2015–16 Biathlon World Cup

2015–16 Biathlon World Cup
2015–16 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Martin Fourcade
Nations Cup	Norway
Individual	Martin Fourcade
Sprint	Martin Fourcade
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade
Mass start	Martin Fourcade
Relay	Norway
Mixed	Norway
Competition
	←2014–15 2016–17→

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season began on 29 November 2015 in Östersund, Sweden, and ended on 19 March 2016 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.^[1] The defending overall champions from the 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup were Martin Fourcade of France and Darya Domracheva of Belarus, but Domracheva missed the season due to illness.^[2]

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2015–16 season.^[1]

Stage	Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Östersund	29 November–6 December	●	●	●			●	●	details
2	Hochfilzen	11–13 December		●	●		●			details
3	Pokljuka	17–20 December		●	●	●				details
4	Ruhpolding^{[nb 1]}	8–10 January		●	●	●				details
5	Ruhpolding	13–17 January	●			●	●			details
6	Antholz-Anterselva	21–24 January		●	●		●			details
7	Canmore	4–7 February		●		●		●	●	details
8	Presque Isle	11–13 February		●	●		●			details
WC	Holmenkollen	3–13 March	●	●	●	●	●	●		World Championships
9	Khanty-Mansiysk	17–19 March		●	●	Cancelled				details
Total: 65 (30 men's, 30 women's, 5 mixed)			3	9	8	5	5	3	2

Men

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	2 December 2015	Östersund	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Simon Schempp	Alexey Volkov	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
	5 December 2015		10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
	6 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Arnd Peiffer	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Martin Fourcade	Detail
2	11 December 2015	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Tarjei Bø		Detail
2	12 December 2015	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Simon Schempp	Anton Shipulin		Detail
3	17 December 2015	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
	19 December 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	20 December 2015		15 km Mass Start	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
4	8 January 2016	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tarjei Bø	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	9 January 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Eder	Martin Fourcade	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
	10 January 2016		15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Ondřej Moravec	Tarjei Bø		Detail
5	13 January 2016	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Simon Eder	Anton Shipulin		Detail
5	16 January 2016	Ruhpolding	15 km Mass Start	Erik Lesser	Martin Fourcade	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
6	22 January 2016	Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Maxim Tsvetkov	Tarjei Bø		Detail
6	23 January 2016	Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø		Detail
7	4 February 2016	Canmore	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Simon Schempp		Detail
7	6 February 2016	Canmore	15 km Mass Start	Dominik Windisch	Benedikt Doll	Quentin Fillon Maillet		Detail
8	11 February 2016	Presque Isle	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade		Detail
8	12 February 2016	Presque Isle	12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Anton Shipulin		Detail
WCH	5 March 2016	Oslo	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Serhiy Semenov		Detail
	6 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	10 March 2016		20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dominik Landertinger	Simon Eder		Detail
	13 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
9	18 March 2016	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Julian Eberhard	Simon Schempp	Arnd Peiffer		Detail
	19 March 2016		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Erik Lesser		Detail
	20 March 2016		15 km Mass Start	Cancelled due to strong winds				Detail

Men's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2015	Hochfilzen	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Norway Henrik L'Abée-Lund Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	Russia	Detail
5	15 January 2016	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgenii Garanichev Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Shipulin	Austria Sven Grossegger Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	Russia / Norway	Detail
6	24 January 2016	Anterselva	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Evgenii Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Lars Helge Birkeland Johannes Thingnes Bø Erlend Bjøntegaard	Russia	Detail
8	13 February 2016	Presque Isle	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Daniel Böhm Benedikt Doll	Norway	Detail
WCH	12 March 2016	Oslo	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green	Norway	Detail

Standings

Overall

Rank	after all 25 races^[4]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	1151
2.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	820
3.	Anton Shipulin	806
4.	Simon Schempp	769
5.	Simon Eder	714
6.	Tarjei Bø	708
7.	Evgenii Garanichev	659
8.	Benedikt Doll	602
9.	Dominik Landertinger	600
10.	Emil Hegle Svendsen	595

Individual

Rank	after all 3 races^[5]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	140
2.	Simon Eder	138
3.	Dominik Landertinger	105
4.	Anton Shipulin	100
5.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	90

Sprint

Rank	after all 9 races^[6]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	379
2.	Simon Schempp	316
3.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	298
4.	Arnd Peiffer	262
5.	Anton Shipulin	251

Pursuit

Rank	after all 8 races^[7]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	391
2.	Anton Shipulin	300
3.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	278
4.	Tarjei Bø	267
5.	Simon Eder	254

Mass start

Rank	after all 5 races^[8]	Points
	Martin Fourcade	242
2.	Quentin Fillon Maillet	162
3.	Anton Shipulin	155
4.	Johannes Thingnes Bø	154
5.	Evgenii Garanichev	153

Relay

Rank	after all 5 races^[9]	Points
1.	Norway	282
2.	Russia	255
3.	Germany	236
4.	France	217
5.	Austria	209

Nation

Rank	after all 22 races^[10]	Points
1.	Norway	7808
2.	Germany	7518
3.	Russia	7178
4.	France	7113
5.	Austria	6795

Women

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	3 December 2015	Östersund	15 km Individual	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert	Olena Pidhrushna	Dorothea Wierer	Detail
	5 December 2015		7.5 km Sprint	Gabriela Soukalová	Federica Sanfilippo	Olena Pidhrushna	Gabriela Soukalová	Detail
	6 December 2015		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Dorothea Wierer	Franziska Hildebrand		Detail
2	11 December 2015	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Franziska Hildebrand	Maren Hammerschmidt	Miriam Gössner		Detail
2	12 December 2015	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Maren Hammerschmidt	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
3	18 December 2015	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier	Franziska Hildebrand		Detail
	19 December 2015		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Marie Dorin Habert	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert	Detail
	20 December 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová	Olga Podchufarova	Gabriela Soukalová	Detail
4	8 January 2016	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Franziska Hildebrand	Gabriela Soukalová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
	9 January 2016		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Gabriela Soukalová	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
	10 January 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Laura Dahlmeier	Marie Dorin Habert	Tiril Eckhoff		Detail
5	14 January 2016	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Dorothea Wierer	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
5	16 January 2016	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Gabriela Soukalová	Franziska Hildebrand	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
6	21 January 2016	Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Olga Podchufarova	Dorothea Wierer	Ekaterina Yurlova		Detail
6	23 January 2016	Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Ekaterina Yurlova	Selina Gasparin	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
7	5 February 2016	Canmore	7.5 km Sprint	Olena Pidhrushna	Krystyna Guzik	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
7	6 February 2016	Canmore	12.5 km Mass Start	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert	Gabriela Soukalová		Detail
8	11 February 2016	Presque Isle	7.5 km Sprint	Gabriela Soukalová	Susan Dunklee	Krystyna Guzik		Detail
8	12 February 2016	Presque Isle	10 km Pursuit	Gabriela Soukalová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert		Detail
WCH	5 March 2016	Oslo	7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
	6 March 2016		10 km Pursuit	Laura Dahlmeier	Dorothea Wierer	Marie Dorin Habert		Detail
	9 March 2016		15 km Individual	Marie Dorin Habert	Anaïs Bescond	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
	13 March 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
9	17 March 2016	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Gabriela Soukalová	Marte Olsbu		Detail
	19 March 2016		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Marie Dorin Habert	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
	20 March 2016		12.5 km Mass Start	Cancelled due to strong winds				Detail

Women's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2015	Hochfilzen	4 × 6 km Relay	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Federica Sanfilippo Dorothea Wierer	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß	Ukraine Yuliia Dzhima Olga Abramova Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	Italy	Detail
5	17 January 2016	Ruhpolding	4 × 6 km Relay	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	Germany Karolin Horchler Miriam Gössner Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer	Italy / Ukraine	Detail
6	24 January 2016	Anterselva	4 × 6 km Relay	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Gabriela Soukalová Veronika Vítková	Russia Ekaterina Shumilova Anastasia Zagoruiko Ekaterina Yurlova Olga Podchufarova	Italy	Detail
8	13 February 2016	Presque Isle	4 × 6 km Relay	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Gabriela Soukalová Veronika Vítková	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Natalya Burdyga Yuliia Dzhima Olena Pidhrushna	Germany Franziska Preuß Luise Kummer Miriam Gössner Karolin Horchler	Italy	Detail
WCH	11 March 2016	Oslo	4 × 6 km Relay	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	France Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	Germany	Detail

Standings

Overall

Rank	after all 25 races^[11]	Points
	Gabriela Soukalová	1074
2.	Marie Dorin Habert	1028
3.	Dorothea Wierer	944
4.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	892
5.	Franziska Hildebrand	793
6.	Laura Dahlmeier	786
7.	Olena Pidhrushna	754
8.	Veronika Vítková	705
9.	Anaïs Bescond	666
10.	Krystyna Guzik	566

Individual

Rank	after all 3 races^[12]	Points
	Dorothea Wierer	154
2.	Marie Dorin Habert	152
3.	Gabriela Soukalová	128
4.	Franziska Hildebrand	112
5.	Anaïs Bescond	107

Sprint

Rank	after all 9 races^[13]	Points
	Gabriela Soukalová	413
2.	Marie Dorin Habert	336
3.	Dorothea Wierer	327
4.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	309
5.	Olena Pidhrushna	299

Pursuit

Rank	after all 8 races^[14]	Points
	Gabriela Soukalová	354
2.	Dorothea Wierer	348
3.	Marie Dorin Habert	331
4.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	324
5.	Laura Dahlmeier	265

Mass start

Rank	after all 5 races^[15]	Points
	Gabriela Soukalová	241
2.	Marie Dorin Habert	236
3.	Laura Dahlmeier	228
4.	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	179
5.	Franziska Hildebrand	169

Relay

Rank	after all 5 races^[16]	Points
1.	Germany	236
2.	France	228
3.	Czech Republic	228
4.	Italy	227
5.	Ukraine	202

Nation

Rank	after all 22 races^[17]	Points
1.	Germany	7417
2.	France	7176
3.	Czech Republic	6944
4.	Italy	6822
5.	Ukraine	6573

Mixed

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Det.
1	29 November 2015	Östersund	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland	Canada Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith	Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm	Detail
1	29 November 2015	Östersund	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Norway Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	Detail
7	7 February 2016	Canmore	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	France Marie Dorin Habert Martin Fourcade	Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder	Norway Hilde Fenne Lars Helge Birkeland	Detail
7	7 February 2016	Canmore	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Italy Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	Norway Marte Olsbu Synnøve Solemdal Alexander Os Håvard Bogetveit	Detail
WC	3 March 2016	Oslo Holmenkollen	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km Mixed Relay	France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Marte Olsbu Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Detail

Standings: Mixed

Mixed relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	264
2.	Germany	252
3.	France	223
4.	Russia	191
5.	Canada	183

Final standings after 5 races.

Medal table

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Men

Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 27, in his 9th season — the WC 3 Mass Start in Pokljuka; first podium was 2013–14 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva
Dominik Windisch (ITA), 26, in his 9th season — the WC 7 Mass Start in Canmore; it also was his first podium
Julian Eberhard (AUT), 29, in his 8th season — the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk; it also was his first podium

Women

Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 25, in her 6th season — the WC 1 Individual in Östersund; first podium was 2013–14 Pursuit in Pokljuka
Franziska Hildebrand (GER), 28, in her 5th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2014–15 Sprint in Nové Město
Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 23, in her 4th season — the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2014–15 Pursuit in Hochfilzen

First World Cup podium

Men

Maxim Tsvetkov (RUS), 24, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
Dominik Windisch (ITA), 26, in his 9th season — no. 1 WC 7 Mass Start in Canmore
Julian Eberhard (AUT), 29, in his 8th season — no. 1 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiyk

Women

Federica Sanfilippo (ITA), 25, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund
Maren Hammerschmidt (GER), 26, in her 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen
Marte Olsbu (NOR), 25, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk

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

Men

Martin Fourcade (FRA), 10 (47) first places
Simon Schempp (GER), 5 (10) first places
Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 3 (11) first places
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 1 (94) first place
Anton Shipulin (RUS), 1 (8) first place
Simon Eder (AUT), 1 (3) first place
Erik Lesser (GER), 1 (2) first place
Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA), 1 (1) first place
Dominik Windisch (ITA), 1 (1) first place
Julian Eberhard (AUT), 1 (1) first place

Women

Laura Dahlmeier (GER), 5 (7) first places
Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 4 (19) first places
Gabriela Soukalová (CZE), 4 (12) first places
Marie Dorin Habert (FRA), 3 (5) first places
Dorothea Wierer (ITA), 3 (3) first places
Franziska Hildebrand (GER), 2 (2) first places
Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS), 1 (2) first place
Olena Pidhrushna (UKR), 1 (2) first place
Tiril Eckhoff (NOR), 1 (2) first place
Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Men

Women

Footnotes

^ Originally scheduled in Oberhof on 7–10 January, relocated in Ruhpolding due to lack of snow.^[3]

References

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External links

[4] Originally scheduled in Oberhof on 7–10 January, relocated in Ruhpolding due to lack of snow.^[3]

[termine2018-1] "Termine bis 2018" (in German). Biathlon Online Magazin. Retrieved 3 March 2015.

[2] "Olympic champion Darya Domracheva to miss biathlon season". Zee News. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.

[3] "Relocation Worldcup 4 to Ruhpolding". International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 2016-01-05. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

[5] "Men's Total Score Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[6] "Men's Individual Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[7] "Men's Sprint Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[8] "Men's Pursuit Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[9] "Men's Mass Start Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[10] "Men's Relay Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[11] "Men's Nations Cup Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[12] "Women's Total Score Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[13] "Women's Individual Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[14] "Women's Sprint Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[15] "Women's Pursuit Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[16] "Women's Mass Start Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[17] "Women's Relay Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

[18] "Women's Nations Cup Points". www.biathlonworld.com.

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v t e 2015–16 World Cup seasons in winter sports
« 2014–15 2016–17 »
Skiing sports (FIS)	Alpine skiing Cross-country skiing Freestyle skiing Nordic combined Ski jumping Ski flying Snowboarding
Skating sports (ISU)	Figure skating ISU Grand Prix ISU Challenger Series ISU Junior Grand Prix Synchronized skating Short track Speed skating
Sliding sports (FIL, IBSF)	Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton
Others (IBU, WCF)	Biathlon Curling

2015–16 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Martin Fourcade	Dorothea Wierer
Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Mass start	Martin Fourcade	Gabriela Soukalová
Relay	Norway	Germany
Mixed	Norway
Competition
←2014–15 2016–17→

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	17	14	6	37
2	Germany	14	18	13	45
3	Norway	11	8	15	34
4	Czech Republic	5	6	5	16
5	Italy	5	5	5	15
6	Russia	5	4	10	19
7	Finland	4	2	3	9
8	Austria	2	3	2	7
9	Ukraine	2	1	4	7
10	Canada	0	1	1	2
10	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
12	United States	0	1	0	1
Totals (13 entries)		65	65	65	195