# 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Men

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 15 kilometres (9.3 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). 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

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 180 |
| Silver: | Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. | 143 |
| Bronze: | Dmitri Yaroshenko | 128 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Oberhof details | Christoph Sumann Austria | 38:11.9 (1+0+1+0) | Carl Johan Bergman Sweden | 38:21.6 (0+0+1+1) | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 38:21.8 (0+1+1+0) |
| Antholz details | Christoph Stephan Germany | 37:19.9 (0+0+0+1) | Dominik Landertinger Austria | 37:20.1 (1+2+0+0) | Ivan Tcherezov Russia | 37:22.7 (0+0+1+1) |
| World Championships details | Dominik Landertinger Austria | 38:32.5 (2+0+0+1) | Christoph Sumann Austria | 38:41.4 (2+0+0+1) | Ivan Tcherezov Russia | 38:46.4 (2+0+0+0) |
| Trondheim details | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 41:12.9 (0+0+0+0) | Simon Eder Austria | 41:52.0 (0+0+1+0) | Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway | 42:06.3 (1+0+0+1) |
| Khanty-Mansiysk details | Simon Eder Austria | 37:14.4 (0+0+0+0) | Dominik Landertinger Austria | 37:26.5 (0+0+0+1) | Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway | 37:31.4 (2+0+0+1) |

## Final standings

| # | Name | OBE | ANT | WCH | TRO | KHA | Total |
| 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 |