2007-08 Biathlon World Cup

The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) 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).

* For detailed tables of the development of accumulated scores and related rankings in the Total, Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass start, Relay, and Nation Cups, see the subpage /Progression statistics.
* For a list of the Total and Relay World Cup winners and runners-up of all World Cup seasons since 1977-78, see the Biathlon World Cup article.

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 yel bib number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red red bib bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red yel n red bib 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.

WC results with intermediate Top 10 WC standings

World Cup 1;
flagicon|FIN Kontiolahti, Finland;
29 Nov–2 Dec

Race results

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World Cup 2;
flagicon|AUT Hochfilzen, Austria;
7–9 Dec

Race results

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Relay:

Standings from the previous WC season shown in brackets.

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World Cup 3;
flagicon|SLO Pokljuka, Slovenia;
13–16 Dec

Four Norwegian women, including World Cup No. 6 Tora Berger, skipped the meet; [no icon [http://www.ringblad.no/sport/article3180639.ece Tilbake i verdenscupen] , Ole Martin Rudstaden, Ringerikes Blad, retrieved 15 December 2007] the Swedish biathletes struggled with a cold, with World Cup No. 4 Björn Ferry missing both the individual and the sprint. [sv icon [http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=59681&a=999989&lid=senasteNytt_750712&lpos=rubrik_999989 Sjuk Ferry missar världscuplopp] , TT, retrieved from SVT 15 December 2007]

Race results

-Relay:
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= World Cup 4;
flagicon|GER Oberhof, Germany;
3–6 Jan =

Race results

-Relay:
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World Cup 5;
flagicon|GER Ruhpolding, Germany;
9–13 Jan

Race results

-Relay:
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World Cup 6;
flagicon|ITA Antholz-Anterselva, Italy;
17–20 Jan

Race results

= World Championships 2008;
flagicon|SWE Östersund, Sweden;
9–17 Feb =

Race results

-Relay:
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World Cup 7;
flagicon|KOR Pyeong Chang, South Korea;
28 Feb–2 Mar

Race results

World Cup 8;
flagicon|RUS Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia;
6–9 Mar

Race results

World Cup 9;
flagicon|NOR Holmenkollen, Norway;
13–16 Mar

Race results

Trivia

First World Cup career victory:
*athl iocc|Tora Berger|NOR, 26, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2004-05 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
*athl iocc|Dmitry Yaroshenko|RUS 31, in his 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2006-07 Sprint in Östersund
*athl iocc|Emil Hegle Svendsen|NOR, 22, in his 3th season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006-07 Sprint in Ruhpolding
*athl iocc|Yekaterina Youriyeva|RUS, 24, in her 3th season — the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka; first podium was 2006-07 Sprint in Lahti
*athl iocc|Kaisa Varis|FIN, 32, in her 2nd season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
*athl iocc|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
*athl iocc|Solveig Rogstad|NOR, 25, in her 3th season — the WC 5 Pursuit in Ruhpolding; also her first individual podium
*athl iocc|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
*athl iocc|Kathrin Hitzer|GER, 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 8 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk ; first podium was 2006-07 Pursuit in Lahti
*athl iocc|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 podium placement:
*athl iocc|Carsten Pump|GER, 31, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti
*athl iocc|Daniel Graf|GER, 26, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
*athl iocc|Sergey Sednev|UKR, 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
*athl iocc|Kaisa Mäkäräinen|FIN, 24, in her 3th season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Pokljuka
*athl iocc|Olga Anisimova|RUS, 35, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof
*athl iocc|Maxim Maksimov|RUS, 28, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the World Championships 2008 Individual in Östersund
*athl iocc|Friedrich Pinter|AUT, 30, in his 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Pyeong Chang

World Cup victory (in brackets total victory):
*athl iocc|Ole Einar Bjørndalen|NOR, 7 (81) first places
*athl iocc|Emil Hegle Svendsen|NOR, 6 (6) first places
*athl iocc|Sandrine Bailly|FRA 4 (20) first places
*athl iocc|Andrea Henkel|GER, 4 (14) first places
*athl iocc|Magdalena Neuner|GER, 4 (11) first places
*athl iocc|Michael Greis|GER, 4 (9) first places
*athl iocc|Svetlana Sleptsova|RUS, 3 (3) first place
*athl iocc|Kati Wilhelm |GER, 2 (18) first places
*athl iocc|Martina Glagow|GER, 2 (12) first places
*athl iocc|Tomasz Sikora|POL, 2 (4) first places
*athl iocc|Ivan Cherezov|RUS, 2 (3) first places
*athl iocc|Tora Berger|NOR, 2 (2) first places
*athl iocc|Yekaterina Youriyeva|RUS, 2 (2) first places
*athl iocc|Kathrin Hitzer|GER, 2 (2) first places
*athl iocc|Vincent Defrasne|FRA, 1 (3) first places
*athl iocc|Maxim Tchoudov|RUS, 1 (2) first places
*athl iocc|Dmitry Yaroshenko|RUS, 1 (1) first place
*athl iocc|Solveig Rogstad|NOR, 1 (1) first plac
*athl iocc|Björn Ferry|SWE, 1 (1) first place
*athl iocc|Michal Šlesingr|CZE, 1 (1) first place
*athl iocc|Kaisa Varis|FIN, 1 (1) first place

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