Biathlon World Cup 1988/89

World Cup 1988/89
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Overall World Cup	Eirik Kvalfoss	Jelena Golovina
Individual World Cup	Alexander Popov	Jelena Golovina
Sprint World Cup	Eirik Kvalfoss	Jelena Golovina
Team World Cup	Soviet Union
Relay World Cup	GDR
Nations ranking	GDR	Norway
Competitions
Venues	6th	6th
Individual competitions	12	12
Relay competitions	6th	6th
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In the 1988/89 season , the Biathlon World Cup was held for the 12th time. The competition series in the biathlon consisted of six individual and sprint races, as well as three relay and team races for men and women and was held at six venues. In addition to the six World Cup events in Albertville , Borowez , Ruhpolding , Hämeenlinna , Östersund and Steinkjer , the Biathlon World Championships were held in Feistritz an der Drau in Austria in 1989 , but the results were not included in the World Cup ranking. Eirik Kvalfoss won the overall world cup for men ahead of Alexander Popow and Sergei Tschepikow , and for women Jelena Golowina won ahead of Natalja Prikastschikowa and Svetlana Dawydowa . In this World Cup season, the race length for women was increased to today's lengths, in the sprint from 5 km to 7.5 km and in the individual from 10 km, with three shooting bouts to 15 km, with four shooting bouts. The length of the women's relay has been increased from 3 × 5 km to 3 × 7.5 km.

Men

Results

1st World Cup in Albertville , December 15-18, 1988
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
December 15, 1988 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Birk Anders	Alexander Popov	Frank-Peter Roetsch
December 17, 1988 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Frank Luck	Eirik Kvalfoss	Birk Anders
December 18, 1988 (Sun)	Team (20 km)	German Democratic Republic Birk Anders André Sehmisch Frank-Peter Roetsch Frank Luck	Czechoslovakia Tomáš Kos Martin Rypl Jaroslav Pinc Jan Matouš	France Christian Dumont Thierry Gerbier Francis Mougel Hervé Flandin

2nd World Cup in Borovets , January 19-22 , 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
January 19, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Jan Matouš	Thierry Gerbier	Eirik Kvalfoss
January 21, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Birk Anders	Ernst Reiter	Frank-Peter Roetsch
January 22, 1989 (Sun.)	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)	BR Germany Ernst Reiter Alois Reiter Herbert Fritzenwenger Fritz Fischer	German Democratic Republic Frank Luck André Sehmisch Birk Anders Frank-Peter Roetsch	Czechoslovakia Tomáš Kos Martin Rypl Jan Matouš Jiří Holubec

3rd World Cup in Ruhpolding , January 26-29, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
January 26, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Sergei Bulygin	Alexander Popov	Frank-Peter Roetsch
January 28, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Eirik Kvalfoss	Alexander Popov
January 29, 1989 (Sun.)	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)	German Democratic Republic Frank Luck André Sehmisch Frank-Peter Roetsch Birk Anders	Soviet Union Dmitri Wassiljew Sergei Tschepikow Alexander Popov Valeri Medvedzew	BR Germany Ernst Reiter Franz Wudy Herbert Fritzenwenger Fritz Fischer

4th World Cup in Hämeenlinna , March 2nd to 5th, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 2, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Alexander Popov	Eirik Kvalfoss	Sergei Chepikov
March 4, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Eirik Kvalfoss	Yuri Kashkarov	Valery Medvedzew
March 5, 1989 (Sun)	Team (20 km)	Soviet Union Yuri Kashkarow Valery Medvedzew Sergei Tschepikow Anatoly Schdanowitsch	Sweden Karl-Gunnar Grenemark Roger Westling Lars Wiklund Peter Sjödén	France Francis Mougel Lionel Laurent Thierry Dusserre Hervé Flandin

5th World Cup in Östersund , March 9-12, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 9, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Sergei Chepikov	Valery Medvedzew	Alexander Popov
March 11, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Johann Passler	Lars Wiklund	André Sehmisch
March 12, 1989 (Sun)?	Relay (4x7.5 km)	Soviet Union	Norway	German Democratic Republic

6th World Cup in Steinkjer , March 16-19, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 16, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (20 km)	Fritz Fischer	Alexander Popov	Ernst Reiter
March 18, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (10 km)	Fritz Fischer	Sergei Chepikov	Thierry Gerbier
March 19, 1989 (Sun.)	Team (20 km)	Norway Frode Løberg Geir Einang Eirik Kvalfoss Gisle Fenne	Italy Werner Kiem Andreas Zingerle Johann Passler Gottlieb Taschler	Soviet Union Yuri Kashkarow Valery Medvedzew Alexander Popov Sergei Tschepikow

World Cup stands

Overall World Cup
Final result after 12 races (Top 10)
rank Surname Points Victories 01  Eirik Kvalfoss 195 1 02  Alexander Popov 184 1 03  Sergei Chepikov 164 1 04th  Birk Anders 157 2 05  Valery Medvedzew 149 0 06th  Fritz Fischer 144 2 07th  Frank-Peter Roetsch 137 1 08th  Andreas Zingerle 130 0 09  Frode Løberg 130 0 10  Alfred Eder 122 0

Individual World Cup	Sprint World Cup	Nations ranking
Final result after 6 races (Top 10)	Final result after 6 races (Top 10)	Final result after 15 races (Top 10)
rank Surname Points Victories 01  Alexander Popov 108 1 02  Sergei Chepikov 96 1 03  Eirik Kvalfoss 92 0 04th  Fritz Fischer 80 1 05  Birk Anders 78 1 06th  Valery Medvedzew 69 0 07th  Andreas Zingerle 67 0 08th  Frank-Peter Roetsch 64 0 09  Alfred Eder 64 0 10  Frode Løberg 63 0	rank Surname Points Victories 01  Eirik Kvalfoss 103 1 02  Valery Medvedzew 80 0 03  Birk Anders 79 1 04th  Alexander Popov 76 0 05  André Sehmisch 75 0 06th  Frank-Peter Roetsch 73 1 07th  Yuri Kashkarov 70 0 08th  Sergei Chepikov 68 0 09  Frode Løberg 67 0 10  Fritz Fischer 64 1	rank country Points Victories 01  German Democratic Republic 5655 5 02  Soviet Union 5543 4th 03  BR Germany 5328 3 04th  Italy 5254 1 05  Austria 5063 0 06th  France 4941 0 07th 08th 09 10

table

rank Surname Points 01  Eirik Kvalfoss 195 02  Alexander Popov 184 03  Sergei Chepikov 164 04th  Birk Anders 157 05  Valery Medvedzew 149 06th  Fritz Fischer 144 07th  Frank-Peter Roetsch 137 08th  Andreas Zingerle 130 09  Frode Løberg 130 10  Alfred Eder 122 11  Frank Luck 121 12  Gisle Fenne 120 13  Ernst Reiter 113 14th  Yuri Kashkarov 109 15th  Johann Passler 108 16  André Sehmisch 106 17th  Thierry Gerbier 84 18th  Andreas Heymann 80 19th  Geir entrance 80 20th  Franz Schuler 78 21st  Anatoly Zhdanovich 76 22nd  Jan Matouš 75 23  Harri Eloranta 63 24  Alois Reiter 56 25th  Raik Dittrich 55 26th  Peter Sjöden 54 27  Stefan Höck 54 28  Pieralberto Carrara 50 29  Steffen Hoos 45 30th  Egon Leitner 43

rank Surname Points 31  Lars Wiklund 42 32  Tobias Lindner 42 33  Wilfried Pallhuber 41 34  Xavier Blond 38 35  Francis Mougel 36 36  Franz Wudy 35 37  Gottlieb Taschler 34 38  Tomáš Kos 34 39  Lionel Laurent 33 40  Mikael Löfgren 31 41  Sergei Bulygin 30th 42  Hervé Flandin 30th 43  Dmitri Vasiliev 29 44  Georg Fischer 25th 45  Werner Kiem 25th 46  Tapio Piipponen 24 47  Martin Rypl 24 48  Slatev spas 17th 49  Thierry Dusserre 15th 50  Toivo Mäkikyrö 13 51  Aleksander Grajf 13 52  Jiří Holubec 13 53  Bruno Hofstätter 13 54  Sergei Saprykin 12 55  Roger Westling 11 56  Mannelquist is different 11 57  Walter Hörl 11 58  Günther Fersterer 9 59  Simon Demetz 9 60  Hubert Leitgeb 8th

rank Surname Points 61  Sergei Pushkarev 8th 62  Jon Åge Tyldum 8th 63  Vladimir Drachev 7th 64  Jure Velepec 7th 65  Stéphane Bouthiaux 7th 66  Leif Andersson 7th 67  Andrei Zhdanovich 6th 68  Michael Dixon 6th 69  Karl-Gunnar Grenemark 6th 70  Ivar Ulekleiv 5 71  Herbert Fritzenwenger 4th 72  Viktor Maigurov 3 73  Anton Lengauer-Stockner 3 74  Krassimir Widenow 1 75  Nikolai Kharitonov 1

Women

Results

1st World Cup in Albertville , December 15-18, 1988
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
December 15, 1988 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Maria Manolova	Anne Elvebakk	Petra Schaaf
December 17, 1988 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Nadezhda Alexieva	Natalia Prikastschikowa	Tsvetana Krastewa
December 18, 1988 (Sun)	Team (15 km)	Soviet Union Natalja Prikastschikowa Jelena Golowina Jelena Bazewitsch Anna Kusmina	Bulgaria Iwa Schkodrewa Zwetana Krastewa Marija Manolowa Nadeschda Alexieva

2nd World Cup in Borovets , January 19-22 , 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
January 19, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Natalia Ivanova	Jelena Golovina	Luisa Cherepanova
January 21, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Jelena Golovina	Tsvetana Krastewa	Elin Kristiansen
January 22, 1989 (Sun.)	Relay (3 × 7.5 km)	BR Germany Martina Stede Dorina Pieper Petra Schaaf	Norway Synnøve Thoresen Elin Kristiansen Anne Elvebakk	Soviet Union Natalja Prikastschikowa Tatiana Sharamchevskaya Anna Kuzmina

3rd World Cup in Ruhpolding , January 26-29, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
January 26, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Martina Stede	Natalia Prikastschikowa	Jelena Golovina
January 28, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Svetlana Davydova	Jelena Golovina	Maria Manolova
January 29, 1989 (Sun)?	Relay (3 × 7.5 km)	Soviet Union	Finland	Bulgaria

4th World Cup in Hämeenlinna , March 2nd to 5th, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 2, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Jelena Golovina	Svetlana Davydova	Natalia Prikastschikowa
March 4, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Jelena Golovina	Natalia Prikastschikowa	Seija Hyytiäinen
March 5, 1989 (Sun)	Team (15 km)	Finland Tuija Vuoksiala Pirjo Mattila Päivi Kallio Seija Hyytiäinen	Norway Synnøve Thoresen Mona Bollerud Elin Kristiansen Anne Elvebakk

5th World Cup in Östersund , March 9-12, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 9, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Iwa Shkodrewa	Tsvetana Krastewa	Svetlana Davydova
March 11, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Natalia Prikastschikowa	Anne Elvebakk	Tsvetana Krastewa
March 12, 1989 (Sun)?	Relay (3 × 7.5 km)	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Norway

6th World Cup in Steinkjer , March 16-19, 1989
date	discipline	First place	Second place	third place
March 16, 1989 (Thu.)	Single (15 km)	Martina Stede	Mona Bollerud	Elin Kristiansen
March 18, 1989 (Sat.)	Sprint (7.5 km)	Anne Elvebakk	Svetlana Davydova	Synnøve Thoresen
March 19, 1989 (Sun.)	Team (15 km)	Bulgaria Nadeschda Alexiewa Zwetana Krastewa Marija Manolowa Iwa Schkodrewa	Norway Synnøve Thoresen Elin Kristiansen Anne Elvebakk Mona Bollerud

World Cup stands

Overall World Cup
Final result after 12 races (Top 10)
rank Surname Points Victories 01  Jelena Golovina 210 3 02  Natalia Prikastschikowa 187 1 03  Svetlana Davydova 185 1 04th  Tsvetana Krastewa 176 0 05  Anne Elvebakk 165 1 06th  Mona Bollerud 159 0 07th  Elin Kristiansen 156 0 08th  Nadezhda Alexieva 154 1 09  Maria Manolova 150 1 10  Martina Stede 149 2

Individual World Cup	Sprint World Cup	Nations ranking
Final result after 6 races (Top 10)	Final result after 6 races (Top 10)	Final result after 15 races (Top 10)
rank Surname Points Victories 01  Jelena Golovina 102 1 02  Svetlana Davydova 92 0 03  Mona Bollerud 88 0 04th  Elin Kristiansen 86 0 05  Maria Manolova 84 1 06th  Martina Stede 83 2 07th  Natalia Prikastschikowa 83 0 08th  Tsvetana Krastewa 83 0 09  Nadezhda Alexieva 77 0 10  Anne Elvebakk 73 0	rank Surname Points Victories 01  Jelena Golovina 108 2 02  Natalia Prikastschikowa 104 1 03  Svetlana Davydova 93 1 04th  Tsvetana Krastewa 93 0 05  Anne Elvebakk 92 1 06th  Nadezhda Alexieva 77 1 07th  Synnøve Thoresen 76 0 08th  Mona Bollerud 71 0 09  Elin Kristiansen 70 0 10  Iwa Shkodrewa 67 0	rank country Points Victories 01  Norway 1 02  Bulgaria 3 03  Soviet Union 8th 04th 05 06th 07th 08th 09 10

table

Results athletes

Item	Biathlete	Albertville		Borovets		Ruhpolding		Hämeenlinna		Ostersund		Steinkjer		Points
		Ez	Sp	Ez	Sp	Ez	Sp	Ez	Sp	Ez	Sp	Ez	Sp
01	Jelena Golovina	004th	004th	002	001	003	002	001	001	010	004th	007th	016	210
02	Natalia Prikastschikowa	012	002	007th	012	002	005	003	002	013	001	015th	004th	187
03	Svetlana Davydova	-	-	012	013	006th	001	002	006th	003	009	004th	002	185
04th	Tsvetana Krastewa	006th	003	014th	002	016	023	006th	007th	002	003	009	015th	176
05	Anne Elvebakk	002	008th	011	011	-	-	009	008th	011	002	011	001	165
06th	Mona Bollerud	007th	010	015th	024	-	-	005	004th	004th	008th	002	011	159
07th	Elin Kristiansen	018th	014th	005	003	-	-	004th	011	007th	007th	003	-	156
08th	Nadezhda Alexieva	005	001	004th	018th	017th	011	-	-	008th	012	010	008th	154
09	Maria Manolova	001	006th	006th	014th	013	003	017th	016	-	-	005	-	150
10	Martina Stede	013	009	016	007th	001	025th	-	-	-	017th	001	006th	149
11	Synnøve Thoresen	-	-	017th	006th	-	-	007th	009	009	011	006th	003	141
12	Iwa Shkodrewa	017th	012	024	023	-	015th	-	-	001	005	012	005	122
13	Petra Schaaf	003	007th	008th	005	007th	008th	-	-	-	-	-	-	119
14th	Dorina Pieper	019th	011	020th	009	010	021st	-	-	012	006th	014th	013	109
15th	Tuija Vuoksiala	015th	005	-	-	008th	010	010	005	-	-	-	-	103
16	Inga Kesper	020th	019th	023	016	021st	022nd	008th	010	014th	013	017th	009	89
17th	Pirjo Mattila	008th	013	-	-	005	014th	018th	012	-	-	-	-	86
18th	Irena Galabowa	009	018th	010	017th	018th	038	-	-	015th	010	-	-	85
19th	Synnøve Berntsen	-	-	-	-	004th	007th	-	-	-	-	008th	010	75
20th	Natalia Ivanova	-	-	001	004th	-	004th	-	-	-	-	-	-	74
21st	Anna Kusmina	010	024	009	008th	-	012	-	-	-	-	-	-	67
22nd	Mia Stadig	-	-	-	-	011	016	-	-	005	014th	-	018th	66
23	Inger Björkbom	-	-	-	-	015th	026th	-	-	006th	016	018th	012	63
24	Hildegunn Fossen	-	-	-	-	014th	009	-	-	-	-	021st	007th	53
25th	Luisa Cherepanova	-	-	003	015th	009	027	-	-	-	-	-	-	52
26th	Seija Hyytiäinen	-	-	-	-	-	020th	011	003	-	-	-	-	45
27	Taina Murtomäki	022nd	016	-	-	034	035	013	014th	-	-	-	-	39
28	Sabiene Karlsson	-	-	-	-	038	028	-	-	016	020th	016	014th	38
29	Sari Kokko	-	-	-	-	024	019th	011	017th	-	-	-	-	33
30th	Kerryn Pethybridge	-	-	019th	-	019th	013	-	-	-	-	-	-	27
31	Jelena Bazewitsch	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th
32	Véronique Claudel	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th
33	Katri Tuomala	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th
34	Siri Grundnes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25th
35	Eva Burešová	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24
36	Paivi Kallio	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24
37	Annelie Engström	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st
38	Signe consolation	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
39	Tatiana Sharamchevskaya	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
40	Anu Harjuntausta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th
41	Marie-Pierre baby	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16
42	Nathalie Beausire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th
43	Unni Kristiansen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
44	Caroline Hiden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11
45	Yvonne Visser	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
46	Jane Isakson	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
47	Jiřina Adamičková	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th
48	Daniela Hörburger	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th
49	Tina Persson	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th
50	Petra Nosková	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th
51	Muriel Marion	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th
52	Hana Sakaffova	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th
53	Renata Novotná	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th
54	Emmanuelle Durafour	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th
55	Pia Venalainen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3

Web links

• Season overview from 1988/1989
• Season results from 1988/1989

Individual evidence