The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup

2009–10 Biathlon World Cup

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started December 2, 2009 in Östersund, Sweden and ended March 28, 2010 with the Mixed Relay World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...

 – World Cup 8 was the eighth event of the season and was held in Oslo

Oslo

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, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 from Thursday, March 18 until Sunday, March 21, 2010.

Schedule of events

The timeschedule of the event stands below

Date	Time	Events
March 18	11:30 cet Central European Time Central European Time , used in most parts of the European Union, is a standard time that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00...	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
	14:15 cet	Men's 10 km Sprint
March 20	14:15 cet	Women's 10 km Pursuit
	16:00 cet	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
March 21	14:15 cet	Women's 12.5 km Mass Start
	16:00 cet	Men's 15 km Mass Start

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade Martin Fourcade Martin Fourcade is a French biathlete. Fourcade won the pursuit at the 2011 Biathlon World Championships, and is also an Olympic silver medalist and winner of the 2009–10 Pursuit World Cup.-Early career:...	26:08.1 (0+0)	Maxim Tchoudov Maxim Tchoudov Maxim Alexandrovich Tchoudov is a Russian biathlete.He debuted in the Biathlon World Cup in the 2004/05 season and has since been a regular member of the Russian team. He has won a total of seven medals at World Championships, three gold, three silver, and one bronze.-World Championships...	26:15.2 (0+0)	Christoph Sumann Christoph Sumann Christoph "Sumi" Sumann is an Austrian biathlete.As many fellow biathletes Sumann picked up the sport switching from cross-country skiing he had been doing since childhood. By mid-1990s he entered junior ski team of Austria and he made it onto the senior level later on...	26:17.5 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Martin Fourcade Martin Fourcade Martin Fourcade is a French biathlete. Fourcade won the pursuit at the 2011 Biathlon World Championships, and is also an Olympic silver medalist and winner of the 2009–10 Pursuit World Cup.-Early career:...	33:46.9 (1+0+1+1)	Simon Schempp Simon Schempp Simon Schempp is a German biathlete. In 2009, he ran his first single World Cup Race. He competed for Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics, finishing fifth.-Career highlights:IBU World ChampionshipsWorld Cup...	33:55.9 (0+0+0+0)	Ivan Tcherezov	34:13.1 (0+0+0+1)
15 km Mass Start details	Ivan Tcherezov	40:10.1 (0+0+0+0)	Christoph Sumann Christoph Sumann Christoph "Sumi" Sumann is an Austrian biathlete.As many fellow biathletes Sumann picked up the sport switching from cross-country skiing he had been doing since childhood. By mid-1990s he entered junior ski team of Austria and he made it onto the senior level later on...	40:36.4 (2+0+0+1)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Emil Hegle Svendsen Emil Hegle Svendsen is a Norwegian biathlete. He skis with Strindheim IL, based in Trondheim. He is tall, and weighs 170 lb ....	40:44.7 (0+1+0+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Simone Hauswald	20:42.4 (0+0)	Darya Domracheva Darya Domracheva Darya Vladimirovna Domracheva is a Belarusian biathlete who has been competing in the Biathlon World Cup since 2005. She became Junior World Champion in sprint and pursuit in 2005, and received numerous medals between 2005 and 2007...	20:47.3 (0+0)	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	20:56.8 (0+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Simone Hauswald	32:05.5 (2+0+0+1)	Darya Domracheva Darya Domracheva Darya Vladimirovna Domracheva is a Belarusian biathlete who has been competing in the Biathlon World Cup since 2005. She became Junior World Champion in sprint and pursuit in 2005, and received numerous medals between 2005 and 2007...	32:10.9 (0+0+0+1)	Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek	32:45.3 (0+0+0+2)
12.5 km Mass Start details	Simone Hauswald	37:00.7 (1+1+0+0)	Vita Semerenko Vita Semerenko Viktoria Oleksandrivna Semerenko , known also as Vita Semerenko is a Ukrainian biathlete. She represented Ukraine at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She won the silver medal in 4×6 km relay event at the Biathlon World Championships 2008.Biathlete Valentina is her twin sister.-References:...	37:15.4 (0+0+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner Magdalena Neuner Magdalena "Lena" Neuner is a German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the age of 21, she became the youngest Overall World Cup winner in the history of the International Biathlon Union...	37:22.9 (0+1+1+1)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

, 4 place in Sprint

• ', 9 place in Sprint and 2 place in Pursuit, 35 place in Sprint and 31 place in Pursuit, 62 place in Sprint, 91 place in Sprint, 10 place in Pursuit, 36 place in Pursuit

, 5 place in Sprint, 51 place in Sprint and 48 place in Pursuit, 52 place in Sprint, 28 place in Pursuit

First World Cup race

, 52 place in Sprint, 56 place in Sprint, 59 place in Sprint, 85 place in Sprint, 96 place in Sprint
, 64 place in Sprint, 78 place in Sprint