The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Men started at Wednesday, December 3, 2008, in Östersund and ended on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in Vancouver at the pre-olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist was Vincent Defrasne of France.
Competition format The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.
2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Vincent Defrasne104Silver: Emil Hegle Svendsen100Bronze: Halvard Hanevold82
Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsMichael Greis 58:52.5(0+1+0+0)Alexander Os 59:43.0(0+0+0+2)Emil Hegle Svendsen 59:47.5(0+2+0+0)HochfilzendetailsMaxim Tchoudov56:00.3 (0+1+0+0)Ivan Tcherezov 56:47.9 (0+0+2+0)Björn Ferry 56:48.8(0+0+1+0)World ChampionshipsdetailsOle Einar Bjørndalen 52:28.0(0+0+2+1)Christoph Stephan 52:42.1(1+0+0+0)Jakov Fak 52:45.1(0+0+0+1)VancouverdetailsVincent Jay 49:53.9(0+0+0+0)Daniel Böhm50:12.9(0+1+0+0)Jeremy Teela 50:17.2(0+1+0+0)
Final standings # Name ÖST HOC WCH VAN TotalStandings Individual men 1. Michael Greis 60 43 22 43 146 2 Ivan Tcherezov 30 54 36 22 120 3 Maxim Tchoudov 28 60 33 26 119 4 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 17 27 60 23 110 5 Christoph Sumann 34 38 24 28 100 6 Carl Johan Bergman 32 34 – 32 98 7 Daniel Mesotitsch 40 36 21 0 97 8 Vincent Jay 13 0 18 60 91 9 Tomasz Sikora 29 22 32 30 91 10 Andriy Deryzemlya 38 0 34 10 82 11 Alexander Os 54 10 13 0 77 12 Jakov Fak 0 26 48 0 74 13 Serguei Sednev 43 18 0 13 74 14 Björn Ferry 24 48 – – 72 14 Emil Hegle Svendsen 48 24 – – 72 16 Alexander Wolf 14 30 11 27 71 17 Frode Andresen 25 – – 38 63 18 Vincent Defrasne 0 7 20 34 61 19 Michael Rösch 21 13 23 15 59 20 Olexander Bilanenko 2 31 25 0 58 21 Vyacheslav Derkach 31 8 – 16 55 22 Christoph Stephan 0 0 54 – 54 23 Daniel Böhm – – – 54 54 24 Dominik Landertinger 15 – 38 – 53 25 Nikolay Kruglov 23 29 – – 52 26 Alexander Syman 27 23 0 0 50 27 Jeremy Teela 0 0 0 48 48 28 Sergey Novikov 0 12 16 20 48 29 Simon Fourcade 0 – 43 4 47 30 Roman Dostál 20 1 26 – 47 31 David Ekholm 6 0 40 0 46 32 Halvard Hanevold 36 3 0 6 45 33 Tim Burke – 0 27 18 45 34 Lowell Bailey 26 0 19 0 45 35 Mattias Nilsson 0 0 15 29 44 36 Simon Eder – 0 – 40 40 37 Roman Pryma 0 40 0 0 40 38 Markus Windisch 11 0 29 0 40 39 Ronny Hafsas 0 – – 36 36 40 Zdeněk Vítek 0 19 12 5 36 41 Martin Fourcade – 5 28 0 33 42 Christian de Lorenzi 0 32 0 0 32 43 Hans Martin Gjedrem – 21 – 11 32 44 Ivan Joller 0 0 – 31 31 45 Jaroslav Soukup 0 0 30 – 30 46 Roland Lessing 5 25 0 – 30 47 Toni Lang 0 28 – – 28 48 Friedrich Pinter 19 0 0 9 28 49 Jean-Guillaume Béatrix 0 6 – 21 27 50 Andreas Birnbacher 10 17 – – 27 51 Christian Martinelli 7 – 0 19 26 52 Michal Šlesingr 0 9 3 14 26 53 Evgeny Ustyugov – – 0 25 25 54 Arnd Peiffer – – – 24 24 55 Lars Berger 16 – 7 0 23 56 Andrei Makoveev 22 0 – 0 22 57 Tomas Holubec 0 20 – 0 20 58 Daniel Graf 18 0 – – 18 59 Simon Schempp – – – 17 17 59 Sergey Naumik – – 17 – 17 61 Rustam Valiullin 3 0 14 0 17 62 Nicola Pozzi 0 16 0 – 16 63 Oleg Berezhnoy 0 15 – – 15 64 Lois Habert 0 14 – 0 14 65 Robin Clegg 0 – 2 12 14 66 Sergey Sadovnikov – – 10 3 13 67 Janez Maric 0 12 0 0 12 68 Marek Matiasko 12 0 0 – 12 69 Maxim Maksimov 0 0 4 7 11 70 Jean Philippe Leguellec 0 2 0 8 10 71 Ondřej Moravec 9 0 – 0 9 72 Vladimir Iliev 0 0 9 – 9 73 Dias Keneshev 0 0 8 – 8 74 Hidenori Isa 8 0 0 – 8 75 Miroslav Matiaško – – 6 – 6 76 Krasimir Anev 0 0 5 – 5 77 Simon Hallenbarter 0 4 0 0 4 78 Kristaps Libietis 4 0 0 0 4 79 Thomas Frei 0 0 0 2 2 80 Pavol Hurajt 0 0 1 0 1 81 Ilmārs Bricis 1 – 0 – 1 82 Evgeny Abramenko 0 0 – 1 1
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