2006–07 Biathlon World Cup

The 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season lasted from 29 November 2006 to 18 March 2007.

2006–07 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline Men Women
Overall Germany Michael Greis Germany Andrea Henkel
Nations Cup Russia Russia Germany Germany
Individual France Raphaël Poirée Germany Andrea Henkel
Sprint Germany Michael Greis Sweden Anna Carin Olofsson
Pursuit Russia Dmitry Yaroshenko Germany Kati Wilhelm
Mass start Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Germany Kati Wilhelm
Relay Russia Russia France France
Competition

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 2007 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores).

  • 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.

Calendar

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Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2006–07 season.[1]

Location Date Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Details
  Östersund 29. November–3. December
  Hochfilzen 8.–10. December
  Hochfilzen 1 13.–16. December (Women) (Men x2, Women x1)
  Oberhof 3.–7. January
  Ruhpolding 10.–14. January
  Pokljuka 17.–21. January
  Antholz 3.–11. February World Championships
  Lahti 28. February–4. March
  Holmenkollen 8.–11. March (Men) (Women)
  Khanty-Mansijsk 15.–18. March
Total 4 10 8 5 5

Scores and leader bibs

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  • For the seventh 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.

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Germany21262572
2  Norway167831
3  Russia1013730
4  France99725
5  Sweden46414
6  Austria2013
7  Ukraine1124
8  Poland1113
9  Czech Republic0112
10  China0033
11  Belarus0011
  Canada0011
  Italy0011
  Slovenia0011
  Switzerland0011
Totals (15 entries)646464192

World Cup podiums

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Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib
(After competition)
Det.
1 30 November 2006   Östersund 20 km Individual   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Andreas Birnbacher   Michael Greis   Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail
1 2 December 2006   Östersund 10 km Sprint   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Dmitry Yaroshenko   Michael Greis Detail
1 3 December 2006   Östersund 12.5 km Pursuit   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Dmitry Yaroshenko   Raphaël Poirée Detail
2 8 December 2006   Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Michael Greis   Matthias Simmen Detail
2 9 December 2006   Hochfilzen 12.5 km Pursuit   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Dmitry Yaroshenko   Ivan Tcherezov Detail
3 14 December 2006   Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint   Michael Greis   Maxim Tchoudov   Björn Ferry Detail
3 16 December 2006   Hochfilzen 10 km Sprint   Raphaël Poirée   Michael Rösch   Sven Fischer   Michael Greis Detail
4 6 January 2007   Oberhof 10 km Sprint   Nikolay Kruglov   Michael Greis   René-Laurent Vuillermoz Detail
4 7 January 2007   Oberhof 12.5 km Pursuit   Nikolay Kruglov   Dmitry Yaroshenko   Maxim Tchoudov Detail
5 13 January 2007   Ruhpolding 10 km Sprint   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Halvard Hanevold   Emil Hegle Svendsen   Ole Einar Bjørndalen Detail
5 14 January 2007   Ruhpolding 15 km Mass Start   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Emil Hegle Svendsen   Christoph Sumann Detail
6 18 January 2007   Pokljuka 10 km Sprint   Alexander Wolf   Björn Ferry   Emil Hegle Svendsen Detail
6 20 January 2007   Pokljuka 12.5 km Pursuit   Christoph Sumann   Alexander Wolf   Vincent Defrasne Detail
6 21 January 2007   Pokljuka 15 km Mass Start   Christoph Sumann   Vincent Defrasne   Andreas Birnbacher Detail
WC 3 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Sprint   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Michal Šlesingr   Andriy Deryzemlya Detail
WC 4 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Pursuit   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Maxim Tchoudov   Vincent Defrasne Detail
WC 6 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 20 km Individual   Raphaël Poirée   Michael Greis   Michal Šlesingr Detail
WC 11 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 15 km Mass Start   Michael Greis   Andreas Birnbacher   Raphaël Poirée Detail
7 1 March 2007   Lahti 20 km Individual   Raphaël Poirée   Simon Fourcade   Alexander Wolf   Michael Greis Detail
7 3 March 2007   Lahti 10 km Sprint   Raphaël Poirée   Alexander Os   Hans Martin Gjedrem Detail
7 4 March 2007   Lahti 12.5 km Pursuit   Raphaël Poirée   Michael Greis   Sven Fischer Detail
8 8 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 20 km Individual   Raphaël Poirée   Michael Greis   Dmitry Yaroshenko Detail
8 10 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Pursuit   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Raphaël Poirée   Michael Greis Detail
8 11 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 15 km Mass Start   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Raphaël Poirée   Sven Fischer Detail
9 15 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Sprint   Michael Rösch   Maxim Tchoudov   Andrei Makoveev Detail
9 17 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Pursuit   Maxim Tchoudov   Björn Ferry   Stian Eckhoff Detail
9 18 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 15 km Mass Start   Ivan Tcherezov   Michael Greis   Sven Fischer Detail

Women

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Stage Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Yellow bib
(After competition)
Det.
1 29 November 2006   Östersund 15 km Individual   Irina Malgina   Liv-Kjersti Eikeland   Zina Kocher   Irina Malgina Detail
1 1 December 2006   Östersund 7.5 km Sprint   Magdalena Gwizdoń   Kati Wilhelm   Martina Glagow   Andrea Henkel Detail
1 3 December 2006   Östersund 10 km Pursuit   Linda Grubben   Anna Carin Olofsson   Magdalena Gwizdoń Detail
2 8 December 2006   Hochfilzen 7.5 km Sprint   Andrea Henkel   Magdalena Gwizdoń   Kong Yingchao Detail
2 9 December 2006   Hochfilzen 10 km Pursuit   Andrea Henkel   Linda Grubben   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
3 13 December 2006   Hochfilzen 15 km Individual   Andrea Henkel   Martina Glagow   Oksana Khvostenko Detail
3 15 December 2006   Hochfilzen 7.5 km Sprint   Anna Carin Olofsson   Sandrine Bailly   Andrea Henkel Detail
4 5 January 2007   Oberhof 7.5 km Sprint   Magdalena Neuner   Andrea Henkel   Martina Glagow Detail
4 7 January 2007   Oberhof 10 km Pursuit   Linda Grubben   Sandrine Bailly   Magdalena Neuner Detail
5 12 January 2007   Ruhpolding 7.5 km Sprint   Sandrine Bailly   Anna Carin Olofsson   Florence Baverel-Robert Detail
5 14 January 2007   Ruhpolding 12.5 km Mass Start   Anna Carin Olofsson   Kati Wilhelm   Linda Grubben   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
6 17 January 2007   Pokljuka 7.5 km Sprint   Anna Carin Olofsson   Tatiana Moiseeva   Kati Wilhelm Detail
6 19 January 2007   Pokljuka 10 km Pursuit   Kati Wilhelm   Tatiana Moiseeva   Natalya Sokolova Detail
6 21 January 2007   Pokljuka 12.5 km Mass Start   Oksana Khvostenko   Kati Wilhelm   Tadeja Brankovič Detail
WC 3 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 7.5 km Sprint   Magdalena Neuner   Anna Carin Olofsson   Natalia Guseva Detail
WC 4 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 10 km Pursuit   Magdalena Neuner   Linda Grubben   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
WC 7 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 15 km Individual   Linda Grubben   Florence Baverel-Robert   Martina Glagow Detail
WC 10 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 12.5 km Mass Start   Andrea Henkel   Martina Glagow   Kati Wilhelm Detail
7 28 February 2007   Lahti 15 km Individual   Andrea Henkel   Florence Baverel-Robert   Kati Wilhelm Detail
7 2 March 2007   Lahti 7.5 km Sprint   Martina Glagow   Kati Wilhelm   Ekaterina Iourieva   Kati Wilhelm Detail
7 4 March 2007   Lahti 10 km Pursuit   Martina Glagow   Kati Wilhelm   Kathrin Hitzer Detail
8 8 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 7.5 km Sprint   Andrea Henkel   Ekaterina Iourieva   Magdalena Neuner   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
8 10 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 10 km Pursuit   Magdalena Neuner   Andrea Henkel   Kati Wilhelm   Kati Wilhelm Detail
8 11 March 2007   Oslo Holmenkollen 12.5 km Mass Start   Magdalena Neuner   Kathrin Hitzer   Ekaterina Iourieva Detail
9 15 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 7.5 km Sprint   Magdalena Neuner   Andrea Henkel   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
9 17 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km Pursuit   Magdalena Neuner   Anna Carin Olofsson   Andrea Henkel   Anna Carin Olofsson Detail
9 18 March 2007   Khanty-Mansiysk 12.5 km Mass Start   Helena Jonsson   Oksana Khvostenko   Kathrin Hitzer   Andrea Henkel Detail

Men's team

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Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 10 December 2006   Hochfilzen 4x7.5 km Relay   Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Dmitry Yaroshenko
Maxim Tchoudov
Sergei Rozhkov
  Germany
Michael Rösch
Alexander Wolf
Sven Fischer
Andreas Birnbacher
  France
Julien Robert
Vincent Defrasne
Ferréol Cannard
Raphael Poiree
3 17 December 2006   Hochfilzen 4x7.5 km Relay   Norway
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Frode Andresen
Lars Berger
Halvard Hanevold
  Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Maxim Tchoudov
Dmitry Yaroshenko
Nikolay Kruglov
  Germany
Ricco Gross
Michael Rösch
Sven Fischer
Michael Greis
4 4 January 2007   Oberhof 4x7.5 km Relay   Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Maxim Tchoudov
Dmitry Yaroshenko
Nikolay Kruglov
  Germany
Michael Rösch
Sven Fischer
Andreas Birnbacher
Michael Greis
  Norway
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Lars Berger
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Halvard Hanevold
5 11 January 2007   Ruhpolding 4x7.5 km Relay   Norway
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Halvard Hanevold
Frode Andresen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
  Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Maxim Tchoudov
Dmitry Yaroshenko
Nikolay Kruglov
  Germany
Ricco Gross
Michael Rösch
Andreas Birnbacher
Alexander Wolf
WC 10 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 4x7.5 km Relay   Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Maxim Tchoudov
Dmitry Yaroshenko
Nikolay Kruglov
  Norway
Halvard Hanevold
Lars Berger
Frode Andresen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
  Germany
Ricco Gross
Michael Rösch
Sven Fischer
Michael Greis

Women's team

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Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 10 December 2006   Hochfilzen 4x6 km Relay   Russia
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets
Olga Anisimova
Irina Malgina
Natalia Guseva
  Germany
Martina Glagow
Andrea Henkel
Magdalena Neuner
Kati Wilhelm
  Norway
Tora Berger
Ann Kristin Flatland
Jori Morkve
Linda Grubben
3 17 December 2006   Hochfilzen 4x6 km Relay   France
Florence Baverel-Robert
Delphyne Peretto
Sylvie Becaert
Sandrine Bailly
  Russia
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets
Tatiana Moiseeva
Anna Boulygina
Natalia Guseva
  China
Kong Yingchao
Dong Xue
Yin Qiao
Liu Xianying
4 3 January 2007   Oberhof 4x6 km Relay   France
Florence Baverel-Robert
Delphyne Peretto
Sylvie Becaert
Sandrine Bailly
  Germany
Martina Glagow
Andrea Henkel
Kathrin Hitzer
Kati Wilhelm
  China
Kong Yingchao
Dong Xue
Yin Qiao
Liu Xianying
5 10 January 2007   Ruhpolding 4x6 km Relay   Russia
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets
Olga Anisimova
Irina Malgina
Natalia Guseva
  Germany
Kathrin Hitzer
Magdalena Neuner
Simone Denkinger
Kati Wilhelm
  France
Florence Baverel-Robert
Delphyne Peretto
Sylvie Becaert
Sandrine Bailly
WC 11 February 2007   Antholz-Anterselva 4x6 km Relay   Germany
Martina Glagow
Andrea Henkel
Magdalena Neuner
Kati Wilhelm
  France
Florence Baverel-Robert
Delphyne Peretto
Sylvie Becaert
Sandrine Bailly
  Norway
Tora Berger
Ann Kristin Flatland
Jori Morkve
Linda Grubben

Standings: Men

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Overall

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Pos. Points
1.   Michael Greis 794
2.   Ole Einar Bjørndalen 736
3.   Raphaël Poirée 709
4.   Ivan Tcherezov 673
5.   Dmitry Yaroshenko 619
  • Final standings after 27 races.

Standings: Women

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Overall

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Pos. Points
1.   Andrea Henkel 870
2.   Kati Wilhelm 863
3.   Anna Carin Olofsson 860
4.   Magdalena Neuner 720
5.   Florence Baverel-Robert 671
  • Final standings after 27 races.

Post-season brief on participants

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[2][3]

First World Cup career victory:

  •   Magdalena Gwizdoń (POL), 27, in her 9th season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; first podium was 2004-05 WC 2 IN in Holmenkollen
  •   Helena Jonsson (SWE), 22, in her 2nd season — the WC 9 Mass start in Khanty-Mansyisk; also her first individual podium
  •   Oksana Khvostenko (UKR), 29, in her 11th season — the WC 6 Mass start in Pokljuka; first podium was 1998-99 WC 8 MS in Holmenkollen
  •   Irina Malgina (RUS), 33, in her 5th season — the WC 1 Individual in Östersund; also her first individual podium
  •   Magdalena Neuner (GER), 19, in her 2nd season — the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof; also her first individual podium
  •   Maxim Tchoudov (RUS) 24, in his 3rd season — the WC 9 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansyisk; first podium was 2005-06 WC 3 IN in Brezno-Osrblie
  •   Ivan Tcherezov (RUS), 26, in his 4th season — the WC 9 Mass start in Khanty-Mansyisk; first podium was 2004-05 WC 3 MS in Östersund

First podium placement:

  •   Liv Kjersti Eikeland (NOR), 27, in her 5th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
  •   Simon Fourcade (FRA), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Individual in Lahti
  •   Hans Martin Gjedrem (NOR), 26, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Lahti
  •   Kathrin Hitzer (GER), 20, in her 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Pursuit in Lahti
  •   Dmitri Yaroshenko (RUS), 30, in his 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund
  •   Zina Kocher (CAN), 23, in her 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Individual in Östersund
  •   Andrei Makoveev (RUS), 23, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansyisk
  •   Tatiana Moiseeva (RUS), 25, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Sprint in Pokljuka
  •   Alexander Os (NOR), 27, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Sprint in Lahti
  •   Matthias Simmen (SUI), 34, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint;   Switzerland's first podium placement
  •   Michal Šlesingr (CZE), 24, in his 5th season — no. 2 in the BWCH Sprint in Antholz
  •   Natalya Sokolova (BLR), 33, in her 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Pursuit in Pokljuka
  •   Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding

Achievements

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

Retirements

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Following notable biathletes retired during or after the 2006–07 season:

Footnotes and references

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  1. ^ "World Cup Schedule". Archived from the original on 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. ^ Time to say goodbye... (in German), Biathlon-Online, 19 March 2007 (updated 21 March 2007)
  3. ^ Review of the 2006/2007 World Cup Season – Part VIII Archived 2007-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, biathlonworld.com, by Tom Klein, Jürgen Palme (eds.), ZDF-digital productions, 26 March 2007
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