2003–04 Biathlon World Cup

2003–04 World Cup
2003–04 World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Raphaël Poirée
Nations Cup	Norway
Individual	Raphaël Poirée
Sprint	Raphaël Poirée
Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée
Mass start	Raphaël Poirée
Relay	Norway
Competition

The 2003–04 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The Biathlon World Championships 2004 were part of the Biathlon World Cup.

The men's overall World Cup was won by Raphaël Poirée,[1] while Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée of Norway claimed the women's overall World Cup.[2]

Calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2004–05 season.[3]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay
Kontiolahti	4–7 December		●	●		●
Hochfilzen	11–14 December		●	●		●
Osrblie	18–21 December	●	●	●
Pokljuka	7–11 January		●	●	●
Ruhpolding	14–18 January		●	●		●
Antholz	21–25 January	●	●		●
Oberhof	7–15 February	●	●	●	●	●
Lake Placid	27–29 February	●	●
Fort Kent	3–6 March		●	●	●
Holmenkollen	16–19 March		●	●
Total		3	10	9	4	4	0

World Cup Podium

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	4 December 2003	Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Halvard Hanevold	Frode Andresen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
1	7 December 2003	Kontiolahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Sergei Rozhkov		Detail
2	11 December 2003	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Lars Berger	Vladimir Drachev	Halvard Hanevold		Detail
2	14 December 2003	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Vladimir Drachev	Stian Eckhoff		Detail
3	18 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Ricco Groß	Peter Sendel	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
3	19 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Sprint	Sergei Rozhkov	Ludwig Gredler	Sergei Tchepikov	Sergei Rozhkov	Detail
3	21 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Peter Sendel	Pavol Hurajt	Sergei Rozhkov	Detail
4	8 January 2004	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Vladimir Drachev	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
4	10 January 2004	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Nikolay Kruglov	Sergei Tchepikov		Detail
4	11 January 2004	Pokljuka	15 km Mass Start	Halvard Hanevold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Michael Greis		Detail
5	17 January 2004	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Halvard Hanevold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Lars Berger		Detail
5	18 January 2004	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Lars Berger	Halvard Hanevold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
6	22 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Sven Fischer	Raphaël Poirée	Ricco Groß		Detail
6	24 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Sergei Tchepikov	Janez Marič	Ricco Groß		Detail
6	25 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Ricco Groß		Detail
WC	7 February 2004	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Ricco Groß	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
WC	8 February 2004	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Ricco Groß	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
WC	12 February 2004	Oberhof	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Tomasz Sikora	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
WC	15 February 2004	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Lars Berger	Sergei Konovalov	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
7	27 February 2004	Lake Placid	10 km Sprint	Lars Berger	Raphaël Poirée	Janez Marič		Detail
7	29 February 2004	Lake Placid	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Nikolay Kruglov	Ricco Groß		Detail
8	4 March 2004	Fort Kent	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis	Pavol Hurajt		Detail
8	5 March 2004	Fort Kent	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Carl Johan Bergman	Nikolay Kruglov		Detail
8	6 March 2004	Fort Kent	15 km Mass Start	Sven Fischer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sergei Rozhkov		Detail
9	11 March 2004	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Lars Berger	Frode Andresen	Tomasz Sikora		Detail
9	13 March 2004	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Tomasz Sikora	Vladimir Drachev		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	4 December 2003	Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	Sandrine Bailly	Liv Grete Poirée	Uschi Disl	Sandrine Bailly	Detail
1	7 December 2003	Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Kati Wilhelm	Uschi Disl	Liv Grete Poirée	Detail
2	11 December 2003	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Zubrilova	Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
2	14 December 2003	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Sandrine Bailly	Martina Glagow	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
3	18 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Individual	Martina Glagow	Liv Grete Poirée	Olga Pyleva		Detail
3	20 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	7.5 km Sprint	Sandrine Bailly	Katja Beer	Martina Glagow	Sandrine Bailly	Detail
3	21 December 2003	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Pursuit	Sandrine Bailly	Olga Pyleva	Katrin Apel		Detail
4	7 January 2004	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Uschi Disl	Sandrine Bailly		Detail
4	9 January 2004	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Uschi Disl	Sandrine Bailly	Olga Pyleva		Detail
4	11 January 2004	Pokljuka	12.5 km Mass Start	Anna Bogaliy	Liv Grete Poirée	Uschi Disl		Detail
5	16 January 2004	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Martina Glagow	Liv Grete Poirée	Detail
5	18 January 2004	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Olga Pyleva		Detail
6	21 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Anna Bogaliy	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Anna Murínová		Detail
6	23 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Natalia Guseva	Kateřina Holubcová	Svetlana Ishmouratova		Detail
6	25 January 2004	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Linda Tjørhom	Natalia Guseva	Anna Bogaliy		Detail
WC	7 February 2004	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Anna Bogaliy	Martina Glagow		Detail
WC	8 February 2004	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Martina Glagow	Anna Bogaliy		Detail
WC	10 February 2004	Oberhof	15 km Individual	Olga Pyleva	Albina Akhatova	Olena Petrova		Detail
WC	14 February 2004	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Liv Grete Poirée	Katrin Apel	Sandrine Bailly		Detail
7	27 February 2004	Lake Placid	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Pyleva	Kati Wilhelm	Anna Bogaliy		Detail
7	28 February 2004	Lake Placid	10 km Pursuit	Olga Pyleva	Anna Bogaliy	Sandrine Bailly		Detail
8	3 March 2004	Fort Kent	7.5 km Sprint	Uschi Disl	Liv Grete Poirée	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
8	5 March 2004	Fort Kent	10 km Pursuit	Uschi Disl	Liv Grete Poirée	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
8	6 March 2004	Fort Kent	12.5 km Mass Start	Olga Pyleva	Anna Bogaliy	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
9	11 March 2004	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Pyleva	Kati Wilhelm	Svetlana Ishmouratova		Detail
9	13 March 2004	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Olga Pyleva	Ekaterina Dafovska	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	6 December 2003	Kontiolahti	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Ricco Gross Frank Luck	France Ferréol Cannard Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphael Poiree	Sweden Carl Johan Bergman Jakob Börjesson Mattias Nilsson Björn Ferry
2	13 December 2003	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Stian Eckhoff Lars Berger Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Belarus Alexandr Syman Vladimir Drachev Rustam Valiullin Oleg Ryzhenkov	France Ferréol Cannard Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphael Poiree
5	15 January 2004	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Belarus Alexandr Syman Vladimir Drachev Rustam Valiullin Oleg Ryzhenkov	Norway Egil Gjelland Lars Berger Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold	Russia Filipp Shulman Sergei Konovalov Sergei Rozhkov Sergei Tchepikov
WC	13 February 2004	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Frank Luck Ricco Gross Sven Fischer Michael Greis	Norway Halvard Hanevold Lars Berger Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	France Ferréol Cannard Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphael Poiree

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	5 December 2003	Kontiolahti	4x6 km Relay	Norway Liv-Kjersti Eikeland Linda Tjorhom Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poiree	Russia Albina Akhatova Olga Zaitseva Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Pyleva	France Corinne Niogret Christelle Gros Julie Carraz Sandrine Bailly
2	12 December 2003	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Belarus Ekaterina Ivanova Ksenia Zikounkova Olga Nazarova Olena Zubrilova	Germany Martina Glagow Katrin Apel Katja Beer Kati Wilhelm	France Corinne Niogret Christelle Gros Julie Carraz Sandrine Bailly
5	14 January 2004	Ruhpolding	4x6 km Relay	Germany Simone Denkinger Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Anna Bogaliy Albina Akhatova	Norway Linda Tjorhom Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Liv Grete Poiree Gunn Margit Andreassen
WC	12 February 2004	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	Norway Linda Tjorhom Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poiree	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Albina Akhatova	Germany Martina Glagow Katrin Apel Simone Denkinger Kati Wilhelm

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	1010
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	901
3.	Ricco Groß	769
4.	Halvard Hanevold	688
5.	Lars Berger	589

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	146
2.	Ricco Groß	129
3.	Tomasz Sikora	114
4.	Sven Fischer	84
5.	Peter Sendel	77

Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	358
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	341
3.	Lars Berger	268
4.	Halvard Hanevold	260
5.	Ricco Groß	255

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	331
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	315
3.	Ricco Groß	277
4.	Halvard Hanevold	254
5.	Stian Eckhoff	219

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	140
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	138
3.	Halvard Hanevold	121
4.	Sven Fischer	106
5.	Ricco Groß	103

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	176
2.	Germany	174
3.	France	172
4.	Russia	160
5.	Belarus	156

Final standings after 4 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	4434
2.	Germany	4287
3.	Russia	4185
4.	France	4097
5.	Belarus	3817

Final standings after 17 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Liv Grete Poirée	955
2.	Olga Pyleva	860
3.	Sandrine Bailly	788
4.	Uschi Disl	733
5.	Anna Bogaliy	687

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Olga Pyleva	130
2.	Anna Bogaliy	110
3.	Martina Glagow	104
4.	Liv Grete Poirée	90
5.	Albina Akhatova	86

Final standings after 3 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Liv Grete Poirée	370
2.	Sandrine Bailly	328
3.	Olga Pyleva	304
4.	Martina Glagow	267
5.	Katrin Apel	266

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Liv Grete Poirée	327
2.	Olga Pyleva	324
3.	Sandrine Bailly	293
4.	Uschi Disl	288
5.	Katrin Apel	250

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Liv Grete Poirée	139
2.	Anna Bogaliy	139
3.	Uschi Disl	115
4.	Sandrine Bailly	104
5.	Olga Pyleva	102

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	180
2.	Russia	178
3.	Germany	176
4.	France	163
5.	Italy	129

Final standings after 4 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Russia	4490
2.	Germany	4455
3.	Norway	4116
4.	France	3884
5.	Belarus	3865

Final standings after 17 races.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	21	16	13	50
2	France	15	6	7	28
3	Russia	11	14	17	42
4	Germany	10	14	13	37
5	Belarus	3	3	3	9
6	Poland	0	2	1	3
7	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
7	Sweden	0	1	1	2
9	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
12	Slovakia	0	0	3	3
13	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		60	60	60	180

Achievements

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

Men

Raphaël Poirée (FRA), 11 (34) first places
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 5 (43) first places
Lars Berger (NOR), 3 (3) first places
Sven Fischer (GER), 2 (25) first places
Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 2 (8) first places
Ricco Groß (GER), 1 (8) first place
Sergei Tchepikov (RUS), 1 (6) first place
Sergei Rozhkov (RUS), 1 (3) first place

Women

Liv Grete Poirée (NOR), 7 (20) first places
Olga Pyleva (RUS), 6 (8) first places
Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 4 (7) first places
Uschi Disl (GER), 3 (24) first places
Anna Bogaliy (RUS), 2 (2) first places
Olena Zubrilova (BLR), 1 (19) first place
Martina Glagow (GER), 1 (5) first place
Linda Tjørhom (NOR), 1 (2) first place
Natalia Guseva (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

The following notable biathletes retired after the 2003–04 season:

References

"World Cup Total Score - Men" (PDF). 25 November 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
"World Cup Total Score - Women" (PDF). 25 November 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
"World Cup Schedule". Archived from the original on 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2018-05-15.

External links

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[1] "World Cup Total Score - Men" (PDF). 25 November 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2013.

[2] "World Cup Total Score - Women" (PDF). 25 November 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2013.

[3] "World Cup Schedule". Archived from the original on 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2018-05-15.