# 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Women

The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Sprint Women will start at Saturday December 6, 2008 in Östersund and will finish Thursday March 26, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.

## Competition format

The 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 metres. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

## 2007-08 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Magdalena Neuner | 326 |
| Silver: | Sandrine Bailly | 318 |
| Bronze: | Kati Wilhelm | 306 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Östersund details | Wang Chunli China | 22:48.1 (0+0) | Tora Berger Norway | 22:49.5 (0+0) | Magdalena Neuner Germany | 22:52.9 (0+0) |
| Hochfilzen details | Simone Hauswald Germany | 23:04.3 (0+0) | Svetlana Sleptsova Russia | 23:18.4 (0+2) | Andrea Henkel Germany | 23:22.6 (0+1) |
| Hochfilzen details | Svetlana Sleptsova Russia | 23:21.8 (1+0) | Vita Semerenko Ukraine | 23:38.4 (0+0) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 23:46.1 (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Andrea Henkel Germany | 22:12.1 (0+0) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 22:29.3 (0+0) | Tora Berger Norway | 22:30.0 (0+0) |
| Ruhpolding details | Magdalena Neuner Germany | 23:26.6 (0+1) | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 23:26.8 (0+0) | Darya Domracheva Belarus | 23:40.6 (0+0) |
| Antholz details | Tora Berger Norway | 21:25.5 (0+1) | Darya Domracheva Belarus | 21.33.6 (1+0) | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 21:46.2 (1+0) |
| World Championships details | Kati Wilhelm Germany | 21:11.1 (0+0) | Simone Hauswald Germany | 21:21.0 (0+0) | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 21:38.2 (0+0) |
| Vancouver details | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 19:43.6 (0+0) | Magdalena Neuner Germany | 19:44.3 (0+1) | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 19:45.2 (0+0) |
| Trondheim details | Olga Zaitseva Russia | 22:56.9 (0+0) | Helena Jonsson Sweden | 23:02.4 (0+0) | Sylvie Becaert France | 23:08.0 (0+1) |
| Khanty-Mansiysk details | Tina Bachmann Germany | 20:49.8 (0+0) | Simone Hauswald Germany | 20:53.5 (0+0) | Anna Carin Olofsson Sweden | 21:09.1 (0+0) |

## Final standings

| # | Name | ÖST | HOC | HOC | OBE | RUH | ANT | WCH | VAN | TRO | KHA | Total |
| 1. | Helena Jonsson | 12 | 43 | 48 | 54 | 34 | 17 | 40 | 60 | 54 | 22 | 372 |
| 2 | Magdalena Neuner | 48 | 22 | 40 | 30 | 60 | 27 | 34 | 54 | 16 | 43 | 358 |
| 3 | Tora Berger | 54 | 40 | – | 48 | 29 | 60 | 22 | 43 | 30 | 26 | 352 |
| 4 | Kati Wilhelm | 38 | 24 | – | 40 | 54 | 48 | 60 | 34 | 28 | 21 | 347 |
| 5 | Darya Domracheva | 31 | 36 | 25 | 38 | 48 | 54 | 0 | 31 | 32 | 34 | 329 |
| 6 | Andrea Henkel | 29 | 48 | 0 | 60 | 25 | 30 | 38 | 40 | 31 | 19 | 320 |
| 7 | Olga Zaitseva | 5 | 12 | 30 | 24 | 36 | 14 | 48 | 48 | 60 | 36 | 308 |
| 8 | Svetlana Sleptsova | 40 | 54 | 60 | 36 | 40 | – | 5 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 273 |
| 9 | Éva Tófalvi | 32 | 30 | 32 | 32 | 13 | 11 | 21 | 36 | 22 | 29 | 247 |
| 10 | Vita Semerenko | 43 | 0 | 54 | – | 14 | – | 15 | 38 | 36 | 40 | 240 |
| 11 | Anna Carin Olofsson | 0 | 34 | 36 | – | 32 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 12 | 48 | 233 |
| 12 | Simone Hauswald | – | 60 | 0 | 25 | – | 6 | 54 | 29 | 3 | 54 | 231 |
| 13 | Wang Chunli | 60 | 20 | 0 | 23 | 43 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 43 | – | 225 |
| 14 | Martina Beck | 34 | 38 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 29 | 28 | 7 | 18 | 221 |
| 15 | Liu Xianying | 24 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 19 | 28 | 0 | 19 | – | 214 |
| 16 | Anna Boulygina | 0 | – | 34 | 4 | 17 | 43 | 43 | 10 | 26 | 31 | 208 |
| 17 | Kaisa Mäkäräinen | 6 | 0 | 43 | 22 | 38 | 40 | 18 | – | 13 | 12 | 192 |
| 18 | Michela Ponza | 15 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 34 | 24 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 178 |
| 19 | Magdalena Gwizdon | 30 | 32 | 22 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 24 | 174 |
| 20 | Natalia Levchenkova | 28 | 23 | 27 | 15 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 165 |
| 21 | Olga Medvedtseva | 8 | 29 | 11 | 43 | 28 | – | 20 | 25 | 0 | – | 164 |
| 22 | Sandrine Bailly | 17 | 0 | – | – | 22 | – | 31 | 32 | 40 | 1 | 143 |
| 23 | Solveig Rogstad | 36 | 26 | – | – | 0 | – | 17 | 14 | 11 | 28 | 132 |
| 24 | Kathrin Hitzer | 22 | 27 | 38 | 0 | 18 | 26 | – | – | – | – | 131 |
| 25 | Marie-Laure Brunet | 14 | 0 | 6 | 34 | – | 12 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 23 | 127 |
| 26 | Sylvie Becaert | 19 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 16 | 48 | 0 | 126 |
| 27 | Oksana Khvostenko | 27 | 0 | 19 | 28 | – | 31 | 7 | 13 | – | – | 125 |
| 28 | Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen | 3 | 28 | – | – | 27 | 0 | 9 | – | 25 | 25 | 117 |
| 29 | Olga Kudrashova | 13 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 36 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 112 |
| 30 | Valj Semerenko | 9 | 0 | 23 | 26 | 6 | – | 26 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 105 |
| 31 | Marie Dorin | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 32 | 103 |
| 32 | Andreja Mali | 25 | 15 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 33 | Zina Kocher | 1 | 0 | 18 | – | 8 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 17 | 94 |
| 34 | Olga Nazarova | 0 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 93 |
| 35 | Oksana Neupokoeva | 23 | 18 | 17 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 17 | 9 | 89 |
| 36 | Anastasiya Kuzmina | – | – | 5 | – | 10 | 0 | 36 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 81 |
| 37 | Tina Bachmann | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | 60 | 78 |
| 38 | Sofia Domeij | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 24 | 16 | – | 8 | 6 | 0 | 73 |
| 39 | Ann Kristin Flatland | 20 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 0 | – | 8 | – | 8 | – | 71 |
| 40 | Anna Maria Nilsson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 70 |
| 41 | Magda Rezlerova | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 12 | 29 | – | 67 |
| 42 | Pauline Macabies | 0 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – | 26 | 0 | – | 61 |
| 43 | Eveli Saue | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 60 |
| 44 | Veronika Vítková | – | 0 | 26 | 0 | 7 | – | 23 | – | 0 | 4 | 60 |
| 45 | Diana Rasimovičiūtė | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 30 | 11 | 0 | – | 56 |
| 46 | Krystyna Pałka | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 34 | 0 | 55 |
| 47 | Liv Kjersti Eikeland | 0 | 0 | 15 | – | 11 | 29 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 55 |
| 48 | Weronika Nowakowska | 0 | 17 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 55 |
| 49 | Iana Romanova | – | – | – | – | – | 28 | – | 7 | 15 | 3 | 53 |
| 50 | Dong Xue | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 2 | – | 51 |
| 51 | Juliane Doll | – | – | – | – | – | 23 | – | 0 | 0 | 27 | 50 |
| 52 | Nadezhda Skardino | 18 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 20 | 47 |
| 53 | Agnieszka Grzybek | – | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| 54 | Olga Vilukhina | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 38 | 38 |
| 55 | Song Chaoqing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 4 | – | – | – | 36 |
| 56 | Elena Khrustaleva | 0 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 0 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 36 |
| 57 | Dana Plotogea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 58 | Lilia Vaygina-Efremova | 0 | 10 | 7 | 19 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 36 |
| 59 | Kadri Lehtla | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | – | 14 | – | 35 |
| 60 | Julie Carraz-Collin | 10 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | 33 |
| 61 | Liu Yuan-Yuan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 32 |
| 62 | Zdenka Vejnarova | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 31 |
| 63 | Teja Gregorin | 0 | 6 | – | – | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 31 |
| 64 | Katja Haller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 30 |
| 65 | Kong Yingchao | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 29 |
| 66 | Olga Anisimova | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | 21 | – | – | – | 0 | 28 |
| 67 | Anna Lebedeva | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | – | 14 | – | – | – | 27 |
| 68 | Roberta Fiandino | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 25 |
| 69 | Natalia Sokolova | – | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25 |
| 70 | Olena Pidrushna | 0 | 0 | 14 | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 11 | 25 |
| 71 | Liudmila Kalinchik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 72 | Anne Ingstadbjoerg | 0 | 7 | – | – | 0 | 1 | – | 6 | 10 | – | 24 |
| 73 | Sabrina Buchholz | 0 | 0 | – | 21 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 21 |
| 74 | Madara Liduma | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – | 20 |
| 75 | Veronika Zvaricova | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | 19 | – | – | – | 19 |
| 76 | Mihaela Purdea | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 77 | Selina Gasparin | – | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 78 | Alexandra Stoian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 79 | Christa Perathoner | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 9 |
| 80 | Teija Kuntola | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 9 |
| 81 | Synnøve Solemdal | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 82 | Liudmila Ananko | – | 0 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| 83 | Martina Halinarova | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 |
| 84 | Sara Studebaker | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| 85 | Pavlina Filipova | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 |