2015–16 Biathlon World Cup

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season began on 29 November 2015 in Östersund, Sweden, and ended on 19 March 2016 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.^[1] The defending overall champions from the 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup were Martin Fourcade of France and Darya Domracheva of Belarus, but Domracheva missed the season due to illness.^{[citation needed]}

Discipline Men

Overall

Martin Fourcade

Nations Cup

Norway

Individual

Martin Fourcade

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2015–16 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dorothea Wierer
Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Mass start	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Relay	Norway	Germany
Mixed	Norway
Competition
←2014–15 2016–17→

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Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2015–16 season.^[1]

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Stage	Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Östersund	29 November–6 December	●	●	●			●	●	details
2	Hochfilzen	11–13 December		●	●		●			details
3	Pokljuka	17–20 December		●	●	●				details
4	Ruhpolding^{[nb 1]}	8–10 January		●	●	●				details
5	Ruhpolding	13–17 January	●			●	●			details
6	Antholz-Anterselva	21–24 January		●	●		●			details
7	Canmore	4–7 February		●		●		●	●	details
8	Presque Isle	11–13 February		●	●		●			details
WC	Holmenkollen	3–13 March	●	●	●	●	●	●		World Championships
9	Khanty-Mansiysk	17–19 March		●	●	Cancelled				details
Total: 65 (30 men's, 30 women's, 5 mixed)			3	9	8	5	5	3	2

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Men

World Cup podiums

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WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	2 December 2015	Östersund	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Simon Schempp	Alexey Volkov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
	5 December 2015		10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
	6 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Martin Fourcade	Detail
2	11 December 2015	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
2	12 December 2015	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Simon Schempp	Anton Shipulin		Detail
3	17 December 2015	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
	19 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	20 December 2015		15 km Mass Start	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
4	8 January 2016	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	9 January 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Eder	Martin Fourcade	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
	10 January 2016		15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Ondřej Moravec	Tarjei Bø		Detail
5	13 January 2016	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Simon Eder	Anton Shipulin		Detail
5	16 January 2016	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Erik Lesser	Martin Fourcade	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
6	22 January 2016	Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Maxim Tsvetkov	Tarjei Bø		Detail
6	23 January 2016	Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø		Detail
7	4 February 2016	Canmore	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp		Detail
7	6 February 2016	Canmore	15 km Mass Start	Dominik Windisch	Benedikt Doll	Quentin Fillon Maillet		Detail
8	11 February 2016	Presque Isle	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade		Detail
8	12 February 2016	Presque Isle	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin		Detail
WCH	5 March 2016	Oslo	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Serhiy Semenov		Detail
	6 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	10 March 2016		20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dominik Landertinger	Simon Eder		Detail
	13 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
9	18 March 2016	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Julian Eberhard	Simon Schempp	Arnd Peiffer		Detail
	19 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Erik Lesser		Detail
	20 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Cancelled due to strong winds				Detail

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Men's Relay Podiums

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WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2015	Hochfilzen	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Norway Henrik L'Abée-Lund Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	Russia	Detail
5	15 January 2016	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Shipulin	Austria Sven Grossegger Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	Russia / Norway	Detail
6	24 January 2016	Anterselva	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Lars Helge Birkeland Johannes Thingnes Bø Erlend Bjøntegaard	Russia	Detail
8	13 February 2016	Presque Isle	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Daniel Böhm Benedikt Doll	Norway	Detail
WCH	12 March 2016	Oslo	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green	Norway	Detail

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Standings

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Overall

Rank	after all 25 races^[3]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	1151
2.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	820
3.	Anton Shipulin	806
4.	Simon Schempp	769
5.	Simon Eder	714
6.	Tarjei Bø	708
7.	Evgenii Garanichev	659
8.	Benedikt Doll	602
9.	Dominik Landertinger	600
10.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	595

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Individual

Rank	after all 3 races^[4]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	140
2.	Simon Eder	138
3.	Dominik Landertinger	105
4.	Anton Shipulin	100
5.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	90

Sprint

Rank	after all 9 races^[5]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	379
2.	Simon Schempp	316
3.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	298
4.	Arnd Peiffer	262
5.	Anton Shipulin	251

Pursuit

Rank	after all 8 races^[6]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	391
2.	Anton Shipulin	300
3.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	278
4.	Tarjei Bø	267
5.	Simon Eder	254

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Mass start

Rank	after all 5 races^[7]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	242
2.	Quentin Fillon Maillet	162
3.	Anton Shipulin	155
4.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	154
5.	Evgenii Garanichev	153

Relay

Rank	after all 5 races^[8]	Points
1.	Norway	282
2.	Russia	255
3.	Germany	236
4.	France	217
5.	Austria	209

Nation

Rank	after all 22 races^[9]	Points
1.	Norway	7808
2.	Germany	7518
3.	Russia	7178
4.	France	7113
5.	Austria	6795

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