2008–09 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Women

The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Women started at Thursday December 4, 2008 in Östersund and finished Wednesday March 11, 2009 in Vancouver at the pre-Olympic biathlon event. The defending titlist was Martina Beck of Germany.

Competition format

The format consists of a 15 kilometre (9.3 mi) individual race and is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

2007–2008 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Martina Beck	139
Silver:	Tatiana Moiseeva	111
Bronze:	Ekaterina Iourieva	107

Medal winners

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund details	Helena Jonsson Sweden	45:05.1 (0+0+0+0)	Kati Wilhelm Germany	45:44.8 (1+0+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	46:20.5 (0+0+0+1)
Hochfilzen details	Éva Tófalvi Romania	50:20.5 (0+0+0+0)	Svetlana Sleptsova Russia	50:52.9 (0+1+0+1)	Simone Hauswald Germany	52:13.3 (0+2+0+1)
World Championships details	Kati Wilhelm Germany	44:03.1 (0+1+0+0)	Teja Gregorin Slovenia	44:42.6 (0+0+0+1)	Tora Berger Norway	44:49.6 (0+0+0+1)
Vancouver details	Simone Hauswald Germany	42:44.6 (0+0+0+0)	Olga Zaitseva Russia	43:23.9 (0+0+0+1)	Vita Semerenko Ukraine	43:50.4 (0+0+1+0)

Final standings

#	Name	ÖST	HOC	WCH	VAN	Total
1.	Magdalena Neuner	48	38	–	43	129
2	Éva Tófalvi	6	60	36	27	123
3	Tora Berger	38	–	48	36	122
4	Kati Wilhelm	54	–	60	1	115
5	Olga Zaitseva	13	32	27	54	113
6	Helena Jonsson	60	14	34	17	111
7	Vita Semerenko	34	20	29	48	111
8	Simone Hauswald	–	48	–	60	108
9	Andrea Henkel	31	9	31	40	102
10	Oksana Khvostenko	43	27	20	29	99
11	Anna Carin Olofsson	29	23	43	0	95
12	Svetlana Sleptsova	23	54	–	16	94
13	Liu Xianying	40	34	0	18	92
14	Darya Domracheva	32	25	30	–	87
15	Teja Gregorin	3	–	54	26	83
16	Martina Beck	36	28	13	19	83
17	Sandrine Bailly	0	10	32	38	80
18	Anne Ingstadbjoerg	30	16	15	28	74
19	Katja Haller	12	33	24	0	67
20	Olga Medvedtseva	0	43	22	0	65
21	Nadezhda Skardino	25	29	9	8	63
22	Natalia Levchenkova	27	0	23	11	61
23	Weronika Novakowska	21	–	5	34	60
24	Michela Ponza	8	19	3	31	58
25	Valj Semerenko	16	0	15	25	56
26	Marie-Laure Brunet	22	–	26	–	48
27	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	0	36	11	–	47
28	Olena Pidrushna	14	0	25	7	46
29	Solveig Rogstad	5	40	0	0	45
30	Anastasiya Kuzmina	–	–	12	32	44
31	Agnieszka Grzybek	–	21	21	0	42
32	Eveli Saue	0	11	0	30	41
33	Veronika Vítková	–	0	40	–	40
34	Andreja Mali	0	26	0	13	39
35	Sylvie Becaert	0	0	19	20	39
36	Elena Khrustaleva	0	0	38	–	38
37	Pavlina Filipova	9	0	28	–	37
38	Anne Preussler	17	18	–	–	35
39	Wang Chunli	0	30	0	4	34
40	Kong Yingchao	10	24	–	–	34
41	Iana Romanova	–	–	17	15	32
42	Oksana Neupokoeva	–	17	–	13	30
43	Madara Liduma	19	0	10	0	29
44	Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen	28	0	–	–	28
45	Liv Kjersti Eikeland	26	0	–	0	26
46	Paulina Bobak	0	22	4	–	26
47	Lilia Vaygina-Efremova	20	6	–	–	26
48	Magda Rezlerova	18	7	0	0	25
49	Pauline Macabies	0	0	–	24	24
50	Jenny Jonsson	0	0	–	23	23
51	Liudmila Ananko	23	0	–	–	23
52	Julie Carraz-Collin	0	1	–	22	23
53	Marie Dorin	0	0	8	14	22
54	Juliane Doll	–	–	–	21	21
55	Anna Boulygina	4	–	16	0	20
56	Haley Johnson	0	0	18	0	18
57	Kathrin Hitzer	3	15	0	–	18
58	Dong Xue	11	5	0	0	16
59	Olga Nazarova	0	2	8	6	16
60	Olga Kudrashova	15	0	0	0	15
61	Diana Rasimovičiūtė	0	12	0	3	15
62	Anna Maria Nilsson	0	13	0	0	13
63	Lubomira Kalinova	0	0	0	10	10
64	Zdenka Vejnarova	0	0	0	9	9
65	Ann Kristin Flatland	–	8	0	–	8
66	Sofia Domeij	7	0	0	0	7
67	Zina Kocher	0	0	6	0	6
68	Kari Henneseid Eie	0	0	–	5	5
69	Kadri Lehtla	0	4	0	–	4
70	Song Chaoqing	0	3	–	0	3
71	Liudmila Kalinchik	0	0	–	2	2
72	Andrijana Stipanicic	–	0	2	0	2
73	Magdalena Gwizdoń	0	0	1	0	1
74	Sabrina Buchholz	1	–	–	–	1