The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Men started at Sunday December 7, 2008 in Östersund and will finish Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.
Competition format In a pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race,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. most commonly a sprint. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. The distance is , skied over five laps; there are four shooting bouts (two prone, two standing, in that order), and each miss means a penalty loop of 150 m. 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.
2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Ole Einar Bjørndalen247Silver: Dmitri Yaroshenko233Bronze: Björn Ferry221
Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersundTomasz Sikora 34:55.5(0+2+0+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 34:58.0(1+2+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 35:00.4(0+1+2+0)HochfilzenEmil Hegle Svendsen35:46.3(1+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 35:55.7(0+0+2+0)Tomasz Sikora 35:58.35(1+0+0+2)RuhpoldingOle Einar Bjørndalen 36:17.4(0+1+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 36:51.8(1+0+0+0)Dominik Landertinger 37:03.9(1+1+0+0)AntholzBjörn Ferry 33:19.4(0+0+1+0)Simon Eder 33:37.0(0+0+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 33:44.1(1+0+1+1)World ChampionshipsOle Einar Bjørndalen 31:46.70(0+2+0+2)Maxim Tchoudov 32:28.40(0+0+1+2)Alexander Os 32:39.50(0+0+2+1)TrondheimOle Einar Bjørndalen 33:36.3(1+0+1+0)Simon Eder 34:01.4(0+0+1+0)Tomasz Sikora 34:01.6(0+1+1+0)Khanty-MansiyskEmil Hegle Svendsen 33:03.3(0+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen33:03.4(1+0+0+1)Christoph Sumann 33:27.1(0+0+2+0)
Final standings # Name ÖST HOC RUH ANT WCH TRO KHA TotalStandings Pursuit men 1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 54 54 60 – 60 60 54 342 2 Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 60 54 48 – 38 60 308 3 Tomasz Sikora 60 48 34 43 43 48 32 276 4 Michael Greis 43 36 27 38 28 43 43 231 5 Björn Ferry 31 40 7 60 10 34 40 215 6 Simon Eder – – 23 54 27 54 28 186 7 Maxim Tchoudov 29 27 21 26 54 17 29 186 8 Ivan Tcherezov 23 2 40 34 15 29 19 160 9 Christoph Sumann 9 32 32 32 – 6 48 159 10 Michal Šlesingr – 0 30 27 22 40 38 157 11 Halvard Hanevold 38 20 – 24 38 36 0 156 12 Dominik Landertinger 19 – 48 25 7 31 14 144 13 Alexander Os 27 18 – 11 48 32 7 143 14 Simon Fourcade 40 0 29 22 31 – 21 143 15 Michael Rösch – 13 38 31 32 27 0 141 16 Carl Johan Bergman 22 29 43 23 – 19 3 138 17 Alexander Wolf 34 30 6 20 23 8 13 128 18 Daniel Mesotitsch 25 8 13 28 17 12 27 122 19 Martin Fourcade – – 26 16 34 20 22 118 20 Jean Philippe Leguellec 24 34 18 36 0 0 5 117 21 Tim Burke – –5 – 30 20 28 34 112 22 Evgeny Ustyugov – – 19 19 21 15 36 110 23 Lars Berger 3 – 36 – 40 21 – 100 24 Christian De Lorenzi 5 38 24 0 29 – – 96 25 Markus Windisch 26 22 25 – 18 – – 91 26 Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 32 43 – 9 – – – 83 27 Andreas Birnbacher – 7 20 – – 25 30 82 28 Jaroslav Soukup 18 – 2 17 0 30 10 77 29 Zdeněk Vítek 14 14 17 – 13 18 0 76 30 Friedrich Pinter 4 – 31 2 – 23 15 75 31 Mattias Nilsson 0 19 0 0 14 24 17 74 32 Andriy Deryzemlya 12 24 – – 36 – – 72 33 Christoph Stephan 36 21 0 15 0 0 – 72 34 Vincent Jay 0 31 – 13 2 26 – 72 35 Rustam Valiullin 28 16 – – 0 – 18 62 36 Pavol Hurajt 11 – 5 – 0 22 24 62 37 Serguei Sednev 8 1 – 40 – – 8 57 38 Vyacheslav Derkach 16 – – 14 0 5 20 55 39 Maxim Maksimov 0 28 22 0 – 2 – 52 40 Simon Hallenbarter – 17 0 0 12 0 23 52 41 Andrei Makoveev 0 6 1 0 24 14 6 51 42 Vincent Defrasne 17 – 28 1 1 – – 47 43 Tobias Eberhard – 10 9 21 – 4 0 44 44 Arnd Peiffer – – 8 9 – 0 26 43 45 Magnús Jónsson 0 – 16 0 26 – – 42 46 Ronny Hafsas 22 0 15 – – 0 4 41 47 Jay Hakkinen 30 0 10 – – – – 40 48 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz 10 0 – 29 0 – – 39 49 Janez Maric 0 – 14 – 6 16 0 36 50 Ivan Joller – 23 – 0 11 – 0 34 51 Sergey Novikov 20 5 – 0 0 9 0 34 52 Matthias Simmen 0 25 – 7 – 0 – 32 53 Tomáš Holubec 2 15 – 4 – 11 – 32 54 Simon Schempp – – – – – – 31 31 55 Klemen Bauer – – – 0 30 0 0 30 56 Lowell Bailey – – – – 19 10 – 29 57 Olexander Bilanenko – – 0 18 – – 9 27 58 Zhang Chengye 13 0 4 10 – – – 27 59 Stian Eckhoff – 26 – – – – – 26 60 Paavo Puurunen – – 0 – 25 0 – 25 61 Artem Gusev – – – – – – 25 25 62 Jakov Fak 0 – – – 16 3 0 19 63 Roland Lessing 0 – 0 5 – 13 – 18 64 Toni Lang 7 11 0 – – – – 18 65 Frode Andresen 6 – 11 – – – – 17 66 Rune Brattsveen – – – – – – 16 16 67 Roman Dostál 15 0 – – – – – 15 68 Robin Clegg 0 3 12 0 0 – – 15 69 Anton Shipulin – – – – – – 12 12 69 Oleg Berezhnoy – 12 – – – – 12 69 Hans Martin Gjedrem – – – 12 – – 12 72 Sergey Balandin – – – – – – 11 11 73 Hidenori Isa – 4 0 6 – – – 10 74 Jörgen Brink 0 9 – – – – – 9 75 Christian Martinelli – – – – 9 – – 9 76 Roman Pryma 0 0 – 0 8 – – 8 77 Alexis Bœuf – – – – – 7 0 7 78 Alexandr Syman 0 – – – 5 0 – 5 79 Zhang Qing – – – – 4 – – 4 80 Lois Habert 0 – – 3 – – – 3 81 Ilmārs Bricis – – 0 – 3 – – 3 81 Dušan Šimočko – – 3 – – – – 3 83 David Ekholm – 0 0 0 – 0 2 2 84 Mattia Cola – 0 – – – 1 – 1 85 Jeremy Teela 1 – – – – 0 0 1 86 Christoph Knie – – – – – – 1 1
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