2nd Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Hochfilzen)

Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Hochfilzen)
	Men's	Ladies
winner
sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Dorothea Wierer
persecution	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tiril Eckhoff
Season	Norway	Norway

The second Biathlon World Cup of the season 2019/20 took place in the Austrian Hochfilzen instead. The community has already hosted the biathlon world championships three times , most recently the 2017 world championships took place in the cross-country skiing and biathlon center in Hochfilzen . This year the competitions were held between December 13th and 15th, 2019.

Competition program

2nd World Cup in Hochfilzen

date	Women		Men
Fri, December 13th, 2019	11:30 a.m.	Sprint (7.5 km)	2:20 pm	Sprint (10 km)
Sat, December 14th, 2019	11:30 a.m.	Relay (4 × 6 km)	2:55 pm	Pursuit (12.5 km)
Sun, December 15, 2019	12:00 o'clock	Pursuit (10 km)	2:15 p.m.	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)

Participating Nations

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

Starting position

As leaders of the overall World Cup, Dorothea Wierer came to Austria for the women and Martin Fourcade for the men. The German team, which could not secure a podium place in Östersund, absolutely wanted to achieve this in Hochfilzen. Especially the men's relay, which finished the competitions in Sweden as a weak 8th, wanted to make up some placements. There was no change of athletes in the German team. Austrians, Swiss and Italians also went to the race weekend in Hochfilzen with the same athletes from Östersund.

Results

2nd World Cup in Hochfilzen , December 13th to December 15th, 2019
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
December 13, 2019 (Fri)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Dorothea Wierer	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	Svetlana Mironova
December 13, 2019 (Fri)	Sprint (10 km)	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Simon Desthieux	Alexander Loginov
December 14, 2019 (Sat.)	Relay (4 × 6 km)	Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Russia Kristina Reszowa Larissa Kuklina Swetlana Mironowa Jekaterina Jurlowa-Percht	Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki
December 14, 2019 (Sat.)	Pursuit (12.5 km)	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Alexander Loginov	Émilien Jacquelin
December 15, 2019 (S0.)	Pursuit (10 km)	Tiril Eckhoff	Hanna Öberg	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold
December 15, 2019 (Sun)	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)	Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	France Antonin Guigonnat Émilien Jacquelin Florent Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet

Men

Women

course

sprint

Men

Start: Friday, December 13th, 2019, 2:20 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø	25: 07.8	0 + 1
2	Simon Desthieux	+7.8	0 + 1
3	Alexander Loginov	+14.6	0 + 0
4th	Matwei Yelisseyev	+20.6	0 + 0
5	Lukas Hofer	+20.8	0 + 1
6th	Tarjei Bø	+23.4	0 + 2
7th	Dominik Windisch	+31.7	1 + 0
8th	Felix Leitner	+35.1	0 + 0
9	Dmytro Pidruchnyj	+37.6	1 + 0
10	Martin Fourcade	+38.8	0 + 2

Registered: 111 athletes, not at the start: 2

For Johannes Thingnes Bø it was the 17th World Cup victory. The best German athlete was Benedikt Doll , who was 11th after two shooting errors, around 40 seconds behind Bø. The best result of a Swiss was achieved by Serafin Wiestner who was 36th.

Women

Start: Friday, December 13th, 2019, 11:30 a.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Dorothea Wierer	21: 26.5	1 + 0
2	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	+5.9	0 + 0
3	Svetlana Mironova	+18.3	0 + 1
4th	Paulína Fialková	+22.1	0 + 0
5	Hanna Öberg	+24.3	0 + 1
6th	Lucie Charvátová	+29.3	1 + 0
7th	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	+32.4	1 + 1
8th	Tiril Eckhoff	+33.7	1 + 1
9	Walentyna Semerenko	+34.7	0 + 0
10	Anaïs Bescond	+38.2	0 + 0

Registered and at the start: 105 athletes, not finished: 1

While Dorothea Wierer won the second sprint of the season, the race for the German women was extremely disappointing. Denise Herrmann achieved the best result in 41st place, with which all women finished the sprint beyond the points. It represented the weakest competition of a German women's team. Herrmann criticized the result as "quite a catastrophe". Other managers and coaches also expressed criticism of the athletes' performance.

Lisa Hauser was the 11th best in her country among the Austrian hosts . For the Swiss, it was Lena Häcki , who crossed the finish line in 20th place, after three shooting errors, just over a minute behind.

persecution

Men

Start: Saturday, December 14, 2019, 2:55 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø	31: 27.0	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	Alexander Loginov	+33.5	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
3	Émilien Jacquelin	+40.5	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
4th	Jakov Fak	+41.6	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
5	Simon Desthieux	+41.6	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
6th	Tarjei Bø	+1: 06.3	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
7th	Lukas Hofer	+1: 16.9	0 + 0 + 0 + 2
8th	Florent Claude	+1: 19.9	0 + 0 + 2 + 0
9	Quentin Fillon Maillet	+1: 20.2	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
10	Martin Fourcade	+1: 20.9	0 + 1 + 1 + 0

Registered: 60 athletes, not at the start: 2, not finished: 3, disqualified: 1

After winning the sprint, Johannes Thingnes Bø was also able to win in the pursuit by a large margin. As in Östersund a week before, the French team presented itself as a strong team, with five athletes in the top 10. The German team crossed the finish line with Johannes Kühn , Arnd Peiffer and Benedikt Doll in 12th, 13th and 14th . In the Austrians, the 22-year-old Felix Leitner remained , as in the sprint, the best, but he lost 12 places and finished the race in 20th. In Switzerland, Serafin Wiestner improved from 36th place by six places and finished 30th.

Women

Start: Sunday, December 15, 2019, 12:00 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Tiril Eckhoff	29: 14.6	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	Hanna Öberg	+25.8	0 + 1 + 1 + 0
3	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	+39.7	0 + 0 + 1 + 0
4th	Justine Braisaz	+47.9	0 + 0 + 1 + 1
5	Paulína Fialková	+1: 02.9	0 + 1 + 0 + 1
6th	Anaïs Bescond	+1: 07.8	0 + 0 + 1 + 0
7th	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	+1: 14.0	1 + 0 + 1 + 0
8th	Eva Kristejn Puskarčíková	+1: 16.0	0 + 1 + 0 + 0
9	Dorothea Wierer	+1: 20.9	2 + 1 + 1 + 1
10	Celia Aymonier	+1: 21.7	0 + 1 + 0 + 0

Registered: 60 athletes, not at the start: 2, not finished: 1

Like her team-mate Bø in the men's race, Tiril Eckhoff also won the women's pursuit. After shooting without mistakes, she won ahead of Hanna Öberg and Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold. After the disappointing sprint race, the German women wanted to show a better result again. Vanessa Hinz managed to do this and made up 30 places with just one penalty loop (from 42 to 12), making her the best German.

Despite five mistakes in the last two shooting units, Katharina Innerhofer was the 34th best Austrian (10 places lost compared to the sprint). Lisa Hauser , still 11th in the sprint, had to be content with 39th place, also after five shooting errors. As 27th, Selina Gasparin was the best Swiss woman , more than two minutes behind.

Season

Men

Start: Sunday, December 15, 2019, 2:15 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1: 14: 44.2	0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 2
2	Germany	Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	+2.0	0 + 2 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 2
3	France	Antonin Guigonnat Émilien Jacquelin Florent Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet	+51.9	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 0
4th	Canada	Jules Burnotte Scott Gow Aidan Millar Cristian Gow	+1: 28.7	0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0
5	Czech Republic	Michal Šlesingr Michal Krčmář Adam Václavík Jakub Štvrtecký	+1: 52.2	0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 1 0 + 3

Registered and at the start: 27 nations, lapped: 4

As in the previous week in Hochfilzen, the Norwegian relay team won again. In the same line-up, she took first place again, despite a penalty loop from second runner Bjøntegaard. The German quartet was able to get into a good starting position mainly through precise shooting and only had to admit defeat to the Norwegians on the final lap. France, which without their two best Martin Fourcade and Simon Desthieux took was 3. For the first time since her bronze medal at the World Championships in 2016 made it again a Canadian men's relay into the top five. The Italians finished 8th, the Austrians 11th and Switzerland finished 14th.

Women

Start: Saturday, December 15, 2019, 11:30 a.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1: 10: 04.7	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1
2	Russia	Kristina Reszowa Larissa Kuklina Swetlana Mironowa Jekaterina Jurlowa-Percht	+8.2	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 1
3	Switzerland	Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki	+1: 04.1	0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 3
4th	Ukraine	Wita Semerenko Walentyna Semerenko Julija Dschyma Olena Pidhruschna	+1: 09.2	0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1
5	Canada	Sarah Beaudry Megan Bankes Nadia Moser Emma Lunder	+1: 09.3	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2

Registered and at the start: 21 nations, lapped: 2

In the renewed victory of the Norwegians, who competed in the same line-up as in Östersund, the Russian women finished second. Switzerland, in second place the previous week, ended up in third place. As with the men, Canada achieved an excellent result. The last time they were able to achieve a top five placement was in Annecy in 2013 . The German women disappointed once again and finished the race in 12th place. The result is the weakest result of a German women's relay. Only for the second time, after the 2014 Winter Olympics , did a team end up outside the top 10. It got worse the Austrians, who, like Germany, had to run three penalties, were 4:33 minutes behind Norway and finished 14th. The Italians who finished 11th did a little better.

Effects

To the overall World Cup

Dorothea Wierer was able to extend her lead in the overall World Cup. She was already 27 points ahead of Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold from Norway and 33 points ahead of Hanna Öberg from Sweden. The best German Franziska Preuss was 18. In the Nations Cup for women, Norway stayed ahead, as they were able to score numerous points, especially through their success in the relay, but also because Tiril Eckhoff won the pursuit.

In the overall men's World Cup, however, the lead changed. Last year's winner Johannes Thingnes Bø took over from Martin Fourcade, who was only fifth. With his two individual victories in Hochfilzen, Bø already has a lead of 34 points over Alexander Loginow .

Overall World Cup men	Overall World Cup women
Top 10 after 4 of 21 races	Top 10 after 4 of 21 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Johannes Thingnes Bø 211 3 2  Alexander Loginov 177 3  Simon Desthieux 175 4th  Tarjei Bø 168 5  Martin Fourcade 162 1 6th  Matwei Yelisseyev 155 7th  Émilien Jacquelin 144 8th  Quentin Fillon Maillet 136 9  Lukas Hofer 124 10  Erlend Bjøntegaard 112	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Dorothea Wierer 188 2 2  Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold 161 3  Hanna Öberg 155 4th  Marte Olsbu Røiseland 136 5  Julia Simon 123 6th  Justine Braisaz 119 1 7th  Tiril Eckhoff 107 1 8th  Linn Persson 105 9  Lena Haecki 105 10  Svetlana Mironova 104

In the German team

As a reaction to the poor performance of the German women, changes were made to the World Cup team for the upcoming World Cup in Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand. Marion Deigentesch , Maren Hammerschmidt and Janina Hettich were brought into the World Cup from the IBU Cup team and replaced Anna Weidel , Karolin Horchler (both initially in the IBU Cup ) and Franziska Hildebrand , who skipped the following World Cup due to a lack of running form.

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
Aleksander Fjeld Andersen	Tais Vozelj
Pyotr floorboards
Robert Heldna
Patrick Jakob

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final Results Men 10 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Final Results Women 7.5 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Disaster for biathletes. sport1.de, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Women's sprint in Hochfilzen: German biathletes disappoint. bild.de, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Final Results Men 12.5 km Pursuit. (PDF) IBU, December 14, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Final Results Women 10 km Pursuit. (PDF) IBU, December 15, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ World Cup in Hochfilzen: Biathlete Eckhoff shoots herself to victory. sportschau.de, December 15, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Final Results Men 4 x 7.5 km Relay. (PDF) IBU, December 15, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Final Results Women 4x6 km Relay. (PDF) IBU, December 14, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Men's World Cup Total Score Intermediate After 4 Competitions. (PDF) IBU, December 14, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Women's World Cup Total Score Intermediate After 4 Competitions. (PDF) IBU, December 15, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 . 
12. ^ Personnel castling among the German biathlon women. sportschau.de, December 18, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 .