2010–11 Biathlon World Cup

The 2010–11 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 29 November 2010 in Östersund, Sweden and ended 20 March 2011 in Holmenkollen, Norway.

Discipline Men

Overall

Tarjei Bø

Nations Cup

Norway

Individual

Emil Hegle Svendsen

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2010–11 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Tarjei Bø	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Helena Ekholm
Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Magdalena Neuner
Pursuit	Tarjei Bø	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Mass start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Darya Domracheva
Relay	Norway	Germany
Mixed	France
Competition
←2009–10 2011–12→

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Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2010–11 season.^[1]

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Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Details
Östersund	1–5 December	●	●	●				details
Hochfilzen	10–12 December		●	●		●		details
Pokljuka	16–19 December	●	●				●	details
Oberhof	5–9 January		●		●	●		details
Ruhpolding	12–16 January	●	●	●				details
Antholz-Anterselva	20–23 January		●		●	●		details
Presque Isle	4–6 February		●	●			●	details
Fort Kent	10–13 February		●	●	●			details
Khanty-Mansiysk	3–13 March	●	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
Holmenkollen	17–20 March		●	●	●			details
Total		4	10	7	5	4	3

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World Cup podiums

Men

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Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	2 December 2010	Östersund	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	4 December 2010	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	5 December 2010	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Jakov Fak		Detail
2	10 December 2010	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Serhiy Sednev	Alexis Bœuf		Detail
2	11 December 2010	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Tarjei Bø	Simon Eder	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
3	16 December 2010	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Daniel Mesotitsch	Benjamin Weger	Serhiy Sednev		Detail
3	18 December 2010	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Björn Ferry	Tarjei Bø	Michael Greis	Tarjei Bø	Detail
4	7 January 2011	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Arnd Peiffer	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
4	9 January 2011	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
5	12 January 2011	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Martin Fourcade	Dominik Landertinger		Detail
	14 January 2011	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Lars Berger	Martin Fourcade	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
	16 January 2011	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Björn Ferry	Martin Fourcade	Michael Greis		Detail
6	20 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Anton Shipulin	Michael Greis	Lars Berger		Detail
6	22 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Björn Ferry	Anton Shipulin		Detail
7	4 February 2011	Presque Isle	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Fourcade	Ivan Tcherezov		Detail
7	6 February 2011	Presque Isle	12.5 km Pursuit	Alexis Bœuf	Ivan Tcherezov	Carl Johan Bergman		Detail
8	10 February 2011	Fort Kent	10 km Sprint	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Michal Šlesingr	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	12 February 2011	Fort Kent	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	13 February 2011	Fort Kent	15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Tomasz Sikora	Tarjei Bø		Detail
WC	5 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	6 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	8 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	20 km Individual	Tarjei Bø	Maxim Maksimov	Christoph Sumann		Detail
	12 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Lukas Hofer	Tarjei Bø		Detail
9	17 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Andreas Birnbacher	Björn Ferry	Alexander Wolf		Detail
	19 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Tarjei Bø	Martin Fourcade		Detail
	20 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Evgeny Ustyugov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail

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Women

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Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	1 December 2010	Östersund	15 km Individual	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Marie-Laure Brunet	Helena Ekholm	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Detail
	3 December 2010	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Miriam Gössner	Darya Domracheva	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	Detail
	5 December 2010	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Miriam Gössner	Helena Ekholm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
2	10 December 2010	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Anastázia Kuzminová	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
2	12 December 2010	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Helena Ekholm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Darya Domracheva		Detail
3	16 December 2010	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie-Laure Brunet		Detail
3	18 December 2010	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Anastázia Kuzminová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
4	8 January 2011	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Ann Kristin Flatland	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel		Detail
4	9 January 2011	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Helena Ekholm	Andrea Henkel	Svetlana Sleptsova		Detail
5	13 January 2011	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Olga Zaitseva	Andrea Henkel	Helena Ekholm		Detail
	15 January 2011	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Neuner		Detail
	16 January 2011	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Andrea Henkel	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
6	21 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Tora Berger	Anastázia Kuzminová	Olga Zaitseva		Detail
6	23 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Mass Start	Tora Berger	Marie-Laure Brunet	Darya Domracheva		Detail
7	4 February 2011	Presque Isle	7.5 km Sprint	Helena Ekholm	Tora Berger	Valentyna Semerenko	Helena Ekholm	Detail
7	6 February 2011	Presque Isle	10 km Pursuit	Tora Berger	Marie Dorin	Darya Domracheva	Helena Ekholm	Detail
8	11 February 2011	Fort Kent	7.5 km Sprint	Andrea Henkel	Miriam Gössner	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	12 February 2011	Fort Kent	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Neuner	Marie Dorin	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	13 February 2011	Fort Kent	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Andrea Henkel	Darya Domracheva	Andrea Henkel	Detail
WC	5 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Anastázia Kuzminová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	6 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Magdalena Neuner	Helena Ekholm	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	9 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Individual	Helena Ekholm	Tina Bachmann	Vita Semerenko	Helena Ekholm	Detail
	12 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Neuner	Darya Domracheva	Tora Berger	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
9	17 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Neuner	Tora Berger	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	19 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Anastázia Kuzminová	Darya Domracheva	Andrea Henkel		Detail
	20 March 2011	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	Olga Zaitseva		Detail

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Men's team

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Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	12 December 2010	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Alexander Os Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Tobias Eberhard Christoph Sumann Dominik Landertinger	France Vincent Jay Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Lois Habert Martin Fourcade
4	5 January 2011	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Christoph Stephan Alexander Wolf Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	Czech Republic Zdeněk Vítek Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr	Norway Alexander Os Lars Berger Rune Brattsveen Ole Einar Bjørndalen
6	23 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Christoph Stephan Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	Italy Christian De Lorenzi Rene-Laurent Vuillermoz Lukas Hofer Markus Windisch	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen Alexander Os Tarjei Bø
WC	11 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Alexander Os Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø	Ukraine Olexander Bilanenko Andriy Deryzemlya Serhiy Semenov Serhiy Sednev	Sweden Fredrik Lindström Magnus Jonsson Carl Johan Bergman Björn Ferry

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Women's team

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Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
2	11 December 2010	Hochfilzen	4x6 km Relay	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Andrea Henkel	Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko Olena Pidhrushna Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko	Norway Synnove Solemdal Ann Kristin Flatland Fanny Horn Tora Berger
4	6 January 2011	Oberhof	4x6 km Relay	Sweden Jenny Jonsson Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Ekholm	France Anais Bescond Marie Dorin Pauline Macabies Marie-Laure Brunet	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Nadzeya Pisarava Liudmila Kalinchik
6	22 January 2011	Antholz-Anterselva	4x6 km Relay	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Natalia Sorokina Olga Zaitseva	Sweden Jenny Jonsson Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Ekholm	Germany Sabrina Buchholz Kathrin Hitzer Miriam Gössner Andrea Henkel
WC	13 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	4x6 km Relay	Germany Andrea Henkel Miriam Gössner Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner	France Anais Bescond Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Nadzeya Pisarava Liudmila Kalinchik

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Mixed Relay

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Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
3	19 December 2010	Pokljuka	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Sweden Helena Ekholm Anna Carin Zidek Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman	Ukraine Olena Pidhrushna Vita Semerenko Serhiy Semenov Serhiy Sednev	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Vincent Jay Martin Fourcade
7	5 February 2011	Presque Isle	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Alexander Wolf Daniel Böhm	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Vincent Jay Alexis Boeuf	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Natalia Guseva Ivan Tcherezov Maxim Tchoudov
WC	3 March 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	Norway Tora Berger Ann Kristin Flatland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø	Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Alexis Boeuf Martin Fourcade

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Standings: Men

Overall

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Pos.		Points
1.	Tarjei Bø	1110
2.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	1105
3.	Martin Fourcade	990
4.	Arnd Peiffer	735
5.	Ivan Tcherezov	711

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Final standings after 26 races.

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Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	188
2.	Tarjei Bø	172
3.	Martin Fourcade	133
4.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	126
5.	Michael Greis	113

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Tarjei Bø	393
2.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	369
3.	Arnd Peiffer	333
4.	Martin Fourcade	307
5.	Michael Greis	293

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Tarjei Bø	334
2.	Martin Fourcade	320
3.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	304
4.	Ivan Tcherezov	229
5.	Simon Eder	183

Final standings after 7 races.

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Mass start

Pos.		Points
1.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	244
2.	Martin Fourcade	230
3.	Tarjei Bø	211
4.	Evgeny Ustyugov	149
5.	Lukas Hofer	148

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	216
2.	Germany	199
3.	Ukraine	163
4.	Italy	161
5.	Austria	154

Final standings after 4 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	7428
2.	Germany	6990
3.	Russia	6507
4.	Austria	6381
5.	France	6351

Final standings after 21 races.

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Standings: Women

Overall

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Pos.		Points
1.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	1010
2.	Andrea Henkel	983
3.	Helena Ekholm	979
4.	Tora Berger	965
5.	Magdalena Neuner	955

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Final standings after 26 races.

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Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Helena Ekholm	174
2.	Valj Semerenko	159
3.	Olga Zaitseva	138
4.	Tora Berger	134
5.	Marie Laure Brunet	132

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Neuner	404
2.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	395
3.	Tora Berger	356
4.	Andrea Henkel	353
5.	Anastázia Kuzminová	329

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	343
2.	Andrea Henkel	305
3.	Helena Ekholm	280
4.	Tora Berger	269
5.	Darya Domracheva	255

Final standings after 7 races.

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Mass start

Pos.		Points
1.	Darya Domracheva	237
2.	Magdalena Neuner	230
3.	Andrea Henkel	207
4.	Tora Berger	206
5.	Helena Ekholm	198

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	206
2.	Sweden	190
3.	Russia	177
4.	France	177
5.	Belarus	175

Final standings after 4 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	7236
2.	Russia	6813
3.	Sweden	6669
4.	France	6510
5.	Norway	6301

Final standings after 21 races.

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Standings: Mixed

Mixed Relay

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Pos.		Points
1.	France	150
2.	Germany	148
3.	Sweden	141
4.	Russia	129
5.	Italy	121

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Final standings after 3 races.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	25	9	11	45
2	Germany	15	15	8	38
3	Sweden	9	3	5	17
4	France	4	12	9	25
5	Russia	3	6	10	19
6	Finland	3	3	3	9
7	Slovakia	2	2	1	5
8	Belarus	1	3	8	12
9	Austria	1	2	2	5
10	Ukraine	0	3	4	7
11	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
12	Italy	0	1	1	2
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
13	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
15	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		63	63	64	190

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Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 27, in her 7th season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; first podium was 2007–08 Sprint in Pokljuka
Tarjei Bø (NOR), 22, in his 2nd season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; it also was his first podium
Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 28, in her 8th season — the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof; first podium was 2009–10 Sprint in Oberhof
Anton Shipulin (RUS), 23, in his 3rd season — the WC 6 Sprint in Anholz; it also was his first podium
Alexis Bœuf (FRA), 24, in his 4th season — the WC 7 Pursuit in Presque Isle; first podium was 2009–10 Individual in Antholz
Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 29, in his 10th season — the WC 9 Sprint in Oslo; first podium was 2004–05 Sprint in Pokliuka

First World Cup podium

Miriam Gössner (GER), 20, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund
Benjamin Weger (SUI), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Individual in Pokljuka
Valj Semerenko (UKR), 25, in her 6th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Sprint in Presque Isle
Lukas Hofer (ITA), 21, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WCh Mass Start in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

Men

Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 8 (24) first places
Tarjei Bø (NOR), 5 (5) first places
Martin Fourcade (FRA), 3 (6) first places
Björn Ferry (SWE), 2 (5) first places
Arnd Peiffer (GER), 2 (4) first places
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 1 (92) first place
Lars Berger (NOR), 1 (6) first place
Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 1 (3) first place
Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (1) first place
Alexis Bœuf (FRA), 1 (1) first place
Andreas Birnbacher (GER), 1 (1) first place

Women

Tora Berger (NOR), 6 (12) first places
Magdalena Neuner (GER), 5 (24) first places
Helena Ekholm (SWE), 4 (13) first places
Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 3 (3) first places
Andrea Henkel (GER), 2 (20) first places
Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 2 (3) first places
Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek (SWE), 1 (12) first places
Olga Zaitseva (RUS), 1 (9) first places
Darya Domracheva (BLR), 1 (3) first places
Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 1 (1) first places

Retirements

Following are notable biathletes who announced their retirement:

Mattias Nilsson (SWE)^[2]
Vyacheslav Derkach (UKR)^[3]
Olga Nazarova (BLR)
Zdenka Vejnarova (CZE)
Julie Carraz-Collin (FRA)
Anna Lebedeva (KAZ)
Inna Mozhevitina (KAZ)
Chu Kyoung-mi (KOR)
Gerda Krumina (LAT)
Madara Liduma (LAT)
Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen (NOR)
Solveig Rogstad (NOR)
Sofia Domeij (SWE)
Anna Carin Zidek (SWE)
Oksana Khvostenko (UKR)
Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar (SLO)^[4]
Martina Halinárová (SVK)

2010–11 Biathlon World Cup

Calendar

World Cup podiums

Men

Women

Men's team

Women's team

Mixed Relay

Standings: Men

Overall

Individual

Sprint

Pursuit

Mass start

Relay

Nation

Standings: Women

Overall

Individual

Sprint

Pursuit

Mass start

Relay

Nation

Standings: Mixed

Mixed Relay

Medal table

Achievements

Retirements

References

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