2020–21 Biathlon World Cup

The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) is a multi-race series over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 28 November 2020 in Kontiolahti, Finland and will end on 21 March 2021 in Oslo Holmenkollen, Norway.

2020–21 Biathlon World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Marte Olsbu Røiseland
U25	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Dzinara Alimbekava
Individual	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Dorothea Wierer
Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tiril Eckhoff
Pursuit	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Tiril Eckhoff
Mass start	Tarjei Bø	Julia Simon
Relay	Norway	Germany
Nations Cup	Norway	France
Mixed	France
Competition

Starting from this season a blue bib will be introduced for the best biathlete under the age of 25.[1]

Calendar

Below is the IBU World Cup calendar for the 2020–21 season.[2]

Stage	Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Details
1	Kontiolahti	28–29 November	●	●						details
2		3–6 December		●	●		●			details
3	Hochfilzen	11–13 December		●	●		●			details
4		17–20 December		●	●	●				details
5	Oberhof	8–10 January		●	●			●	●	details
6		13–17 January		●		●	●			details
7	Antholz-Anterselva	21–24 January	●			●	●			details
WC	Pokljuka	10–21 February	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships
8	Nové Město	4–7 March		●	●		●			details
9		11–14 March		●	●			●	●	details
10	Oslo Holmenkollen[lower-alpha 1]	18–21 March		●	●	●				details
Total: 70 (32 men's, 32 women's, 6 mixed)			3 (m, w)	10 (m, w)	8 (m, w)	5 (m, w)	6 (m, w)	3 (mix)	3 (mix)

Calendar changes

• On 28 September the rounds originally scheduled at Östersund, Sweden and Le Grand-Bornand, France were replaced by additional rounds at Kontiolahti, Finland and Hochfilzen, Austria respectively.[3]
• On 5 October it was announced that Oberhof will host two events, replacing Ruhpolding.[4]
• A round which was set to be held in Beijing as test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics was replaced on 23 November with another round at Nové Město.[5]

World Cup podiums

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib    (After competition)	Dark blue bib    (After competition)	Det.
1	28 November 2020	Kontiolahti	20 km Individual	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Erik Lesser	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Detail
	29 November 2020		10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Sebastian Samuelsson	Martin Ponsiluoma	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Sebastian Samuelsson	Detail
2	3 December 2020		10 km Sprint	Tarjei Bø	Arnd Peiffer	Johannes Thingnes Bø			Detail
	5 December 2020		12.5 km Pursuit	Sebastian Samuelsson	Fabien Claude	Johannes Thingnes Bø			Detail
3	11 December 2020	Hochfilzen	10 km Sprint	Johannes Dale	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Fabien Claude			Detail
	12 December 2020		12.5 km Pursuit	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Émilien Jacquelin	Johannes Dale			Detail
4	17 December 2020		10 km Sprint	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Johannes Dale	Johannes Thingnes Bø			Detail
	19 December 2020		12.5 km Pursuit	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Émilien Jacquelin	Johannes Thingnes Bø		Sturla Holm Lægreid	Detail
	20 December 2020		15 km Mass Start	Arnd Peiffer	Martin Ponsiluoma	Tarjei Bø			Detail
5	8 January 2021	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Tarjei Bø	Sturla Holm Lægreid			Detail
	9 January 2021		12.5 km Pursuit	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Johannes Dale	Tarjei Bø			Detail
6	13 January 2021		10 km Sprint	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Arnd Peiffer			Detail
	17 January 2021		15 km Mass Start	Tarjei Bø	Felix Leitner	Benjamin Weger			Detail
7	22 January 2021	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Alexander Loginov	Sturla Holm Lægreid	Quentin Fillon Maillet			Detail
	24 January 2021		15 km Mass Start	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Quentin Fillon Maillet	Jakov Fak			Detail
WC	12 February 2021	Pokljuka	10 km Sprint				Detail
	14 February 2021		12.5 km Pursuit						Detail
	17 February 2021		20 km Individual						Detail
	21 February 2021		15 km Mass Start						Detail
8	6 March 2021	Nové Město na M.	10 km Sprint						Detail
	7 March 2021		12.5 km Pursuit						Detail
9	11 March 2021		10 km Sprint						Detail
	13 March 2021		12.5 km Pursuit						Detail
10	19 March 2021	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint						Detail
	20 March 2021		12.5 km Pursuit						Detail
	21 March 2021		15 km Mass Start						Detail

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib    (After competition)	Dark blue bib    (After competition)	Det.
1	28 November 2020	Kontiolahti	15 km Individual	Dorothea Wierer	Denise Herrmann	Johanna Skottheim	Dorothea Wierer	Elvira Öberg	Detail
	29 November 2020		7.5 km Sprint	Hanna Öberg	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Karoline Offigstad Knotten	Hanna Öberg	Dzinara Alimbekava	Detail
2	3 December 2020		7.5 km Sprint	Hanna Öberg	Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet	Elvira Öberg		Elvira Öberg	Detail
	6 December 2020		10 km Pursuit	Tiril Eckhoff	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Hanna Öberg		Dzinara Alimbekava	Detail
3	11 December 2020	Hochfilzen	7.5 km Sprint	Dzinara Alimbekava	Tiril Eckhoff	Franziska Preuß			Detail
	13 December 2020		10 km Pursuit	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Dzinara Alimbekava	Julia Simon	Marte Olsbu Røiseland		Detail
4	18 December 2020		7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	Marte Olsbu Røiseland			Detail
	19 December 2020		10 km Pursuit	Tiril Eckhoff	Hanna Öberg	Elvira Öberg			Detail
	20 December 2020		12.5 km Mass Start	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Tiril Eckhoff	Dorothea Wierer		Elvira Öberg	Detail
5	8 January 2021	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Hanna Öberg	Lisa Theresa Hauser			Detail
	9 January 2021		10 km Pursuit	Tiril Eckhoff	Marte Olsbu Røiseland	Lisa Theresa Hauser			Detail
6	14 January 2021		7.5 km Sprint	Tiril Eckhoff	Dorothea Wierer	Lisa Theresa Hauser			Detail
	17 January 2021		12.5 km Mass Start	Julia Simon	Franziska Preuß	Hanna Öberg			Detail
7	21 January 2021	Antholz-Anterselva	15 km Individual	Lisa Theresa Hauser	Yuliia Dzhima	Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet		Dzinara Alimbekava	Detail
	23 January 2021		12.5 km Mass Start	Julia Simon	Hanna Öberg	Lisa Theresa Hauser			Detail
WC	13 February 2021	Pokljuka	7.5 km Sprint						Detail
	14 February 2021		10 km Pursuit						Detail
	16 February 2021		15 km Individual						Detail
	21 February 2021		12.5 km Mass Start						Detail
8	6 March 2021	Nové Město na M.	7.5 km Sprint						Detail
	7 March 2021		10 km Pursuit						Detail
9	12 March 2021		7.5 km Sprint						Detail
	13 March 2021		10 km Pursuit						Detail
10	18 March 2021	Oslo Holmenkollen	7.5 km Sprint						Detail
	20 March 2021		10 km Pursuit						Detail
	21 March 2021		12.5 km Mass Start						Detail

Men's team – 4x7.5 km Relay

Stage	Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Det.
2	6 December 2020	Kontiolahti	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	Norway	Detail
3	13 December 2020	Hochfilzen	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Benedikt Doll Philipp Horn	Norway  Sweden	Detail
6	15 January 2021	Oberhof	France Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet Fabien Claude Émilien Jacquelin	Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Italy Thomas Bormolini Lukas Hofer Tommaso Giacomel Dominik Windisch	Norway	Detail
7	23 January 2021	Antholz-Anterselva	France Antonin Guigonnat Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Émilien Jacquelin	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	Russia Anton Babikov Matvey Eliseev Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov
WC	20 February 2021	Pokljuka
8	5 March 2021	Nové Město na M.

Women's team – 4x6 km Relay

Stage	Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Det.
2	5 December 2020	Kontiolahti	Sweden Johanna Skottheim Mona Brorsson Elvira Öberg Hanna Öberg	France Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet Chloé Chevalier Justine Braisaz-Bouchet	Germany Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß Maren Hammerschmidt Denise Herrmann	Sweden	Detail
3	12 December 2020	Hochfilzen	Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	France Anaïs Bescond Julia Simon Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet	Sweden Johanna Skottheim Linn Persson Hanna Öberg Elvira Öberg		Detail
6	16 January 2021	Oberhof	Germany Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuß	Belarus Iryna Kryuko Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Elena Kruchinkina	Sweden Mona Brorsson Linn Persson Elvira Öberg Hanna Öberg		Detail
7	24 January 2021	Antholz-Anterselva	Russia Evgeniya Pavlova Tatiana Akimova Svetlana Mironova Uliana Kaisheva	Germany Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuß	France Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Julia Simon	Germany
WC	20 February 2021	Pokljuka
8	4 March 2021	Nové Město na M.

Mixed Relay

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Leader (After competition)	Det.
5	10 January 2021	Oberhof	2x7.5 km + 2x6 km	Russia Uliana Kaisheva Svetlana Mironova Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov	Norway Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Lægreid	France Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Fabien Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet	Russia
			1x6 km + 1x7.5 km	France Julia Simon Émilien Jacquelin	Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	Norway Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø	France
WC	10 February 2021	Pokljuka	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km
	18 February 2021		1x6 km + 1x7.5 km
9	14 March 2021	Nové Město	2x6 km + 2x7.5 km
			1x6 km + 1x7.5 km

Standings (men)

Overall Pos. Points    Johannes Thingnes Bø 709 2. Sturla Holm Lægreid 645 3. Tarjei Bø 566 4. Johannes Dale 545 5. Quentin Fillon Maillet 506 6. Sebastian Samuelsson 482 7. Émilien Jacquelin 479 8. Martin Ponsiluoma 464 9. Jakov Fak 436 10. Lukas Hofer 428 Standings after 15 of 26 races.

Under 25 Pos. Points    Sturla Holm Laegreid 645 2. Johannes Dale 545 3. Sebastian Samuelsson 482 4. Felix Leitner 186 5. Anton Smolski 127 6. Tero Seppala 96 7. Anton Dudchenko 79 8. Didier Bionaz 71 9. Aleksander Fjeld Andersen 64 10. Tuomas Harjula 27 Standings after 15 of 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points    Sturla Holm Laegreid 114 2. Alexander Loginov 91 3. Quentin Fillon Maillet 91 4. Johannes Thingnes Bø 85 5. Lukas Hofer 64 Standings after 2 of 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points    Johannes Thingnes Bø 319 2. Johannes Dale 258 3. Sturla Holm Lægreid 236 4. Tarjei Bø 225 5. Martin Ponsiluoma 208 Standings after 6 of 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points    Sturla Holm Lægreid 201 2. Johannes Thingnes Bø 173 3. Johannes Dale 172 4. Émilien Jacquelin 170 5. Fabien Claude 164 Standings after 4 of 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points    Tarjei Bø 137 2. Johannes Thingnes Bø 132 3. Arnd Peiffer 130 4. Quentin Fillon Maillet 117 5. Simon Eder 104 Standings after 3 of 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1.  Norway 222 2.  France 192 3.  Germany 179 4.  Russia 177 5.  Sweden 176 Standings after 4 of 6 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  Norway 5526 2.  France 4953 3.  Germany 4748 4.  Russia 4560 5.  Sweden 4509 Standings after 14 of 25 races.

Standings (women)

Overall Pos. Points    Marte Olsbu Røiseland 625 2. Tiril Eckhoff 617 3. Hanna Öberg 616 4. Dorothea Wierer 509 5. Lisa Theresa Hauser 490 6. Franziska Preuß 490 7. Dzinara Alimbekava 448 8. Elvira Öberg 443 9. Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet 407 10. Markéta Davidová 404 Standings after 15 of 26 races.

Under 25 Pos. Points    Dzinara Alimbekava 448 2. Elvira Öberg 443 3. Markéta Davidová 404 4. Julia Simon 381 5. Justine Braisaz-Bouchet 337 6. Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold 326 7. Janina Hettich 264 8. Darya Blashko 140 9. Julia Schwaiger 130 10. Irina Kazakevich 129 Standings after 15 of 26 races.

Individual Pos. Points    Dorothea Wierer 103 2. Yuliia Dzhima 85 3. Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet 80 4. Denise Herrmann 78 5. Dzinara Alimbekava 68 Standings after 2 of 3 races.

Sprint Pos. Points    Tiril Eckhoff 268 2. Marte Olsbu Røiseland 262 3. Hanna Öberg 260 4. Franziska Preuß 199 5. Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet 190 Standings after 6 of 10 races.

Pursuit Pos. Points    Tiril Eckhoff 204 2. Marte Olsbu Røiseland 204 3. Hanna Öberg 179 4. Dzinara Alimbekava 152 5. Elvira Öberg 146 Standings after 4 of 8 races.

Mass start Pos. Points    Julia Simon 156 2. Marte Olsbu Røiseland 132 3. Hanna Öberg 129 4. Franziska Preuß 129 5. Tiril Eckhoff 122 Standings after 3 of 5 races.

Relay Pos. Points 1.  Germany 205 2.  France 196 3.  Sweden 192 4.  Russia 180 5.  Norway 168 Standings after 4 of 6 races.

Nation Pos. Points 1.  France 4947 2.  Sweden 4902 3.  Germany 4885 4.  Norway 4836 5.  Russia 4559 Standings after 14 of 25 races.

Standings: Mixed

Mixed relay

Pos.		Points
1.	France	108
2.	Norway	102
3.	Russia	92
4.	Germany	83
4.	Belarus	83

• Standings after 2 of 6 races.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	21	16	11	48
2	France	6	8	6	20
3	Sweden	5	7	8	20
4	Russia	3	0	1	4
5	Germany	2	4	6	12
6	Belarus	1	2	0	3
7	Austria	1	1	4	6
8	Italy	1	1	2	4
9	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
10	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		40	40	40	120

Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2020/21 Biathlon World Cup for men and women. Relay events do not impact individual rankings.

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
Individual	60	54	48	43	40	38	36	34	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass Start																						18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

Men Sturla Holm Laegreid, 23, in his 2nd season — Stage 1 Individual in Kontiolahti; it also was his first podium Sebastian Samuelsson, 23, in his 5th season — Stage 2 Pursuit in Kontiolahti; first podium was 2018–19 Sprint in Oberhof Johannes Dale, 23, in his 3rd season — Stage 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen; it also was his first podium

Women Dzinara Alimbekava, 24, in her 4th season — Stage 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen; it also was her first podium Lisa Theresa Hauser, 27, in her 8th season — Stage 7 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 2020–21 Sprint in Oberhof

First World Cup podium

Men Sturla Holm Laegreid, 23, in his 2nd season — no. 1 in the Stage 1 Individual in Kontiolahti Johannes Dale, 23, in his 3rd season — no. 1 in the Stage 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen Felix Leitner, 24, in his 5th season – no. 2 in the Stage 6 Mass Start in Oberhof

Women Johanna Skottheim, 26, in her 5th season — no. 3 in the Stage 1 Individual in Kontiolahti Karoline Offigstad Knotten, 25, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the Stage 1 Sprint in Kontiolahti Elvira Öberg, 21, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the Stage 2 Sprint in Kontiolahti Dzinara Alimbekava, 24, in her 4th season — no. 1 in the Stage 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen Lisa Theresa Hauser, 27, in her 8th season - no. 3 in the Stage 5 Sprint in Oberhof

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

Men Johannes Thingnes Bø, 4 (51) first places Sturla Holm Laegreid, 4 (4) first places Tarjei Bø, 2 (11) first places Arnd Peiffer, 1 (10) first place Quentin Fillon Maillet, 1 (4) first place Alexander Loginov, 1 (3) first place Sebastian Samuelsson, 1 (1) first place Johannes Dale, 1 (1) first place

Women Tiril Eckhoff, 6 (19) first places Marte Olsbu Røiseland, 2 (8) first places Hanna Öberg, 2 (5) first places Julia Simon, 2 (3) first places Dorothea Wierer, 1 (12) first place Dzinara Alimbekava, 1 (1) first place Lisa Theresa Hauser, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

The following notable biathletes retired during or after the 2020–21 season:

Men Ondřej Moravec[6] Simon Schempp[7] Lars Helge Birkeland[8]

Women

Notes

1. The provisional calendar had a supersprint event, scheduled to make its début on World Cup level at the Olso Holmenkolen round. In recent revisions of the calendar it is shown to be replaced by a pursuit event

References

1. "Rule Changes for 2020/2021: A New Bib and Qualification Criteria Adjusted". International Biathlon Union - IBU. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
2. "International Biathlon Union - IBU". www.biathlonworld.com.
3. "IBU announces plans for first trimester of World Cup season". International Biathlon Union - IBU. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
4. "IBU announces BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon schedule for January 2021". International Biathlon Union - IBU. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
5. "IBU announces World Cup schedule for final trimester of 2020/21 season". International Biathlon Union - IBU. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
6. "Moravec plánuje poslední sezonu. Na olympiádu do Pekingu už nepojede". isport.blesk.cz/ (in Czech). March 15, 2020.
7. "Simon Schempp beendet Karriere mit einem Lächeln". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/ (in German). January 28, 2021.
8. "Norwegian world champion ends". tellerreport.com. 4 February 2021.

External links

• IBU official site