2013–14 Biathlon World Cup

Biathlon World Cup

2013–14 Previous Following

Men

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Nation

Mixed relay

Women

Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Nation

World Cup locations

Östersund | Hochfilzen | Annecy | Oberhof | Ruhpolding Antholz-Anterselva | Pokljuka | Kontiolahti | Oslo Holmenkollen

2014 Olympic Games

2013–14 World Cup in Kontiolahti

The 2013–14 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 24 November 2013 in Östersund, Sweden, and ended on 23 March 2014 in Holmenkollen, Norway.^[1]

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2013–14 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Details
Östersund	24 November–1 December	●	●				●	details
Hochfilzen	6–8 December		●	●		●		details
Annecy-Le Grand Bornand	12–15 December		●	●		●		details
Oberhof	3–5 January		●	●	●			details
Ruhpolding	8–12 January	●		●		●		details
Antholz-Anterselva	16–19 January		●	●		●		details
Sochi	8–22 February	●	●	●	●	●	●	Olympic Games
Pokljuka	6–9 March		●	●	●			details
Kontiolahti	13–16 March		●●	●				details
Holmenkollen	20–23 March		●	●	●			details
Total		3	10	9	4	5	2

• 2014 Winter Olympics races are not included in the 2013–14 World Cup scoring system.^[2][3]

Standings: Men

Overall Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 928 2. Emil Hegle Svendsen 636 3. Johannes Thingnes Bø 631 4. Dominik Landertinger 611 5. Simon Eder 578 Final standings after 22 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Emil Hegle Svendsen 83 2. Simon Eder 79 3. Evgeny Ustyugov 76 4. Alexey Volkov 75 5. Simon Fourcade 65 Final standings after 2 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 400 2. Arnd Peiffer 286 3. Johannes Thingnes Bø 277 4. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 260 5. Dominik Landertinger 250 Final standings after 9 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 294 2. Simon Eder 235 3. Anton Shipulin 234 4. Björn Ferry 233 5. Johannes Thingnes Bø 224 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Martin Fourcade 174 2. Dominik Landertinger 109 3. Emil Hegle Svendsen 100 4. Tim Burke 100 5. Simon Desthieux 99 Final standings after 3 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Germany 194 2. Sweden 194 3. Austria 191 4. Russia 190 4. Norway 175 Final standings after 4 races.

Standings: Women

Overall Pos. Points 1. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 860 2. Tora Berger 856 3. Darya Domracheva 793 4. Gabriela Soukalová 613 5. Olga Vilukhina 612 Final standings after 22 races.

Individual Pos. Points 1. Gabriela Soukalová 120 2. Darya Domracheva 92 3. Anastasiya Kuzmina 84 4. Nadezhda Skardino 72 5. Franziska Hildebrand 71 Final standings after 2 races.

Sprint Pos. Points 1. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 367 2. Tora Berger 361 3. Darya Domracheva 254 4. Olga Vilukhina 246 5. Gabriela Soukalová 238 Final standings after 9 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points 1. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 350 2. Tora Berger 319 3. Darya Domracheva 296 4. Olga Vilukhina 241 5. Tiril Eckhoff 236 Final standings after 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points 1. Darya Domracheva 151 2. Anastasiya Kuzmina 139 3. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 130 4. Tora Berger 121 5. Olga Vilukhina 102 Final standings after 3 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1. Germany 168 2. Ukraine 157 3. Russia 141 4. Norway 136 5. France 128 Final standings after 4 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	14	11	10	35
2	France	7	5	6	18
3	Germany	6	4	4	14
4	Finland	4	4	2	10
5	Belarus	4	3	3	10
6	Czech Republic	4	2	3	9
7	Austria	3	3	1	7
8	Sweden	2	5	4	11
9	Ukraine	2	2	4	8
10	Slovakia	2	1	0	3
11	Switzerland	2	0	0	2
12	Russia	1	8	10	19
13	Slovenia	1	2	1	4
14	Italy	1	0	1	2
15	United States	0	1	2	3
16	Poland	0	0	1	1
Total		53	51	52	156

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Selina Gasparin (SUI), 29, in her 6th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; it also was her first podium
•  Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 20, in his 2nd season — the WC 3 Sprint in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand; it also was his first podium
•  Valj Semerenko (UKR), 27, in her 8th season — the WC 3 Pursuit in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand; first podium was 2010–11 Sprint in Presque Isle
•  Anaïs Bescond (FRA), 26, in her 5th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was her first podium
•  Lukas Hofer (ITA), 24, in his 5th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2010–11 Mass start in Khanty-Mansiysk
•  Simon Schempp (GER), 25, in his 6th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2009–10 Pursuit in Holmenkollen
•  Katharina Innerhofer (AUT), 23, in her 3rd season — the WC 7 Sprint in Pokljuka; it also was her first podium

First World Cup podium

•  Irina Starykh (RUS), 26, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen
•  Juliya Dzhyma (UKR), 23, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
•  Tiril Eckhoff (NOR), 23, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Pursuit in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand
•  Alexey Volkov (RUS), 25, in his 5th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Mass start in Oberhof
•  Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 25, in his 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Daria Virolaynen (RUS), 25, in her 1st season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Sprint in Pokljuka
•  Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 23, in her 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Pursuit in Pokljuka
•  Mari Laukkanen (FIN), 26, in her 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Sprint in Kontiolahti
•  Lowell Bailey (USA), 32, in his 10th season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Sprint (2) in Kontiolahti
•  Susan Dunklee (USA), 28, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Sprint in Holmenkollen

Victory in this World Cup (in brackets victory for all time)

•  Martin Fourcade (FRA), 5 (29) first places
•  Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 5 (5) first places
•  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 4 (35) first places
•  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 4 (16) first places
•  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 4 (9) first places
•  Gabriela Soukalová (CZE), 3 (7) first places
•  Björn Ferry (SWE), 2 (7) first places
•  Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK), 2 (6) first places
•  Selina Gasparin (SUI), 2 (2) first places
•  Simon Schempp (GER), 2 (2) first place
•  Tora Berger (NOR), 1 (28) first places
•  Andrea Henkel (GER), 1 (22) first places
•  Lars Berger (NOR), 1 (7) first places
•  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (5) first places
•  Jakov Fak (SLO), 1 (4) first places
•  Simon Eder (AUT), 1 (2) first places
•  Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR), 1 (2) first places
•  Synnøve Solemdal (NOR), 1 (2) first places
•  Valj Semerenko (UKR), 1 (1) first place
•  Anaïs Bescond (FRA), 1 (1) first place
•  Lukas Hofer (ITA), 1 (1) first place
•  Katharina Innerhofer (AUT), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes announced their retirement during or after the 2013–14 season:

Men  Christoph Sumann (AUT)[4][5]  Evgeny Abramenko (BLR)[6]  Vladimir Alenishko (BLR)[6]  Sergey Novikov (BLR)[5][6][7]  Jean-Philippe Leguellec (CAN)[5][7]  Zdeněk Vítek (CZE)[8]  Daniil Steptšenko (EST)[9]  Markus Windisch (ITA)[10]  Hidenori Isa (JPN)[11]  Edgars Piksons (LAT)[12]  Rune Brattsveen (NOR)[13]  Andrei Makoveev (RUS)[14]  Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)[15][16]  Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)[5][7]  Claudio Böckli (SUI)[17]  Simon Hallenbarter (SUI)[5][7][17]  Pavol Hurajt (SVK)[5][7]  Carl Johan Bergman (SWE)[5][18]  Björn Ferry (SWE)[5][18]  Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)[19]  Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR)[19]  Roman Pryma (UKR)[19]  Jay Hakkinen (USA)[20]  Jeremy Teela (USA)[5][20]

Women  Laure Soulie (AND)[7]  Liudmila Kalinchik (BLR)[21]  Megan Imrie (CAN)[22]  Marie-Laure Brunet (FRA)[23]  Andrea Henkel (GER)[22][24]  Kathrin Lang (GER)[25]  Adele Walker (GBR)[22]  Michela Ponza (ITA)[7][22]  Diana Rasimovičiūtė (LIT)[26]  Tora Berger (NOR)[22][27]  Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR)[22][28]  Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS)[29]  Jenny Jonsson (SWE)[30]  Anna Karin Strömstedt (SWE)[7]  Mariya Panfilova (UKR)[31] (comeback in 2015–16 season for Belarus)  Olena Pidhrushna (UKR)[22][32] (comeback in 2015–16 season)  Sara Studebaker (USA)[7][22]

External links

• IBU official site

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