# 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Women

The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Women will start at Sunday January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish Sunday March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.

## Competition format

In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) 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.) with rest of the shooting bouts being at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, you 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

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Magdalena Neuner | 186 |
| Silver: | Kati Wilhelm | 138 |
| Bronze: | Michela Ponza | 135 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Oberhof details | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 39:55.2 (0+0+2+0) | Olga Medvedtseva Russia | 40:01.0 (0+0+1+1) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 40:07.0 (1+1+0+0) |
| Antholz details | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 36:51.2 (0+0+0+1) | Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland | 37:05.6 (0+0+0+2) | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 37:06.0 (1+2+0+0) |
| World Championships details | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 34:18.3 (0+0+1+1) | Anastasiya Kuzmina Slovakia | 34:25.8 (0+0+1+1) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 34:30.6 (0+0+1+1) |
| Trondheim details | Tora Berger Norway | 39:29.7 (0+0+0+1) | Simone Hauswald Germany | 39:30.7 (1+0+0+1) | Sandrine Bailly France | 39:31.8 (0+0+0+1) |
| Khanty-Mansiysk details | Simone Hauswald Germany | 36:54.6 (0+1+0+0) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 37:09.7 (0+0+0+0) | Andrea Henkel Germany | 37:21.5 (1+0+1+1) |

## Final standings

| # | Name | OBE | ANT | WCH | TRO | KHA | Total |
| 1 | Helena Jonsson | 48 | 60 | 48 | 29 | 54 | 210 |
| 2 | Kati Wilhelm | 60 | 48 | 11 | 40 | 38 | 186 |
| 3 | Simone Hauswald | 31 | 24 | 29 | 54 | 60 | 174 |
| 4 | Olga Zaitseva | 26 | 36 | 60 | 32 | 34 | 162 |
| 5 | Andrea Henkel | 29 | 40 | 40 | 25 | 48 | 157 |
| 6 | Tora Berger | 32 | – | 26 | 60 | 28 | 146 |
| 7 | Darya Domracheva | 0 | 22 | 38 | 43 | 43 | 146 |
| 8 | Magdalena Neuner | 43 | 38 | 36 | 27 | 29 | 146 |
| 9 | Kaisa Mäkäräinen | 38 | 54 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 140 |
| 10 | Olga Medvedtseva | 54 | – | 32 | 18 | 36 | '140 |
| 11 | Marie-Laure Brunet | 34 | 30 | 34 | 34 | 17 | 132 |
| 12 | Anna Carin Olofsson | – | 43 | 21 | 22 | 31 | 117 |
| 13 | Anastasiya Kuzmina | – | – | 54 | 36 | 25 | 115 |
| 14 | Valj Semerenko | 19 | 31 | 25 | 12 | 40 | 115 |
| 15 | Anna Boulygina | – | 23 | 18 | 38 | 32 | 111 |
| 16 | Martina Beck | – | 29 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 110 |
| 17 | Vita Semerenko | 20 | 20 | 43 | 17 | 23 | 106 |
| 18 | Éva Tófalvi | 25 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 16 | 101 |
| 19 | Natalia Levchenkova | 36 | 28 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 95 |
| 20 | Sandrine Bailly | – | – | 14 | 48 | 21 | 83 |
| 21 | Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen | – | 32 | – | 24 | 26 | 82 |
| 22 | Svetlana Sleptsova | 40 | – | 22 | – | 19 | 81 |
| 23 | Michela Ponza | 15 | 18 | – | 16 | 27 | 76 |
| 24 | Sylvie Becaert | – | 27 | – | 26 | 22 | 75 |
| 25 | Liu Xianying | 17 | 21 | 23 | 14 | – | 75 |
| 26 | Teja Gregorin | – | – | 28 | 28 | 15 | 71 |
| 27 | Ann Kristin Flatland | 30 | 34 | – | – | – | 64 |
| 28 | Andreja Mali | 16 | 14 | – | 13 | 14 | 57 |
| 29 | Magdalena Gwizdon | 23 | – | – | 19 | 13 | 55 |
| 30 | Marie Dorin | – | – | – | 31 | 20 | 51 |
| 31 | Olga Kudrashova | 27 | 19 | – | – | – | 46 |
| 32 | Kathrin Hitzer | 28 | 17 | – | – | – | 45 |
| 33 | Oksana Khvostenko | – | 25 | 20 | – | – | 45 |
| 34 | Veronika Vítková | – | – | 31 | – | 12 | 43 |
| 35 | Wang Chunli | 14 | 16 | – | 11 | – | 41 |
| 36 | Dong Xue | 22 | 13 | – | – | – | 35 |
| 37 | Nadezhda Skardino | 18 | 15 | – | – | – | 33 |
| 38 | Solveig Rogstad | – | – | – | 30 | – | 30 |
| 39 | Kong Yingchao | 24 | – | – | – | – | 24 |
| 40 | Lilia Vaygina-Efremova | 21 | – | – | – | – | 21 |
| 41 | Pavlina Filipova | – | – | 19 | – | – | 19 |
| 42 | Oksana Neupokoeva | – | – | – | – | 18 | 18 |
| 43 | Katja Haller | – | – | 17 | – | – | 17 |
| 44 | Olga Nazarova | – | – | 15 | – | – | 15 |
| 45 | Diana Rasimovičiūtė | – | – | 13 | – | – | 13 |
| 46 | Elena Khrustaleva | – | – | 12 | – | – | 12 |