2013–14 Biathlon World Cup

In the 2013/2014 season of the Biathlon World Cup was held for the 36th time. The highlight of the season was the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the competitions were there - unlike in previous years, but not counted for the World Cup - with the exception of the mixed relay. As a substructure of the IBU Cup acted 2013/2014.

Defender of the overall World Cup was the Norway's Tora Berger at the men Martin Fourcade of France and for women.

  • 4.1 results
  • 4.2 World Cup Scores
  • 4.3 tables 4.3.1 Athletes
  • 5.1 result
  • 7.1 Germany
  • 7.2 France
  • 7.3 Italy
  • 7.4 Switzerland
  • 7.5 Ukraine

Starter quotas

The starting quota for the individual nations resulted from the results of the previous World Cup winter. The top five associations of the national rankings were six starters per individual and sprint races send, the associations of the ranks six to ten five and so on. For nations with no fixed launch sites awarded the IBU per sprint and individual three wild cards.

On the men saw the SP as follows (based on the rankings in the preseason ):

  • 6 Starter: Russia, Norway Norway, France, Germany Germany, Austria Austria
  • 5 Starter: Czech Republic Czech Republic, Sweden Sweden, Italy Italy, Ukraine, United States United States
  • 4 Starter: Slovenia, Slovakia, Slovakia, Switzerland Switzerland, Bulgaria, Belarus Belarus
  • 3 Starter: Canada Canada, Estonia, Finland, Finland, Latvia Latvia, Kazakhstan
  • 2 Starter: Japan Japan, Poland Poland, Lithuania, Lithuania, United Kingdom United Kingdom, Romania, Romania
  • 1 Starter: Serbia Serbia, People's Republic of China People's Republic of China, Australia, Hungary Hungary, Netherlands Netherlands
  • 0 Starter: Flag of South Korea South Korea, Croatia, Macedonia, Macedonia, Spain, Belgium, Turkey Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova Moldova, Greece, Greenland Gronland

Rates of women:

  • 6 starters: Norway Norway Germany Germany, Russia Russia, Ukraine, France France
  • 5 starters: Belarus Belarus, Poland Poland, Italy Italy, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovakia
  • 4 starters: Sweden Sweden, United States, United States, Finland Finland, Canada Canada, Kazakhstan
  • 3 starters: Romania Romania, Estonia, Switzerland Switzerland, Bulgaria, Slovenia
  • 2 starters: Osterreich Austria, Japan Japan, People's Republic of China People's Republic of China, Lithuania Lithuania Flag of South Korea South Korea
  • 1 starter: Andorra Andorra, Latvia Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom United Kingdom, Hungary, Hungary
  • 0 starters: New Zealand New Zealand, Brazil, Brazil, Netherlands Netherlands, Greece, Australia, Moldova Moldova, Turkey Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Calendar of Events

Results

World Cup Scores

Tables

Athletes

Women

Results

World Cup Scores

Tables

Athletes

Mixed competitions

Result

Reporting

On German television were broadcast live from the first or from the ZDF usually every race. Reporter and commentator for The first was Christian Dexne, which was moderated by Michael Antwerpes, which was supported by the former biathlete Kati Wilhelm as an expert. Reporter for ZDF was Christopher Hamm, who commented on the race with former biathlete Herbert Fritz Wenger. Alexander Ruda was managed jointly with Sven Fischer as an expert for the moderation, the interviews were conducted by Nils Kaben.

As in Austria - also due to the performances of the athletes - Biathlon was in the audience interest behind other disciplines such as ski jumping, alpine ski race, the biathlon races of men were only broadcast live on ORF, if there was no overlap with other events. Otherwise, the races were sent a time delay, usually in a shorter summary. Since the Austrian biathletes were in contrast to their male counterparts usually not performed on the first pages of results lists, these races were not shown in the ORF program. An exception was merely the competition in the domestic Hochfilzen, which were broadcast live normally and all in full length. Were moderated by race Dietmar Wolff, who was supported by former biathlete Günther Beck.

Euro Sport reported usually live of all the biathlon events, the races were commented for the German -speaking public by Sigi Heinrich. As a co- commentators the former biathlete Katja Wüstefeld, Matthias Simmen or Michael Greis were used alternately.

Squad and season of Nations

Germany

After the German Championships starting places were awarded for the first race of the year by national coach Uwe idleness. Carolin Hennecke ended after the championships, where she could not qualify for the squad to advance their careers.

France

France was the end of April, the lineup for the 2013/2014 season known. Quentin Maillet Fillon rose in the men's World Cup team, with the women there were no changes. The IBU Cup team is made up of four men and five women; Pauline Macabies resigned. Coach of the Men's National Team is Stéphane Bouthiaux, Assistant Siegfried Mazet. The Women's National Team is coached by Thierry Dusserre, assists him Jean -Paul Giachino. The IBU Cup team of men trained Julien Robert, it is Gilles Marguet aside. In the women Baptiste Desthieux is responsible. The juniors train Lionel Laurent, Jean -Pierre Amat and Frédéric Jean. For the first race of the season are planned: Marie Habert, Marie- Laure Brunet, Anais Bescond, Sophie Boilley, Marine Bolliet and Laure Bosc. For men: Martin Fourcade, Simon Fourcade, Alexis Boeuf, Jean -Guillaume Beatrix, Simon Desthieux, Quentin Fillon Maillet

Italy

National coach of the men and the women is Patrick Oberegger.

Switzerland

Mid- April 2013 was the Swiss Association of Swiss-Ski, the first nation to the division squad for the new season known. Ivan Joller rose to the national team and took the place of Simon Hallenbarter, who was demoted to the A-team. Along with Benjamin Weger and Selina gas Parin is the national team so continue three athletes. Elisa Gasparin was admitted to the next higher management level after good results in the World Cup with several points positions. Their achievements contributed along with the additional points from the relay race to the fact that the Swiss women's team features according to their placement in the national rankings of a further World Cup starting slot and four quota places at the Olympic Winter Games 2014. Patricia Jost was included in the B- Squad after her title at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 as the first junior. In addition, some athletes from the group of candidates made ​​it into the C squad. The Junior Romano Russi and Pascal Wolf ended their athletic career.

Following the resignation of head coach Steffen Hauswald the end of the preseason, a new coaching team was appointed in February 2013. For the first time the squad will be separated by gender. Markus Segessenmann care along with assistant Sarah Bridegroom the newly created women's team, while Jörn Wollschläger along with former biathlete Christian Stebler accepts responsibility for the men's team.

Ukraine

Ukraine is having a comparatively large national team in the Olympic season.

Resignations during and after the season

Marie Dorin Habert will pause longer due to a pregnancy.

Emil Hegle Svendsen 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup Wild card (sports) Annecy Oberhof, Germany Ruhpolding Pokljuka Kontiolahti Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Lars Berger Alexey Volkov (biathlete) Erik Lesser Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp Christoph Sumann Dominik Landertinger Christoph Stephan Jakov Fak Lukas Hofer Tobias Arwidson Lowell Bailey Holmenkollbakken Christian De Lorenzi Andrejs Rastorgujevs Jaroslav Soukup Nathan Smith (biathlete) Klemen Bauer Friedrich Pinter Brendan Green Florian Graf Dominik Windisch Tomas Kaukėnas Timofey Lapshin Alexander Os Magnus Jonsson (biathlete) Jarkko Kauppinen Andrei Makoveev Markus Windisch Aliaksandr Darozhka Serafin Wiestner Marie-Laure Brunet Olga Zaitseva Selina Gasparin Olena Pidhrushna Andrea Henkel Franziska Hildebrand Tiril Eckhoff Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Katharina Innerhofer Dorothea Wierer Mari Laukkanen Susan Dunklee Rosanna Crawford Karin Oberhofer Zina Kocher Monika Hojnisz Andreja Mali Nicole Gontier Fuyuko Suzuki Vanessa Hinz Megan Heinicke Michela Ponza Lisa Hauser Darya Usanova Megan Imrie Kadri Lehtla Hilde Fenne Galina Vishnevskaya (biathlete) Sara Studebaker Aita Gasparin Grete Gaim Alexia Runggaldier Anaïs Bescond Roberta Fiandino Biathlon European Championships 2013 Kateryna Serdyuk Laure Soulie Sarah Murphy 2002–03 Biathlon World Cup 2003–04 Biathlon World Cup 2004–05 Biathlon World Cup 2005–06 Biathlon World Cup 2006–07 Biathlon World Cup 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup
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