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2007–08 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 5
The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 5 was the fifth event of the season and was held in Ruhpolding, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ..., from January 9 until January 13, 2008. Schedule of events Medal winners Men Women References {{DEFAULTSORT:Biathlon World Cup - World Cup 5, 2007-08 5 January 2008 sports events in Germany 2008 in German sport 2008, Biathlon World Cup - World Cup 5 World Cup - World Cup 5, 2007-08 Sports competitions in Bavaria Traunstein (district) Sport in Upper Bavaria ...
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2007–08 Biathlon World Cup
The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started 28 November 2007 and ended 16 March 2008. 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 2008 World Championships (held between WC 6 and 7, and in the usual way counted as a World Cup meet towards the accumulated scores). * 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. Scores and leader bibs * For the eighth 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 p ...
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Magdalena Neuner
Magdalena "Lena" Holzer (, ; born 9 February 1987) is a retired Germans, German professional biathlon, biathlete. She is the Biathlon World Championships#Multiple medallist, most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the age of 21, she became the youngest Overall World Cup winner in the history of the International Biathlon Union (IBU). With 34 World Cup wins, Holzer is ranked second all-time for career victories on the Biathlon World Cup tour. She has won the Overall World Cup title three times, in 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup, 2007–08, in 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup, 2009–10 and her final season in 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup, 2011–12. At only 25 years old, Holzer retired from the sport in March 2012, citing a lack of motivation and her desire for a normal life. Holzer started biathlon when she was nine years old and won five junior world championship titles from 2004 to 2006. She made her World Cup debut i ...
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January 2008 Sports Events In Germany
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer). In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa. Ancient Roman observances during this month include Cervula and Juvenalia, celebrated January 1, as well as one of three Agonalia, celebrated January 9, and Carmentalia, celebrated January 11. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. History January (in Latin, ''Ianuarius'') is named after Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology. Traditionally, the original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months totaling 304 days, win ...
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Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Kaisa Leena Mäkäräinen (born 11 January 1983) is a Finnish former world-champion and 3-time world-cup-winning biathlete, who currently competes for Kontiolahden Urheilijat. Outside sports, Mäkäräinen is currently studying to be a Physics teacher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. Her team coach is Jonne Kähkönen, while Jarmo Punkkinen is her ski coach. Career Mäkäräinen was originally a cross-country skier and focused on this until the age of twenty. She started training for the biathlon in 2003. In 2004, she made the Finnish National Team. 2005 saw Mäkäräinen compete at the Biathlon World Championships for the first time. Her best placings in the Biathlon World Championships have occurred at the 2007 World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva, where she placed eighth in the individual 15  and seventh in the mass start events. At the 2008 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund, she was 15th in the mass start. During the 2007-08 Biathlon W ...
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Helena Ekholm
Helena Ekholm (née Helena Jonsson) (born September 6, 1984 in Helgum) is a former Swedish biathlete. She was born in Helgum, Sollefteå Municipality. She is the 2009 world champion in pursuit and the 2011 world champion in individual. She also won the Women's Overall World Cup in the 2008–09 season. In 2009, Ekholm won the Jerring Award. Career Jonsson debuted in 2005 in Östersund in the relay, coming in 15th. In the following World Cup in Hochfilzen she participated in her first individual, coming in 41st. In early 2006 she participated in the Biathlon World Championships Mixed Relay event in 2006 in Pokljuka, coming in sixth. The 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup began very successfully for her. In the World Cup 3 in Hochfilzen, she came in fourth in the Individual, eighth in the Sprint, and was on the relay team which came in fifth. In the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz she continued her upward trend and placed fourth in the Sprint. As a high point she led th ...
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Natalia Guseva
Natalia Vladimirovna Guseva (; born 12 September 1982 in Tikhvin, Russian SFSR), née Sorokina (Сорокина), is a Russian female biathlon, biathlete who lives in Saint Petersburg. Besides her biathlon career, she is a professional soldier, and as such represents the Russian Ground Forces, Russian Army sports club. Career highlights Major championships: * Guseva has one World Championship medal: the bronze medal, bronze in the Biathlon World Championships 2007 - Women's Sprint, Sprint event of the 2007 World Championships in Rasen-Antholz, Antholz, Italy. In the same Championships, she got three other top-10 placements: Biathlon World Championships 2007 - Women's Pursuit, 4th place in the Pursuit, Biathlon World Championships 2007 - Women's Mass Start, 4th in the Mass start, and Biathlon World Championships 2007 - Women's Relay, 7th in the Relay. * In the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof, Germany, Oberhof, Germany, Guseva finished 10th in the Pursuit, and 7th in the M ...
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Ekaterina Iourieva
Ekaterina Valeryevna Iourieva (; born June 11, 1983, in Chaykovsky, Perm Krai) is a Russian former biathlete and 2008 World Champion in the 15 km individual. She was disqualified for 10 years for doping violations. Doping cases On February 13, 2009, IBU announced Iourieva, as well as two other Russian team members, Olympic champion Albina Akhatova and world champion Dmitri Yaroshenko Dmitri Vladimirovich Yaroshenko (; born 4 November 1976) is a Russian former biathlete. He broke through during the 2006–07 season at the age of 30, after winning a European Championship silver medal in 2004. He won one victory in the Biathlo ..., tested positive for EPO during the World Cup in Östersund. Iourieva has been banned for two years. In January 2014, she was reported to fail the doping test again. In February 2014, in her blog Iourieva announced her retirement. On July 14, 2014, she was formally disqualified for eight years, and all her results after December 23, 2013, were m ...
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Olga Anisimova
Olga Anisimova (Russian Ольга Викторовна Анисимова; born 29 January 1972) is a former Russian biathlete. Career Anisimova started her career competing for the USSR at the Biathlon Youth and Junior World Championships between 1988 and 1991. Her Biathlon World Cup debut came during the 1991-92 Biathlon World Cup season in the individual in Hochfilzen, Austria. She competed during the 1993-94 Biathlon World Cup season. However, she was out of the A-Team following the 1995-96 Biathlon World Cup season, making a comeback a decade later during the 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup season. She made her way back into the Russian A-Team thanks to great results in the European Cup when she won the overall title during the 2005–06 season. At the 2004 Biathlon Open European Championships in Minsk, Belarus, she won a gold medal with the Russian relay. Two years later in Arber, Germany, she won two silver medals in the sprint and pursuit. Her best ever result in the ...
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Svetlana Sleptsova
Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova (; born 31 July 1986 in Khanty Mansiysk) is a retired Russian biathlete. She is a member of the club CSKA (Central Sports Club of the Army). She is a three-time Junior World Champion and won the bronze medal in the mixed relay at the Biathlon World Championships 2008, 2008 World Championships in Östersund. In 2009, she was part of the gold medal winning Russian women's relay team at the Biathlon World Championships 2009, World Championships in Pyeongchang. Sleptsova is an Olympic champion in relay at Olympic Games 2010, Vancouver. In February 2020, Sleptsova was found guilty of an anti-doping violation and had her results from 2013-14 disqualified. She was further identified as being a protected athlete as part of the Russian state doping program by whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, in which he alleges that her positive drug test from an in-competition test result was attributed to another athlete through state intervention. Career Sleptsova achieved ...
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Ann Kristin Flatland
Ann Kristin Aafedt Flatland (born 6 November 1982) is a retired Norwegian biathlete. Ann Kristin Aafedt Flatland debuted in the World Cup in 2003 at Kontiolahti in Finland, where she came in 56th in the sprint event. In the second world cup weekend in Hochfilzen Hochfilzen is a town and municipality in the Kitzbühel (district), Kitzbühel district of the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol. It is located in the Pillersee valley 5 km east of Fieberbrunn. Population was 1,147 in 2016. It is a popu ... she debuted on the Norwegian relay team which finished 5th. She has two individual World Cup victories. She represented Norway at the World Championship 2005 in Hochfilzen and came 22nd in the sprint and 37th in the pursuit. Flatland retired from the sport at the end of the 2013–14 season. Record Individual victories References External links * * * 1982 births Living people Norwegian female biathletes Skiers from Oslo Olympic biathletes for Norway Biath ...
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Solveig Rogstad
Solveig Rogstad (born 31 July 1982) is a retired Norwegian biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti .... References External linksSolveig Rogstads blogSolveig Rogstad profile at biathlonworld.com
1982 births Living people Norwegian female biathletes
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Anne Ingstadbjørg
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie and Ana. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). In Ireland the name is used as an anglicized version of Áine. Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665 ...
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