2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8 will be held in Kontiolahti, Finland, from 10 February until 12 February 2012.[1]

Schedule of events

Date	Time	Events
February 10	12:00 CET	Mixed 2x6+2x7.5 km Relay
February 11	10:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	12:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
February 12	12:15 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	13:00 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade  France	24:58.2 (0+1)	Timofey Lapshin  Russia	24:59.0 (0+0)	Benjamin Weger   Switzerland	24:59.8 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	33:43.8 (2+0+0+0)	Martin Fourcade  France	33:57.6 (0+1+0+2)	Dmitry Malyshko  Russia	34:06.5 (1+0+1+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	23:07.4 (1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	23:19.7 (1+0)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	23:24.4 (2+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	32:23.0 (0+1+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	32:58.9 (0+1+1+2)	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	33:00.0 (2+0+2+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	France Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Vincent Jay	1:26:22.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Olena Pidhrushna Andriy Deryzemlya Serguei Sednev	1:26:23.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	Slovakia Jana Gerekova Anastasiya Kuzmina Matej Kazar Miroslav Matiaško	1:27:06.5 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

Timofey Lapshin (RUS), 2nd place in Sprint  Christian Stebler (SUI), 22nd place in Sprint  Erik Lesser (GER), 23rd place in Sprint and 22nd in Pursuit  Aliaksandr Babchyn (BLR), 24th place in Sprint  Karolis Zlatkauskas (LTU), 49th place in Sprint  Haibin Chen (CHN), 72nd place in Sprint  Arturs Kolesnikovs (LAT), 84th place in Sprint  Edin Hodzic (SRB), 85th place in Sprint  Dmitry Malyshko (RUS), 3rd place in Pursuit  Matej Kazar (SVK), 17th place in Pursuit  Lukas Kristejn (CZE), 44th place in Pursuit

Juliya Dzhyma (UKR), 19th place in Sprint  Yan Zhang (CHN), 64th place in Sprint  Anete Brice (LAT), 79th place in Sprint  Kadri Lehtla (EST), 18th place in Pursuit  Anastasia Zagoruiko (RUS), 26th place in Pursuit

First World Cup race

Lukas Kristejn (CZE), 56th place in Sprint  Michal Krcmar (CZE), 73rd place in Sprint

Anastasia Zagoruiko (RUS), 44th place in Sprint

References

1. "E.ON IBU World Cup 8 Biathlon". IBU Datacenter. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.