The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Men will start on January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish on March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. The defending titlist is Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.
Competition format In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time; the first across the finish line wins. In this competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race). The rest of the shooting bouts are at the lane of the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, shoot at lane five). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).
2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Ole Einar Bjørndalen180Silver: Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.143Bronze: Dmitri Yaroshenko128
Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeOberhofdetailsChristoph Sumann 38:11.9(1+0+1+0)Carl Johan Bergman 38:21.6(0+0+1+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 38:21.8(0+1+1+0)AntholzdetailsChristoph Stephan 37:19.9(0+0+0+1)Dominik Landertinger 37:20.1(1+2+0+0)Ivan Tcherezov 37:22.7(0+0+1+1)World ChampionshipsdetailsDominik Landertinger 38:32.5(2+0+0+1)Christoph Sumann 38:41.4(2+0+0+1)Ivan Tcherezov 38:46.4(2+0+0+0)TrondheimdetailsOle Einar Bjørndalen 41:12.9(0+0+0+0)Simon Eder 41:52.0(0+0+1+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 42:06.3(1+0+0+1)Khanty-MansiyskdetailsSimon Eder 37:14.4(0+0+0+0)Dominik Landertinger 37:26.5 (0+0+0+1)Ole Einar Bjørndalen 37:31.4(2+0+0+1)
Final standings # Name OBE ANT WCH TRO KHA TotalStandings Mass start Men 1 Dominik Landertinger – 54 60 40 54 208 2 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 48 40 43 60 48 199 3 Christoph Sumann 60 43 54 18 40 197 4 Simon Eder – 28 34 54 60 176 5 Ivan Tcherezov – 48 48 43 31 170 6 Christoph Stephan 19 60 20 38 28 146 7 Emil Hegle Svendsen 43 – 29 48 26 146 8 Maxim Tchoudov 40 38 36 28 23 142 9 Carl Johan Bergman 54 20 14 36 27 137 10 Tomasz Sikora 28 36 38 25 32 134 11 Michael Roesch 36 22 40 16 34 132 12 Simon Fourcade 29 29 32 15 38 128 13 Daniel Mesotitsch 25 34 16 26 29 114 14 Andriy Deryzemlya 38 27 18 23 25 113 15 Halvard Hanevold 34 15 28 14 36 113 16 Björn Ferry 27 26 – 27 30 110 17 Andrei Makoveev 31 – 17 19 22 89 18 Alexander Wolf 17 30 – 22 19 88 19 Christian De Lorenzi 30 13 31 12 11 86 20 Vincent Jay 26 – – 32 24 82 21 Markus Windisch 15 23 25 13 16 79 22 Friedrich Pinter – 25 – 31 21 77 23 Alexander Os 12 31 – 20 13 76 24 Lars Berger 24 18 12 21 12 75 25 Martin Fourcade – – 26 29 18 73 26 Michael Greis – 24 0 34 14 72 27 Roman Valiullin 21 21 – 11 15 68 28 Michal Šlesingr – 14 – 30 20 64 29 Andreas Birnbacher 20 – – – 43 63 30 Tim Burke – – 13 17 17 47 31 Jean Philippe Leguellec – 19 – 24 – 43 32 Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 22 16 – – – 38 33 Tobias Eberhard – 32 – – – 32 35 Sergey Novikov 32 – – – – 32 35 Janez Maric – – 30 – – 30 36 Jay Hakkinen 13 17 – – – 30 37 Klemen Bauer – – 27 – – 27 38 Simon Hallenbarter – – 24 – – 24 39 Roman Pryma 23 – – – – 23 39 Lowell Bailey – – 23 – – 23 41 Jakov Fak – – 22 – – 22 42 Mattias Nilsson – – 21 – – 21 43 David Ekholm – – 19 – – 19 44 Ronny Hafsas 18 – – – – 18 45 Vincent Defrasne 16 0 – – – 16 46 Magnús Jónsson – – 15 – – 15 47 Vyacheslav Derkach 14 – – – – 14
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