# 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Men started at Wednesday, December 3, 2008, in Östersund and ended on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in Vancouver at the pre-olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist was Vincent Defrasne of France.

## 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.

## 2007-08 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Vincent Defrasne | 104 |
| Silver: | Emil Hegle Svendsen | 100 |
| Bronze: | Halvard Hanevold | 82 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Östersund details | Michael Greis Germany | 58:52.5 (0+1+0+0) | Alexander Os Norway | 59:43.0 (0+0+0+2) | Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway | 59:47.5 (0+2+0+0) |
| Hochfilzen details | Maxim Tchoudov Russia | 56:00.3 (0+1+0+0) | Ivan Tcherezov Russia | 56:47.9 (0+0+2+0) | Björn Ferry Sweden | 56:48.8 (0+0+1+0) |
| World Championships details | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 52:28.0 (0+0+2+1) | Christoph Stephan Germany | 52:42.1 (1+0+0+0) | Jakov Fak Croatia | 52:45.1 (0+0+0+1) |
| Vancouver details | Vincent Jay France | 49:53.9 (0+0+0+0) | Daniel Böhm Germany | 50:12.9 (0+1+0+0) | Jeremy Teela United States | 50:17.2 (0+1+0+0) |

## Final standings

| # | Name | ÖST | HOC | WCH | VAN | Total |
| 1. | Michael Greis | 60 | 43 | 22 | 43 | 146 |
| 2 | Ivan Tcherezov | 30 | 54 | 36 | 22 | 120 |
| 3 | Maxim Tchoudov | 28 | 60 | 33 | 26 | 119 |
| 4 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 17 | 27 | 60 | 23 | 110 |
| 5 | Christoph Sumann | 34 | 38 | 24 | 28 | 100 |
| 6 | Carl Johan Bergman | 32 | 34 | – | 32 | 98 |
| 7 | Daniel Mesotitsch | 40 | 36 | 21 | 0 | 97 |
| 8 | Vincent Jay | 13 | 0 | 18 | 60 | 91 |
| 9 | Tomasz Sikora | 29 | 22 | 32 | 30 | 91 |
| 10 | Andriy Deryzemlya | 38 | 0 | 34 | 10 | 82 |
| 11 | Alexander Os | 54 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 77 |
| 12 | Jakov Fak | 0 | 26 | 48 | 0 | 74 |
| 13 | Serguei Sednev | 43 | 18 | 0 | 13 | 74 |
| 14 | Björn Ferry | 24 | 48 | – | – | 72 |
| 14 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | 48 | 24 | – | – | 72 |
| 16 | Alexander Wolf | 14 | 30 | 11 | 27 | 71 |
| 17 | Frode Andresen | 25 | – | – | 38 | 63 |
| 18 | Vincent Defrasne | 0 | 7 | 20 | 34 | 61 |
| 19 | Michael Rösch | 21 | 13 | 23 | 15 | 59 |
| 20 | Olexander Bilanenko | 2 | 31 | 25 | 0 | 58 |
| 21 | Vyacheslav Derkach | 31 | 8 | – | 16 | 55 |
| 22 | Christoph Stephan | 0 | 0 | 54 | – | 54 |
| 23 | Daniel Böhm | – | – | – | 54 | 54 |
| 24 | Dominik Landertinger | 15 | – | 38 | – | 53 |
| 25 | Nikolay Kruglov | 23 | 29 | – | – | 52 |
| 26 | Alexander Syman | 27 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 27 | Jeremy Teela | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 48 |
| 28 | Sergey Novikov | 0 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 48 |
| 29 | Simon Fourcade | 0 | – | 43 | 4 | 47 |
| 30 | Roman Dostál | 20 | 1 | 26 | – | 47 |
| 31 | David Ekholm | 6 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 46 |
| 32 | Halvard Hanevold | 36 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 45 |
| 33 | Tim Burke | – | 0 | 27 | 18 | 45 |
| 34 | Lowell Bailey | 26 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 45 |
| 35 | Mattias Nilsson | 0 | 0 | 15 | 29 | 44 |
| 36 | Simon Eder | – | 0 | – | 40 | 40 |
| 37 | Roman Pryma | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 38 | Markus Windisch | 11 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 40 |
| 39 | Ronny Hafsas | 0 | – | – | 36 | 36 |
| 40 | Zdeněk Vítek | 0 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 36 |
| 41 | Martin Fourcade | – | 5 | 28 | 0 | 33 |
| 42 | Christian de Lorenzi | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| 43 | Hans Martin Gjedrem | – | 21 | – | 11 | 32 |
| 44 | Ivan Joller | 0 | 0 | – | 31 | 31 |
| 45 | Jaroslav Soukup | 0 | 0 | 30 | – | 30 |
| 46 | Roland Lessing | 5 | 25 | 0 | – | 30 |
| 47 | Toni Lang | 0 | 28 | – | – | 28 |
| 48 | Friedrich Pinter | 19 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 28 |
| 49 | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix | 0 | 6 | – | 21 | 27 |
| 50 | Andreas Birnbacher | 10 | 17 | – | – | 27 |
| 51 | Christian Martinelli | 7 | – | 0 | 19 | 26 |
| 52 | Michal Šlesingr | 0 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 26 |
| 53 | Evgeny Ustyugov | – | – | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 54 | Arnd Peiffer | – | – | – | 24 | 24 |
| 55 | Lars Berger | 16 | – | 7 | 0 | 23 |
| 56 | Andrei Makoveev | 22 | 0 | – | 0 | 22 |
| 57 | Tomas Holubec | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 58 | Daniel Graf | 18 | 0 | – | – | 18 |
| 59 | Simon Schempp | – | – | – | 17 | 17 |
| 59 | Sergey Naumik | – | – | 17 | – | 17 |
| 61 | Rustam Valiullin | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 17 |
| 62 | Nicola Pozzi | 0 | 16 | 0 | – | 16 |
| 63 | Oleg Berezhnoy | 0 | 15 | – | – | 15 |
| 64 | Lois Habert | 0 | 14 | – | 0 | 14 |
| 65 | Robin Clegg | 0 | – | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| 66 | Sergey Sadovnikov | – | – | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 67 | Janez Maric | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 68 | Marek Matiasko | 12 | 0 | 0 | – | 12 |
| 69 | Maxim Maksimov | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 70 | Jean Philippe Leguellec | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 71 | Ondřej Moravec | 9 | 0 | – | 0 | 9 |
| 72 | Vladimir Iliev | 0 | 0 | 9 | – | 9 |
| 73 | Dias Keneshev | 0 | 0 | 8 | – | 8 |
| 74 | Hidenori Isa | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 |
| 75 | Miroslav Matiaško | – | – | 6 | – | 6 |
| 76 | Krasimir Anev | 0 | 0 | 5 | – | 5 |
| 77 | Simon Hallenbarter | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 78 | Kristaps Libietis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 79 | Thomas Frei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 80 | Pavol Hurajt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 81 | Ilmārs Bricis | 1 | – | 0 | – | 1 |
| 82 | Evgeny Abramenko | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1 |