2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 1

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 1 was the opening event^[1] of the season and was held in Pokljuka, Slovenia, from 2–9 December 2018.

Schedule of events

The events took place at the following times.^[1]

Date	Time	Events
2 December	11:00 CET	6 km + 7.5 km Single Mixed Relay
	13:35 CET	2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Mixed Relay
6 December	09:15 CET	Men's 20 km Individual
	13:15 CET	Women's 15 km Individual
7 December	13:15 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
8 December	13:15 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
9 December	10:45 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	13:45 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
20 km Individual^[2]	Martin Fourcade   France	47:09.2 (0+0+0+0)	Johannes Kühn   Germany	47:13.4 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Eder   Austria	47:28.9 (0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint^[3]	Johannes Thingnes Bø   Norway	23:46.3 (0+1)	Antonin Guigonnat   France	24:02.4 (0+0)	Alexander Loginov   Russia	24:02.7 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit^[4]	Johannes Thingnes Bø   Norway	30:20.4 (1+0+0+2)	Quentin Fillon Maillet   France	30:20.5 (0+0+0+0)	Alexander Loginov   Russia	30:22.3 (0+0+1+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km Individual^[5]	Yuliia Dzhima   Ukraine	43:06.6 (0+0+0+0)	Monika Hojnisz   Poland	43:12.5 (0+0+0+1)	Markéta Davidová   Czech Republic	43:23.1 (0+0+0+1)
7.5 km Sprint^[6]	Kaisa Mäkäräinen   Finland	20:08.1 (0+0)	Dorothea Wierer   Italy	20:22.9 (0+0)	Justine Braisaz   France	20:50.2 (0+0)
10 km Pursuit^[7]	Kaisa Mäkäräinen   Finland	29:16.9 (0+0+0+0)	Dorothea Wierer   Italy	29:58.2 (0+0+0+0)	Paulína Fialková   Slovakia	30:16.1 (0+0+0+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
6 km + 7.5 km Single Mixed Relay^[8]	Norway Thekla Brun-Lie Lars Helge Birkeland	38:26.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0)	Austria Lisa Hauser Simon Eder	38:35.2 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Artem Tyshchenko	38:47.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Mixed Relay^[9]	France Anaïs Bescond Justine Braisaz Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux	1:10:02.8 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Lena Häcki Benjamin Weger Jeremy Finello	1:10:41.5 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:10:54.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)

Achievements

Best individual performance for all time

•   Johannes Kühn (GER), 2nd place in Individual
•   Antonin Guigonnat (FRA), 2nd place in Sprint
•   Sindre Pettersen (NOR), 6th place in Sprint
•   Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE), 9th place in Individual
•   Jesper Nelin (SWE), 13th place in Individual
•   Scott Gow (CAN), 14th place in Individual
•   Christian Gow (CAN), 14th place in Pursuit
•   Felix Leitner (AUT), 17th place in Individual
•   Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE), 18th place in Individual
•   Mikito Tachizaki (JPN), 24th place in Individual
•   Karol Dombrovski (LTU), 25th place in Individual
•   Philipp Horn (GER), 28th place in Pursuit
•   Thierry Chenal (ITA), 32nd place in Sprint
•   Eduard Latypov (RUS), 41st place in Pursuit
•   Andrzej Nędza-Kubiniec (POL), 48th place in Individual
•   Saverio Zini (ITA), 72nd place in Sprint
•   Jaakko Ranta (FIN), 83rd place in Individual
•   Dujin Choi (KOR), 91st place in Individual
•   Travis Cooper (USA), 103rd place in Sprint
•   Yuliia Dzhima (UKR), 1st place in Individual
•   Monika Hojnisz (POL), 2nd place in Individual
•   Markéta Davidová (CZE), 3rd place in Individual
•   Julia Simon (FRA), 4th place in Sprint
•   Clare Egan (USA), 6th place in Pursuit
•   Evgeniya Pavlova (RUS), 8th place in Sprint
•   Anna Weidel (GER), 10th place in Sprint
•   Valeria Vasnetcova (RUS), 13th place in Individual
•   Margarita Vasileva (RUS), 13th place in Sprint
•   Emma Nilsson (SWE), 18th place in Individual
•   Venla Lehtonen (FIN), 36th place in Individual
•   Yelizaveta Belchenko (KAZ), 47th place in Pursuit
•   Emilie Aagheim Kalkenberg (NOR), 48th place in Pursuit
•   Anastassiya Kondratyeva (KAZ), 66th place in Sprint
•   Asuka Hachisuka (JPN), 84th place in Sprint
•   Jenny Fellman (FIN), 91st place in Sprint

First individual World Cup race

•   Sindre Pettersen (NOR), 44th place in Individual
•   Mihail Usov (MDA), 62nd place in Individual
•   Philipp Horn (GER), 77th place in Individual
•   Yang Xingyuan (CHN), 95th place in Individual
•   Kristiyan Stoyanov (BUL), 97th place in Sprint
•   Eduard Latypov (RUS), 99th place in Individual
•   Raul Antonio Flore (ROU), 100th place in Sprint
•   Zhu Zhenyu (CHN), 104th place in Sprint
•   Travis Cooper (USA), 105th place in Individual
•   Saverio Zini (ITA), 106th place in Individual
•   Evgeniya Pavlova (RUS), 31st place in Individual
•   Margarita Vasileva (RUS), 42nd place in Individual
•   Irina Kruchinkina (BLR), 44th place in Individual
•   Anna Weidel (GER), 66th place in Individual
•   Karoline Offigstad Knotten (NOR), 75th place in Sprint
•   Lea Einfalt (SLO), 77th place in Individual
•   Lyudmila Akhatova (KAZ), 87th place in Individual
•   Asuka Hachisuka (JPN), 99th place in Individual
•   Jenny Fellman (FIN), 101st place in Individual

References

1. "Event schedule". IBU Datacentre at datacenter.biathlonresults.com. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
2. "Pokljuka final results - men 20 km individual" (PDF). 6 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
3. "Pokljuka final results - men 10 km sprint" (PDF). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
4. "Pokljuka final results - men 12.5 km pursuit" (PDF). 9 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
5. "Pokljuka final results - women 15 km individual" (PDF). 6 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
6. "Pokljuka final results - women 7.5 km sprint" (PDF). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
7. "Pokljuka final results - women 10 km pursuit" (PDF). 9 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
8. "Pokljuka final results - single mixed relay" (PDF). 2 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
9. "Pokljuka final results - mixed relay" (PDF). 2 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.