The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Women will start at Sunday January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish Sunday March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.
Competition format In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race.) with rest of the shooting bouts being at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, you shoot at lane five.). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).
2007-08 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Magdalena Neuner186Silver: Kati Wilhelm138Bronze: Michela Ponza135
Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeOberhofdetailsKati Wilhelm 39:55.2(0+0+2+0)Olga Medvedtseva 40:01.0(0+0+1+1)Helena Jonsson 40:07.0(1+1+0+0)AntholzdetailsHelena Jonsson 36:51.2(0+0+0+1)Kaisa Mäkäräinen 37:05.6(0+0+0+2)Kati Wilhelm 37:06.0(1+2+0+0)World ChampionshipsdetailsOlga Zaitseva 34:18.3(0+0+1+1)Anastasiya Kuzmina 34:25.8(0+0+1+1)Helena Jonsson 34:30.6(0+0+1+1)TrondheimdetailsTora Berger 39:29.7(0+0+0+1)Simone Hauswald 39:30.7(1+0+0+1)Sandrine Bailly 39:31.8(0+0+0+1)Khanty-MansiyskdetailsSimone Hauswald 36:54.6(0+1+0+0)Helena Jonsson 37:09.7(0+0+0+0)Andrea Henkel 37:21.5(1+0+1+1)
Final standings # Name OBE ANT WCH TRO KHA TotalStandings Mass start Women 1 Helena Jonsson 48 60 48 29 54 210 2 Kati Wilhelm 60 48 11 40 38 186 3 Simone Hauswald 31 24 29 54 60 174 4 Olga Zaitseva 26 36 60 32 34 162 5 Andrea Henkel 29 40 40 25 48 157 6 Tora Berger 32 – 26 60 28 146 7 Darya Domracheva 0 22 38 43 43 146 8 Magdalena Neuner 43 38 36 27 29 146 9 Kaisa Mäkäräinen 38 54 24 20 24 140 10 Olga Medvedtseva 54 – 32 18 36 140'' |- | 11 || align=left| Marie-Laure Brunet || 34 || 30 || 34 || 34 || 17 || 132|- | 12 || align=left| Anna Carin Olofsson || – || 43 || 21 || 22 || 31 || 117|- | 13 || align=left| Anastasiya Kuzmina || – || – ||bgcolor=silver | 54 || 36 || 25 || 115|- | 14 || align=left| Valj Semerenko || 19 || 31 || 25 || 12 || 40 || 115|- | 15 || align=left| Anna Boulygina || – || 23 || 18 || 38 || 32 || 111|- | 16 || align=left| Martina Beck || – || 29 || 30 || 21 || 30 || 110|- | 17 || align=left| Vita Semerenko || 20 || 20 || 43 || 17 || 23 || 106|- | 18 || align=left| Éva Tófalvi || 25 || 26 || 27 || 23 || 16 || 101|- | 19 || align=left| Natalia Levchenkova || 36 || 28 || 16 || 15 || 11 || 95|- | 20 || align=left| Sandrine Bailly || – || – || 14 ||bgcolor=CC9966 | 48 || 21 || 83|- | 21 || align=left| Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen || – || 32 || – || 24 || 26 || 82|- | 22 || align=left| Svetlana Sleptsova || 40 || – || 22 || – || 19 || 81|- | 23 || align=left| Michela Ponza || 15 || 18 || – || 16 || 27 || 76|- | 24 || align=left| Sylvie Becaert || – || 27 || – || 26 || 22 || 75|- | 25 || align=left| Liu Xianying || 17 || 21 || 23 || 14 || – || 75|- | 26 || align=left| Teja Gregorin || – || – || 28 || 28 || 15 || 71|- | 27 || align=left| Ann Kristin Flatland || 30 || 34 || – || – || – || 64|- | 28 || align=left| Andreja Mali || 16 || 14 || – || 13 || 14 || 57|- | 29 || align=left| Magdalena Gwizdon || 23 || – || – || 19 || 13 || 55|- | 30 || align=left| Marie Dorin || – || – || – || 31 || 20 || 51|- | 31 || align=left| Olga Kudrashova || 27 || 19 || – || – || – || 46|- | 32 || align=left| Kathrin Hitzer || 28 || 17 || – || – || – || 45|- | 33 || align=left| Oksana Khvostenko || – || 25 || 20 || – || – || 45|- | 34 || align=left| Veronika Vítková || – || – || 31 || – || 12 || 43|- | 35 || align=left| Wang Chunli || 14 || 16 || – || 11 || – || 41|- | 36 || align=left| Dong Xue || 22 || 13 || – || – || – || 35|- | 37 || align=left| Nadezhda Skardino || 18 || 15 || – || – || – || 33|- | 38 || align=left| Solveig Rogstad || – || – || – || 30 || – || 30|- | 39 || align=left| Kong Yingchao || 24 || – || – || – || – || 24|- | 40 || align=left| Lilia Vaygina-Efremova || 21 || – || – || – || – || 21|- | 41 || align=left| Pavlina Filipova || – || – || 19 || – || – || 19|- | 42 || align=left| Oksana Neupokoeva || – || – || – || – || 18 || 18|- | 43 || align=left| Katja Haller || – || – || 17 || – || – || 17|- | 44 || align=left| Olga Nazarova || – || – || 15 || – || – || 15|- | 45 || align=left| Diana Rasimovičiūtė || – || – || 13 || – || – || 13|- | 46 || align=left| Elena Khrustaleva || – || – || 12 || – || – || 12'''
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