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 19), 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

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

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

Scores and leader bibs

  • 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 formatIndividual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass startaccumulate 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

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

Men

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

Women

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

Men's team

Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 10 December 2006 Austria 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 Austria 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 Germany 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 Germany 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 Italy 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

Event Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third
2 10 December 2006 Austria 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 Austria 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 Germany 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 Germany 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 Italy 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

Overall

Pos. Points
1.Germany Michael Greis794
2.Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen736
3.France Raphaël Poirée709
4.Russia Ivan Tcherezov673
5.Russia Dmitry Yaroshenko619
  • Final standings after 27 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos. Points
1.Germany Andrea Henkel870
2.Germany Kati Wilhelm863
3.Sweden Anna Carin Olofsson860
4.Germany Magdalena Neuner720
5.France Florence Baverel-Robert671
  • Final standings after 27 races.

Post-season brief on participants

[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

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

Retirements

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

Footnotes and references

  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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