2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Women

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2011–12

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The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Women will start at Sunday December 4, 2011 in Östersund and will finish Sunday March 17, 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Kaisa Mäkäräinen of Finland.

1 Competition format
2 2010-11 Top 3 Standings
3 Medal winners
4 Standings
5 References

Competition format

This is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.^[1] The contestants ski a distance of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490 ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.

To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-serve basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.

Points are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.

2010-11 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	343
Silver:	Andrea Henkel	303
Bronze:	Helena Ekholm	279

Medal winners

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund details	Tora Berger Norway	33:56.9 (0+0+0+1)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	34:30.1 (1+0+0+1)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	35:21.3 (0+1+2+1)
Hochfilzen details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	29:34.4 (1+0+1+0)	Olga Zaitseva Russia	29:34.7 (0+0+0+1)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	29:37.5 (0+0+0+2)
Hochfilzen (2) details	Olga Zaitseva Russia	31:52.2 (0+0+0+0)	Helena Ekholm Sweden	32:21.3 (0+0+0+1)	Darya Domracheva Belarus	32:36.9 (1+1+0+1)
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Standings

#	Name	ÖST	HOC1	HOC2	Total^[2]
	Olga Zaitseva (RUS)	26	54	60	140
2	Tora Berger (NOR)	60	32	43	135
3	Darya Domracheva (BLR)	25	60	48	133
4	Magdalena Neuner (GER)	48	48	29	125
5	Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)	54	30	40	124
6	Helena Ekholm (SWE)	34	29	54	117
7	Andrea Henkel (GER)	31	43	38	112
8	Anna Bogaliy-Titovets (RUS)	30	40	36	106
9	Marie Laure Brunet (FRA)	36	34	27	97
10	Marie Dorin (FRA)	23	36	34	93
11	Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK)	32	31	21	84
12	Svetlana Sleptsova (RUS)	40	23	16	79
13	Krystyna Pałka (POL)	27	24	28	79
14	Olga Vilukhina (RUS)	4	38	32	74
15	Synnøve Solemdal (NOR)	24	16	26	66
16	Tina Bachmann (GER)	38	27	0	65
17	Valj Semerenko (UKR)	43	17	0	60
18	Vita Semerenko (UKR)	28	—	31	59
19	Michela Ponza (ITA)	15	20	22	57
20	Elise Ringen (NOR)	29	26	—	55
21	Éva Tófalvi (ROU)	21	28	0	49
22	Sophie Boilley (FRA)	19	5	25	49
23	Agnieszka Cyl (POL)	22	25	0	47
24	Zina Kocher (CAN)	17	18	11	46
25	Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS)	—	21	19	40
26	Teja Gregorin (SLO)	16	19	0	35
27	Selina Gasparin (SUI)	0	11	23	34
28	Franziska Hildebrand (GER)	14	—	18	32
29	Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak (POL)	1	10	20	31
30	Tang Jialin (CHN)	—	—	30	30
31	Karin Oberhofer (ITA)	0	4	24	28
32	Anna Maria Nilsson (SWE)	0	12	14	26
33	Natalya Burdyga (UKR)	13	8	5	26
34	Monika Hojnisz (POL)	10	13	—	23
35	Veronika Vítková (CZE)	—	22	0	22
36	Fanny Welle-Strand Horn (NOR)	20	—	—	20
37	Miriam Gössner (GER)	3	3	13	19
38	Olena Pidhrushna (UKR)	18	—	—	18
39	Megan Imrie (CAN)	0	—	17	17
40	Mari Laukkanen (FIN)	7	0	9	16
41	Nastassia Dubarezava (BLR)	8	0	8	16
42	Carolin Hennecke (GER)	—	15	—	15
42	Olga Poltoranina (KAZ)	—	0	15	15
44	Bente Landheim (NOR)	0	14	—	14
45	Natalia Sorokina (RUS)	11	—	3	14
46	Anais Bescond (FRA)	12	1	0	13
47	Anna Karin Strömstedt (SWE)	0	—	12	12
48	Liudmila Kalinchik (BLR)	—	0	10	10
49	Susan Dunklee (USA)	9	0	—	9
49	Laure Soulie (AND)	—	9	0	9
51	Andreja Mali (SLO)	5	0	4	9
52	Magdalena Gwizdoń (POL)	0	—	7	7
52	Yana Romanova (RUS)	—	7	—	7
54	Jana Gereková (SVK)	0	6		6
54	Diana Rasimovičiūtė (LTU)	6	—		6
54	Nadine Horchler (GER)	—	—	6	6
57	Marine Bolliet (FRA)	—	2	2	4
58	Sara Studebaker (USA)	2	0	—	2
59	Iryna Kryuko (BLR)	—	—	1	1

References

^ To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race – the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line.
^ Standings Pursuit Women