The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men will start at Thursday December 3, 2009 in Östersund and will finish Thursday February 18, 2009 in Vancouver at the olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is Michael Greis of Germany.

Competition format The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

2008-09 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Michael Greis146Silver: Ivan Tcherezov 120Bronze: Maxim Tchoudov119

Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsEmil Hegle Svendsen 52:43.7(0+1+0+0)Tim Burke 53:19.2(0+0+0+1)Christoph Sumann 53:33.2(0+0+0+1)PokljukadetailsChristoph Sumann 52:19.8(0+0+0+1)Simon Fourcade 52:34.0(0+0+1+0)Alexander Os 52:50.5(0+0+0+1)AntholzdetailsSerguei Sednev 54:06.7(0+0+0+0)Daniel Mesotitsch 54:51.6(0+1+0+1)Alexis Bœuf 55:01.0(0+1+0+0)2010 Winter OlympicsdetailsEmil Hegle Svendsen 48:22.5(0+0+0+1)Ole Einar BjørndalenSergey Novikov 48:32.0(0+1+0+1)48:32.0(0+0+0+0)

Standings # Name ÖST POK ANT OLY TotalStandings Individual men 1 48 60 28 34 142 2 60 – – 60 120 3 11 34 54 32 120 4 22 32 60 0 114 5 7 31 40 40 111 6 0 38 27 36 101 7 11 43 32 24 99 8 36 – 34 27 97 9 54 27 12 0 93 10 29 48 – 13 90 11 32 20 – 31 83 12 25 54 – 1 80 13 27 10 – 43 80 14 43 – 36 – 79 15 30 21 24 17 75 16 20 0 – 54 74 17 18 40 14 0 72 18 38 29 – 0 67 18 0 – 29 38 67 20 6 11 43 11 65 21 0 25 25 14 64 22 43 18 – – 61 23 31 0 2 28 61 24 0 19 10 29 58 25 0 – – 54 54 26 0 26 – 26 52 27 0 0 38 12 50 28 0 – 48 – 48 29 26 0 21 0 47 30 24 – – 18 42 31 23 0 0 19 42 32 3 13 – 25 41 33 0 23 17 – 40 34 0 1 8 30 39 35 17 0 – 22 39 36 19 15 – 5 39 37 15 0 23 – 38 38 – 0 31 6 37 39 0 30 – 7 37 40 – 36 – – 36 41 0 0 20 15 35 42 34 – – – 34 43 0 0 30 0 30 44 0 29 0 – 28 45 28 0 0 – 28 46 0 6 19 2 27 47 – 12 15 – 27 48 0 0 26 0 26 49 0 24 1 – 25 50 – 4 – 20 24 51 16 8 – 0 24 52 0 – 0 23 23 53 0 22 – 0 22 54 0 0 22 – 22 55 8 7 7 0 22 56 21 – 0 0 21 57 0 0 0 21 21 58 4 0 – 16 20 59 2 17 – 0 19 60 0 – 18 – 18 61 0 16 – – 16 62 – – 16 – 16 63 14 0 0 0 14 64 0 14 0 0 14 65 0 0 13 0 13 66 13 – 0 0 13 67 12 0 0 – 12 68 0 2 0 10 12 69 9 0 0 3 12 70 0 0 11 0 11 71 0 0 0 9 9 72 0 0 9 – 9 73 – 9 – – 9 74 0 0 0 8 8 75 – – 6 – 6 76 – 5 0 0 5 77 5 – – – 5 77 – – 5 – 5 79 1 – 4 0 5 80 0 4 – – 4 81 – – – 4 4 82 0 0 3 – 3

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