2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men

The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men started on Saturday 6 December 2008 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 26 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

The small crystal globe winner for the category was Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	383
Silver:	Dmitri Yaroshenko	291
Bronze:	Emil Hegle Svendsen	253

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Östersund details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	25:42.3 (0+1)	Tomasz Sikora Poland	25:55.0 (0+1)	Simon Fourcade France	26:10.4 (0+0)
Hochfilzen details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	26:08.1 (0+0)	Ivan Tcherezov Russia	26:34.4 (0+1)	Alexander Os Norway	26:41.0 (1+0)
Hochfilzen details	Lars Berger Norway	25:23.1 (0+0)	Alexander Os Norway	26:01.0 (0+1)	Carl Johan Bergman Sweden	26:14.7 (0+1)
Oberhof details	Maxim Tchoudov Russia	25:49.5 (0+0)	Michael Rösch Germany	26:02.2 (0+0)	Tomasz Sikora Poland	26:14.7 (1+0)
Ruhpolding details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	23:25.8 (0+0)	Dominik Landertinger Austria	23:59.2 (0+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	24:01.1 (0+1)
Antholz-Anterselva details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	24:52.5 (0+0)	Bjoern Ferry Sweden	24:56.1 (0+0)	Tomasz Sikora Poland	24:59.2 (0+0)
World Championships details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	24:16.5 (1+1)	Lars Berger Norway	24:17.7 (1+1)	Halvard Hanevold Norway	24:29.0 (0+0)
Vancouver details	Lars Berger Norway	24:06.5 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	24:20.6 (0+0)	Christoph Sumann Austria	24:46.0 (0+0)
Trondheim details	Michael Greis Germany	26:11.3 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	26:29.6 (1+0)	Simon Eder Austria	26:43.1 (0+0)
Khanty-Mansiysk details	Arnd Peiffer Germany	25:51.1 (0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	26:14.2 (0+1)	Christoph Sumann Austria	26:18.4 (0+0)

#	Name	ÖST	HOC	HOC	OBE	RUH	ANT	WCH	VAN	TRO	KHA	Total^[1]
1.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	43	29	–	18	60	–	60	54	54	54	372
2	Tomasz Sikora	54	43	36	48	29	48	25	26	28	23	337
3	Emil Hegle Svendsen	60	60	–	17	48	60	–	–	30	43	318
4	Michael Greis	27	34	40	–	1	36	36	36	60	36	306
5	Maxim Tchoudov	16	36	8	60	31	28	40	14	43	29	297
6	Alexander Os	25	48	54	31	29	10	43	0	40	4	284
7	Christoph Sumann	5	32	38	2	30	38	0	48	22	48	263
8	Ivan Tcherezov	34	54	32	–	23	25	3	34	38	15	258
9	Halvard Hanevold	30	23	23	16	21	40	48	15	29	27	257
10	Carl Johan Bergman	31	21	48	24	40	43	0	29	20	0	256
11	Björn Ferry	6	40	30	23	16	54	1	–	36	32	238
12	Lars Berger	11	–	60	0	8	7	54	60	34	0	234
13	Daniel Mesotitsch	21	19	28	0	17	30	12	32	17	28	204
14	Simon Fourcade	48	11	34	0	15	14	38	43	0	0	203
15	Dominik Landertinger	0	0	–	28	54	19	24	–	23	34	182
16	Simon Eder	–	–	3	26	9	22	34	21	48	16	179
17	Michal Šlesingr	0	0	11	43	24	32	9	17	16	24	176
18	Friedrich Pinter	0	0	19	27	34	24	–	12	27	31	174
19	Michael Rösch	0	17	9	54	36	13	27	0	13	0	169
20	Andrei Makoveev	20	12	11	31	0	0	17	7	25	26	149
21	Tobias Eberhard	0	3	29	32	0	31	–	16	14	21	146
22	Christoph Stephan	22	4	21	40	4	29	19	0	0	6	145
23	Arnd Peiffer	–	–	–	36	11	16	–	19	0	60	142
24	Andreas Birnbacher	–	31	0	38	32	0	–	–	1	40	142
25	Simon Hallenbarter	0	0	14	–	6	10	32	18	24	38	142
26	Rustam Valiullin	32	9	12	29	2	0	0	31	0	17	132
27	Tim Burke	0	–	0	20	0	26	30	0	32	18	126
28	Christian De Lorenzi	40	2	0	4	43	0	14	22	0	0	125
29	Alexander Wolf	26	30	23	0	0	0	0	13	3	30	125
30	Janez Maric	0	0	0	0	38	0	31	38	15	0	122
31	Martin Fourcade	–	–	31	0	19	0	23	30	18	0	121
32	Evgeny Ustyugov	–	–	–	0	13	34	0	27	13	25	112
33	Ronny Hafsas	38	1	–	34	27	–	–	3	0	5	108
34	Markus Windisch	36	10	0	10	25	0	22	0	0	0	103
35	Vincent Defrasne	2	0	43	14	26	12	0	1	–	–	98
36	Mattias Nilsson	0	38	0	9	0	4	15	23	0	0	89
37	Jay Hakkinen	18	27	0	25	19	0	–	0	0	–	89
38	Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.	19	25	26	13	–	0	0	–	–	–	83
39	Jean Philippe Leguellec	28	24	0	–	0	20	0	0	0	10	82
40	Vyacheslav Derkach	14	0	17	0	–	21	0	10	0	19	81
41	Klemen Bauer	0	0	0	5	0	17	28	5	9	12	76
42	Andriy Deryzemlya	0	7	25	7	–	0	29	4	0	0	72
43	Jaroslav Soukup	17	0	0	22	0	0	4	–	5	20	68
44	Sergey Novikov	13	22	15	0	–	0	10	2	6	0	68
45	Tomáš Holubec	8	29	0	0	0	0	0	10	19	0	66
46	Roman Pryma	15	20	16	0	–	0	13	0	0	0	64
47	Frode Andresen	24	0	–	–	14	–	–	25	0	–	63
48	Pavol Hurajt	7	0	0	0	0	–	21	0	26	3	57
49	Jörgen Brink	0	15	0	0	–	–	–	40	0	0	55
50	Jakov Fak	4	0	0	0	–	–	27	10	8	0	49
51	Vincent Jay	0	13	24	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	48
52	Magnús Jónsson	10	–	0	0	12	5	20	0	–	0	47
53	Stian Eckhoff	–	19	27	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	46
54	David Ekholm	0	0	0	0	0	27	–	6	10	0	43
55	Rene Laurent Vuillermoz	0	0	6	0	0	24	2	11	–	–	43
56	Roman Dostál	29	0	0	11	0	0	–	–	0	–	40
57	Daniel Böhm	–	–	–	12	–	–	–	21	0	7	40
58	Simon Schempp	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	24	–	14	38
59	Roland Lessing	0	0	0	–	5	0	0	–	31	–	36
60	Hans Martin Gjedrem	–	–	18	0	–	18	–	0	–	–	36
61	Thomas Frei	0	26	0	–	0	–	0	0	7	0	33
62	Matthias Simmen	23	0	4	–	–	6	0	0	0	–	33
63	Toni Lang	0	14	0	19	0	0	–	–	–	–	33
64	Maxim Maksimov	0	6	2	0	20	0	–	1	3	–	32
65	Rune Brattsveen	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	22	29
66	Fredrik Lindström	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	28	0	–	28
67	Ilmārs Bricis	0	0	–	1	10	–	16	0	0	–	27
68	Zdeněk Vítek	1	0	0	–	22	–	0	0	0	1	24
69	Lowell Bailey	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	21	0	24
70	Olexander Bilanenko	0	0	0	–	0	11	0	0	0	11	22
71	Zhang Chengye	0	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	–	21
72	Alexis Bœuf	–	–	21	0	0	0	–	–	0	0	21
73	Ivan Joller	0	0	0	–	–	0	11	0	0	8	19
74	Christian Martinelli	0	0	0	–	0	0	18	0	–	–	18
75	Julian Eberhard	0	5	13	–	0	0	–	0	–	–	18
76	Alexandr Syman	12	0	0	0	–	0	6	0	0	–	18
77	Serguei Sednev	0	0	0	0	–	15	–	0	0	2	17
78	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	0	16	–	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	16
79	Paavo Puurunen	–	–	5	–	0	0	0	–	11	–	16
80	Dušan Šimočko	0	0	0	15	0	–	0	0	0	–	15
81	Hidenori Isa	0	0	0	6	8	1	0	–	–	–	15
82	Artem Gusev	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	0	13	13
83	Mattia Cola	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	0	12
84	Indrek Tobreluts	9	0	0	0	–	0	0	–	0	0	9
85	Christoph Knie	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	8
86	Sergey Sadovnikov	–	–	–	–	0	8	–	0	0	0	8
87	Alexsandr Chervyhkov	0	0	–	0	0	–	8	–	–	–	8
88	Zhang Qing	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	7
89	Krasimir Anev	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	–	0	–	5
90	Priit Viks	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	–	–	0	3
91	Robin Clegg	3	0	–	–	0	0	0	0	–	–	3
92	Kauri Koiv	–	0	0	0	0	2	0	–	0	0	2
93	Lois Habert	0	0	1	–	–	0	–	0	–	–	1

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