4x7.5 km Relay 5 11 January 2007 Ruhpolding 4x7.5 km Relay WC 10 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 4x7.5 km Relay
Women's team Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third 2 10 December 2006 Hochfilzen 4x6 km Relay 3 17 December 2006 Hochfilzen 4x6 km Relay 4 3 January 2007 Oberhof 4x6 km Relay 5 10 January 2007 Ruhpolding 4x6 km Relay WC 11 February 2007 Antholz-Anterselva 4x6 km Relay
Standings: Men
Overall Pos.Points 1. Michael Greis 794 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 736 3. Raphaël Poirée 709 4. Ivan Tcherezov 673 5. Dmitry Yaroshenko 619 Final standings after 27 races.
Individual Pos.Points 1. Raphaël Poirée 150 2. Michael Greis 135 3. Ivan Tcherezov 105 4. Michal Šlesingr 103 5. Dmitry Yaroshenko 97 Final standings after 4 races.
Sprint Pos.Points 1. Michael Greis 299 2. Björn Ferry 272 3. Nikolay Kruglov 242 4. Halvard Hanevold 232 5. Sven Fischer 223 Final standings after 10 races.
Pursuit Pos.Points 1. Dmitry Yaroshenko 271 2. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 265 3. Ivan Tcherezov 208 4. Maxim Tchoudov 200 5. Michael Greis 191 Final standings after 8 races.
Mass start Pos.Points 1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 180 2. Christoph Sumann 153 3. Raphaël Poirée 147 4. Ivan Tcherezov 145 5. Vincent Defrasne 139 Final standings after 5 races.
Relay Pos.Points 1. Russia 196 2. Norway 189 3. Germany 178 4. Austria 154 5. Czech Republic 144 Final standings after 5 races.
Nation Pos.Points 1. 6084 2. 6059 3. 5992 4. 5321 5. 5065 Final standings after 19 races.
Standings: Women
Overall Pos.Points 1. Andrea Henkel 870 2. Kati Wilhelm 863 3. Anna Carin Olofsson 860 4. Magdalena Neuner 720 5. Florence Baverel-Robert 671 Final standings after 27 races.
Individual Pos.Points 1. Andrea Henkel 140 2. Anna Carin Olofsson 111 3. Martina Glagow 109 4. Florence Baverel-Robert 104 5. Tora Berger 92 Final standings after 4 races.
Sprint Pos.Points 1. Anna Carin Olofsson 351 2. Kati Wilhelm 317 3. Andrea Henkel 313 4. Magdalena Neuner 285 5. Sandrine Bailly 254 Final standings after 10 races.
Pursuit Pos.Points 1. Kati Wilhelm 284 2. Magdalena Neuner 283 3. Andrea Henkel 267 4. Anna Carin Olofsson 263 5. Linda Grubben 232 Final standings after 8 races.
Mass start Pos.Points 1. Kati Wilhelm 169 2. Oksana Khvostenko 148 3. Ekaterina Iourieva 136 4. Kathrin Hitzer 134 5. Helena Jonsson 126 Final standings after 5 races.