2014–15 Biathlon World Cup

The 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup is a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 30 November 2014 in Östersund, Sweden, and ended on 22 March 2015 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.^[1]

2014–15 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Fourcade	Darya Domracheva
Nations Cup	Norway	Germany
Individual	Serhiy Semenov	Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Darya Domracheva
Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Darya Domracheva
Mass start	Anton Shipulin	Franziska Preuß
Relay	Russia	Czech Republic
Mixed	Norway
Competition
←2013–14 2015–16→

2014–15 World Cup in Nové Město

A new event, called the "Single mixed relay", made its World Cup debut on 6 February 2015 in Nové Město.^[1] This event involves one male and one female biathlete each completing two legs consisting of one prone and one standing shoot.^[2]

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2014–15 season.^[1]

Stage	Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Östersund	30 November–7 December	●	●	●			●		details
2	Hochfilzen	12–14 December		●	●		●			details
3	Pokljuka	18–21 December		●	●	●				details
4	Oberhof	7–11 January		●		●	●			details
5	Ruhpolding	14–18 January		●		●	●			details
6	Antholz-Anterselva	22–25 January		●	●		●			details
7	Nové Město	6–8 February		●	●			●	●	details
8	Holmenkollen	12–15 February	●	●			●			details
WC	Kontiolahti	5–15 March	●	●	●	●	●	●		World Championships
9	Khanty-Mansiysk	19–22 March		●	●	●				details
Total: 66 (31 men's, 31 women's, 4 mixed)			3	10	7	5	6	3	1

Men

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	3 December 2014	Östersund	20 km Individual	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Serhiy Semenov	Michal Šlesingr	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	6 December 2014		10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Ondřej Moravec	Jakov Fak		Detail
	7 December 2014		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
2	12 December 2014	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Simon Schempp	Andreas Birnbacher		Detail
	14 December 2014		12.5 km Pursuit	Martin Fourcade	Simon Schempp	Jakov Fak	Martin Fourcade	Detail
3	19 December 2014	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint	Anton Shipulin	Dominik Landertinger	Emil Hegle Svendsen		Detail
	20 December 2014		12.5 km Pursuit	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Detail
	21 December 2014		15 km Mass Start	Anton Shipulin	Martin Fourcade	Simon Eder	Martin Fourcade	Detail
4	10 January 2015	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Timofey Lapshin		Detail
	11 January 2015		15 km Mass Start	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Dmitry Malyshko		Detail
5	17 January 2015	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Simon Schempp	Arnd Peiffer		Detail
	18 January 2015		15 km Mass Start	Simon Schempp	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Michal Šlesingr		Detail
6	22 January 2015	Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Simon Schempp	Evgenii Garanichev	Jakov Fak		Detail
	24 January 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Simon Schempp	Simon Eder	Evgenii Garanichev		Detail
7	7 February 2015	Nové Město	10 km Sprint	Jakov Fak	Simon Schempp	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix		Detail
	8 February 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Jakov Fak	Simon Schempp	Martin Fourcade		Detail
8	12 February 2015	Oslo	20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Evgenii Garanichev	Serhiy Semenov		Detail
	14 February 2015		10 km Sprint	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin		Detail
WCH	7 March 2015	Kontiolahti	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Nathan Smith	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	8 March 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Erik Lesser	Anton Shipulin	Tarjei Bø		Detail
	12 March 2015		20 km Individual	Martin Fourcade	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Ondřej Moravec		Detail
	15 March 2015		15 km Mass Start	Jakov Fak	Ondřej Moravec	Tarjei Bø		Detail
9	19 March 2015	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km Sprint	Martin Fourcade	Anton Shipulin	Benedikt Doll		Detail
	21 March 2015		12.5 km Pursuit	Nathan Smith	Benedikt Doll	Anton Shipulin		Detail
	22 March 2015		15 km Mass Start	Jakov Fak	Anton Shipulin	Tarjei Bø		Detail

Men's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2014	Hochfilzen	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Timofey Lapshin Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	Norway Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Lars Helge Birkeland Tarjei Bø	Russia	Detail
4	8 January 2015	Oberhof	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Evgenii Garanichev Timofey Lapshin Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Alexander Os Johannes Thingnes Bø Ole Einar Bjørndalen	France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet		Detail
5	15 January 2015	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Russia Evgenii Garanichev Timofey Lapshin Alexey Volkov Anton Shipulin		Detail
6	25 January 2015	Anterselva	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	France Simon Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	Norway	Detail
8	14 February 2015	Oslo	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Russia Evgenii Garanichev Maxim Tsvetkov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Sven Grossegger Dominik Landertinger	Russia	Detail
WCH	14 March 2015	Kontiolahti	4 × 7.5 km Relay	Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade		Detail

Standings

Overall Rank after all 25 races[3] Points Martin Fourcade 1042 2. Anton Shipulin 978 3. Jakov Fak 883 4. Simon Schempp 792 5. Johannes Thingnes Bø 729 6. Ondřej Moravec 655 7. Evgenii Garanichev 636 8. Michal Šlesingr 630 9. Emil Hegle Svendsen 613 10. Erik Lesser 607

Individual Rank after all 3 races[4] Points Serhiy Semenov 142 2. Martin Fourcade 120 3. Emil Hegle Svendsen 114 4. Michal Šlesingr 109 5. Johannes Thingnes Bø 108

Sprint Rank after all 10 races[5] Points Martin Fourcade 416 2. Anton Shipulin 370 3. Simon Schempp 354 4. Jakov Fak 337 5. Johannes Thingnes Bø 331

Pursuit Rank after all 7 races[6] Points Martin Fourcade 335 2. Anton Shipulin 305 3. Jakov Fak 282 4. Simon Schempp 228 5. Erik Lesser 207

Mass start Rank after all 5 races[7] Points Anton Shipulin 242 2. Jakov Fak 204 3. Martin Fourcade 186 4. Simon Eder 174 5. Ondřej Moravec 167

Relay Rank after all 6 races[8] Points 1.  Russia 311 2.  Norway 308 3.  Germany 305 4.  France 279 5.  Austria 242

Nation Rank after all 23 races[9] Points 1.  Norway 8096.5 2.  Germany 8011.5 3.  France 7826.5 4.  Russia 7533 5.  Austria 6764

Women

World Cup Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Det.
1	4 December 2014	Östersund	15 km Individual	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Valentyna Semerenko	Darya Domracheva	Detail
	6 December 2014		7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Veronika Vítková	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Detail
	7 December 2014		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Valentyna Semerenko	Dorothea Wierer		Detail
2	12 December 2014	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Karin Oberhofer	Tiril Eckhoff		Detail
	14 December 2014		10 km Pursuit	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Ekaterina Glazyrina	Anaïs Bescond		Detail
3	18 December 2014	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint	Gabriela Soukalová	Dorothea Wierer	Valentyna Semerenko		Detail
	20 December 2014		10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Valentyna Semerenko		Detail
	21 December 2014		12.5 km Mass Start	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Anaïs Bescond	Nadezhda Skardino		Detail
4	9 January 2015	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Veronika Vítková	Dorothea Wierer	Nicole Gontier		Detail
	11 January 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Veronika Vítková	Tiril Eckhoff		Detail
5	16 January 2015	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Fanny Horn	Darya Domracheva	Tiril Eckhoff		Detail
	18 January 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Darya Domracheva	Franziska Preuß	Veronika Vítková		Detail
6	23 January 2015	Anterselva	7.5 km Sprint	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
	24 January 2015		10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Daria Virolaynen	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
7	7 February 2015	Nové Město	7.5 km Sprint	Laura Dahlmeier	Franziska Hildebrand	Veronika Vítková		Detail
	8 February 2015		10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
8	12 February 2015	Oslo	15 km Individual	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Darya Domracheva	Veronika Vítková		Detail
	14 February 2015		7.5 km Sprint	Darya Domracheva	Laura Dahlmeier	Marie Dorin Habert	Darya Domracheva	Detail
WCH	7 March 2015	Kontiolahti	7.5 km Sprint	Marie Dorin Habert	Weronika Nowakowska-Z.	Valentyna Semerenko		Detail
	8 March 2015		10 km Pursuit	Marie Dorin Habert	Laura Dahlmeier	Weronika Nowakowska-Z.		Detail
	11 March 2015		15 km Individual	Ekaterina Yurlova	Gabriela Soukalová	Kaisa Mäkäräinen		Detail
	15 March 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Valentyna Semerenko	Franziska Preuß	Karin Oberhofer		Detail
9	20 March 2015	Khanty-Mansiysk	7.5 km Sprint	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Laura Dahlmeier	Darya Domracheva		Detail
	21 March 2015		10 km Pursuit	Darya Domracheva	Laura Dahlmeier	Franziska Preuß		Detail
	22 March 2015		12.5 km Mass Start	Laura Dahlmeier	Gabriela Soukalová	Marie Dorin Habert		Detail

Women's Relay Podiums

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader	Det.
2	13 December 2014	Hochfilzen	4 × 6 km Relay	Germany Luise Kummer Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Nastassia Dubarezava Nadzeya Pisareva Darya Domracheva	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	Germany	Detail
4	7 January 2015	Oberhof	4 × 6 km Relay	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	France Marine Bolliet Marie Dorin Habert Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Nastassia Dubarezava Nadzeya Pisareva Darya Domracheva	Czech Republic	Detail
5	14 January 2015	Ruhpolding	4 × 6 km Relay	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Iryna Kryuko Nadzeya Pisareva Darya Domracheva	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier		Detail
6	25 January 2015	Anterselva	4 × 6 km Relay	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Luise Kummer Laura Dahlmeier	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	Ukraine Yuliia Dzhima Natalya Burdyga Olga Abramova Valentyna Semerenko		Detail
8	15 February 2015	Oslo	4 × 6 km Relay	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	Italy Dorothea Wierer Nicole Gontier Federica Sanfilippo Karin Oberhofer	France Anaïs Bescond Enora Latuillière Coline Varcin Marie Dorin Habert		Detail
WCH	13 March 2015	Kontiolahti	4 × 6 km Relay	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier	France Anaïs Bescond Enora Latuillière Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin Habert	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Nicole Gontier Dorothea Wierer		Detail

Standings

Overall Rank after all 25 races[10] Points Darya Domracheva 1094 2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 1047 3. Valentyna Semerenko 869 4. Veronika Vítková 798 5. Franziska Hildebrand 761 6. Gabriela Soukalová 758 7. Dorothea Wierer 751 8. Laura Dahlmeier 725 9. Franziska Preuß 658 10. Karin Oberhofer 651

Individual Rank after all 3 races[11] Points Kaisa Mäkäräinen 162 2. Darya Domracheva 139 3. Veronika Vítková 122 4. Franziska Hildebrand 103 5. Nadezhda Skardino 89

Sprint Rank after all 10 races[12] Points Darya Domracheva 417 2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 366 3. Veronika Vítková 349 4. Dorothea Wierer 335 5. Valentyna Semerenko 330

Pursuit Rank after all 7 races[13] Points Darya Domracheva 348 2. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 348 3. Valentyna Semerenko 258 4. Laura Dahlmeier 224 5. Dorothea Wierer 215

Mass start Rank after all 5 races[14] Points Franziska Preuß 218 2. Valentyna Semerenko 210 3. Darya Domracheva 206 4. Gabriela Soukalová 200 5. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 195

Relay Rank after all 6 races[15] Points 1.  Czech Republic 318 2.  Germany 303 3.  France 271 4.  Belarus 266 5.  Italy 255

Nation Rank after all 23 races[16] Points 1.  Germany 7880.5 2.  Czech Republic 7681.5 3.  France 7465.5 4.  Belarus 7323.5 5.  Ukraine 7111

Mixed Relay

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Det.
1	30 November 2014	Östersund	Mixed Relay	France Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Tiril Eckhoff Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Lars Helge Birkeland	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	Detail
7	6 February 2015	Nové Město	Single Mixed Relay	Russia Yana Romanova Alexey Volkov	Norway Marte Olsbu Henrik L'Abée-Lund	Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma Artem Tyshchenko	Detail
7	6 February 2015	Nové Město	Mixed Relay	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Valj Semerenko Dmytro Pidruchnyi Serhiy Semenov	Detail
WC	5 March 2015	Kontiolahti	Mixed relay	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec	France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Martin Fourcade	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø	Detail

Standings

Mixed relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	216
2.	France	197
3.	Czech Republic	174
4.	Ukraine	169
5.	Germany	169

• Final standings after 4 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	11	16	8	35
2	France	11	8	10	29
3	Norway	10	6	11	27
4	Belarus	9	4	3	16
5	Russia	7	10	6	23
6	Czech Republic	6	8	7	21
7	Finland	6	4	3	13
8	Slovenia	4	0	3	7
9	Ukraine	1	2	8	11
10	Canada	1	1	0	2
11	Italy	0	4	4	8
12	Austria	0	2	2	4
13	Poland	0	1	1	2
Totals (13 entries)		66	66	66	198

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Tiril Eckhoff (NOR), 24, in her 4th season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; first podium was 2013–14 Pursuit in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand
•  Veronika Vítková (CZE), 26, in her 9th season — the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof; first podium was 2012–13 Pursuit in Oberhof
•  Fanny Welle-Strand Horn (NOR), 26, in her 6th season — the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding; it also was her first podium
•  Laura Dahlmeier (GER), 21, in her 3rd season — the WC 7 Sprint in Nové Město; first podium was 2014–15 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Marie Dorin Habert (FRA), 28, in her 8th season — the World Championships Sprint in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2008–09 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk
•  Erik Lesser (GER), 26, in his 6th season — the World Championships Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2012–13 Individual in Östersund
•  Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS), 30, in her 7th season — the World Championships Individual in Kontiolahti; it also was her first podium
•  Nathan Smith (CAN), 29, in his 7th season — the WC 9 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk; first podium was 2015 World Championships Sprint in Kontiolahti

First World Cup podium

•  Karin Oberhofer (ITA), 29, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen
•  Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 22, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Pursuit in Hochfilzen
•  Nicole Gontier (ITA), 23, in her 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Oberhof
•  Franziska Preuß (GER), 20, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 5 Mass Start in Ruhpolding
•  Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA), 22, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 5 Mass Start in Ruhpolding
•  Laura Dahlmeier (GER), 21, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Franziska Hildebrand (GER), 27, in her 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Sprint in Nové Město
•  Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak (POL), 28, in her 8th season — no.2 in the World Championships Sprint in Kontiolahti
•  Nathan Smith (CAN), 29, in his 7th season — no.2 in the World Championships Sprint in Kontiolahti
•  Benedikt Doll (GER), 24, in his 4th 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), 8 (37) first places  Jakov Fak (SLO), 4 (8) first places  Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 3 (8) first places  Simon Schempp (GER), 3 (5) first places  Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR), 2 (37) first places  Anton Shipulin (RUS), 2 (7) first places  Arnd Peiffer (GER), 1 (7) first place  Erik Lesser (GER), 1 (1) first place  Nathan Smith (CAN), 1 (1) first place

Women  Darya Domracheva (BLR), 9 (25) first places  Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN), 6 (15) first places  Marie Dorin Habert (FRA), 2 (2) first places  Laura Dahlmeier (GER), 2 (2) first places  Gabriela Soukalová (CZE), 1 (8) first place  Valj Semerenko (UKR), 1 (2) first place  Tiril Eckhoff (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Veronika Vítková (CZE), 1 (1) first place  Fanny Welle-Strand Horn (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes announced their retirement during or after the 2014–15 season:

Men  Alexei Almoukov (AUS)  Alexis Bœuf (FRA)[17]  Lee-Steve Jackson (GBR)[18]  Christoph Stephan (GER)[19]  Lars Berger (NOR)[20]  Martin Eng (NOR)  Janez Marič (SLO)[21]  Serguei Sednev (UKR)[22]

Women  Rayna Koyuva (BGR)  Chaoqing Song (CHN)  Yue Wang (CHN)  Eevamari Rauhamaki (FIN)  Sophie Boilley (FRA)[23]  Nerys Jones (GBR)[18]  Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle (GER)[24]  Roberta Fiandino (ITA)[25]  Miki Kobayashi (JPN)  Katsura Sato (JPN)  Jo In-hee (KOR)  Kim Kyung-nam (KOR)  Ane Skrove Nossum (NOR)  Anastasia Kalina (RUS)  Olga Zaitseva (RUS)[26]  Yana Romanova (RUS)[27]  Evgenia Seledtsova (RUS)

External links

• IBU official site

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