2001–02 Biathlon World Cup

2001–02 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Raphaël Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg
Nations Cup	Germany	Germany
Individual	Frank Luck	Magdalena Forsberg
Sprint	Sven Fischer	Magdalena Forsberg
Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg
Mass start	Viktor Maigourov	Magdalena Forsberg
Relay	Norway	Germany
Competition
←2000–01 2002–03→

The 2001–02 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 6 December 2001 in Hochfilzen, Austria, and ended on 24 March 2002 in Holmenkollen, Norway.^[1] It was the 25th season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2001–02 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Details
Hochfilzen	6–9 December		●	●		●	details
Pokljuka	12–16 December	●		●		●	details
Brezno-Osrblie	19–22 December	●	●		●		details
Oberhof	9–13 January		●	●	●		details
Ruhpolding	16–20 January		●	●		●	details
Antholz-Anterselva	23–27 January	●		●		●	details
Salt Lake City	9–20 February	●	●	●		●	Winter Olympics
Östersund	9–10 March		●	●			details
Lahti	14–17 March		●	●		●	details
Holmenkollen	21–23 March		●	●	●		details
Total		4	8	9	3	6

World Cup Podium

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	6 December 2001	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Vesa Hietalahti	Frank Luck	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
1	9 December 2001	Hochfilzen	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frank Luck	Ricco Groß	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Detail
2	13 December 2001	Pokljuka	20 km Individual	Pavel Rostovtsev	Ilmārs Bricis	Vincent Defrasne	Pavel Rostovtsev	Detail
2	16 December 2001	Pokljuka	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Pavel Rostovtsev	Halvard Hanevold	Pavel Rostovtsev	Detail
3	19 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	20 km Individual	Frank Luck	Sven Fischer	Sergei Rozhkov	Frank Luck	Detail
3	21 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Sprint	Christoph Sumann	Henrik Forsberg	Andriy Deryzemlya		Detail
3	22 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Mass Start	Vesa Hietalahti	Alexander Wolf	Vyacheslav Derkach		Detail
4	9 January 2002	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Pavel Rostovtsev	Sven Fischer	Vesa Hietalahti	Pavel Rostovtsev	Detail
4	11 January 2002	Oberhof	12.5 km Pursuit	Pavel Rostovtsev	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer		Detail
4	12 January 2002	Oberhof	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Vincent Defrasne	Viktor Maigourov		Detail
5	18 January 2002	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Michael Greis	Frode Andresen		Detail
5	20 January 2002	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Pursuit	Sven Fischer	Frank Luck	Pavel Rostovtsev		Detail
6	24 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Daniel Mesotitsch	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Michail Kochkin		Detail
6	27 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Daniel Mesotitsch	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
OG	11 February 2002	Salt Lake City	20 km Individual	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Frank Luck	Viktor Maigourov		Detail
OG	13 February 2002	Salt Lake City	10 km Sprint	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Sven Fischer	Wolfgang Perner		Detail
OG	16 February 2002	Salt Lake City	12.5 km Pursuit	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Raphaël Poirée	Ricco Groß		Detail
7	9 March 2002	Östersund	10 km Sprint	Sven Fischer	Michael Greis	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Pavel Rostovtsev	Detail
7	10 March 2002	Östersund	12.5 km Pursuit	Pavel Rostovtsev	Sven Fischer	Ole Einar Bjørndalen		Detail
8	14 March 2002	Lahti	10 km Sprint	Raphaël Poirée	Frode Andresen	Sven Fischer		Detail
8	17 March 2002	Lahti	12.5 km Pursuit	Raphaël Poirée	Frode Andresen	Sven Fischer	Raphaël Poirée	Detail
9	21 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Frank Luck	Sven Fischer	Vesa Hietalahti		Detail
9	23 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Pursuit	Sven Fischer	Frode Andresen	Raphaël Poirée		Detail
WC	24 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	15 km Mass Start	Raphaël Poirée	Sven Fischer	Frode Andresen		Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	6 December 2001	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Magdalena Forsberg	Andrea Henkel	Uschi Disl Martina Zellner	Magdalena Forsberg	Detail
1	9 December 2001	Hochfilzen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Uschi Disl		Detail
2	12 December 2001	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Magdalena Forsberg	Uschi Disl	Andrea Henkel		Detail
2	16 December 2001	Pokljuka	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Olga Pyleva	Andrea Henkel		Detail
3	20 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Individual	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Katja Holanti		Detail
3	21 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	7.5 km Sprint	Katja Holanti	Kati Wilhelm	Katrin Apel		Detail
3	22 December 2001	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km Mass Start	Magdalena Forsberg	Olga Pyleva	Uschi Disl		Detail
4	10 January 2002	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Olga Pyleva	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
4	11 January 2002	Oberhof	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova	Liv Grete Poirée		Detail
4	13 January 2002	Oberhof	12.5 km Mass Start	Olena Zubrilova	Liv Grete Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
5	19 January 2002	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Olena Zubrilova	Irina Nikulchina		Detail
5	20 January 2002	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg	Olena Zubrilova		Detail
6	23 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Liv Grete Poirée	Gunn Margit Andreassen	Andreja Grašič		Detail
6	27 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Pursuit	Liv Grete Poirée	Gunn Margit Andreassen	Linda Tjørhom		Detail
OG	11 February 2002	Salt Lake City	15 km Individual	Andrea Henkel	Liv Grete Poirée	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
OG	13 February 2002	Salt Lake City	7.5 km Sprint	Kati Wilhelm	Uschi Disl	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
OG	16 February 2002	Salt Lake City	10 km Pursuit	Olga Pyleva	Kati Wilhelm	Irina Nikulchina		Detail
7	9 March 2002	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Liv Grete Poirée	Sandrine Bailly	Magdalena Forsberg		Detail
7	10 March 2002	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Florence Baverel-Robert	Ekaterina Dafovska		Detail
8	14 March 2002	Lahti	7.5 km Sprint	Katrin Apel	Magdalena Forsberg	Sandrine Bailly		Detail
8	17 March 2002	Lahti	10 km Pursuit	Katrin Apel	Magdalena Forsberg	Katja Beer		Detail
9	21 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint	Katrin Apel	Ekaterina Dafovska	Svetlana Ishmouratova		Detail
9	23 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Pursuit	Magdalena Forsberg	Katrin Apel	Uschi Disl		Detail
WC	24 March 2002	Oslo Holmenkollen	12.5 km Mass Start	Olena Zubrilova	Olga Pyleva	Olga Nazarova		Detail

Men's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	8 December 2001	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Marco Morgenstern Michael Greis Frank Luck	Norway Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Alexandr Syman Oleg Ryzhenkov Vadim Sashurin
2	15 December 2001	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Wolfgang Perner Christoph Sumann Ludwig Gredler	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Alexandr Syman Oleg Ryzhenkov Vadim Sashurin	Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Egil Gjelland Dag Bjørndalen Halvard Hanevold
5	18 January 2002	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	Norway Egil Gjelland Stian Eckhoff Frode Andresen Halvard Hanevold	Russia Viktor Maigourov Sergei Rusinov Sergei Tchepikov Pavel Rostovtsev
6	26 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Halvard Hanevold Egil Gjelland Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	France Gilles Marguet Ferréol Cannard Raphael Poiree Julien Robert	Slovenia Janez Ožbolt Marko Dolenc Tomaž Globočnik Aleksander Grajf
OG	20 February 2002	Salt Lake City	4x7.5 km Relay	Norway Halvard Hanevold Frode Andresen Egil Gjelland Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Germany Ricco Gross Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	France Gilles Marguet Vincent Defrasne Julien Robert Raphael Poiree
8	16 March 2002	Lahti	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Ricco Gross Michael Greis Sven Fischer Frank Luck	Norway Stian Eckhoff Frode Andresen Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Rustam Valiullin Alexandr Syman Oleg Ryzhenkov

Women's team

Event	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third
1	7 December 2001	Hochfilzen	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Uschi Disl Katrin Apel Martina Zellner Martina Glagow	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Ishmouratova	Bulgaria Pavlina Filipova Irina Nikulchina Ekaterina Dafovska Iva Karagiozova
2	14 December 2001	Pokljuka	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Katrin Apel Andrea Henkel Janet Klein Kati Wilhelm	Norway Liv Grete Poiree Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen Linda Tjorhom Gunn Margit Andreassen	Ukraine Olena Zubrilova Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Tetyana Vodopyanova
5	17 January 2002	Ruhpolding	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Katrin Apel Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Kati Wilhelm	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Anna Bogaliy Albina Akhatova	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Linda Tjorhom Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poiree
6	25 January 2002	Antholz-Anterselva	4x7.5 km Relay	France Delphyne Heymann Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly Corinne Niogret	Norway Gunn Margit Andreassen Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen Linda Tjorhom	Slovakia Martina Jašicová Anna Murínová Tatiana Kutlíková Soňa Mihoková
OG	18 February 2002	Salt Lake City	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Katrin Apel Uschi Disl Andrea Henkel Kati Wilhelm	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Linda Tjorhom Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Poiree	Russia Olga Pyleva Galina Kukleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Albina Akhatova
8	15 March 2002	Lahti	4x7.5 km Relay	Germany Katrin Apel Martina Zellner Martina Glagow Katja Beer	Russia Svetlana Tchernousova Irina Malgina Svetlana Ishmouratova Albina Akhatova	France Sylvie Becaert Delphyne Heymann Corinne Niogret Sandrine Bailly

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	805
2.	Pavel Rostovtsev	719
3.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	692
4.	Sven Fischer	681
5.	Frode Andresen	664

Final standings after 24 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Frank Luck	128
2.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	108
3.	Pavel Rostovtsev	100
4.	Sergei Tchepikov	92
5.	Raphaël Poirée	88

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Sven Fischer	291
2.	Frode Andresen	255
3.	Raphaël Poirée	233
4.	Pavel Rostovtsev	231
5.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	219

Final standings after 8 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Raphaël Poirée	362
2.	Pavel Rostovtsev	324
3.	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	315
4.	Frode Andresen	259
5.	Sven Fischer	254

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Viktor Maigourov	109
2.	Raphaël Poirée	100
3.	Sven Fischer	88
4.	Vesa Hietalahti	81
5.	Ricco Groß	73

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Norway	238
2.	Germany	230
3.	Belarus	202
4.	France	197
5.	Austria	193

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	4095
2.	Norway	3969
3.	Russia	3852
4.	Austria	3551
5.	France	3422

Final standings after 18 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	944
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	795
3.	Uschi Disl	739
4.	Olga Pyleva	726
5.	Katrin Apel	639

Final standings after 24 races.

Individual

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	143
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	133
3.	Olga Pyleva	120
4.	Andrea Henkel	117
5.	Gunn Margit Andreassen	100

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	302
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	262
3.	Uschi Disl	260
4.	Katrin Apel	245
5.	Olga Pyleva	217

Final standings after 8 races.

Pursuit

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	376
2.	Liv Grete Poirée	327
3.	Uschi Disl	277
4.	Katrin Apel	268
5.	Olga Pyleva	267

Final standings after 9 races.

Mass Start

Pos.		Points
1.	Magdalena Forsberg	123
2.	Olga Pyleva	122
3.	Olena Zubrilova	114
4.	Uschi Disl	108
5.	Svetlana Ishmouratova	80

Final standings after 4 races.

Relay

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	250
2.	Norway	221
3.	Russia	221
4.	France	207
5.	Bulgaria	181

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Pos.		Points
1.	Germany	4099
2.	Russia	3895
3.	Norway	3623
4.	France	3571
5.	Ukraine	3381

Final standings after 18 races.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	18	19	14	51
2	Norway	13	15	9	37
3	Sweden	9	4	5	18
4	France	8	6	5	19
5	Russia	5	8	8	21
6	Austria	3	0	2	5
7	Ukraine	2	4	4	10
8	Finland	2	1	3	6
9	Bulgaria	0	1	4	5
10	Belarus	0	1	3	4
11	Latvia	0	1	0	1
12	Slovenia	0	0	2	2
13	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		60	60	60	180

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Christoph Sumann (AUT), 25, in his 2nd season — the WC 3 Sprint in Brezno-Osrblie; it also was his first podium
Katja Holanti (FIN), 27, in her 9th season — the WC 3 Sprint in Brezno-Osrblie; first podium was 2001–02 Individual in Brezno-Osrblie
Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 25, in his 3rd season — the WC 6 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was his first podium
Olga Pyleva (RUS), 26, in her 3rd season — the Olympic Pursuit in Salt Lake City; first podium was 1999–2000 Sprint in Ruhpolding
Katrin Apel (GER), 28, in her 7th season — the WC 8 Sprint in Lahti; first podium was 1995–96 Individual in Pokljuka

First World Cup podium

Vincent Defrasne (FRA), 24, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Individual in Pokljuka
Katja Holanti (FIN), 27, in her 9th season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Brezno-Osrblie
Alexander Wolf (GER), 23, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Mass Start in Brezno-Osrblie
Michael Greis (GER), 25, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding
Mikhail Kochkin (RUS), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva
Linda Tjørhom (NOR), 22, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva
Katja Beer (GER), 25, in her 7th season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Pursuit in Lahti
Olga Nazarova (BLR), 24, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the World Championships Mass Start in Holmenkollen

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

Men

Raphaël Poirée (FRA), 7 (21) first places
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), 5 (27) first places
Pavel Rostovtsev (RUS), 4 (7) first places
Sven Fischer (GER), 3 (22) first places
Frank Luck (GER), 2 (11) first places
Vesa Hietalahti (FIN), 1 (3) first place
Christoph Sumann (AUT), 1 (1) first place
Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT), 1 (1) first place

Women

Magdalena Forsberg (SWE), 9 (42) first places
Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée (NOR), 6 (13) first places
Katrin Apel (GER), 3 (3) first places
Olena Zubrilova (UKR), 2 (17) first places
Andrea Henkel (GER), 1 (3) first place
Kati Wilhelm (GER), 1 (3) first place
Katja Holanti (FIN), 1 (1) first place
Olga Pyleva (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes announced their retirement during or after the 2001–02 season:

References

^ ^a ^b "Event Schedule". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2016.

External links

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