2020–21 Biathlon IBU Cup

The 2020–21 Biathlon IBU Cup is a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. IBU Cup is the second-rank competition in biathlon after the Biathlon World Cup. The season started on 14 January 2021 in Arber, Germany and will end on 14 March 2021 in Ridnaun-Val Ridanna, Italy. The defending overall champions from the 2019–20 Biathlon IBU Cup are Lucas Fratzscher from Germany and Elisabeth Högberg from Sweden.

2020–21 Biathlon IBU Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Anastasia Shevchenko
U25	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Anastasia Shevchenko
Individual	Endre Strømsheim	Ekaterina Bekh
Sprint	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Valeriia Vasnetcova
Pursuit	Artem Pryma	Kamila Żuk
Relay	Germany	Russia
Nations Cup	Norway	Russia
Mixed	Norway
Competition
Locations	4 venues	4 venues
Individual	15 events	15 events
Relay/Team	2 events	2 events
Mixed	6 events	6 events

Calendar

Below is the IBU Cup calendar for the 2020–21 season.[1]

Location	Date	Individual / Short individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
Arber	14–17 January		● ●		●
	20–23 January	●	●			●	●
Duszniki-Zdrój	27–31 January	●	●	●		●	●	European Championships
Brezno-Osrblie	13–14 February		●	●
	17–21 February	●	●	●	●
Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	10–14 March	●	● ●			●	●
Total: 40 (17 men's, 17 women's, 6 mixed)		4	8	3	2	3	3

Notes

• All European Championships races included in the IBU Cup total score.
• On 11 September, the rounds originally scheduled at Idre, Sweden, Sjusjøen, Norway and Martell-Val Martello, Italy were cancelled.[2]

IBU Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Res.
1	14 January 2021	Arber	10 km Sprint	Aleksander Fjeld Andersen	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Aleksander Fjeld Andersen	Res.
	16 January 2021			Filip Fjeld Andersen	Philipp Nawrath	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Res.
2	20 January 2021	Arber	15 km Short Individual	Endre Strømsheim	Philipp Nawrath	Aleksander Fjeld Andersen		Res.
	22 January 2021		10 km Sprint	Filip Fjeld Andersen	Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Philipp Nawrath		Res.
EC	27 January 2021	Duszniki-Zdrój	20 km Individual	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Erlend Bjøntegaard	Endre Strømsheim		Res.
	29 January 2021		10 km Sprint	Martin Jäger	Said Karimulla Khalili	Johannes Kühn		Res.
	30 January 2021		12.5 km Pursuit	Artem Pryma	Michal Krčmář	Håvard Gutubø Bogetveit		Res.
3	13 Februay 2021	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km Sprint
	14 Februay 2021		12.5 km Pursuit
4	17 Februay 2021	Brezno-Osrblie	15 km Short Individual
	20 Februay 2021		10 km Sprint
	21 Februay 2021		12.5 km Pursuit
5	10 March 2021	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	15 km Short Individual
	13 March 2021		10 km Sprint
	14 March 2021		10 km Sprint

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Dark blue bib (After competition)	Res.
1	14 January 2021	Arber	7.5 km Sprint	Tatiana Akimova	Valeriia Vasnetcova	Anastasia Shevchenko	Tatiana Akimova	Valeriia Vasnetcova	Res.
	16 January 2021		7.5 km Sprint	Tatiana Akimova	Anastasia Shevchenko	Camille Bened		Anastasia Shevchenko	Res.
2	20 January 2021	Arber	12.5 km Short Individual	Tamara Steiner	Anna Weidel	Ekaterina Bekh			Res.
	22 January 2021		7.5 km Sprint	Valeriia Vasnetcova	Åsne Skrede	Lou Jeanmonnot	Valeriia Vasnetcova	Valeriia Vasnetcova	Res.
EC	27 January 2021	Duszniki-Zdrój	15 km Individual	Monika Hojnisz-Staręga	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Larisa Kuklina	Anastasia Shevchenko	Anastasia Shevchenko	Res.
	29 January 2021		7.5 km Sprint	Baiba Bendika	Karoline Erdal	Anastasia Shevchenko			Res.
	30 January 2021		10 km Pursuit	Kamila Żuk	Karoline Erdal	Åsne Skrede			Res.
3	13 Februay 2021	Brezno-Osrblie	7.5 km Sprint
	14 Februay 2021		10 km Pursuit
4	17 Februay 2021	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km Short Individual
	20 Februay 2021		7.5 km Sprint
	21 Februay 2021		10 km Pursuit
5	10 March 2021	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	12.5 km Short Individual
	13 March 2021		7.5 km Sprint
	14 March 2021		7.5 km Sprint

Men's team – 4x7.5 km Relay

Stage	Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Res.
1	17 January 2021	Arber	Germany Justus Strelow Dominic Schmuck Danilo Riethmüller Philipp Nawrath	Ukraine Ruslan Bryhadyr Andriy Dotsenko Taras Lesiuk Bogdan Tsymbal	France Oscar Lombardot Sébastien Mahon Éric Perrot Hugo Rivail	Germany	Res.
4	18 February 2021	Brezno-Osrblie

Women's team – 4x6 km Relay

Stage	Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Res.
1	17 January 2021	Arber	Russia Valeriia Vasnetcova Anastasiia Goreeva Anastasia Shevchenko Tatiana Akimova	Sweden Ingela Andersson Tilda Johansson Anna Magnusson Elisabeth Högberg	Germany Franziska Hildebrand Stefanie Scherer Vanessa Voigt Marion Deigentesch	Russia	Res.
4	18 February 2021	Brezno-Osrblie

Mixed

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Res.
2	23 January 2021	Arber	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	Norway Endre Strømsheim Karoline Erdal	Italy Daniele Cappellari Rebecca Passler	Germany Lucas Fratzscher Stefanie Scherer	Norway	Res.
			4x7.5 km Mixed Relay	Russia Said Karimulla Khalili Daniil Serokhvostov Anastasiia Goreeva Valeriia Vasnetcova	France Oscar Lombardot Sébastien Mahon Sophie Chauveau Camille Bened	Norway Aleksander Fjeld Andersen Filip Fjeld Andersen Åsne Skrede Emilie Kalkenberg		Res.
EC	31 January 2021	Duszniki-Zdrój	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay	Germany Stefanie Scherer Justus Strelow	France Caroline Colombo Emilien Claude	Russia Larisa Kuklina Evgeniy Garanichev	Germany	Res.
			4x6 km Mixed Relay	Norway Emilie Kalkenberg Åsne Skrede Erlend Bjøntegaard Sivert Guttorm Bakken	Germany Vanessa Voigt Marion Deigentesch Dominic Schmuck Philipp Nawrath	Ukraine Iryna Petrenko Vita Semerenko Bogdan Tsymbal Artem Pryma	Norway	Res.
5	11 March 2021	Ridnaun-Val Ridanna	1x6 km + 1x7.5 km Single Mixed Relay
			4x7.5 km Mixed Relay

Standings (men)

Overall Pos. Points    Filip Fjeld Andersen 301 2. Sivert Guttorm Bakken 282 3. Said Karimulla Khalili 241 4. Philipp Nawrath 228 5. Aleksander Fjeld Andersen 214 Standings after 7 of 15 races.

Under 25 Pos. Points    Filip Fjeld Andersen 301 2. Sivert Guttorm Bakken 282 3. Said Karimulla Khalili 241 4. Aleksander Fjeld Andersen 214 5. Endre Strømsheim 192 Standings after 7 of 15 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Norway 3728 2.  Germany 3542 3.  Russia 3277 4.  Italy 3160 5.  Ukraine 3069 Standings after 11 of 20 races.

Standings (women)

Overall Pos. Points    Anastasia Shevchenko 225 2. Valeriia Vasnetcova 206 3. Karoline Erdal 195 4. Franziska Hildebrand 192 5. Åsne Skrede 172 Standings after 7 of 15 races.

Under 25 Pos. Points    Anastasia Shevchenko 225 2. Valeriia Vasnetcova 206 3. Karoline Erdal 195 4. Åsne Skrede 172 5. Lou Jeanmonnot 172 Standings after 7 of 15 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Russia 3618 2.  Germany 3422 3.  Norway 3331 4.  Sweden 3281 5.  France 3207 Standings after 11 of 20 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	6	6	7	19
2	Russia	5	3	4	12
3	Germany	2	4	4	10
4	Latvia	2	0	0	2
	Poland	2	0	0	2
6	Ukraine	1	2	2	5
7	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
9	France	0	2	3	5
10	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
Totals (12 nations)		20	20	20	60

References

1. "Calendar and Results – IBU Cups". IBU. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
2. "IBU adjusts competition schedule for 2020/21 season". IBU. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

External links

• IBU official site