1989–90 Biathlon World Cup

The 1989–90 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 14 December 1989 in Obertilliach, Austria, and ended on 18 March 1990 in Kontiolahti, Finland. It was the thirteenth season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Originally, the World Championships were to be held in Minsk. However, due to a lack of snow, only the individual competitions could be held, and the team, sprint and relay races were moved to Holmenkollen.^[1] This caused the UIPMB to declare the World Championship races as counting towards the World Cup.^[2] On the last day in Holmenkollen, the men's relay was cancelled during the last leg due to fog; it was subsequently moved to Kontiolahti.^[3]

Calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1989–90 season.^[4][5][6]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Team event	Relay
Obertilliach	14–17 December	●	●	●
Antholz-Anterselva	18–21 January	●	●		●
Ruhpolding	25–28 January	●	●		●
Walchsee	7–12 February	●	●		●
Minsk	2–5 March	●
Holmenkollen	8–11 March		●	●
Kontiolahti	15–18 March	●	●		●
Total		6	6	2	4

World Cups: Men

World Cup 1 in Obertilliach
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
14 December	20 km individual[4][5][6][7]	1.  André Sehmisch (GDR) 54:58.4 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Spas Slatev (BUL); 5.  Hervé Flandin (FRA); 6.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 7.  Raik Dittrich (GDR); 8.  Johann Passler (ITA); 9.  Mark Kirchner (GDR); 10.  Birk Anders (GDR);
		2.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS) +0:23.7 (0+0+0+0)
		3.  Sergei Bulygin (URS) +1:49.9 (1)
16 December	10 km sprint[4][5][6][8]	1.  Birk Anders (GDR) 25:22.8 (0+1)	4.  Raik Dittrich (GDR); 5.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS); 6.  Valeriy Noskov (URS) 7.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR); 8.  Sergey Lozhkin (URS); 9.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 10.  Thierry Gerbier (FRA);
		2.  Sergei Tarasov (URS) +0:10.0 (0+0)
		3.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:14.0 (1+1)
17 December	20 km team event[5]	1.  East Germany	...
		2.  Soviet Union
		3.  Italy

World Cup 2 in Antholz-Anterselva
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
18 January	10 km sprint[4][5][6][9]	1.  Juri Kashkarov (URS) 28:50.6 (0+0)	4.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS); 5.  Hervé Flandin (FRA); 6.  Gisle Fenne (NOR) 7.  Thierry Gerbier (FRA); 8.  Pieralberto Carrara (ITA); 9.  Hubert Esterl (FRG); 10.  Fritz Fischer (FRG);
		2.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS) +0:04.3 (0+1)
		3.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:13.1 (1+1)
20 January	20 km individual[4][5][6][10][11]	1.  Anders Mannelqvist (SWE) 59:26.6 (1)	4.  Alois Reiter (FRG); 5.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS); 6.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS); 7.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 8.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS); 9.  Frank Luck (GDR); 10.  Mark Kirchner (GDR);
		2.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) +0:21.3 (3)
		3.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:26.9 (3)
21 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[4][5][10][11]	1.  France 1:22:49.3 (0) Gilles Marguet (0) Thierry Gerbier (0) Christian Dumont (0) Hervé Flandin (0)	4.  Sweden 1:23:32.5 (0+0+0+0); 5.  Italy 1:23:34.8 (2); 6.  East Germany 1:23:35.9 (2) (Luck, Sehmisch, Roetsch, Anders); 7.  West Germany 1:23:37.7 (2);
		2.  Norway 1:23:27.3 (0+1+0+1)
		3.  Soviet Union 1:23:30.8 (0+0+1+0)

World Cup 3 in Ruhpolding
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
25 January	20 km individual[4][5][6][12]	1.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS) 58:19.7 (1)	4.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 5.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 6.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 7.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 8.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS); 9.  Gilles Marguet (FRA); 10.  Fritz Fischer (FRG);
		2.  Frank Luck (GDR) +2:18.9 (1)
		3.  Thierry Gerbier (FRA) +2:23.1 (1)
27 January	10 km sprint[4][5][6][13]	1.  Juri Kashkarov (URS) 27:28.3 (0+1)	4.  Mikael Löfgren (SWE); 5.  Geir Einang (NOR); 6.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 7.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 8.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS); 9.  Frank Luck (GDR); 10.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS);
		2.  Birk Anders (GDR) +0:16.8 (0+0)
		3.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS) +0:22.3 (0+0)
28 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[4][5][13][14]	1.  Soviet Union 1:45:41.2 (0) Valeriy Noskov Juri Kashkarov Valeriy Medvedtsev Sergei Tchepikov	4.  France 1:48:52.8; 5.  Italy 1:49:21.7 (1); 6.  Sweden 1:50:38.0; 7.  Czechoslovakia 1:51:04.2; 8.  Austria 1:51:50.3;
		2.  Norway 1:48:07.4 (0) Geir Einang Frode Løberg Gisle Fenne Eirik Kvalfoss
		3.  East Germany 1:48:30.9 (1) Frank Luck André Sehmisch Raik Dittrich Birk Anders

World Cup 4 in Walchsee
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
1 February	20 km individual[4][5][6][15]	1.  Birk Anders (GDR) 53:26.9 (1)	4.  Steffen Hoos (GDR); 5.  Mark Kirchner (GDR); 6.  Alois Reiter (FRG); 7.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 8.  Gottlieb Taschler (ITA); 9.  Jon Åge Tyldum (NOR); 10.  André Sehmisch (GDR);
		2.  Frode Løberg (NOR) +1:19.6 (1)
		3.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +1:20.6 (1)
3 February	10 km sprint[4][5][6][16]	1.  Juri Kashkarov (URS) 26:59.1 (0+0)	4.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS); 5.  Steffen Hoos (GDR); 6.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 7.  Gottlieb Taschler (ITA); 8.  Franz Schuler (AUT); 9.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 10.  Birk Anders (GDR);
		2.  Frank Luck (GDR) +0:00.5 (1+0)
		3.  Mark Kirchner (GDR) +0:01.6 (0+0)
4 February	4 × 7.5 km relay[4][5][16]	1.  East Germany I 1:20:10.4 (0) Frank Luck André Sehmisch Raik Dittrich Birk Anders	4.  Czechoslovakia 1:22:37.3 (1); 5.  Italy 1:23:04.8 (2); 6.  Austria 1:23:32.0 (2);
		2.  East Germany II 1:21:41.1 (0) Raik Dittrich Steffen Hoos Arne Kluge Andreas Heymann
		3.  Soviet Union 1:22:09.7 (1) Valeriy Noskov Sergei Loschkin Gennadij Karpinkin Sergei Bulygin

World Championships in Minsk
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
20 February	20 km individual[4][17]	1.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS) 1:06:39.7 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 5.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 6.  Frank Luck (GDR); 7.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 8.  Hervé Flandin (FRA); 9.  Ivan Masařík (TCH); 10.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR);
		2.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS) +0:23.3 (0+0+0+0)
		3.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS) +1:59.6 (0+0+0+0)

World Championships in Holmenkollen
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
8 March	20 km team event[4][5][18][19][20]	1.  East Germany 1:04:24.1 (3) Raik Dittrich (1) Mark Kirchner (0) Birk Anders (1) Frank Luck (1)	4.  Soviet Union 1:06:02.0 (5) (Kashkarov, Tchepikov, Zhdanovich, Medvedtsev); 5.  Austria 1:06:19.9 (5) (Schuler, Leitner, Hofstätter, Eder); 6.  Norway 1:07:21.9 (6) (Einang (2), Løberg (1), Istad (3), Fenne (0)); 7.  Poland 1:08:11.3 (Wojtas, Dąbrowski, Kozłowski, Sosna); 8.  Sweden 1:08:50.4 (Mannelqvist, Johansson, Wiklund, Löfgren); 9.  Italy 1:09:00.9 (Zingerle, Leitgeb, Passler, Taschler); 10.  Yugoslavia 1:09:19.4 (Grajf, Lekan, Klinc, Velepec);
		2.  Czechoslovakia 1:04:36.5 (1) Tomáš Kos (0) Ivan Masařík (1) Jiří Holubec (0) Jan Matouš (0)
		3.  France 1:05:14.2 (4) Christian Dumont (1) Stéphane Bouthiaux (2) Hervé Flandin (0) Thierry Gerbier (1)
10 March	10 km sprint[4][5][6][21][22]	1.  Mark Kirchner (GDR) 25:48.9 (0+0)	4.  Hervé Flandin (FRA); 5.  Frank Luck (GDR); 6.  Steffen Hoos (GDR); 7.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 8.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS); 9.  Valeriy Noskov (URS); 10.  Johann Passler (ITA);
		2.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:10.9 (1+1)
		3.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS) +0:32.0 (1+1)

World Cup 5 and World Championships in Kontiolahti
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
15 March	20 km individual[4][5][6][23]	1.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) 59:20.2 (0+1+0+0)	4.  Geir Einang (NOR); 5.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 6.  Mark Kirchner (GDR); 7.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 8.  Urmas Kaldvee (URS); 9.  Frank Luck (GDR); 10.  Johann Passler (ITA);
		2.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS) +0:34.3 (1+1+0+0)
		3.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +1:07.2 (0+0+0+1)
17 March	10 km sprint[4][5][6][24]	1.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) 26:51.4 (0+0)	4.  Birk Anders (GDR); 5.  Sergei Tchepikov (URS); 5.  Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA); 7.  Stéphane Bouthiaux (FRA); 8.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 9.  Valeriy Noskov (URS); 9.  Frank Luck (GDR);
		2.  Franz Schuler (AUT) +0:25.4 (0+0)
		3.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +0:41.6 (0+0)
18 March	4 × 7.5 km relay[4][5][24][25]	1.  Italy 1:30:54.7 (1) Pieralberto Carrara 24:17.9 (1+0) Wilfried Pallhuber 22:31.6 (0+0) Johann Passler 22:13.2 (0+0) Andreas Zingerle 21:52.0 (0+0)	4.  Norway 1:34:05.8 (0) (Einang 24:17.0 (0+0), Fenne 23:18.4 (0+0), Løberg 23:38.0 (0+0), Kvalfoss 22:52.4 (0+0)); 5.  Soviet Union 1:34:13.3 (1) (Noskov 23:42.4 (0+0), Kashkarov 23:53.7 (0+1), Medvedtsev 23:19.9 (0+0), Tchepikov 23:17.3 (0+0)); 6.  Finland 1:36:49.2 (0) (Hietalahti 24:11.7 (0+0), Eloranta 29:09.4 (0+0), Lähde 23:34.0 (0+0), Seppälä 24:54.1 (0+0)); 7.  Austria 1:37:26.4 (2) (Leitner 24:01.5 (0+0), Schuler 25:06.6 (2+0), Hofstätter 24:02.9 (0+0), Eder 24:15.4 (0+0)); 8.  Yugoslavia 1:39:58.0 (2) (Lekan 25:23.8 (0+1), Grajf 23:56.5 (0+0), Klinc 25:51.9 (0+1), Velepec 24:45.8 (0+0));
		2.  France 1:33:08.8 (0) Xavier Blond 24:08.0 (0+0) Thierry Gerbier 22:42.0 (0+0) Christian Dumont 22:55.4 (0+0) Hervé Flandin 23:23.4 (0+0)
		3.  East Germany 1:34:02.2 (0) Frank Luck 23:38.9 (0+0) André Sehmisch 23:16.3 (0+0) Mark Kirchner 23:49.4 (0+0) Birk Anders 23:17.6 (0+0)

Results: Men

Overall World Cup[4][5][24] Rank Name Points 1 Sergei Tchepikov 196 2 Eirik Kvalfoss 192 3 Valeriy Medvedtsev 161 4 Frank Luck 160 5 Andreas Zingerle 159 6 Juri Kashkarov 143 7 Birk Anders 140 8 Gisle Fenne 135 9 Mark Kirchner 133 10 André Sehmisch 127 11 Anatoly Zhdanovich 117 12 Thierry Gerbier 103 13 Hervé Flandin 98 14 Fritz Fischer 85 15 Valeriy Noskov 82 ... 19 Geir Einang 71 ... 21 Frode Løberg 70 ... 37 Jon Åge Tyldum 32 ... 65 Ivar Michal Ulekleiv 7 ... 68 Sverre Istad 7 ... 74 Sylfest Glimsdal 2

Relay Cup[5] Rank Name Points 1 Soviet Union 80 2 East Germany 74 3 France 71

Nation Cup[5] Rank Name Points 1 Soviet Union 2 East Germany 3 Italy

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Anders Mannelqvist (SWE), 25, in his 5th season — the WC 2 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was his first podium
•  Mark Kirchner (GDR), 19, in his 1st season — the World Championships Sprint in Holmenkollen; first podium was the 1989–90 Sprint in Walchsee
•  Andreas Zingerle (ITA), 28, in his 9th season — the WC 5 Sprint in Kontiolahti; first podium was the 1985–86 Individual in Lahti

First World Cup podium

•  Sergei Tarasov (URS), 24, in his 1st season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Obertilliach
•  Frode Løberg (NOR), 27, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Individual in Walchsee
•  Mark Kirchner (GDR), 19, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Walchsee

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

•  Juri Kashkarov (URS), 3 (6) first places
•  Birk Anders (GDR), 2 (4) first places
•  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR), 1 (11) first places
•  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS), 1 (4) first places
•  André Sehmisch (GDR), 1 (2) first places
•  Sergei Tchepikov (URS), 1 (2) first places
•  Anders Mannelqvist (SWE), 1 (1) first places
•  Mark Kirchner (GDR), 1 (1) first places
•  Andreas Zingerle (ITA), 1 (1) first places

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1989–90 season:

•  Vladimir Velichkov (BUL)

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