2009 Summer Biathlon World Championship

The 14th World Summer Biathlon Championships took place in Oberhof, Germany from September 21 to September 27, 2009.

9 sets of medals were played:

in the cross section - 2 sets each in the sprint and pursuit for men and women
in the skiing part - 2 sets in the sprint and pursuit for men and women and 1 set in the mixed relay.

Schedule

Cross section

date	Time	Discipline
September 22nd	10:30 UTC 14:00 UTC	4 km Sprint Men Sprint 3 km Women
23 September	10:30 UTC 14:00 UTC	Persecution, 6 km, men Chase, 5 km Women

Skier Roller

date	Time	Discipline
September 25th	14:15 UTC	Mixed Relay, 2x6 + 2x7.5 km
September 26th	13:45 UTC 14:45 UTC	Sprint 7.5 km Women Sprint 10 km Men
September 27	11:15 UTC 13:00 UTC	Chase, 12.5 km, Men Chase, 10 km Women

Prize Table

Cross section

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
4 km Sprint Men	Alexey Katrenko	Ruslan Nasyrov	Miroslav Matyashko
Sprint 3 km Women	Irina Babetskaya	Olga Nazarova	Juliana Döll
Persecution, 6 km, men	Ruslan Nasyrov	Alexey Katrenko	Alexander Kachanovsky
Chase, 5 km Women	Natalya Sokolova	Olga Nazarova	Elena Khrustalyova

Skier Roller

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed relay, 2X6 km + 2X7.5 km	Germany Magdalena Neuner Tina Bachmann Christoph Stefan Michael Rösch	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Oksana Neupokoeva Anton Shipulin Victor Vasiliev	Slovakia Yana Gerekova Anastasia Kuzmina Pavol Gurayt Dusan Shimochko
Sprint 7.5 km Women	Magdalena Neuner	Maria Kosinova	Natalya Levchenkova
Sprint 10 km Men	Christoph Stefan	Michael Rösch	Christoph Knie
Chase, 12.5 km, Men	Michael Rösch	Christoph Stefan	Alexander Wolf
Chase, 10 km Women	Magdalena Neuner	Thea Gregorin	Oksana Khvostenko

Cross Race Results

Sprint Racing (September 22)

Men

A place	Sportsman	Misses	Time
	Alexey Katrenko	0 + 2	13: 37.0
	Ruslan Nasyrov	2 + 1	+11.6
	Miroslav Matyashko	0 + 0	+22.8
four	Andrey Bogai	0 + 0	+25.9
five	Caspars Dambris	1 + 0	+32.0
6	Sergey Karjakin	0 + 2	+35.2
7	Alexander Kachanovsky	4 + 0	+38.4
eight	Edgars Pixons	0 + 1	+42.5
9	Marek Matyashko	0 + 1	+51.6
ten	Samuel Moores	0 + 2	+52.5
Finish protocol

Having won this race, Alexey Katrenko became the five-time world champion in summer biathlon. Miroslav Matyashko , who took third place, became the only medalist who did not allow a single miss.

Women

A place	Sportswoman	Misses	Time
	Irina Babetskaya	1 + 0	11: 43.1
	Olga Nazarova	1 + 0	+1.0
	Juliana Döll	3 + 0	+28.9
four	Lyubov Ermolaeva	1 + 0	+33.5
five	Elena Khrustalyova	1 + 2	+42.8
6	Marika Yankya	0 + 1	+46.3
7	Natalya Sokolova	0 + 1	+47.0
eight	Svetlana Krikonchuk	2 + 1	+47.3
9	Lyudmila Solomatina	3 + 2	+52.3
ten	Madara Lidum	1 + 1	+1: 06.5
Finish protocol

Irina Babetskaya for the first time became the winner of the second world championship in her career.

Pursuit (September 23)

Men

A place	Sportsman	Misses	Time
	Ruslan Nasyrov	2 + 3 + 1 + 2	23: 38.7
	Alexey Katrenko	2 + 1 + 3 + 3	+12.7
	Alexander Kachanovsky	2 + 1 + 2 + 2	+19.2
four	Miroslav Matyashko	0 + 1 + 0 + 1	+30.9
five	Ondrej Moravec	3 + 1 + 0 + 0	+50.6
6	Sergey Karjakin	3 + 1 + 2 + 0	+58.4
7	Andrey Bogay	1 + 1 + 1 + 1	+1: 04.2
eight	Vadim Ulizov	0 + 2 + 1 + 2	+1: 15.6
9	Sergey Zhernov	1 + 2 + 1 + 1	+1: 28.0
ten	Yaroslav Soukup	1 + 1 + 3 + 1	+1: 29.2
Finish protocol

Ruslan Nasyrov became the world champion for the first time in his career.

Women

A place	Sportswoman	Misses	Time
	Natalya Sokolova	1 + 0 + 1 + 2	21: 34.4
	Olga Nazarova	1 + 0 + 1 + 1	+4.1
	Elena Khrustalyova	0 + 1 + 1 + 0	+34.0
four	Juliana Döll	1 + 1 + 3 + 1	+59.0
five	Irina Babetskaya	2 + 0 + 3 + 2	+1: 13.1
6	Svetlana Krikonchuk	3 + 0 + 1 + 0	+1: 20.8
7	Lyubov Ermolaeva	1 + 2 + 1 + 0	+1: 51.9
eight	Nadezhda Skardino	0 + 1 + 1 + 1	+1: 56.2
9	Lyudmila Solomatina	2 + 2 + 2 + 2	+1: 56.3
ten	Olga Burova	2 + 1 + 1 + 1	+2: 43.0
Finish protocol

Thanks to the victory in this race, Natalia Sokolova climbed from 7th position to 1st and became the world champion, while sprint winner Irina Babetskaya dropped from 1st to 5th in the race.

Ski Roller Results

Mixed Relay (September 25)

A place	Country / Athlete	Misses	Time
	Germany Magdalena Neuner Tina Bachmann Christoph Stefan Michael Rösch	0 + 11 0 + 1 0 + 4 0 + 2 0 + 4	1: 09: 01.1
	Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Oksana Neupokoeva Anton Shipulin Victor Vasiliev	1 + 9 0 + 2 0 + 3 0 + 1 1 + 3	+2: 10.1
	Slovakia Yana Gerekova Anastasia Kuzmina Pavol Gurayt Dusan Shimochko	1 + 10 1 + 6 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 3	+2: 31.2
Finish protocol

Magdalena Neuner , Tina Bachmann , Christoph Stefan and Michael Rösch became the first world summer biathlon champions.

Sprint Racing (September 26)

Women

A place	Sportswoman	Misses	Time
	Magdalena Neuner	1 + 0	19: 53.8
	Maria Kosinova	0 + 0	+14.7
	Natalya Levchenkova	0 + 0	+30.0
four	Moon ji hee	0 + 0	+34.5
five	Anna Bulygina	0 + 0	+35.1
6	Diyana Ravnikar	0 + 1	+51.0
7	Thea Gregorin	1 + 1	+1: 01.4
eight	Anastasia Kuzmina	2 + 1	+1: 04.8
9	Marie Laukkanen	3 + 0	+1: 15.0
ten	Anastasia Tokareva	1 + 0	+1: 21.8
Finish protocol

Magdalena Neuner became the two-time world champion in summer biathlon.

Maria Kosinova brought the last medal for Russia at this World Cup.

Men

A place	Sportsman	Misses	Time
	Christoph Stefan	0 + 1	24: 38.9
	Michael Rösch	1 + 1	+3.9
	Christoph Knie	0 + 1	+7.7
four	Tim Burke	0 + 2	+23.0
five	Jacob Fak	1 + 1	+33.4
6	Alexander Wolf	2 + 1	+38.8
7	Jeremy Tila	0 + 1	+40.3
eight	Oleg Berezhnoy	0 + 0	+51.6
9	Sergey Dashkevich	0 + 1	+1: 09.5
ten	Priit Weeks	0 + 1	+1: 20.6
Finish protocol

Christoph Stefan became the two-time world champion.

Pursuit (September 27)

Men

A place	Sportsman	Misses	Time
	Michael Rösch	2 + 0 + 2 + 1	31: 22.8
	Christoph Stefan	1 + 0 + 0 + 2	+15.3
	Alexander Wolf	0 + 1 + 1 + 3	+17.2
four	Christoph Knie	0 + 2 + 1 + 1	+18.7
five	Tim Burke	1 + 1 + 2 + 1	+53.5
6	Jacob Fak	0 + 1 + 2 + 2	+1: 02.8
7	Alexander Schreider	0 + 1 + 0 + 1	+1: 53.7
eight	Anton Shipulin	3 + 0 + 0 + 0	+2: 06.2
9	Pavol Gurayt	1 + 0 + 0 + 0	+2: 25.5
ten	Simon Schempp	3 + 1 + 0 + 1	+2: 50.4
Finish protocol

Michael Rösch became the two-time world champion.

Women

A place	Sportswoman	Misses	Time
	Magdalena Neuner	2 + 1 + 1 + 0	28: 43.3
	Thea Gregorin	2 + 0 + 2 + 0	+19.0
	Oksana Khvostenko	0 + 0 + 0 + 1	+25.3
four	Maria Kosinova	1 + 0 + 0 + 1	+1: 10.4
five	Tina Bachmann	1 + 0 + 1 + 2	+1: 24.4
6	Diyana Ravnikar	2 + 0 + 1 + 1	+1: 31.5
7	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	0 + 0 + 0 + 1	+1: 39.9
eight	Natalya Levchenkova	1 + 0 + 0 + 1	+1: 51.3
9	Anna Bulygina	2 + 0 + 2 + 2	+1: 58.6
ten	Lyudmila Kalinchik	0 + 0 + 0 + 1	+2: 03.9
Finish protocol

Magdalena Neuner became a three-time world champion.

Medal standings

Countries

The German national team won the score both in the total number of medals and in the number of gold medals (5 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals). Second place in the Russian team. Belarus closed the three.

Thus, representatives of 9 countries won medals of the World Cup, of which athletes from 4 countries climbed to the top of the podium.

A place	A country				Total
one	Germany	five	2	3	ten
2	Russia	2	3	one	6
3	Belarus	one	2	-	3
four	Uzbekistan	one	one	-	2
five	Slovenia	-	one	-	one
6	Slovakia	-	-	2	2
7	Kazakhstan	-	-	one	one
-	Moldova	-	-	one	one
-	Ukraine	-	-	one	one

Athletes

All races

27 athletes won the World Championship medals, 8 of them stood on the top step of the podium.

21 athletes won one medal, 3 - two, and 3 biathletes - Magdalena Neuner , Christoph Stefan and Michael Rösch each three, they are also the only ones who won more than one gold medal.

A place	Sportsman				Total
one	Magdalena Neuner	3	-	-	3
2	Christoph Stefan	2	one	-	3
-	Michael Rösch	2	one	-	3
four	Ruslan Nasyrov	one	one	-	2
-	Alexey Katrenko	one	one	-	2
6	Irina Babetskaya	one	-	-	one
-	Natalya Sokolova	one	-	-	one
-	Tina Bachmann	one	-	-	one
9	Olga Nazarova	-	2	-	2
ten	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	-	one	-	one
-	Oksana Neupokoeva	-	one	-	one
-	Anton Shipulin	-	one	-	one
-	Victor Vasiliev	-	one	-	one
-	Maria Kosinova	-	one	-	one
-	Thea Gregorin	-	one	-	one
sixteen	Miroslav Matyashko	-	-	one	one
-	Juliana Döll	-	-	one	one
-	Alexander Kachanovsky	-	-	one	one
-	Elena Khrustalyova	-	-	one	one
-	Yana Gerekova	-	-	one	one
-	Anastasia Kuzmina	-	-	one	one
-	Pavol Gurayt	-	-	one	one
-	Dusan Shimochko	-	-	one	one
-	Natalya Levchenkova	-	-	one	one
-	Christoph Knie	-	-	one	one
-	Alexander Wolf	-	-	one	one
-	Oksana Khvostenko	-	-	one	one

Excluding mixed relay

Only 18 out of 27 athletes managed to win medals in personal races. Seven athletes won gold medals, and only six of the 18 athletes managed to get into the medalists more than once.

A place	Sportsman				Total
one	Magdalena Neuner	2	-	-	2
2	Ruslan Nasyrov	one	one	-	2
-	Alexey Katrenko	one	one	-	2
four	Christoph Stefan	one	-	one	2
-	Michael Rösch	one	-	one	2
6	Irina Babetskaya	one	-	-	one
-	Natalya Sokolova	one	-	-	one
eight	Olga Nazarova	-	2	-	2
9	Maria Kosinova	-	one	-	one
-	Thea Gregorin	-	one	-	one
eleven	Miroslav Matyashko	-	-	one	one
-	Juliana Döll	-	-	one	one
-	Alexander Kachanovsky	-	-	one	one
-	Elena Khrustalyova	-	-	one	one
-	Natalya Levchenkova	-	-	one	one
-	Christoph Knie	-	-	one	one
-	Alexander Wolf	-	-	one	one
-	Oksana Khvostenko	-	-	one	one

Links

Official IBU Website

2009 Summer Biathlon World Championship

Schedule

Cross section

Skier Roller

Prize Table

Cross section

Skier Roller

Cross Race Results

Sprint Racing (September 22)

Men

Women

Pursuit (September 23)

Men

Women

Ski Roller Results

Mixed Relay (September 25)

Sprint Racing (September 26)

Women

Men

Pursuit (September 27)

Men

Women

Medal standings

Countries

Athletes

All races

Excluding mixed relay

Links

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