1st Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Östersund)

Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Östersund)
	Men's	Ladies
winner
sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Dorothea Wierer
singles	Martin Fourcade	Justine Braisaz
Season	Norway	Norway
Single mixed relay	Sweden
Mixed relay	Italy

The first Biathlon World Cup of the season 2019/20 took place, as every year during 2008 to 2017., in the Swedish Ostersund instead. Last season, Östersunds skidstadion hosted the 2019 Biathlon World Championships . This year, the competitions were held between November 30th and December 8th, 2019.

Competition program

1st World Cup in Östersund

date	Women		Men
Sat, 11/30/19	1:10 p.m.	Single mixed relay (6 km + 7.5 km)
	3:00 p.m.	Mixed relay (2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km)
Sun, 1.12.19	3:30 p.m.	Sprint (7.5 km)	12:30 pm	Sprint (10 km)
Wed, December 4, 2019			4:15 p.m.	Single (20 km)
Thursday, December 5th, 2019	4:20 pm	Single (15 km)
Sat, December 7th, 2019			17:30	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)
Sun, December 8th, 2019	3:30 p.m.	Relay (4 × 6 km)

Participating Nations

Europe (25 countries)
Belgium  Bulgaria  Germany  Estonia  Finland  France  Greece  Italy  Croatia  Latvia  Lithuania  Moldova  Norway	Austria  Poland  Romania  Russia 1  Sweden  Switzerland  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  Czech Republic  Ukraine  Belarus
America (2 countries)
Canada	United States
Asia (4 countries)
Japan  Kazakhstan	South Korea  People's Republic of China

¹The previous year's overall winners of the IBU Cup receive a personal right to start the first World Cup of the season. Russia can therefore register a total of seven athletes with Wiktorija Sliwko and Anton Babikow for the World Cup in Östersund.

Starting position

Johannes Thingnes Bø , as the winner of the overall World Cup for men, and Dorothea Wierer for women wanted to defend their title and competed again this season. The overall World Cup winner from the 2016/17 season Laura Dahlmeier ended her career in the summer and consequently did not start again. The former overall World Cup winner Gabriela Koukalová also declared her career over in the summer. In addition, with Simon Fourcade , Michael Rösch , Henrik L'Abée-Lund , Anton Schipulin , Anastasiya Kuzmina and Fredrik Lindström, numerous world and / or Olympic champions ended their careers during the summer break.

At the traditional "season opening" in Norwegian Sjusjøen in the women's sprint was the Italian Lisa Vittozzi , for men, the German Johannes Kühn win their respective competitions. Despite the participation of numerous World Cup athletes, the season opening does not count towards the World Cup and therefore does not earn any points for the overall World Cup ranking. Last year's overall world cup winner Dorothea Wierer won the mass start , as did the seven-time overall world cup winner Martin Fourcade . The races in Sjusjøen were considered the last acid test before the start of the World Cup season.

Results

1st World Cup in Östersund , November 29th to December 8th, 2019
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
November 30, 2019 (Sat.)	Single mixed relay (WM) (6 km + 7.5 km)	Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	Germany Franziska Preuss Erik Lesser	Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
November 30, 2019 (Sat.)	Mixed relay (WM) (4 × 6 km)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	Norway Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma
December 1, 2019 (Sun)	Sprint (10 km)	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tarjei Bø	Matwei Yelisseyev
December 1, 2019 (Sun)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Dorothea Wierer	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Markéta Davidová
December 4, 2019 (Wed.)	Single (20 km)	Martin Fourcade	Simon Desthieux	Quentin Fillon Maillet
December 5, 2019 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Justine Braisaz	Julia Jyma	Julia Simon
December 7, 2019 (Sat.)	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)	Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	France Émilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	Italy Lukas Hofer Thomas Bormolini Daniele Cappellari Dominik Windisch
December 8, 2019 (Sun)	Relay (4 × 6 km)	Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki	Sweden Linn Persson Elvira Öberg Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg

Men

Women

Mixed

course

Single mixed relay

Start: Saturday, November 30th, 1:10 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Sweden	Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	36: 42.1	1 + 3 1 + 3/0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 1
2	Germany	Franziska Preuss Erik Lesser	+18.1	0 + 2 0 + 0/0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 1/0 + 0 1 + 3
3	Norway	Marte Olsbu Røiseland Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	+40.4	0 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 2 1 + 3/0 + 0 1 + 3
4th	Ukraine	Anastassija Merkuschyna Artem Tyschtschenko	+56.9	0 + 0 0 + 0/0 + 1 3 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1/0 + 0 0 + 1
5	Estonia	Regina Oja Rene Zahkna	+1: 01.6	0 + 2 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0 1 + 3/0 + 0 0 + 0

Registered and at the start: 26 nations, lapped: 10

The single mixed season marked the beginning of the new season. The defending champion in the Mixed Relay World Cup is the team from Norway, which also became world champions in Östersund last year. This year she was third behind Sweden and Germany. Italy was 8th at the start of the season, Austria 11th and Switzerland finished 13th.

Mixed relay

Start: Saturday, November 30th, 2019, 3 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Italy	Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1: 05: 56.1	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 2
2	Norway	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	+4.1	0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 3 0 + 0
3	Sweden	Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma	+59.9	0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 3 0 + 1
4th	Russia	Ekaterina Jurlowa-Percht Svetlana Mironowa Dmitri Malyschko Alexander Loginow	+1: 44.9	0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 2
5	Austria	Julia Schwaiger Katharina Innerhofer Felix Leitner Dominik Landertinger	+1: 53.6	0 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1

Registered and at the start: 25 nations, lapped: 8

Due to a rule change for the new season, all athletes now run the number of kilometers of the gender running at the beginning. Since women start at this year's World Cup in Östersund, all athletes run 6 km (3 laps of 2 km). When the Italians won, the Swiss mixed quartet finished fourth and the German team fifth, each with one penalty loop.

sprint

Men

Start: Sunday, December 1st, 2019, 12:30 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø	24: 18.3	1 + 0
2	Tarjei Bø	+19.0	0 + 1
3	Matwei Yelisseyev	+19.9	0 + 0
4th	Alexander Loginov	+27.1	0 + 1
5	Martin Fourcade	+27.9	0 + 2
6th	Johannes Kühn	+28.7	0 + 2
7th	Johannes Dale	+29.4	0 + 1
8th	Erlend Bjøntegaard	+31.7	0 + 1
9	Julian Eberhard	+33.8	2 + 0
10	Vladimir Iliev	+36.0	0 + 2

Registered: 109 athletes, not at the start: 1 not finished: 1

The first sprint race of the season took place in Östersunds skidstadion . Johannes Thingnes Bø won both the overall World Cup last year and the Sprint World Cup and became world champion on the track. In this year's sprint, the Norwegian was able to win again, ahead of his brother Tarjei and the Russian Matwei Jelissejew .

Women

Start: Sunday, December 1st, 2019, 3:30 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Dorothea Wierer	19: 48.5	0 + 1
2	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	+8.6	2 + 0
3	Markéta Davidová	+11.9	0 + 0
4th	Franziska Preuss	+19.2	0 + 0
5	Linn Persson	+21.6	0 + 1
6th	Denise Herrmann	+22.1	0 + 1
7th	Katharina Innerhofer	+37.3	0 + 1
8th	Lena Haecki	+39.6	2 + 0
9	Celia Aymonier	+40.0	1 + 0
10	Wita Semerenko	+41.1	1 + 0

Registered and at the start: 105 athletes

Last season's world champion and sprint world cup winner Anastasiya Kuzmina did not compete after the end of her career. Dorothea Wierer (last year's overall World Cup winner) was also able to defend the yellow jersey with her victory in the first individual race of the season.

singles

Men

Start: Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 4:15 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Martin Fourcade	53: 11.9	0 + 0 + 0 + 1
2	Simon Desthieux	+12.7	0 + 1 + 0 + 0
3	Quentin Fillon Maillet	+1: 50.8	2 + 0 + 0 + 1
4th	Émilien Jacquelin	+2: 17.8	0 + 1 + 0 + 1
5	Benjamin Weger	+2: 28.2	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
6th	Tarjei Bø	+2: 28.8	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
7th	Fabien Claude	+2: 32.4	2 + 0 + 0 + 0
8th	Matwei Yelisseyev	+2: 54.6	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
9	Alexander Loginov	+2: 55.1	0 + 0 + 0 + 2
10	Johannes Thingnes Bø	+3: 12.6	0 + 1 + 0 + 1

Registered: 111 athletes, not at the start: 1, not finished: 5

The reigning world champion Arnd Peiffer fell in a descent on the third of a total of five laps and could not finish the race, which was dominated by the French biathletes. These occupied places one to four and made up a total of five of the top ten.

Women

Start: Thursday, December 5, 2019, 4:20 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Justine Braisaz	42: 35.1	2 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	Julia Jyma	+11.1	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
3	Julia Simon	+17.7	0 + 0 + 0 + 2
4th	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	+25.2	0 + 0 + 0 + 1
5	Larissa Kuklina	+38.8	1 + 1 + 0 + 0
6th	Lena Haecki	+1: 05.7	0 + 0 + 0 + 3
7th	Dorothea Wierer	+1: 08.4	2 + 1 + 0 + 0
8th	Monika Hojnisz-Staręga	+1: 11.7	0 + 2 + 0 + 0
9	Lisa Vittozzi	+1: 28.4	0 + 2 + 0 + 0
10	Hanna Öberg	+1: 48.7	0 + 1 + 1 + 1

Registered: 103 athletes, not at the start: 2, not finished: 1

After the fourfold success of the French men, the women were also able to take two of the three podium places. For Justine Braisaz it was the second World Cup victory, while Julia Simon was on a World Cup podium for the first time.

Season

Men

Start: Saturday, December 7th, 2019, 5:30 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1: 10: 30.4	0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 2 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1
2	France	Émilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	+32.3	0 + 0 0 + 1 1 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0
3	Italy	Lukas Hofer Thomas Bormolini Daniele Cappellari Dominik Windisch	+1: 27.1	0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1
4th	Russia	Matwei Jelissejew Dmitri Malyschko Eduard Latypow Alexander Loginow	+1: 41.4	0 + 2 0 + 1 1 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1
5	Sweden	Torstein Stenersen Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	+2: 00.7	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 3 1 + 3 0 + 0

Registered and at the start: 26 nations, lapped: 5

The favored relay of France, which started with the first four of the individual, finished in second place and only had to admit defeat to the quartet from Norway. The German team finished eighth after four penalties. Switzerland finished tenth, Austria twelfth.

Women

Start: Sunday, December 8th, 2019, 3:30 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1: 11: 08.7	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 2
2	Switzerland	Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki	+8.5	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1
3	Sweden	Linn Persson Elvira Öberg Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg	+10.2	0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 0
4th	Germany	Karolin Horchler Denise Herrmann Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuss	+15.5	0 + 1 0 + 1 1 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1
5	Russia	Tamara Voronina Svetlana Mironowa Jekaterina Jurlowa-Percht Larissa Kuklina	+1: 37.7	0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1

Registered and at the start: 21 nations, lapped: 4

For a women's relay from Switzerland, it was the first ever World Cup podium in a relay competition that crossed the finish line in second place with Lena Häcki, who was the last runner. The Austrian team finished seventh, over two minutes behind Norway.

Effects on the overall World Cup

For women, last year's overall World Cup winner Dorothea Wierer was able to keep the yellow jersey to herself after the two individual races. The Czech Markéta Davidová and Marte Olsbu Røiseland from Norway followed a little behind . In the Nations Cup, Sweden was able to achieve the most points among women and was ahead of Norway and Germany after the first World Cup station.

After the first World Cup, Martin Fourcade was in the lead among men , who has already won the overall World Cup seven times. His opponent and defending champion Johannes Thingnes Bø from Norway was initially in third place, one point behind his older brother Tarjei , who won the overall World Cup in the 2010/11 season . It is generally expected that Martin Fourcade and Johannes Thingnes Bø will battle it out for the overall World Cup this year as well. In the men's Nations Cup, after the first of ten World Cup stations, Norway was in first place ahead of France and Russia.

Overall World Cup men	Overall World Cup women
Top 10 after 2 of 21 races	Top 10 after 2 of 21 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Martin Fourcade 100 1 2  Tarjei Bø 92 3  Johannes Thingnes Bø 91 1 4th  Matwei Yelisseyev 82 5  Simon Desthieux 81 6th  Quentin Fillon Maillet 77 7th  Alexander Loginov 75 8th  Émilien Jacquelin 73 9  Erlend Bjøntegaard 62 10  Fabien Claude 57	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Dorothea Wierer 96 1 2  Markéta Davidová 78 3  Marte Olsbu Røiseland 76 4th  Julia Simon 72 5  Franziska Preuss 72 6th  Lena Haecki 72 7th  Linn Persson 64 8th  Larissa Kuklina 63 9  Denise Herrmann 61 10  Hanna Öberg 61

Debutants

The following athletes took part in a biathlon world cup for the first time. This can be both individual races and relay races.

Men	Women
Kazuki Baisho	Heidi Kuuttinen
George Marian Coltea	Veronika Machyniaková
Anton Dudchenko	Elvira Öberg
Tuomas Harjula	Lyubomira Pehlivanska
Shohei Kodama	Ieva Pūce
Mikita Labastau	Maria Sdrawkova
Harald Lemmerer	Nika Vindisar
Raido rogue	Tamara Voronina
Kristo Siimer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lauar Dahlmeier announces the end of his career. May 17, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Koukalova ends her career. May 28, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Biathlon season opener Sjusjoen: Johannes Kühn wins. November 16, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Dorothea Wierer wins mass start in Sjusjoen ahead of Denise Herrmann. November 17, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Competition Analysis Single Mixed Relay. (PDF) IBU, November 30, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Competition Analysis 4x6 km Mixed Relay. (PDF) IBU, November 30, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
7. ↑ New rules That will change in the 2019/2020 season. In: sportschau.de. October 28, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Competition Analysis Men 10 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, December 1, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Competition Analysis Women 7.5 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, December 1, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Competition Analysis Men 20 km Individual. (PDF) IBU, December 4, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Peiffer's biathlon fall: "Fortunately, Arnd was not unconscious". faz.net, December 4, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Competition Analysis Men 4x7.5 KM Relay. (PDF) IBU, December 7, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Competition Analysis Men 4x7.5 km relay. (PDF) IBU, December 7, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Competition Analysis Women 4x6 km Relay. (PDF) IBU, December 8, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Boe vs Fourcade: A Rivalry renewed. November 25, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 . 
16. ↑ MEN'S WORLD CUP TOTAL SCORE INTERMEDIATE AFTER 2 COMPETITIONS. (PDF) IBU, December 4, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 . 
17. ↑ WOMEN'S WORLD CUP TOTAL SCORE INTERMEDIATE AFTER 2 COMPETITIONS. (PDF) IBU, December 5, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 .