Summer biathlon world championships 2008

Summer biathlon world championships 2008
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Cross-country sprint	Alexei Katrenko	Ekaterina Sidorenko
Cross country pursuit	Alexei Katrenko	Ekaterina Sidorenko
Rollerski sprint	Simon Fourcade	Teja Gregorin
Rollerski pursuit	Simon Fourcade	Teja Gregorin
Mixed relay	France
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The 13th IBU Summer Biathlon World Championships took place from September 22nd to 28th, 2008 in Haute-Maurienne . Medals were awarded in four individual disciplines for men and women, as well as in a mixed relay competition. Two of the disciplines, a sprint and a pursuit race, for both women and men, took place in cross- country running and on roller skis . The relay competition was held in the roller-ski discipline. Almost simultaneously, usually only a few minutes apart, the Junior World Championships in the respective disciplines took place. While all four titles in cross-country skiing were won by Russian athletes, the titles in the roller-skiing competition both went to France for men and Slovenia for women. The relay race was won by France, which, with three-time world champion Simon Fourcade, was also the most successful athlete at the Games. All winners of the sprint races could also win the pursuit races, so Jekaterina Sidorenko , Teja Gregorin and Alexei Katrenko became double world champions. The Moldovan Natalja Levtschenkowa was the only athlete to start in all five possible competitions. She always placed in the top six and won the bronze medal in the roller ski pursuit race.

Competitions

Haute Maurienne

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Cross-country run

• September 24th: Sprint, 3 km (women) and 4 km (men).
• September 25: Pursuit, 5 km (women) and 6 km (men).

Roller skis

• September 26th: Sprint, 7.5 km (women) and 10 km (men).
• September 27: Pursuit, 10 km (women) and 12.5 km (men).
• September 28th: ​​Mixed relay, 2 × 6 km (women) + 2 × 7.5 km (men).

Medal table

total

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	4th	3	4th	11
2	France	3	4th	-	7th
3	Slovenia	2	1	-	3
4th	Kazakhstan	-	1	1	2
5	Uzbekistan	-	-	1	1
5	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
5	Moldova	-	-	1	1
5	Italy	-	-	1	1

Cross-country run

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	4th	3	2	9
2	Kazakhstan	-	1	1	2
3	Uzbekistan	-	-	1	1

Roller skis

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	3	4th	-	7th
2	Slovenia	2	1	-	3
3	Russia	-	-	2	2
4th	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
4th	Moldova	-	-	1	1
4th	Italy	-	-	1	1

Men Cross Country

Sprint 4 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Alexei Katrenko	13: 57.3	0-1
2	Dias Keneschow	+1: 00.7	3-0
3	Ruslan Nasirov	+1: 02.8	2-3
4th	Vincent Jay	+1: 10.8	0-1
5	Radovan Cienik	+1: 22.7	1-1
6th	Sergei Balandin	+1: 23.8	1-2
7th	Jauhen Schuleu	+1: 30.1	1-1
8th	Luboš Schorný	+1: 33.5	1-0
9	Steffen Jabin	+1: 37.3	2-0
10	Dimitri Petin	+1: 41.1	2-1
11	Baptiste Desthieux	+1: 43.5	1-0
12	Vasily Kirsanov	+1: 49.4	2-2
13	Jozef Škoviera	+1: 55.6	2-1
14th	Frank Röttgen	+2: 03.0	2-2
15th	Robert Janikulla	+2: 09.2	0-1
16	Murod Hodjibayev	+2: 19.1	4-2
17th	Peter Kosinar	+2: 23.1	2-1
18th	Slavomír Imrich	+2: 29.5	1-1
19th	Douglas Hoover	+2: 54.7	0-3
20th	Károly Gombos	+2: 58.2	2-3
21st	Istvan Muskatal	+3: 41.1	3-4
22nd	Nikola Jeremic	+3: 54.0	2-2
23	Miro Cosic	+3: 58.7	2-3
24	Danny Fink	+4: 00.0	1-1

Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
24 athletes from 12 countries started, including three Germans. There were no starters from Austria, Switzerland or Italy. The Uzbek Anuzar Yunusov won the Junior World Championships, which started shortly afterwards, ahead of the Russian Stanislaw Basejew and the German Niklas Heyser . With Tobias Schröder , another German came in sixth among the best.

Pursuit 6 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Alexei Katrenko	23: 01.70	1-2-3-2
2	Sergei Balandin	+16.9	0-1-0-1
3	Dias Keneschow	+53.9	1-0-3-1
4th	Ruslan Nasirov	+1: 27.9	4-2-2-2
5	Luboš Schorný	+1: 41.7	0-0-0-0
6th	Frank Röttgen	+1: 44.5	1-0-0-1
7th	Dimitri Petin	+1: 52.7	1-0-2-1
8th	Radovan Cienik	+2: 22.8	1-2-2-0
9	Vincent Jay	+2: 30.1	3-1-1-1
10	Jauhen Schuleu	+2: 39.4	0-3-1-3
11	Vasily Kirsanov	+2: 49.8	0-3-3-1
12	Murod Hodjibayev	+3: 05.8	1-2-2-1
13	Robert Janikulla	+3: 24.6	1-0-2-1
14th	Steffen Jabin	+3: 55.0	2-1-3-4
15th	Peter Kosinar	+4: 03.0	0-0-1-3
16	Jozef Škoviera	+4: 58.6	2-1-3-3
17th	Istvan Muskatal	+5: 25.2	0-0-3-3
18th	Baptiste Desthieux	+5: 26.6	1-1-1-3
19th	Slavomír Imrich	+5: 31.5	2-3-1-2
20th	Douglas Hoover	+5: 49.9	1-0-1-4
21st	Danny Fink	+6: 54.9	1-1-2-1
22nd	Károly Gombos	+7: 22.3	4-3-4-2
23	Miro Cosic	+7: 52.1	1-1-4-1
24	Nikola Jeremic	+8: 36.1	4-2-3-2

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
24 athletes from 12 countries started, including three Germans. There were no starters from Austria, Switzerland or Italy. The Uzbek Anuzar Yunusov won again at the Junior World Championships, which started shortly afterwards, ahead of the Russians Rinat Gilasow and Maxim Adiew .

Men roller skis

Sprint 10 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Simon Fourcade	23: 58.9	0-0
2	Vincent Defrasne	+47.0	0-2
3	Kirill Shcherbakov	+1: 29.5	0-0
4th	Tanguy Roche	+1: 30.8	1-2
5	Jean-Philippe Leguellec	+1: 40.5	0-0
6th	Vincent Porret	+1: 52.6	2-0
7th	Claudio Böckli	+2: 12.5	1-2
8th	Marc-Andre Bedard	+2: 37.2	1-0
9	Matthias Simmen	+2: 38.9	1-4
10	Syarhej Dashkewitsch	+2: 42.9	0-1
11	Christian De Lorenzi	+2: 46.5	1-3
12	Thomas Frei	+3: 06.4	0-2
13	Gregor Brvar	+3: 08.4	0-1
14th	Sergei Balandin	+3: 20.3	1-1
15th	Lois Habert	+3: 20.4	1-2
16	Indrek Tobreluts	+3: 20.8	0-2
17th	Ivan Joller	+3: 23.2	1-2
18th	Jože flours	+3: 29.8	1-2
19th	Vasja Rupnik	+3: 30.0	3-1
20th	Vladimir Semakov	+3: 31.5	1-0
21st	Sergei Danilenko	+3: 31.6	2-1
22nd	Markus Windisch	+3: 34.2	0-2
23	Janez Marič	+3: 37.7	2-2
24	Petr Hradecký	+3: 40.9	1-2
25th	Nicola Pozzi	+3: 50.2	1-3
26th	Arnaud Langel	+3: 53.4	1-3
27	René-Laurent Vuillermoz	+4: 04.7	0-4
28	Christian Martinelli	+4: 22.9	2-0
29	Mikhail Kletscherow	+4: 25.4	1-1
30th	Dias Keneschow	+4: 26.0	0-2
31	Mikhail Kochkin	+4: 30.6	2-1
32	Jaime Robb	+4: 42.8	2-3
33	Martten Kaldvee	+4: 59.1	1-2
34	Mattia Cola	+5: 06.7	3-2
35	Peter Dokl	+5: 06.8	0-1
36	Alexei Katrenko	+5: 29.9	1-2
37	Jauhen Schuleu	+5: 34.2	1-4
38	Károly Gombos	+6: 38.6	2-0
39	Jozef Škoviera	+7: 01.0	0-3
40	Miro Cosic	+7: 06.3	0-1
41	Nikola Jeremic	+8: 04.0	4-2
42	Istvan Muskatel	+8: 25.9	3-3
43	Murod Hodjibayev	+8: 44.4	4-3

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
43 athletes from 16 countries started. There were starters from Switzerland and Italy from German-speaking countries. At the almost simultaneous Junior World Championships, Frenchman Martin Fourcade won ahead of Swiss Benjamin Weger and French Jean-Guillaume Béatrix .

Pursuit 12.5 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Simon Fourcade	32: 11.14	0-0-0-0
2	Vincent Defrasne	+1: 40.1	0-0-1-0
3	Matthias Simmen	+6: 41.4	0-2-2-1
4th	Tanguy Roche	+7: 04.0	0-2-0-4
5	Kirill Shcherbakov	+7: 20.9	1-2-1-0
6th	Indrek Tobreluts	+7: 21.0	1-0-2-1
7th	Janez Marič	+7: 31.4	2-1-2-2
8th	Lois Habert	+7: 35.7	0-0-2-2
9	Ivan Joller	+7: 37.3	0-0-2-3
10	Markus Windisch	+7: 49.8	1-1-0-4
11	Vasja Rupnik	+8: 02.3	3-2-1-3
12	Christian De Lorenzi	+8: 12.5	1-1-2-3
13	René-Laurent Vuillermoz	+8: 40.9	0-2-2-1
14th	Syarhej Dashkewitsch	+8: 42.4	3-0-2-2
15th	Christian Martinelli	+8: 42.7	2-1-1-1
16	Mikhail Kochkin	+8: 51.1	1-0-4-1
17th	Vladimir Semakov	+9: 00.2	0-2-1-2
18th	Claudio Böckli	+9: 13.9	1-2-2-0
19th	Sergei Balandin	+9: 24.7	1-1-0-2
20th	Jean-Philippe Leguellec	+9: 29.9	1-1-3-4
21st	Vincent Porret	+9: 51.3	2-1-2-1
22nd	Jože flours	+10: 01.1	2-4-1-3
23	Thomas Frei	+10: 02.2	4-1-4-3
24	Nicola Pozzi	+10: 40.0	1-1-1-2
25th	Nicola Pozzi	+10: 40.6	2-1-3-2
26th	Jaime Robb	+10: 56.5	0-2-1-4
27	Mikhail Kletscherow	+11: 04.0	2-0-1-1
28	Sergei Danilenko	+11: 29.4	1-3-2-1
29	Petr Hradecký	+11: 38.0	2-1-1-5
30th	Gregor Brvar	+11: 53.8	3-0-1-2
31	Marc-Andre Bedard	+12: 02.0	3-4-1-3
32	Dias Keneschow	+12: 14.6	2-4-2-2
33	Arnaud Langel	+12: 28.7	0-1-5-2
34	Martten Kaldvee	+14: 16.8	2-2-2-2
35	Murod Hodjibayev	+23: 31.2	1-1-2-1
dnf	Nikola Jeremic		2-2-4-

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12:00 noon
36 of 43 registered athletes started. Biathletes from Switzerland and Italy from the German-speaking area were at the start. The Serb Nikola Jeremić did not reach the finish line, so 35 starters were placed. Peter Dokl , Alexei Katrenko , Jauhen Schuleu , Károly Gombos , Jozef Škoviera , Miro Ćosić and Istvan Muskatel were no longer at the start . In the Junior World Championship race, which started just a little later, Croatian Jakov Fak won ahead of Swiss Benjamin Weger and Krassimir Anew from Bulgaria.

Women cross-country

Sprint 3 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Ekaterina Sidorenko	12: 09.6	0-2
2	Lyubov Yermolayeva	+45.7	1-1
3	Anastassija Kuznetsova	+1: 01.5	3-0
4th	Elena Khrustalyova	+1: 14.8	0-0
5	Natalia Levchenkova	+1: 25.7	2-1
6th	Iryna Babezkaya	+1: 38.4	1-3
7th	Pavla Matyášová	+1: 40.4	1-5
8th	Anna Sorokina	+2: 00.3	3-2
9	Natalia Solovieva	+2: 10.4	1-5
10	Ksenija Bodlović	+2: 55.5	3-4
11	Anna Timofeyeva	+3: 15.8	2-1
12	Stephanie Blackstone	+3: 21.4	3-3
13	Ildikó cardboard	+10: 31.8	3-3

Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
13 athletes from nine nations started, including five Russian women. There were no starters from German-speaking countries. At the Junior World Championships held shortly afterwards, the Russian Irina Maximowa won ahead of her compatriot Alexandra Walischina and the Belarusian Wera Kalbianok.

Pursuit 5 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Ekaterina Sidorenko	22: 40.65	1-1-2-3
2	Lyubov Yermolayeva	+1: 49.7	1-0-2-1
3	Anastassija Kuznetsova	+2: 34.0	2-1-3-1
4th	Natalia Levchenkova	+3: 02.6	1-1-1-2
5	Natalia Solovieva	+3: 19.4	0-2-0-2
6th	Elena Khrustalyova	+3: 24.4	1-1-1-2
7th	Iryna Babezkaya	+3: 38.9	0-2-2-2
8th	Pavla Matyášová	+4: 42.5	3-1-4-4
9	Ksenija Bodlović	+7: 19.0	1-3-4-4
10	Ildikó cardboard	+8: 58.7	1-2-2-5
11	Anna Timofeyeva	+9: 41.5	3-2-2-3
12	Stephanie Blackstone	+10: 31.8	4-4-1-4

Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
12 of the 13 registered athletes from nine nations, including four Russian women, started. Anna Sorokina did not start . There were no starters from German-speaking countries. At the Junior World Championships held shortly afterwards, the Russian Irina Maximowa won ahead of her compatriot Alexandra Walischina and the Belarusian Wera Kalbianok.

Women roller skis

Sprint 7.5 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Teja Gregorin	24: 27.8	0-0
2	Marie-Laure Brunet	+26.3	0-0
3	Maria Kosinova	+44.4	0-0
4th	Natalia Levchenkova	+55.4	0-0
5	Jana Romanowa	+1: 16.9	0-3
6th	Michela Ponza	+1: 25.0	0-0
7th	Pauline Macabies	+1: 27.5	0-0
8th	Nadezhda Chastina	+1: 34.2	0-2
9	Ekaterina Jurlova	+1: 42.6	0-1
10	Katja Haller	+1: 47.4	0-1
11	Sandrine Bailly	+2: 06.0	0-1
12	Roberta Fiandino	+2: 18.5	0-0
13	Zina Kocher	+2: 39.1	1-2
14th	Marine Rougeot	+2: 44.2	0-3
15th	Pavlina Filipova	+3: 07.6	0-3
16	Elena Khrustalyova	+3: 17.0	1-1
17th	Claire Breton	+3: 18.9	0-1
18th	Lyubov Yermolayeva	+3: 20.0	1-0
19th	Iryna Babezkaya	+3: 25.3	0-0
20th	Kadri Lehtla	+3: 33.4	1-0
21st	Andreja Mali	+3: 44.3	4-1
22nd	Julie Carraz-Collin	+4: 07.7	1-2

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 9:05 a.m.
22 athletes from eleven nations started. From the German-speaking area only athletes from Italy ( Roberta Fiandino , 12th) competed. Only a little later, the juniors started their World Championship race, which was won by French Marine Bolliet ahead of her compatriot Anaïs Bescond and Belarusian Karina Sawossik .

Pursuit 10 km

space	athlete	time	Shooting error
1	Teja Gregorin	34: 40.92	0-1-2-2
2	Marie-Laure Brunet	+24.0	0-0-1-1
3	Natalia Levchenkova	+49.0	0-0-1-0
4th	Nadezhda Chastina	+1: 05.6	1-0-0-0
5	Maria Kosinova	+1: 49.4	1-0-1-2
6th	Pauline Macabies	+2: 04.6	0-1-2-1
7th	Katja Haller	+2: 05.9	0-1-0-1
8th	Ekaterina Jurlova	+2: 38.2	0-0-1-3
9	Jana Romanowa	+2: 45.7	1-2-3-0
10	Michela Ponza	+3: 08.3	0-3-1-0
11	Sandrine Bailly	+3: 37.2	0-1-1-1
12	Andreja Mali	+4: 40.1	1-1-0-0
13	Zina Kocher	+4: 49.3	0-2-3-2
14th	Pavlina Filipova	+5: 04.8	0-0-2-2
15th	Roberta Fiandino	+5: 17.7	0-3-1-1
16	Kadri Lehtla	+5: 29.9	0-1-0-0
17th	Julie Carraz-Collin	+5: 42.6	0-0-0-3
18th	Marine Rougeot	+5: 50.3	0-1-1-1
19th	Claire Breton	+6: 30.9	0-1-1-0

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 9:05 a.m.
19 of 22 registered athletes from nine countries started. There was only one athlete from Italy from the German-speaking area. The qualified Jelena Khrustaljowa , Lyubow Jermolajewa and Iryna Babezkaja did not start anymore . Only a little later, the juniors started their World Championship race, which the French Anaïs Bescond won ahead of her compatriot Marine Bolliet and the Canadian Megan Tandy .

Mixed relay roller ski 2 × 6 + 2 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	time	Shooting error + reload
1	France	Marie-Laure Brunet Sandrine Bailly Vincent Defrasne Simon Fourcade	1: 23: 30.43	0-0 0-1 0-1 0-3 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-1
2	Slovenia	Teja Gregorin Andreja Mali Janez Marič Vasja Rupnik	+1: 51.4	0-0 0-3 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-3 0-0 1-3
3	Italy	Michela Ponza Katja Haller Christian Martinelli Markus Windisch	+5: 27.2	0-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-1 2-3
4th	Russia	Marija Kosinova Nadezhda Chastina Kirill Shcherbakov Mikhail Kotschkin	+5: 47.8	0-0 0-0 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 2-3
5	Belarus	Iryna Babezkaja Maryja Kaslouskaja Jauhen Schuleu Sjarhej Daschkewitsch	+6: 09.8	0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-1
6th	Moldova	Natalja Levtschenkowa Alexandra Camenșcic Sergiu Balan Victor Pînzaru	+13: 26.6	0-0 3-3 0-0 1-3 0-1 0-3 0-2 0-3

Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:15 am
There were six relays at the start. At the same time, the junior mixed world championship race took place. Russia won with Irina Maximowa , Valentina Nasarowa , Dmitri Blinow and Viktor Wassiljew ahead of France with Anaïs Bescond , Marine Bolliet , Martin Fourcade and Jean-Guillaume Béatrix and the team from Belarus with Karina Sawossik , Wera Kalbjanok, Uladsimir Tschapelin and Vital Zwetau .

Web links

• official homepage
• Results of cross-country competitions
• Results of the roller ski competitions
• Reports on the IBU website