2006–07 Biathlon World Cup
The 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season lasted from 29 November 2006 to 18 March 2007.
This article contains the top ten result listings and concise summary comments for each of the season's twenty-seven individual races and five relays for both genders, arranged by World Cup meet 1 through 9 (denoted WC 1–9), accompanied by the top ten Total Cup rankings after each of the meets plus the 2007 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores).
- For detailed tables of the development of accumulated scores and related rankings in the Total, Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass start, Relay, and Nation Cups, see 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup statistics.
- For a list of the Total and Relay World Cup winners and runners-up of all World Cup seasons since 1977-78, see the Biathlon World Cup article.
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Pre-season brief on participants
Retired after the previous season:
- Katja Beer (GER), 30, after 10 seasons – 1 WC win, 3 WC podiums, 6th in 2003 WCh Mass Start.
- Uschi Disl (GER), 36, after 16 seasons – 2 Olympic gold medals in relay, 8 Olympic medals (4 relays), 6 WCh gold medals (4 relays), 15 WCh medals (8 relays), 30 WC wins, 74 WC podiums, 3 times 2nd in overall World Cup.
- Liv Grete Poirée (NOR), 32, after 12 seasons – 3 Olympic medals (2 relays), 7 WCh gold medals (1 relay), 11 WCh medals (2 relays), 22 WC wins, 46 WC podiums, overall World Cup winner 2003–04.
- Pavel Rostovtsev (RUS), 35, after 11 seasons – 1 Olympic silver medal in relay, 3 WCh gold medals (1 relay), 9 WCh medals (4 relay), 7 WC wins, 25 WC podiums, 2nd in overall World Cup 2001–02.
- Olena Zubrilova (BLR), 33, after 14 seasons – 3 WCh gold medals, 14 WCh medals (4 relays), 21 WC wins, 49 WC podiums, 2 times 2nd in overall World Cup.
Changing surname due to marriage:
- Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen (BEL), née Santer, married Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen in May 2006.
- Linda Grubben (NOR), née Tjørhom, married former head coach of the Norwegian men's team, Roger Grubben, in August 2006.
- Olga Zaitseva (RUS), after marrying former summer biathlete Milan Augustin (SVK) in September 2006, planned to change her surname to his.[1]
Changing nation since the previous season:
- Alexei Aidarov changed his citizenship from Belarus to Ukraine; the change was deemed valid for World Cup purposes from January onwards, but not for the World Championships.[2]
- Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen of Italy did not qualify for her country's team this season, but was able to participate for Belgium, the birth country of her mother.[3]
Passing over this season due to pregnancy: [4]
- Albina Akhatova (RUS), 30
- Kateřina Holubcová (CZE), 30
- Svetlana Ishmouratova (RUS), 34
- Olga Nazarova (BLR), 29
- Olga Zaitseva (RUS), 28
Planning to make this season their last:
- Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen (BEL),[3] 34, starting her 16th season – 3 WC wins, 15 WC podiums, 2nd in overall World Cup 1993–94, 4th in 1996 WCh Individual, 6th in 1994 Olympics Sprint.
- Ludwig Gredler (AUT), 39, starting his 17th season – 2 WCh Individual medals, 6 WC wins, 17 WC podiums, 4th in 2002 Olympics Pursuit.
- Ricco Groß (GER), 36, starting his 17th season – 4 Olympic gold medals in relay, 8 Olympic medals (5 relay), 9 WCh gold medals (5 relay), 19 WCh medals (9 relay), 9 WC wins, 52 WC podiums, 2nd in overall World Cup 1997–98.[5]
Scores and leader bibs
- For the seventh successive season, the race victory gives 50 points, a 2nd place gives 46 pts, a 3rd place 43 pts, a 4th place 40 pts, a fifth place 37 pts, a 6th place 34 pts, then further decreasing by two pts down to the 15th place (16 pts), then linearly decreasing by one point down to the 30th place (see the Place/Points table on the page's upper right). Equal placings, i.e. same-time finishes (ties) give an equal number of points.
- The sum of all WC points of the season, minus the score from a predetermined number of events (say, 3) give the biathlete's accumulated WC score (naturally, the races chosen to be eliminated from the total will be those with the lowest scores). Biathletes with an equal number of accumulated points are ranked by number of victories, 2nd places, 3rd places, and so on, in practice reducing the possibility of ties to just about nil.
- In addition to the Total WC score as described above, the points from races in each separate single-biathlete format—Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass start—accumulate toward separate scores with associated "sub-Cups" to be won. See the main Biathlon article for a detailed description of the race formats.
- In any given race, the biathlete with the highest accumulated Total WC score before the race wears a yellow number bib. The leader of the specific race format wears a red bib. If the same biathlete leads both the Total and the specific format's World Cup, a combined yellow-and-red bib is worn. In the first races of the season, the winners of the previous season's Cups wear the associated bibs.
- There are also two multi-biathlete Cups to be won, namely the Relay and Nation Cups. The scores of the Relay races are awarded to each nation's team in the same manner as in the single-biathlete Cups. No leader bibs are worn during the Relays. For the Nation Cup, the combined scores of the three best biathletes from each nation in the Individual and Sprint races, as well as the Relay scores, are accumulated. The Nation Cup points scale is different from the World Cup points scale; each place from 1st through 30th scores 100 more points than in the World Cup, and from 31st down to 130th points are awarded on a scale from 100 to 1.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  | 21 | 26 | 25 | 72 |
| 2 |  | 16 | 7 | 8 | 31 |
| 3 |  | 10 | 13 | 7 | 30 |
| 4 |  | 9 | 9 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 |  | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 |  | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 |  | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |  | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 |  | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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| Totals (15 nations) | 64 | 64 | 64 | 192 | |
World Cup Podium
Men
Women
Men's team
| Event | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third |
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| 2 | 10 December 2006 | |
4x7.5 km Relay | |
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| 3 | 17 December 2006 | |
4x7.5 km Relay | |
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| 4 | 4 January 2007 | |
4x7.5 km Relay | |
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| 5 | 11 January 2007 | |
4x7.5 km Relay | |
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| WC | 10 February 2007 | |
4x7.5 km Relay | |
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Women's team
| Event | Date | Place | Discipline | Winner | Second | Third |
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| 2 | 10 December 2006 | |
4x6 km Relay |
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| 3 | 17 December 2006 | |
4x6 km Relay | |
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| 4 | 3 January 2007 | |
4x6 km Relay | |
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| 5 | 10 January 2007 | |
4x6 km Relay |
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| WC | 11 February 2007 | |
4x6 km Relay | |
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Standings: Men
Overall
| Pos. | Points | |
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| 794 | |
| 2. | | 736 |
| 3. | | 709 |
| 4. | | 673 |
| 5. | | 619 |
- Final standings after 27 races.
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Relay
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Nation
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Standings: Women
Overall
| Pos. | Points | |
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| 870 | |
| 2. | | 863 |
| 3. | | 860 |
| 4. | | 720 |
| 5. | | 671 |
- Final standings after 27 races.
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Pursuit
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Mass Start
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Relay
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Nation
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Post-season brief on participants [6][7]
First World Cup career victory:
First podium placement:
Retirements
Following notable biathletes retired during or after the 2006–07 season:
Footnotes and references
- ↑ Olga Zaitseva – Russian biathlete marries Slovakian, biathlonworld.com, by Ivor Lehotan, IBU, 17 October 2006
- ↑ Aidarov nun für die Ukraine (in German), Biathlon-Online, by Petra Adámková, czech-biathlon.com, 15 October 2006
- 1 2 Chatlog: Nathalie Santer-Bjoerndalen, biathlonworld.com, by Tom Klein (ed.), ZDF digital productions, 4 January 2007
- ↑ Von Babys und Schwangeren... (in German), Biathlon-Online, 4 January 2007
- ↑ Hitzer und Groß mit neuem Web-Auftritt (in German), Biathlon-Online, 11 January 2007
- ↑ Time to say goodbye... (in German), Biathlon-Online, 19 March 2007 (updated 21 March 2007)
- ↑ Review of the 2006/2007 World Cup Season – Part VIII, biathlonworld.com, by Tom Klein, Jürgen Palme (eds.), ZDF-digital productions, 26 March 2007
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