1987–88 Biathlon World Cup

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The 1987–88 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 17 December 1987 in Hochfilzen, Austria, and ended on 20 March 1988 in Jyväskylä, Finland. It was the eleventh season of the Biathlon World Cup. The women's European Cup changed its name to World Cup.

The first round of the World Cup in Hochfilzen had scheduled individuals, sprints and relays, but the sprints and relays were cancelled due to heavy rainfall destroying the tracks.[1] The sprint races were later held in Keuruu, with the rest of that World Cup round being held in Jyväskylä.

Calendar[edit]

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1987–88 season.[2][3][4]

Location Date Individual Sprint Relay
Austria Hochfilzen 17 December ●
Italy Antholz-Anterselva 21–24 January ● ● ●
West Germany Ruhpolding 28–31 January ● ● ●
Canada Calgary 20–26 February ● ● ●
France Chamonix 29 February–6 March ● ● ●
Norway Holmenkollen 10–13 March ● ● ●
Finland Keuruu and Jyväskylä 15–20 March ● ●● ●
Total (each) 6 6 5
  • 1988 Winter Olympics and 1988 World Championship races were not included in the 1987–88 World Cup scoring system.
    • The men competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics whilst the women competed at the 1988 World Championships.

World Cups: Men[edit]

World Cup 1 in Austria Hochfilzen
Date Event Podium Top 10
17 December 20 km individual[2][3][4][5][6] 1.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) 1:07:36.2 (0+0+0+0) 4.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 5.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS); 6.  Sergei Antonov (URS); 7.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 8.  Matthias Jacob (GDR); 9.  Harri Eloranta (FIN); 10.  Arto Jääskeläinen (FIN);
2.  Alexandr Popov (URS) +0:06.8 (0+0+0+0)
3.  Johann Passler (ITA) +0:33.1 (0+1+0+1)


World Cup 2 in Italy Antholz-Anterselva
Date Event Podium Top 10
21 January 10 km sprint[2][3][4][7][8] 1.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) 29:21.6 (0+2) 4.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 5.  Josh Thompson (USA); 6.  Johann Passler (ITA); 7.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 8.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 9.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR); 10.  Birk Anders (GDR);
2.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:19.1 (1+1)
3.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) +0:26.2 (0+1)
23 January 20 km individual[2][3][4][9][10] 1.  Johann Passler (ITA) 1:05:03.3 (1+1+1+1) 4.  Maik Dietz (GDR); 5.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR); 6.  Ernst Reiter (FRG) 7.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 8.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 9.  Vladimir Velichkov (BUL); 10.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR);
2.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) +0:36.0 (1+0+0+2)
3.  Hervé Flandin (FRA) +0:48.4 (1+1+1+0)
24 January 4 × 7.5 km relay[2][3][9] 1.  East Germany I 1:26:12 (0) 4.  Finland 1:29:05;
5.  West Germany II 1:29:06;
6.  Czechoslovakia 1:30:25;
7.  Norway II 1:30:36;
8.  France II 1:31:31;
2.  East Germany II 1:26:42 (4)
3.  Norway I 1:27:27 (1)
Geir Einang
Frode Løberg
Sylfest Glimsdal
Eirik Kvalfoss


World Cup 3 in West Germany Ruhpolding
Date Event Podium Top 10
28 January 20 km individual[2][3][4][11] 1.  Ernst Reiter (FRG) 56:42.4 (0+0+0+0) 4.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 5.  Peter Sjödén (SWE); 6.  Jiří Holubec (TCH); 7.  Egon Leitner (AUT); 8.  Josh Thompson (USA); 9.  Franz Wudy (FRG); 10.  Stefan Höck (FRG);
2.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) +1:33.4 (0+0+0+0)
3.  Jan Matouš (TCH) +3:17.0 (1+1+0+1)
30 January 10 km sprint[2][3][4][12][13] 1.  Stefan Höck (FRG) 30:22.3 (0+1) 4.  Ernst Reiter (FRG); 5.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 6.  Roberto Marchesi (ITA); 7.  Franz Wudy (FRG); 8.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 9.  Werner Kiem (ITA); 10.  Jan Matouš (TCH);
2.  Johann Passler (ITA) +0:05.4 (0+2)
3.  Peter Angerer (FRG) +0:22.4 (0+1)
31 January 4 × 7.5 km relay[2][3][12] 1.  West Germany I 1:39:24.7 (0)
Ernst Reiter
Stefan Höck
Peter Angerer
Fritz Fischer
 4.  West Germany II 1:45:13.6 (1);
5.  Finland 1:45:22.3 (1);
6.  Bulgaria 1:45:57.5 (1);
2.  Czechoslovakia 1:43:50.8 (0)
3.  United States 1:44:39.8 (0)


World Cup 4 in Norway Holmenkollen
Date Event Podium Top 10
10 March 20 km individual[2][3][4][14][15] 1.  Gisle Fenne (NOR) 58:22.8 (0+1+0+1) 4.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 5.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 6.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 7.  Francis Mougel (FRA); 8.  Wilfried Pallhuber (ITA); 9.  Leonid Reztsov (URS); 10.  Jan Matouš (TCH);
2.  Sergei Antonov (URS) +0:01.2 (0+0+0+0)
3.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) +1:43.3 (1+0+0+0)
12 March 10 km sprint[2][3][4][16][17] 1.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) 28:28.1 (0+0) 4.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 5.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 6.  Sergei Antonov (URS); 7.  Frode Løberg (NOR); 8.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 9.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 10.  André Sehmisch (GDR);
2.  Peter Angerer (FRG) +0:36.4 (0+1)
3.  Geir Einang (NOR) +0:39.2 (0+1)
13 March 4 × 7.5 km relay[2][3][16] 1.  Norway 1:36:03.8 (0)
Geir Einang 24:12.9
Gisle Fenne 24:00.7
Frode Løberg 23:46.3
Eirik Kvalfoss 24:04.9
 4.  Austria 1:39:33;
5.  Soviet Union 1:40:31;
6.  France 1:41:16;
2.  West Germany 1:37:08.0 (0)
Franz Wudy 24:15.6
Stefan Höck 25:13.3
Peter Angerer 24:13.8
Herbert Fritzenwenger 23:25.3
3.  East Germany 1:37:08.1 (1)
Frank Luck 23:55.1
Frank-Peter Roetsch 24:28.0
Jürgen Wirth 25:02.2
André Sehmisch 23:42.8


World Cup 5 in Finland Keuruu and Jyväskylä
Date Event Podium Top 10
15 March 10 km sprint[2][3][4][18] 1.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) 24:54.7 (1) 4.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 5.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 6.  Gisle Fenne (NOR);
2.  Vladimir Drachev (URS) +0:20.2 (1)
3.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) +0:32.8 (0)
17 March 20 km individual[2][3][4][19][20] 1.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) 58:02.4 (1+0+0+0) 4.  Peter Angerer (FRG); 5.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 6.  Leonid Reztsov (URS); 7.  Jiří Holubec (TCH); 8.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 9.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 10.  Bjørn Tore Berntsen (NOR);
2.  Sergei Antonov (URS) +0:35.1 (0+0+0+0)
3.  Alfred Eder (AUT) +1:27.2 (0+0+0+1)
19 March 10 km sprint[2][3][4][21][22] 1.  Franz Schuler (AUT) 27:28.8 (0+0) 4.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 5.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 6.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 7.  Leonid Reztsov (URS); 8.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 9.  Stefan Höck (FRG); 10.  Fritz Fischer (FRG);
2.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:23.9 (1+1)
3.  Alfred Eder (AUT) +0:26.0 (0+0)
20 March 4 × 7.5 km relay[2][3][21] 1.  West Germany 1:32:18 (0)
Franz Wudy
Stefan Höck
Georg Fischer
Herbert Fritzenwenger
 4.  Austria 1:35:09 (10);
2.  Norway 1:33:57 (6)
Frode Løberg
Gisle Fenne
Sylfest Glimsdal
Eirik Kvalfoss
3.  Soviet Union 1:34:32 (4)

Results: Men[edit]

Achievements[edit]

First World Cup career victory
  •  Johann Passler (ITA), 26, in his 7th season — the WC 2 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; first podium was 1982–83 Individual in Holmenkollen
  •  Ernst Reiter (FRG), 25, in his 5th season — the WC 3 Individual in Ruhpolding; first podium was 1986–87 Individual in Ruhpolding
  •  Stefan Höck (FRG), 24, in his 4th season — the WC 3 Sprint in Ruhpolding; it also was his first podium
  •  Gisle Fenne (NOR), 24, in his 5th season — the WC 4 Individual in Holmenkollen; first podium was 1985–86 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
  •  Franz Schuler (AUT), 25, in his 6th season — the WC 5 Sprint (2) in Jyväskylä; first podium was 1986–87 Sprint in Obertauern
First World Cup podium
  •  Hervé Flandin (FRA), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva
  •  Geir Einang (NOR), 23, in his 4th season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Holmenkollen
  •  Vladimir Drachev (URS), 22, in his 1st season — no. 2 in the WC 5 Sprint (1) in Jyväskylä
Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Retirements[edit]

The following notable biathletes retired after the 1987–88 season:

Notes[edit]

1. 1 The Aftenposten source placed Løberg 17th with 70 points.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Flommer i Tyrol..." [Flooding in Tyrol...]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 19 December 1987. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Holm, Knut E.; Juva, Geir. Sportsboken 88-89 [The Sports Book 88-89] (in Norwegian). Sportsboken A/S. ISBN 82-90773-01-3.  (Norwegian)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Wintersport Charts Weltcup World Cup Biathlon 1988". Wintersport Charts. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Statistiche Biathlon" [Statistics Biathlon]. Neve Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2015.  (Italian) (registration required)
  5. ^ "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 19 December 1987. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  6. ^ "World Cup 1 - Hochfilzen (AUT) – Men 20 km Individual". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  7. ^ "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 22 January 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  8. ^ "World Cup 2 - Antholz-Anterselva (ITA) – Men 10 km Sprint". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  9. ^ a b "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 25 January 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  10. ^ "World Cup 2 - Antholz-Anterselva (ITA) – Men 20 km Individual". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  11. ^ "World Cup 3 - Ruhpolding (GER) – Men 20 km Individual". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  12. ^ a b "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 30 January 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  13. ^ "World Cup 3 - Ruhpolding (GER) – Men 10 km Sprint". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  14. ^ "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 11 March 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  15. ^ "World Cup 4 - Oslo Holmenkollen (NOR) – Men 20 km Individual". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  16. ^ a b "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 14 March 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  17. ^ "World Cup 4 - Oslo Holmenkollen (NOR) – Men 10 km Sprint". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  18. ^ "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 16 March 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  19. ^ "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 18 March 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  20. ^ "World Cup 5 - Jyväskylä (FIN) – Men 20 km Individual". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  21. ^ a b c "Sport i navn og tall – Skiskyting" [Sport in name and numbers – Biathlon]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 21 March 1988. Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
  22. ^ "World Cup 5 - Jyväskylä (FIN) – Men 10 km Sprint". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  23. ^ Thore-Erik Thoresen (14 March 1988). "Rötsch igjen, så klart!" [Rötsch again, of course]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 January 2015.  (Norwegian) (subscription required)
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