4th Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Oberhof)

Biathlon World Cup 2019/20 (Oberhof)
	Men's	Ladies
winner
sprint	Martin Fourcade	Marte Olsbu Røiseland
Mass start	Martin Fourcade	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Season	Norway	Norway

The 4th Biathlon World Cup of the 2019/20 season took place in Germany in Oberhof , Thuringia . The competitions in the Oberhof traditionally mark the start of the second trimester of the Biathlon World Cup and the new calendar year. The competitions were held in the Lotto Thuringia Arena on Rennsteig , which will also be the venue for the Biathlon World Championships in 2023 . This year the competitions were held between January 9th and 12th, 2020.

Competition program

4th World Cup in Oberhof

date	Women		Men
Thursday, 9.1.20	2:30 p.m.	Sprint (7.5 km)
Fri, 10.1.20			2:30 p.m.	Sprint (10 km)
Sat, 11.1.20	12:00 o'clock	Relay (4 × 6 km)	2:15 p.m.	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)
Sun, January 12th, 2020	12:45 p.m.	Mass start (12.5 km)	2:30 p.m.	Mass start (15 km)

Participating Nations

Belgium  Bulgaria  Germany  Estonia  Finland  France  Greece  Italy  Japan  Canada  Kazakhstan

Croatia  Latvia  Lithuania  Moldova  Norway  Austria  Poland  Romania  Russia  Sweden

Switzerland  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  South Korea  Czech Republic  Ukraine  United States  People's Republic of China  Belarus

Starting position

Due to the lack of snow in Oberhof, the implementation of the World Cup was unclear for a long time. Ultimately, artificial snow that was produced in the Neuss ski hall ensured that the World Cup was held. For this purpose, the snow that had already been used up for the World Team Challenge 2019 was driven with 30 trucks from the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen to Oberhof, around 400 kilometers away. The BUND in Thuringia criticized the decision because the "measures in Oberhof are no longer justifiable". Athletes and officials justified the snow transports. Among others, the German biathlete said Franziska Preuss that she "does not operate find that the snow was being used again by Schalke. Preuss himself but was due to a sinus inflammation not participate in the competitions. For advanced Franziska Hildebrand back to the women's team, which did not start at the previous World Cup in France.

Another change in the World Cup team concerns Erik Lesser for the men, who, due to recent poor performance, was not appointed by national coach Mark Kirchner for the home World Cup and instead competed in the second-rate IBU Cup in Osrblie . Lucas Fratzscher started for him in the sprint at the World Cup .

The overall World Cup leader Johannes Thingnes Bø also did not start before the World Cup . Bø became a father for the first time in January and had previously announced that he would not take part in the races in January (Oberhof & Ruhpolding). But he started again at the competitions in Pokljuka at the end of January.

Results

4th World Cup in Oberhof , January 9th to January 12th, 2020
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
January 9, 2020 (Thu.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Denise Herrmann	Julia Simon
January 10, 2020 (Fri)	Sprint (10 km)	Martin Fourcade	Émilien Jacquelin	Johannes Kühn
January 11, 2020 (Sat.)	Relay (4 × 6 km)	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff	Sweden Elvira Öberg Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg	France Julia Simon Anaïs Bescond Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz
January 11, 2020 (Sat.)	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Dale Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll
January 12, 2020 (Sun.)	Mass start (12.5 km)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Tiril Eckhoff	Marte Olsbu Røiseland
January 15, 2020 (Sun.)	Mass start (15 km)	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Simon Desthieux

Men

Women

course

sprint

Men

Start: Friday, January 10, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Martin Fourcade	25: 27.2	0 + 0
2	Émilien Jacquelin	+25.5	0 + 1
3	Johannes Kühn	+33.0	0 + 1
4th	Matwei Yelisseyev	+41.1	0 + 0
5	Alexander Loginov	+47.8	0 + 1
6th	Simon Desthieux	+49.8	0 + 1
7th	Arnd Peiffer	+1: 00.1	1 + 0
8th	Erlend Bjøntegaard	+1: 06.5	1 + 1
9	Johannes Dale	+1: 18.2	1 + 1
10	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	+1: 24.8	1 + 2

Registered: 111 athletes, not finished: 1

Due to the lack of snow, 3 laps of 3.3 kilometers each were not run, as is usually the case in the men's sprint, but 4 laps with a length of 2.5 kilometers. This resulted in the athletes running a 2.5 km lap and shooting lying down. Then two laps were run before the standing shooting was reached and after another lap the target.

In the absence of the leader in the overall World Cup Johannes Thingnes Bø Martin Fourcade won. Second was a Frenchman, Émilien Jacquelin. For Johannes Kühn it was only the second podium finish of his career, after his second place in Pokljuka at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. The Swiss with Benjamin Weger missed the top 10 in 12th place with a mistake in standing shooting by just two seconds . Simon Eder was 23rd as the best Austrian .

Women

Start: Thursday, January 9, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	22: 04.9	0 + 0
2	Denise Herrmann	+33.1	0 + 1
3	Julia Simon	+47.4	1 + 0
4th	Dorothea Wierer	+1: 01.8	0 + 1
5	Tiril Eckhoff	+1: 07.1	1 + 1
6th	Paulína Fialková	+1: 09.1	0 + 1
7th	Emma Lunder	+1: 14.9	0 + 0
8th	Monika Hojnisz-Staręga	+1: 15.0	0 + 1
9	Kamila Żuk	+1: 29.8	1 + 1
10	Katharina Innerhofer	+1: 32.8	0 + 2

Registered: 102 athletes, not at the start: 2

Marte Olsbu Røiseland won in difficult weather conditions. The basis for this was flawless shooting. Along with Canadian Lunder (7th) and Japanese Tachizaki (24th), Olsbu was one of only three athletes who hit all ten targets. With 7th place, Lunder was even able to improve her career best from last season by two places. Selina Gasparin was the only Swiss woman to make it into the top 20. With three shooting errors, she came in 18th.

Season

Men

Start: Saturday, January 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Dale Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1: 19: 32.3	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 0 1 + 3
2	France	Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	+4.4	0 + 1 2 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1
3	Germany	Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	+48.2	0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 0 1 + 3
4th	Russia	Said Khalili Yevgeny Garanichev Nikita Porschnew Eduard Latypow	+1: 09.0	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1
5	Belarus	Anton Smolski Sergei Botscharnikow Raman Jaljotnau Mikita Labastau	+1: 54.0	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 3 0 + 1 1 + 3

Registered and at the start: 26 nations, lapped: 2

Despite the lack of the two best Norwegians in the overall World Cup (Johannes Thingnes & Tarjei Bø), the Scandinavians were able to triumph again, as in all previous relay races of the season. Despite the penalty loop that Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen had to run in the last shooting, he was able to lead the relay from Norway to first place. For the fifth-placed relay from Belarus it was the best relay result for men in 11 years. At that time, they also reached fifth place in Oberhof in the 2008/2009 season . The Swiss quartet finished seventh, also due to the large number of spares. The Austrians reached the finish line in 9th place, over three minutes behind. The relay from Italy had to run six penalty loops and only reached the finish line 23rd, seven and a half minutes after the Norwegians.

Women

Start: Saturday, January 11, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

space	country	athlete	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Norway	Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1: 14: 11.6	0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 2 0 + 1
2	Sweden	Elvira Öberg Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg	+21.1	0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 3
3	France	Julia Simon Anaïs Bescond Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz	+33.1	0 + 1 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 3
4th	Germany	Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Maren Hammerschmidt Denise Herrmann	+1: 10.4	0 + 0 1 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 3 0 + 2 0 + 0
5	Switzerland	Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki	+1: 24.5	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 1 + 3 0 + 1 0 + 3

Registered and at the start: 23 nations, lapped: 5, disqualified: 1

The Norwegians also won the third season of the season with ease. The first three teams were already far away from the rest of the field, so that they made the podium among themselves. The German starting runner Vanessa Hinz had to run a penalty loop in her standing shooting in difficult wind conditions, which meanwhile pushed the German quartet back to 20th place. The Italians, who were still in second place after the first runner Vittozzi , fell back further and further after three penalties during the race and ended up in ninth place. The Austrian team finished eleventh after a penalty loop from last runner Tamara Steiner .

Mass start

Men

Start: Sunday, January 12th, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Martin Fourcade	41: 01.4	0 + 1 + 0 + 1
2	Arnd Peiffer	+20.1	0 + 0 + 2 + 1
3	Simon Desthieux	+20.3	0 + 1 + 0 + 2
4th	Johannes Dale	+38.9	0 + 2 + 1 + 1
5	Jakov Fak	+43.1	1 + 1 + 1 + 0
6th	Philipp Horn	+43.2	1 + 1 + 1 + 1
7th	Jesper Nelin	+44.8	1 + 0 + 1 + 2
8th	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	+48.9	0 + 2 + 1 + 2
9	Michal Krčmář	+58.8	0 + 2 + 2 + 0
10	Matwei Yelisseyev	+59.8	0 + 2 + 0 + 2

Registered and at the start: 30 athletes

As in the sprint, the lap length was shortened from 3 kilometers to 2.5 due to the lack of snow. In order to still get 15 kilometers, two laps were run at the beginning without shooting. Afterwards, the race continued as usual, so that after each of the shorter laps the shot was taken or the goal was reached.

Martin Fourcade also took advantage of the second race during Johannes Thingnes Bø's absence and won again. In the end, the Frenchman had a lead of around 20 seconds on Arnd Peiffer and Simon Desthieux, who achieved a photo finish for second place, which in the end just fell in favor of the German, who was on the podium for the first time this season. The race ended well for Philipp Horn as well. The 25-year-old achieved his best career achievement with the sixth place.

Women

Start: Sunday, January 12th, 2020, 12:45 p.m.

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	39: 58.9	1 + 0 + 0 + 0
2	Tiril Eckhoff	+30.2	0 + 0 + 3 + 1
3	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	+35.0	1 + 0 + 1 + 1
4th	Dorothea Wierer	+1: 08.8	1 + 2 + 1 + 1
5	Denise Herrmann	+1: 25.0	0 + 2 + 1 + 3
6th	Hanna Öberg	+1: 38.0	2 + 1 + 1 + 1
7th	Iryna Kryuko	+1: 40.7	0 + 0 + 0 + 4
8th	Lena Haecki	+1: 49.7	3 + 1 + 2 + 2
9	Lisa Vittozzi	+1: 50.7	2 + 0 + 2 + 1
10	Katharina Innerhofer	+1: 52.0	2 + 0 + 4 + 1

Registered and at the start: 30 athletes

Kaisa Mäkäräinen triumphed for the first time of the season and only one day after her 37th birthday. The basis for their success was a very good shooting performance. In strong winds she only had to run one penalty loop, which was the fewest of the entire field. 20 of the 30 athletes even had to run the 150 penalty meters six or more times. Denise Herrmann, who was the best German in fifth place, came to the final shooting in the leading group, but missed three of the five targets and fell back accordingly. Kryuko, the only athlete from Belarus who had not made a mistake to date, also had four mistakes so that she lost a few places.

With Dorothea Wierer, Lisa Vittozzi (both Italy), Lena Häcki (Switzerland) and Katharina Innerhofer (Austria), these nations were also able to place at least one athlete in the top ten.

Effects

With Martin Fourcade's two victories and the absence of his rival Bø, the Frenchman was able to take the lead in the overall World Cup. However, Johannes Bø remained in second place ahead of Simon Desthieux and his brother Tarjei.

In the women's category, Dorothea Wierer was able to defend her lead. Her pursuer remained, as in the previous week, the Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff. After the end of the last World Cup, there was no longer any German woman in the top 10 for women, Denise Herrmann was able to achieve this again as fifth.

Overall World Cup men	Overall World Cup women
Top 10 after 9 of 21 races	Top 10 after 9 of 21 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Martin Fourcade 387 3 2  Johannes Thingnes Bø 374 5 3  Simon Desthieux 352 4th  Tarjei Bø 342 5  Alexander Loginov 329 6th  Quentin Fillon Maillet 328 7th  Émilien Jacquelin 313 8th  Erlend Bjøntegaard 280 9  Johannes Dale 276 10  Matwei Yelisseyev 257	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Dorothea Wierer 390 2 2  Tiril Eckhoff 381 4th 3  Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold 305 4th  Julia Simon 285 5  Denise Herrmann 273 6th  Justine Braisaz 261 1 7th  Kaisa Mäkäräinen 247 1 8th  Marte Olsbu Røiseland 244 1 9  Hanna Öberg 240 10  Paulína Fialková 231

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
Said Karimulla Chalili	Michela Carrara
Kim Sangrea	Emily Dickson
Matthew Strum	Hallie Grossman
Bohdan Zymbal	Tamara Steiner
	Tereza Vobornikova
	Ying Qu

Web links

Commons : 2020 Oberhof Biathlon World Cup  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Snow melts at the World Cup in Oberhof - training canceled. Retrieved January 12, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Heavy criticism: Tons of artificial snow for ski world cups. January 10, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
3. ^ Preuss: Snow transport to Oberhof "Not wrong". January 10, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Lesser wishes the World Cup team every success. January 8, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
5. ^ Bø: Baby break instead of World Cup races. December 18, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Final Results Men 10 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, January 10, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Final Results Women 7.5 km sprint. (PDF) IBU, January 9, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Final Results Men 4 x 7.5 km Relay. (PDF) IBU, January 11, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Final Results Women 4x6 km Relay. (PDF) IBU, January 11, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Final Results Men 15 km Mass Start. (PDF) IBU, January 12, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Final Results Women 10 km Pursuit. (PDF) IBU, January 12, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Men's World Cup Total Score Intermediate After 9 Competitions. (PDF) IBU, January 12, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Women's World Cup Total Score Intermediate After 9 Competitions. (PDF) IBU, January 12, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020 .