2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men will start at Thursday December 3, 2009 in Östersund and will finish Thursday February 18, 2009 in Vancouver at the olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is Michael Greis of Germany.

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.

2008-09 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Michael Greis	146
Silver:	Ivan Tcherezov	120
Bronze:	Maxim Tchoudov	119

Medal winners

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund details	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	52:43.7 (0+1+0+0)	Tim Burke  United States	53:19.2 (0+0+0+1)	Christoph Sumann  Austria	53:33.2 (0+0+0+1)
Pokljuka details	Christoph Sumann  Austria	52:19.8 (0+0+0+1)	Simon Fourcade  France	52:34.0 (0+0+1+0)	Alexander Os  Norway	52:50.5 (0+0+0+1)
Antholz details	Serguei Sednev  Ukraine	54:06.7 (0+0+0+0)	Daniel Mesotitsch  Austria	54:51.6 (0+1+0+1)	Alexis Bœuf  France	55:01.0 (0+1+0+0)
2010 Winter Olympics details	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	48:22.5 (0+0+0+1)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway Sergey Novikov  Belarus	48:32.0 (0+1+0+1) 48:32.0 (0+0+0+0)

Standings

#	Name	ÖST	POK	ANT	OLY	Total[1]
	Christoph Sumann (AUT)	48	60	28	34	142
2	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	60	–	–	60	120
3	Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT)	11	34	54	32	120
4	Serguei Sednev (UKR)	22	32	60	0	114
5	Pavol Hurajt (SVK)	7	31	40	40	111
6	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	0	38	27	36	101
7	Michal Šlesingr (CZE)	11	43	32	24	99
8	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	36	–	34	27	97
9	Tim Burke (USA)	54	27	12	0	93
10	Alexander Os (NOR)	29	48	–	13	90
11	Michael Greis (GER)	32	20	–	31	83
12	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	25	54	–	1	80
13	Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)	27	10	–	43	80
14	Maxim Tchoudov (RUS)	43	–	36	–	79
15	Alexander Wolf (GER)	30	21	24	17	75
16	Sergey Novikov (BLR)	20	0	–	54	74
17	Vincent Jay (FRA)	18	40	14	0	72
18	Björn Ferry (SWE)	38	29	–	0	67
18	Simon Eder (AUT)	0	–	29	38	67
20	Jaroslav Soukup (CZE)	6	11	43	11	65
21	Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR)	0	25	25	14	64
22	Friedrich Pinter (AUT)	43	18	–	–	61
23	Jean-Philippe Leguellec (CAN)	31	0	2	28	61
24	Andreas Birnbacher (GER)	0	19	10	29	58
25	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	0	–	–	54	54
26	Ivan Tcherezov (RUS)	0	26	–	26	52
27	Christoph Stephan (GER)	0	0	38	12	50
28	Alexis Bœuf (FRA)	0	–	48	–	48
29	Janez Maric (SLO)	26	0	21	0	47
30	Dominik Landertinger (AUT)	24	–	–	18	42
31	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	23	0	0	19	42
32	Thomas Frei (SUI)	3	13	–	25	41
33	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	0	23	17	–	40
34	Nikolay Kruglov (RUS)	0	1	8	30	39
35	Zhang Chengye (CHN)	17	0	–	22	39
36	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	19	15	–	5	39
37	Tobias Eberhard (AUT)	15	0	23	–	38
38	Roman Dostál (CZE)	–	0	31	6	37
39	Mattias Nilsson (SWE)	0	30	–	7	37
40	Frode Andresen (NOR)	–	36	–	–	36
41	Vincent Defrasne (FRA)	0	0	20	15	35
42	Lars Berger (NOR)	34	–	–	–	34
43	Peter Dokl (SLO)	0	0	30	0	30
44	Victor Vasilyev (RUS)	0	29	0	–	28
45	Tomáš Holubec (CZE)	28	0	0	–	28
46	Matthias Simmen (SUI)	0	6	19	2	27
47	Hans Martin Gjedrem (NOR)	–	12	15	–	27
48	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	0	0	26	0	26
49	Ivan Joller (SUI)	0	24	1	–	25
50	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	–	4	–	20	24
51	Ilmārs Bricis (LAT)	16	8	–	0	24
52	Dušan Šimočko (SVK)	0	–	0	23	23
53	Evgeny Abramenko (BLR)	0	22	–	0	22
54	Brendan Green (CAN)	0	0	22	–	22
55	Alexsandr Chervyhkov (KAZ)	8	7	7	0	22
56	Rene Laurent Vuillermoz (ITA)	21	–	0	0	21
57	Priit Viks (EST)	0	0	0	21	21
58	Krasimir Anev (BUL)	4	0	–	16	20
59	Fredrik Lindström (SWE)	2	17	–	0	19
60	Robin Clegg (CAN)	0	–	18	–	18
61	Oleg Berezhnoy (UKR)	0	16	–	–	16
62	Vladimir Chepelin (BLR)	–	–	16	–	16
63	Paavo Puurunen (FIN)	14	0	0	0	14
64	Hidenori Isa (JPN)	0	14	0	0	14
65	Lukasz Szczurek (POL)	0	0	13	0	13
66	Jay Hakkinen (USA)	13	–	0	0	13
67	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	12	0	0	–	12
68	Markus Windisch (ITA)	0	2	0	10	12
69	Christian De Lorenzi (ITA)	9	0	0	3	12
70	Kauri Koiv (EST)	0	0	11	0	11
71	Klemen Bauer (SLO)	0	0	0	9	9
72	Vyacheslav Derkach (UKR)	0	0	9	–	9
73	Scott Perras (CAN)	–	9	–	–	9
74	Marek Matiaško (SVK)	0	0	0	8	8
75	Lois Habert (FRA)	–	–	6	–	6
76	Lowell Bailey (USA)	–	5	0	0	5
77	Jörgen Brink (SWE)	5	–	–	–	5
77	Julian Eberhard (AUT)	–	–	5	–	5
79	Timo Antila (FIN)	1	–	4	0	5
80	Magnús Jónsson (SWE)	0	4	–	–	4
81	Edgars Piksons (LAT)	–	–	–	4	4
82	Michael Rösch (GER)	0	0	3	–	3

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