# 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup

The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 28 November 2007 and ended 16 March 2008.
This article contains the top ten result listings and concise summary comments for each of the season's twenty-seven individual races and five relays for both genders, arranged by World Cup meet 1 through 9 (denoted WC 1–9), accompanied by the top ten Total Cup rankings after each of the meets plus the 2008 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores).

## Scores and leader bibs

* For the eighth successive season, the race victory gives 50 points, a 2nd place gives 46 pts, a 3rd place 43 pts, a 4th place 40 pts, a fifth place 37 pts, a 6th place 34 pts, then further decreasing by two pts down to the 15th place (16 pts), then linearly decreasing by one point down to the 30th place (see the Place/Points table on the page's upper right). Equal placings, i.e. same-time finishes (ties) give an equal number of points.
* The sum of all WC points of the season, minus the score from a predetermined number of events (say, 3) give the biathlete's accumulated WC score (naturally, the races chosen to be eliminated from the total will be those with the lowest scores). Biathletes with an equal number of accumulated points are ranked by number of victories, 2nd places, 3rd places, and so on, in practice reducing the possibility of ties to just about nil.
* In addition to the Total WC score as described above, the points from races in each separate single-biathlete format—Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass start—accumulate toward separate scores with associated "sub-Cups" to be won. See the main Biathlon article for a detailed description of the race formats.
* In any given race, the biathlete with the highest accumulated Total WC score before the race wears a yellow number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red bib is worn. In the first races of the season, the winners of the previous season's Cups wear the associated bibs.
* There are also two multi-biathlete Cups to be won, namely the Relay and Nation Cups. The scores of the Relay races are awarded to each nation's team in the same manner as in the single-biathlete Cups. No leader bibs are worn during the Relays. For the Nation Cup, the combined scores of the three best biathletes from each nation in the Individual and Sprint races, as well as the Relay scores, are accumulated. The Nation Cup points scale is different from the World Cup points scale; each place from 1st through 30th scores 100 more points than in the World Cup, and from 31st down to 130th points are awarded on a scale from 100 to 1.

## Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2007–08 season.
| Location | Date | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Details |
| Kontiolahti | 29 November–2 December | ● | ● | ● | | | details |
| Hochfilzen | 6–9 December | | ● | ● | | ● | details |
| Pokljuka | 12–16 December | ● | ● | | | ● | details |
| Oberhof | 2–6 January | | ● | | ● | ● | details |
| Ruhpolding | 8–13 January | | ● | ● | | ● | details |
| Antholz | 16–20 January | | ● | ● | ● | | details |
| Östersund | 8–17 February | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | World Championships |
| Pyeongchang | 28 February–2 March | | ● | ● | | | details |
| Khanty-Mansiysk | 5–9 March | | ● | ● | ● | | details |
| Holmenkollen | 12–16 March | | ● | ● | ● | | details |
| Total | Total | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Germany | 24 | 11 | 21 | 56 |
| 2 | Norway | 20 | 15 | 10 | 45 |
| 3 | Russia | 11 | 23 | 17 | 51 |
| 4 | France | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Poland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Sweden | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Italy | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Belarus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 64 | 64 | 64 | 192 |

## World Cup podiums
### Men

| Stage | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third | Yellow bib (After competition) | Det. |
| 1 | 29 November 2007 | Kontiolahti | 20 km Individual | Vincent Defrasne | Halvard Hanevold | Maxim Tchoudov | Vincent Defrasne | Detail |
| 1 | 1 December 2007 | Kontiolahti | 10 km Sprint | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Dmitry Yaroshenko | Carsten Pump | Vincent Defrasne | Detail |
| 1 | 2 December 2007 | Kontiolahti | 12.5 km Pursuit | Ivan Tcherezov | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Dmitry Yaroshenko | Ivan Tcherezov | Detail |
| 2 | 7 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 10 km Sprint | Dmitry Yaroshenko | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Andrei Makoveev | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 2 | 8 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 12.5 km Pursuit | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Dmitry Yaroshenko | Daniel Graf | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 3 | 13 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 20 km Individual | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Alexander Wolf | Serhiy Sednev | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 3 | 15 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 10 km Sprint | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Dmitry Yaroshenko | Mattias Nilsson | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 4 | 5 January 2008 | Oberhof | 10 km Sprint | Tomasz Sikora | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 4 | 6 January 2008 | Oberhof | 15 km Mass Start | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Nikolay Kruglov | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 5 | 12 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 10 km Sprint | Michael Greis | Maxim Tchoudov | Alexander Wolf | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 5 | 13 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 12.5 km Pursuit | Michael Greis | Maxim Tchoudov | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 6 | 18 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 10 km Sprint | Michael Greis | Nikolay Kruglov | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 6 | 19 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 12.5 km Pursuit | Björn Ferry | Nikolay Kruglov | Michael Greis | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 6 | 20 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 15 km Mass Start | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Björn Ferry | Michael Greis | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| WC | 9 February 2008 | Östersund | 10 km Sprint | Maxim Tchoudov | Halvard Hanevold | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| WC | 10 February 2008 | Östersund | 12.5 km Pursuit | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Maxim Tchoudov | Alexander Wolf | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| WC | 14 February 2008 | Östersund | 20 km Individual | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Maxim Maksimov | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| WC | 17 February 2008 | Östersund | 15 km Mass Start | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Maxim Tchoudov | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 7 | 27 February 2008 | Pyeongchang | 10 km Sprint | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Halvard Hanevold | Friedrich Pinter | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 7 | 29 February 2008 | Pyeongchang | 12.5 km Pursuit | Michael Greis | Halvard Hanevold | Alexander Os | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 8 | 6 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 10 km Sprint | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Andrei Makoveev | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 8 | 8 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 12.5 km Pursuit | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Tomasz Sikora | Andrei Makoveev | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 8 | 9 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 15 km Mass Start | Tomasz Sikora | Daniel Graf | Michal Šlesingr | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 9 | 13 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 10 km Sprint | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Michael Rösch | Friedrich Pinter | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 9 | 15 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 12.5 km Pursuit | Ivan Tcherezov | Friedrich Pinter | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |
| 9 | 16 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 15 km Mass Start | Michal Šlesingr | Nikolay Kruglov | Halvard Hanevold | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Detail |

### Women

| Stage | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third | Yellow bib (After competition) | Det. |
| 1 | 29 November 2007 | Kontiolahti | 15 km Individual | Martina Glagow | Tatiana Moiseeva | Simone Denkinger | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 1 | 30 November 2007 | Kontiolahti | 7.5 km Sprint | Martina Glagow | Kati Wilhelm | Tora Berger | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 1 | 2 December 2007 | Kontiolahti | 10 km Pursuit | Tora Berger | Andrea Henkel | Martina Glagow | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 2 | 7 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 7.5 km Sprint | Sandrine Bailly | Ekaterina Iourieva | Kati Wilhelm | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 2 | 8 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 10 km Pursuit | Sandrine Bailly | Ekaterina Iourieva | Kati Wilhelm | Sandrine Bailly | Detail |
| 3 | 13 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 15 km Individual | Ekaterina Iourieva | Michela Ponza | Martina Glagow | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 3 | 15 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 7.5 km Sprint | Sandrine Bailly | Kaisa Mäkäräinen | Magdalena Neuner | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 4 | 5 January 2008 | Oberhof | 7.5 km Sprint | Tora Berger | Svetlana Sleptsova | Magdalena Neuner | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 4 | 6 January 2008 | Oberhof | 12.5 km Mass Start | Magdalena Neuner | Olga Anisimova | Tatiana Moiseeva | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 5 | 11 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 7.5 km Sprint | Kaisa Varis | Svetlana Sleptsova | Helena Jonsson | Martina Glagow | Detail |
| 5 | 13 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 10 km Pursuit | Solveig Rogstad | Kati Wilhelm | Kaisa Mäkäräinen | Kati Wilhelm | Detail |
| 6 | 17 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 7.5 km Sprint | Kati Wilhelm | Andrea Henkel | Svetlana Sleptsova | Kati Wilhelm | Detail |
| 6 | 19 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 10 km Pursuit | Andrea Henkel | Svetlana Sleptsova | Tora Berger | Kati Wilhelm | Detail |
| 6 | 20 January 2008 | Antholz-Anterselva | 12.5 km Mass Start | Andrea Henkel | Anna Carin Olofsson | Kati Wilhelm | Kati Wilhelm | Detail |
| WC | 9 February 2008 | Östersund | 7.5 km Sprint | Andrea Henkel | Albina Akhatova | Oksana Khvostenko | Andrea Henkel | Detail |
| WC | 10 February 2008 | Östersund | 10 km Pursuit | Andrea Henkel | Ekaterina Iourieva | Albina Akhatova | Andrea Henkel | Detail |
| WC | 14 February 2008 | Östersund | 15 km Individual | Ekaterina Iourieva | Martina Glagow | Oksana Khvostenko | Andrea Henkel | Detail |
| WC | 16 February 2008 | Östersund | 12.5 km Mass Start | Magdalena Neuner | Tora Berger | Ekaterina Iourieva | Andrea Henkel | Detail |
| 7 | 28 February 2008 | Pyeongchang | 7.5 km Sprint | Magdalena Neuner | Sandrine Bailly | Michela Ponza | Sandrine Bailly | Detail |
| 7 | 1 March 2008 | Pyeongchang | 10 km Pursuit | Sandrine Bailly | Michela Ponza | Albina Akhatova | Sandrine Bailly | Detail |
| 8 | 6 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 7.5 km Sprint | Magdalena Neuner | Sandrine Bailly | Albina Akhatova | Sandrine Bailly | Detail |
| 8 | 8 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 10 km Pursuit | Kathrin Hitzer | Sandrine Bailly | Andrea Henkel | Sandrine Bailly | Detail |
| 8 | 9 March 2008 | Khanty-Mansiysk | 12.5 km Mass Start | Kathrin Hitzer | Magdalena Neuner | Svetlana Sleptsova | Magdalena Neuner | Detail |
| 9 | 13 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 7.5 km Sprint | Svetlana Sleptsova | Tora Berger | Kati Wilhelm | Magdalena Neuner | Detail |
| 9 | 15 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 10 km Pursuit | Svetlana Sleptsova | Kati Wilhelm | Liu Xianying | Magdalena Neuner | Detail |
| 9 | 16 March 2008 | Oslo Holmenkollen | 12.5 km Mass Start | Kati Wilhelm | Solveig Rogstad | Michela Ponza | Magdalena Neuner | Detail |

### Men's team

| Event | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2 | 9 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 4x7.5 km Relay | Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko | Germany Michael Rösch Daniel Graf Carsten Pump Michael Greis |
| 3 | 16 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 4x7.5 km Relay | Russia Andrei Makoveev Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov | Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis | Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder |
| 4 | 4 January 2008 | Oberhof | 4x7.5 km Relay | Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov Dmitry Yaroshenko Nikolay Kruglov | Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis |
| 5 | 10 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 4x7.5 km Relay | Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov | Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis |
| WC | 16 February 2008 | Östersund | 4x7.5 km Relay | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov | Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis |

### Women's team

| Event | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2 | 9 December 2007 | Hochfilzen | 4x6 km Relay | Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Tatiana Moiseeva Ekaterina Iourieva | Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Olofsson Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson |
| 3 | 16 December 2007 | Pokljuka | 4x6 km Relay | Germany Martina Glagow Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andrea Henkel | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Natalia Guseva Ekaterina Iourieva | France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly |
| 4 | 3 January 2008 | Oberhof | 4x6 km Relay | Germany Simone Denkinger Andrea Henkel Kathrin Hitzer Kati Wilhelm | France Delphyne Peretto Sylvie Becaert Pauline Macabies Sandrine Bailly | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Tatiana Moiseeva Natalia Guseva |
| 5 | 9 January 2008 | Ruhpolding | 4x6 km Relay | Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Kati Wilhelm | Norway Tora Berger Anne Ingstadbjorg Solveig Rogstad Ann Kristin Flatland | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Ekaterina Iourieva Natalia Guseva |
| WC | 17 February 2008 | Östersund | 4x6 km Relay | Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Kati Wilhelm | Ukraine Oksana Yakovlieva Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko | France Delphyne Peretto Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly |

### Mixed

| Event | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third |
| WC | 12 February 2008 | Östersund | 2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay | Germany Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis | Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Rustam Valiullin Sergey Novikov | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Oksana Neupokoeva Nikolay Kruglov Dmitry Yaroshenko |
| 7 | 2 March 2008 | Pyeongchang | 2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay | Norway Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Hans Martin Gjedrem Alexander Os | Italy Michela Ponza Katja Haller René-Laurent Vuillermoz Christian De Lorenzi | France Julie Carraz-Collin Pauline Macabies Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf |

## Standings: Men
### Overall

| Pos. | | Points |
| 1. | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 869 |
| 2. | Dmitry Yaroshenko | 696 |
| 3. | Emil Hegle Svendsen | 687 |
| 4. | Michael Greis | 596 |
| 5. | Ivan Tcherezov | 573 |
* Final standings after 26 races.

## Standings: Women
### Overall

| Pos. | | Points |
| 1. | Magdalena Neuner | 815 |
| 2. | Sandrine Bailly | 804 |
| 3. | Andrea Henkel | 764 |
| 4. | Kati Wilhelm | 746 |
| 5. | Martina Glagow | 675 |
* Final standings after 26 races.

## Achievements
### First World Cup career victory

* Tora Berger (NOR), 26, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
* Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS) 31, in his 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Östersund
* Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 22, in his 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Ruhpolding
* Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS), 24, in her 3rd season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Lahti
* Kaisa Varis (FIN), 32, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
* Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS), 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; first podium was 2007–08 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof
* Solveig Rogstad (NOR), 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 5 Pursuit in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
* Björn Ferry (SWE), 29, in his 7th season — the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Torino - Cesana San Sicario
* Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 8 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk ; first podium was 2006–07 Pursuit in Lahti
* Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 25, in his 7th season — the WC 9 Mass Start in Holmenkollen ; first podium was 2006–07 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva

### First World Cup podium

* Carsten Pump (GER), 31, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti
* Daniel Graf (GER), 26, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
* Serhiy Sednev (UKR), 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
* Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 24, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka
* Olga Anisimova (RUS), 35, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof
* Maxim Maksimov (RUS), 28, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the World Championships 2008 Individual in Östersund
* Friedrich Pinter (AUT), 30, in his 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Pyeongchang

### Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)
## Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 2007–08 season:
* Ludwig Gredler (AUT)
* Ferréol Cannard (FRA)
* Julien Robert (FRA)
* Alexei Aidarov (UKR)
* Nathalie Santer (BEL)
* Saskia Santer (BEL)
* Kaisa Varis (FIN)
* Delphyne Peretto (FRA)
* Jenny Adler (GER)
* Ute Niziak (GER)
* Gunn Margit Andreassen (NOR)
* Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS)
* Petra Slezakova (SVK)

## References and notes

* ↑ World Cup Schedule Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine