2000–01 Biathlon World Cup

The 2000–01 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 30 November 2000 in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, and ended on 18 March 2001 in Holmenkollen, Norway.^[1] It was the 24th season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Discipline Men

Overall

Raphaël Poirée

Nations Cup

Norway

Individual

Sergei Rozhkov

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2000–01 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Raphaël Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Sergei Rozhkov	Magdalena Forsberg
Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Forsberg
Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg
Mass start	Sven Fischer	Magdalena Forsberg
Relay	Norway	Norway
Competition
←1999–00 2001–02→

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Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2000–01 season.^[1]

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Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
Antholz-Anterselva^{[N 1]}	30 November–3 December	●	●			●	details
Antholz-Anterselva^{[N 2]}	7–10 December		●	●		●	details
Antholz-Anterselva^{[N 3]}	14–17 December	●	●	●			details
Oberhof	4–7 January		●	●	●		details
Ruhpolding	10–14 January		●	●		●	details
Antholz-Anterselva	18–21 January		●		●	●	details
Pokljuka	3–11 February	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Salt Lake City	28 February–3 March	●	●	●			details
Lake Placid	7 March		●				details
Holmenkollen	16–18 March		●	●	●		details
Total		4	10	7	4	5

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World Cup Podium

Men

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Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Zdeněk Vítek	Carsten Heymann	Sergei Rozhkov	Zdeněk Vítek	Detail
1	1 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
2	7 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Pavel Rostovtsev	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
2	8 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frode Andresen		Detail
3	14 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Sergei Rozhkov	Raphaël Poirée	Ricco Groß		Detail
3	15 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Vadim Sashurin		Detail
3	17 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer		Detail
4	4 January 2001	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Tord Wiksten	Carsten Heymann		Detail
4	6 January 2001	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Viktor Maigourov	Raphaël Poirée	Frode Andresen		Detail
4	7 January 2001	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Sven Fischer	Egil Gjelland	Tomaž Globočnik		Detail
5	12 January 2001	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Egil Gjelland		Detail
5	14 January 2001	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Frank Luck	Ricco Groß		Detail
6	18 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Frode Andresen		Detail
6	21 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Carsten Heymann	Pavel Rostovtsev		Detail
WC	3 February 2001	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Pavel Rostovtsev	René Cattarinussi	Halvard Hanevold		Detail
WC	4 February 2001	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Pavel Rostovtsev	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer		Detail
WC	7 February 2001	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Paavo Puurunen	Vadim Sashurin	Ilmārs Bricis		Detail
WC	9 February 2001	Pokljuka	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sven Fischer		Detail
7	28 February 2001	Salt Lake City	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sven Fischer	Julien Robert		Detail
7	2 March 2001	Salt Lake City	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frode Andresen	Frank Luck		Detail
7	3 March 2001	Salt Lake City	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Vadim Sashurin	Pavel Rostovtsev		Detail
8	7 March 2001	Lake Placid	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Henrik Forsberg		Detail
9	16 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Halvard Hanevold		Detail
9	17 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Frode Andresen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Egil Gjelland		Detail
9	18 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Sven Fischer	Raphaël Poirée	Frode Andresen		Detail

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Women

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Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	30 November 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Corinne Niogret	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Forsberg	Corinne Niogret	Detail
1	1 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Zubrilova	Corinne Niogret	Olena Petrova		Detail
2	7 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Gro Marit Istad	Olga Pyleva	Kati Wilhelm		Detail
2	8 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Corinne Niogret	Olena Zubrilova		Detail
3	14 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Sandrine Bailly	Corinne Niogret	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
3	16 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Tetyana Vodopyanova	Magdalena Forsberg	Detail
3	17 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Andrea Henkel	Uschi Disl		Detail
4	5 January 2001	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Corinne Niogret		Detail
4	6 January 2001	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Uschi Disl		Detail
4	7 January 2001	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Forsberg	Svetlana Tchernousova	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
5	13 January 2001	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Katrin Apel		Detail
5	14 January 2001	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Galina Koukleva		Detail
6	18 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Olga Pyleva	Martina Glagow		Detail
6	21 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Corinne Niogret	Delphyne Heymann-Burlet	Uschi Disl		Detail
WC	3 February 2001	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Kati Wilhelm	Uschi Disl	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
WC	4 February 2001	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Corinne Niogret	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
WC	6 February 2001	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Olena Zubrilova		Detail
WC	9 February 2001	Pokljuka	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Forsberg	Martina Glagow	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
7	28 February 2001	Salt Lake City	15 km Individual	Magdalena Forsberg	Martina Zellner	Martina Glagow		Detail
7	2 March 2001	Salt Lake City	7.5 km Sprint	Uschi Disl	Liv Grete Poirée	Andrea Henkel		Detail
7	3 March 2001	Salt Lake City	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Corinne Niogret		Detail
8	7 March 2001	Lake Placid	7.5 km Sprint	Kati Wilhelm	Martina Zellner	Delphyne Heymann-Burlet		Detail
9	16 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg	Nathalie Santer		Detail
9	17 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Liv Grete Poirée	Martina Glagow		Detail
9	18 March 2001	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Yu Shumei	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova		Detail

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Men's team

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Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	3 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Czech Republic Petr Garabík Ivan Masařík Tomáš Holubec Zdeněk Vítek	Ukraine Vyacheslav Derkach Andriy Deryzemlya Olexander Bilanenko Ruslan Lysenko	Germany Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Carsten Heymann Ricco Gross
2	9 December 2000	Antholz	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Halvard Hanevold Frode Andresen Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Czech Republic Petr Garabík Ivan Masařík Roman Dostál Zdeněk Vítek	Russia Sergei Rozhkov Andrei Prokunin Mikhail Kochkin Alexei Kobelev
5	10 January 2001	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Marco Morgenstern Peter Sendel Alexander Wolf Ricco Gross	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Alexandr Syman Oleg Ryzhenkov Vadim Sashurin
6	20 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Marco Morgenstern Sven Fischer Frank Luck Ricco Gross	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Sergei Rozhkov Andrei Prokunin Pavel Rostovtsev Viktor Maigourov
WC	11 February 2001	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	France Gilles Marguet Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphael Poiree	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Alexandr Syman Oleg Ryzhenkov Vadim Sashurin	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen

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Women's team

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Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	3 December 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Gro Marit Istad Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poiree	Germany Uschi Disl Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Martina Glagow	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Tetyana Vodopyanova
2	10 December 2000	Antholz	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Uschi Disl Kati Wilhelm Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel	France Sylvie Becaert Delphyne Heymann Sandrine Bailly Corinne Niogret	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Tchernousova
5	11 January 2001	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Gro Marit Istad Linda Tjorhom Liv Grete Poiree	Germany Uschi Disl Martina Glagow Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Galina Kukleva Svetlana Tchernousova
6	19 January 2001	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Gro Marit Istad Linda Tjorhom Gunn Margit Andreassen	Russia Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Tchernousova Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Pyleva	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Tetyana Vodopyanova
WC	10 February 2001	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Pyleva Anna Bogaliy Galina Kukleva Svetlana Ishmouratova	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Kati Wilhelm	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Tetyana Vodopyanova

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Standings: Men

Overall

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Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	921
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	911
3.	Frode Andresen	712
4.	Pavel Rostovtsev	707
5.	Sven Fischer	675

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Final standings after 25 races.

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Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Sergei Rozhkov	133
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	110
3.	Ricco Groß	109
4.	Sven Fischer	107
5.	Carsten Heymann	101

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	393
2.	Raphaël Poirée	375
3.	Frode Andresen	337
4.	Pavel Rostovtsev	282
5.	Halvard Hanevold	280

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	278
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	272
3.	Frode Andresen	247
4.	Pavel Rostovtsev	228
5.	Sven Fischer	190

Final standings after 7 races.

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Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Sven Fischer	143
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	136
3.	Raphaël Poirée	136
4.	Egil Gjelland	120
5.	Ricco Groß	109

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	189
2.	Germany	173
3.	Czech Republic	167
4.	Belarus	165
5.	Russia	158

Final standings after 5 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	4919
2.	Germany	4713
3.	Russia	4455
4.	France	4356
5.	Slovenia	3905

Final standings after 19 races.

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Standings: Women

Overall

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Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	1021
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	804
3.	Olena Zubrilova	774
4.	Corinne Niogret	665
5.	Andrea Henkel	635

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Final standings after 25 races.

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Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	143
2.	Corinne Niogret	110
3.	Liv Grete Poirée	110
4.	Andrea Henkel	110
5.	Martina Glagow	102

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	368
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	312
3.	Olena Zubrilova	284
4.	Olga Pyleva	252
5.	Corinne Niogret	245

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	300
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	252
3.	Olena Zubrilova	246
4.	Corinne Niogret	213
5.	Andrea Henkel	210

Final standings after 7 races.

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Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	146
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	120
3.	Martina Glagow	117
4.	Olena Zubrilova	113
5.	Uschi Disl	111

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	190
2.	Germany	188
3.	Russia	182
4.	Ukraine	169
5.	France	149

Final standings after 5 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	4851
2.	Russia	4635
3.	Ukraine	4470
4.	France	4406
5.	Norway	4393

Final standings after 19 races.

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Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	19	16	13	48
2	Sweden	14	3	4	21
3	France	10	14	4	28
4	Germany	7	14	18	39
5	Russia	5	5	8	18
6	Czech Republic	2	1	0	3
7	Ukraine	1	3	8	12
8	China	1	0	0	1
Finland	1	0	0	1
10	Belarus	0	3	2	5
11	Italy	0	1	1	2
12	Latvia	0	0	1	1
Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)	60	60	60	180

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Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Zdeněk Vítek (CZE), 23, in his 5th season — the WC 1 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 1999–2000 Pursuit in Oberhof
Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 21, in her 2nd season — the WC 3 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was her first podium
Kati Wilhelm (GER), 24, in her 1st season — the World Championships Sprint in Pokljuka; first podium was 2000–01 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
Paavo Puurunen (FIN), 27, in his 7th season — the World Championships Individual in Pokljuka; it also was his first podium
Yu Shumei (CHN), 23, in her 6th season — the WC 9 Mass Start in Holmenkollen; first podium was 1995–96 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva

First World Cup podium

Kati Wilhelm (GER), 24, in her 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
Tord Wiksten (SWE), 29, in his 8th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof
Tomaž Globočnik (SLO), 28, in his 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Mass Start in Oberhof
Julien Robert (FRA), 26, in his 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Individual in Salt Lake City
Henrik Forsberg (SWE), 34, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Sprint in Lake Placid

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 8 (22) first places
Raphaël Poirée (FRA), 6 (14) first places
Frode Andresen (NOR), 3 (11) first places
Sven Fischer (GER), 2 (19) first places
Pavel Rostovtsev (RUS), 2 (3) first places
Viktor Maigourov (RUS), 1 (8) first place
Sergei Rozhkov (RUS), 1 (2) first place
Zdeněk Vítek (CZE), 1 (1) first place
Paavo Puurunen (FIN), 1 (1) first place

Women

Magdalena Forsberg (SWE), 14 (33) first places
Corinne Niogret (FRA), 2 (8) first places
Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée (NOR), 2 (7) first places
Kati Wilhelm (GER), 2 (2) first places
Uschi Disl (GER), 1 (20) first place
Olena Zubrilova (UKR), 1 (15) first place
Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen (NOR), 1 (2) first place
Sandrine Bailly (FRA), 1 (1) first place
Yu Shumei (CHN), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes announced their retirement during or after the 2000–01 season:

2000–01 Biathlon World Cup

Calendar

World Cup Podium

Men

Women

Men's team

Women's team

Standings: Men

Overall

Individual

Sprint

Pursuit

Mass Start

Relay

Nation

Standings: Women

Overall

Individual

Sprint

Pursuit

Mass Start

Relay

Nation

Medal table

Achievements

Retirements

Footnotes

References

External links

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