1999–2000 Biathlon World Cup

1999–00 World Cup
1999–00 World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Raphaël Poirée
Nations Cup	Germany
Individual	Frank Luck
Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Mass start	Raphaël Poirée
Relay	Norway
Competition
	←1998–99 2000–01→

The 1999–2000 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 2 December 1999 in Hochfilzen, Austria, and ended on 19 March 2000 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. It was the 23rd season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 1999–2000 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay
Hochfilzen^[2]	2–5 December	●		●		●
Pokljuka^[3]	8–12 December		●	●		●
Pokljuka^[4]^{[N 1]}	15–19 December	●	●		●
Oberhof^[5]	5–9 January		●	●		●
Ruhpolding^[6]	12–16 January		●	●	●
Antholz-Anterselva^[7]	20–23 January		●	●		●
Östersund^[8]	11–13 February		●	●
Oslo^[9]	19–27 February	●	●	●	●
Lahti^[10]	9–12 March	●		●		●
Khanty-Mansiysk^[11]	17–19 March		●	●	●
Total		4	8	9	4	6

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	2 December 1999	Hochfilzen	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Ruslan Lysenko	Frank Luck	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
1	4 December 1999	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frank Luck	Sven Fischer		Detail
2	8 December 1999	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Pavel Rostovtsev	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
2	10 December 1999	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Frode Andresen	Peter Sendel	Vyacheslav Derkach		Detail
3	15 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	20 km Individual	Raphaël Poirée	Vadim Sashurin	Frank Luck		Detail
3	17 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Sven Fischer	Frank Luck	Sven Fischer	Detail
3	19 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Mass Start	Vladimir Drachev	Vadim Sashurin	Sven Fischer		Detail
4	6 January 2000	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frank Luck	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
4	7 January 2000	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Peter Sendel	Zdeněk Vítek		Detail
5	12 January 2000	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Ricco Groß	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer		Detail
5	15 January 2000	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Ricco Groß	Vadim Sashurin	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
5	16 January 2000	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Halvard Hanevold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
6	20 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frode Andresen		Detail
6	22 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frode Andresen	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
7	11 February 2000	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Wolfgang Rottmann	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
7	13 February 2000	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Frode Andresen	Pavel Rostovtsev	Ricco Groß	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
WC	19 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Frode Andresen	Pavel Rostovtsev	René Cattarinussi		Detail
WC	20 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Frank Luck	Pavel Rostovtsev	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
WC	23 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	20 km Individual	Wolfgang Rottmann	Ludwig Gredler	Frank Luck		Detail
WC	26 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Pavel Rostovtsev	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
8	9 March 2000	Lahti	20 km Individual	Halvard Hanevold	Carsten Heymann	Sven Fischer		Detail
8	12 March 2000	Lahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Sven Fischer	Peter Sendel	Frode Andresen		Detail
9	17 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Vadim Sashurin	Devis Da Canal	Sven Fischer		Detail
9	18 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Pursuit	Sven Fischer	Raphaël Poirée	Sergei Rozhkov		Detail
9	19 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km Mass Start	René Cattarinussi	Pavel Rostovtsev	Frode Andresen		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	3 December 1999	Hochfilzen	15 km Individual	Galina Koukleva	Magdalena Forsberg	Corinne Niogret	Galina Koukleva	Detail
1	4 December 1999	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Corinne Niogret	Albina Akhatova	Magdalena Forsberg	Corinne Niogret	Detail
2	9 December 1999	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Maria Strelenko	Corinne Niogret	Magdalena Forsberg	Detail
2	10 December 1999	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Olena Zubrilova	Magdalena Forsberg	Tetyana Vodopyanova		Detail
3	16 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Individual	Uschi Disl	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Pavlina Filipova		Detail
3	18 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	7.5 km Sprint	Gro Marit Istad	Olena Petrova	Irina Nikulchina		Detail
3	19 December 1999	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km Mass Start	Andrea Henkel	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Olena Petrova		Detail
4	5 January 2000	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Zubrilova	Emmanuelle Claret	Nathalie Santer		Detail
4	7 January 2000	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Olena Zubrilova	Magdalena Forsberg	Svetlana Ishmouratova		Detail
5	12 January 2000	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Galina Koukleva	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Petrova		Detail
5	15 January 2000	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Nathalie Santer	Katrin Apel	Olga Pyleva		Detail
5	16 January 2000	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Martina Zellner	Corinne Niogret	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
6	21 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Martina Glagow	Martina Zellner	Andrea Henkel		Detail
6	22 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Andrea Henkel	Galina Koukleva	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
7	12 February 2000	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Galina Koukleva	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Florence Baverel		Detail
7	13 February 2000	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Martina Glagow	Svetlana Tchernousova	Svetlana Ishmouratova		Detail
WC	19 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Skjelbreid	Katrin Apel	Martina Zellner		Detail
WC	20 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Uschi Disl	Florence Baverel		Detail
WC	22 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Individual	Corinne Niogret	Yu Shumei	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
WC	26 February 2000	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Liv Grete Skjelbreid	Galina Koukleva	Corinne Niogret		Detail
8	9 March 2000	Lahti	15 km Individual	Olena Zubrilova	Andrea Henkel	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
8	12 March 2000	Lahti	10 km Pursuit	Olena Zubrilova	Magdalena Forsberg	Andrea Henkel		Detail
9	16 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Zubrilova	Olga Pyleva	Martina Glagow		Detail
9	18 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Corinne Niogret	Olena Zubrilova		Detail
9	19 March 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km Mass Start	Martina Zellner	Olena Zubrilova	Olena Petrova		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	5 December 1999	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Austria Wolfgang Perner Ludwig Gredler Günther Beck Wolfgang Rottmann	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Dag Bjørndalen Halvard Hanevold	Germany Ricco Groß Frank Luck Peter Sendel Sven Fischer
2	11 December 1999	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Sergei Rozhkov Vyacheslav Kunayev Vladimir Drachev Pavel Rostovtsev	Germany Frank Luck Peter Sendel Carsten Heymann Sven Fischer
4	9 January 2000	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Frank Luck Sven Fischer Ricco Gross Peter Sendel	Czech Republic Ivan Masařík Roman Dostál Marian Málek Zdeněk Vítek
5	13 January 2000	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Frank Luck Sven Fischer Peter Sendel Ricco Gross	Norway Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia Viktor Maigourov Sergei Rozhkov Vladimir Drachev Pavel Rostovtsev
6	23 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Viktor Maigourov Sergei Rozhkov Pavel Rostovtsev Vladimir Drachev	Germany Frank Luck Alexander Wolf Ricco Gross Sven Fischer	Norway Halvard Hanevold Egil Gjelland Sylfest Glimsdal Stig-Are Eriksen
WC	11 March 2000	Lahti	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Viktor Maigourov Sergei Rozhkov Vladimir Drachev Pavel Rostovtsev	Norway Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Frank Luck Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Ricco Gross

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	5 December 1999	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Gro Marit Istad Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Liv Grete Skjelbreid Gunn Margit Andreassen	Germany Uschi Disl Simone Greiner Katja Beer Martina Zellner	Russia Mariya Strelenko Galina Kukleva Svetlana Tchernousova Albina Akhatova
2	12 December 1999	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Albina Akhatova Galina Kukleva Mariya Strelenko Svetlana Ishmouratova	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nataliya Tereshchenko Tetyana Vodopyanova	Bulgaria Pavlina Filipova Irina Nikulchina Radka Popova Iva Karagiozova
4	8 January 2000	Oberhof	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Svetlana Tchernousova Svetlana Ishmouratova	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Katja Beer Andrea Henkel	France Sylvie Becaert Emmanuelle Claret Delphyne Burlet Corinne Niogret
5	14 January 2000	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Martina Zellner	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Svetlana Tchernousova Svetlana Ishmouratova	Ukraine Iryna Merkushina Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Olena Zubrilova
6	23 January 2000	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Andrea Henkel Martina Glagow Katrin Apel Martina Zellner	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Mariya Strelenko Svetlana Ishmouratova	Ukraine Iryna Merkushina Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Olena Zubrilova
WC	25 February 2000	Oslo	4x7.5 km Relay	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Tchernousova Galina Kukleva Albina Akhatova	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Martina Zellner	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Tetyana Vodopyanova
8	10 March 2000	Lahti	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Martina Zellner	Russia Olga Pyleva Svetlana Tchernousova Galina Kukleva Albina Akhatova	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Nataliya Tereshchenko

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	470
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	448
3.	Sven Fischer	434
4.	Pavel Rostovtsev	384
5.	Frank Luck	379

Final standings after 25 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Frank Luck	72
2.	Raphaël Poirée	68
3.	Peter Sendel	61
4.	Wolfgang Rottmann	56
5.	Sven Fischer	52

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	161
2.	Frode Andresen	153
3.	Raphaël Poirée	153
4.	Sven Fischer	134
5.	Vadim Sashurin	119

Final standings after 8 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	200
2.	Sven Fischer	176
3.	Raphaël Poirée	172
4.	Frode Andresen	165
5.	Pavel Rostovtsev	162

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	77
2.	Pavel Rostovtsev	73
3.	Sven Fischer	68
4.	Vadim Sashurin	63
5.	Vladimir Drachev	62

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	138
2.	Russia	132
3.	Germany	130
4.	Czech Republic	104
5.	Belarus	97

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	3625
2.	Norway	3548
3.	Russia	3338
4.	Austria	3252
5.	Belarus	3211

Final standings after 18 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	510
2.	Olena Zubrilova	424
3.	Corinne Niogret	411
4.	Galina Kukleva	389
5.	Andrea Henkel	378

Final standings after 25 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	74
2.	Corinne Niogret	68
3.	Olena Zubrilova	67
4.	Uschi Disl	63
5.	Albina Akhatova	60

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	147
2.	Svetlana Ishmouratova	129
3.	Martina Zellner	125
4.	Corinne Niogret	123
5.	Olena Zubrilova	118

Final standings after 8 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	210
2.	Corinne Niogret	161
3.	Olena Zubrilova	160
4.	Andrea Henkel	148
5.	Galina Kukleva	144

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Galina Kukleva	77
2.	Olena Petrova	72
3.	Magdalena Forsberg	68
4.	Martina Zellner	66
5.	Andrea Henkel	65

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Russia	168
2.	Germany	168
3.	Ukraine	143
4.	France	124
5.	Slovakia	122

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	3585
2.	Russia	3550
3.	Ukraine	3434
4.	France	3307
5.	Norway	3132

Final standings after 18 races.

Medal table

Achievements

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men

Frode Andresen (NOR), 6 (8) first places
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 5 (14) first places
Raphaël Poirée (FRA), 3 (8) first places
Sven Fischer (GER), 2 (17) first places
Ricco Groß (GER), 2 (6) first places
Halvard Hanevold (NOR), 2 (5) first places
Vladimir Drachev (RUS), 1 (12) first place
Frank Luck (GER), 1 (9) first place
Vadim Sashurin (BLR), 1 (2) first place
René Cattarinussi (ITA), 1 (2) first place
Wolfgang Rottmann (AUT), 1 (1) first place

Women

Olena Zubrilova (UKR), 6 (14) first places
Magdalena Forsberg (SWE), 3 (19) first places
Galina Kukleva (RUS), 3 (7) first places
Corinne Niogret (FRA), 2 (6) first places
Liv Grete Skjelbreid (NOR), 2 (5) first places
Martina Zellner (GER), 2 (3) first places
Andrea Henkel (GER), 2 (2) first places
Martina Glagow (GER), 2 (2) first places
Uschi Disl (GER), 1 (19) first place
Nathalie Santer (ITA), 1 (3) first place
Gro Marit Istad (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1999–2000 season:

Footnotes

^ Originally scheduled to be held in Brezno-Osrblie, Slovakia

References

^ Gregor, Jakub. "Schedule". biathlonresults.com. IBU. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 1". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 2". web.archive.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 3". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 4". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 5". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 6". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 7". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Championships 2000". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 8". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 9". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

External links

IBU official site

[OrsblieAntholz-5] Originally scheduled to be held in Brezno-Osrblie, Slovakia

[Schedule-1] Gregor, Jakub. "Schedule". biathlonresults.com. IBU. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_1-2] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 1". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_2-3] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 2". web.archive.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_3-4] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 3". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_4-6] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 4". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_5-7] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 5". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_6-8] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 6". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_7-9] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 7". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Championships_2000-10] Gregor, Jakub. "World Championships 2000". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_8-11] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 8". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[World_Cup_9-12] Gregor, Jakub. "World Cup 9". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

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1999–00 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Raphaël Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg
Nations Cup	Germany	Germany
Individual	Frank Luck	Magdalena Forsberg
Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Forsberg
Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Magdalena Forsberg
Mass start	Raphaël Poirée	Galina Koukleva
Relay	Norway	Russia
Competition
←1998–99 2000–01→