1985–86 Biathlon World Cup

The 1985–86 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 16 January 1986 in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, and ended on 16 March 1986 in Boden, Sweden. It was the ninth season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1985–86 season.^[1][2][3]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Antholz-Anterselva	16–19 January	●	●	●
Feistritz	23–26 January	●	●	●
Oberhof	30 January–2 February	●	●	●
Holmenkollen	20–23 February	●	●	●
Lahti	7–9 March	●	●	●
Boden	14–16 March	●	●	●
Total		6	6	6

• 1986 World Championship races were not included in the 1985–86 World Cup scoring system.

*The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

World Cups

World Cup 1 in Antholz-Anterselva
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
16 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][4][5]	1.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS) 1:03:19.8 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Peter Angerer (FRG); 5.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR); 6.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 7.  Franz Wudy (FRG); 8.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 9.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 10.  Kjell Søbak (NOR);
		2.  Gottlieb Taschler (ITA) +1:22.1 (0+0+0+0)
		3.  Sergei Antonov (URS) +1:29.6 (0+1+0+1)
18 January	10 km sprint[1][2][3][6][7]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 30:42.3 (0+1)	4.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 5.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR); 6.  Sergei Bulygin (URS); 7.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 8.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 8.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 10.  Kjell Søbak (NOR);
		2.  Andrei Nepein (URS) +0:04.7 (0+0)
		3.  Gisle Fenne (NOR) +0:04.9 (0+0)
19 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[2][6][8]	1.  Soviet Union II 1:35:16 (2) Dmitry Vasilyev (0) Konstantin Vaiguin (0) Alexandr Popov (0) Valeriy Medvedtsev (0)	4.  West Germany II 1:37:11 (1); 5.  West Germany I 1:37:42 (1); 6.  Norway II 1:37:48 (1) (Thomassen (0), Einang (0), Haugen (0), Skattebo (1)); 7.  Austria II 1:38:02 (5); 8.  West Germany III 1:38:52; 9.  Sweden 1:39:38 (2); 10.  Austria I 1:39:55 (1);
		2.  Norway I 1:35:22 (1) Øivind Nerhagen (0) Eirik Kvalfoss (1) Kjell Søbak (0) Gisle Fenne (0)
		3.  Soviet Union I 1:36:01 (4) Andrei Nepein (2) Sergei Antonov (0) Juri Kashkarov (2) Sergei Bulygin (0)

World Cup 2 in Feistritz
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
23 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][9][10]	1.  Sergei Antonov (URS) 52:31.4 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Sergei Bulygin (URS); 5.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR); 6.  Jan Matouš (TCH) 7.  Peter Angerer (FRG); 8.  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS); 9.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 10.  Franz Wudy (FRG);
		2.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS) +0:18.2 (0+0+0+0)
		3.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +0:57.2 (0+0+0+1)
25 January	10 km sprint[1][2][3][11][12]	1.  Andrei Nepein (URS) 25:56.8 (0+0)	4.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 5.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS); 6.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 7.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 8.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR); 9.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR); 10.  Peter Angerer (FRG);
		2.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +0:27.5 (0+1)
		3.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:39.3 (0+1)
26 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[2]	1.  East Germany	...
		2.  Soviet Union II
		3.  Soviet Union I

World Cup 3 in Oberhof
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
30 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][13]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 1:03:02 (1)	4.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR); 5.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR); 6.  Valeri Kiriyenko (URS); 7.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 8.  Matthias Jacob (GDR); 9.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 10.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN);
		2.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +1:15 (2)
		3.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS) +1:32 (3)
1 February	10 km sprint[1][2][3][14]	1.  Matthias Jacob (GDR) 30:58 (0)	4.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 5.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 6.  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS); 7.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 8.  Peter Angerer (FRG); 9.  Arto Jääskeläinen (FIN); 10.  Walter Hörl (AUT);
		2.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +0:08 (1)
		3.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:43 (1)
2 February	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][14]	1.  Soviet Union II 1:41:04 (1)	4.  East Germany II 1:46:57 (4); 5.  West Germany 1:47:02 (5); 6.  Italy 1:47:42 (8)
		2.  East Germany I 1:44:36 (8)
		3.  Soviet Union I 1:46:43 (7)

World Cup 4 in Lahti
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
7 March	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][15]	1.  East Germany 1:34:12 (1) Jürgen Wirth Jens Steinigen Matthias Jacob André Sehmisch	4.  France 1:38:17 (0); 5.  Italy 1:40:33 (6); 6.  Austria 1:41:29 (3); 9.  Norway/ France 1:44:27 (5);
		2.  Norway 1:35:58 (0) Bjarne Thomassen Gisle Fenne Eirik Kvalfoss Geir Einang
		3.  Finland 1:37:42 (0) Risto Moisejeff Antero Lähde Arto Jääskeläinen Tapio Piipponen
8 March	20 km individual[1][2][3][16]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 1:08:34 (1)	4.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 5.  Risto Moisejeff (FIN); 6.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 7.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 8.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 9.  Herbert Fritzenwenger (FRG); 10.  Franz Schuler (AUT);
		2.  Jan Matouš (TCH) +0:32 (1)
		3.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA) +0:57 (3)
9 March	10 km sprint[1][2][3][16]	1.  André Sehmisch (GDR) 31:10.3 (0)	4.  Anton Lengauer-Stockner (AUT); 5.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 6.  Gisle Fenne (NOR); 7.  Matthias Jacob (GDR); 8.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 9.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 10.  Peter Angerer (FRG);
		2.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) +0:49.2 (1)
		3.  Johann Passler (ITA) +0:56.3 (2)

World Cup 5 in Boden
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
14 March	20 km individual[1][2][3][17][18]	1.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN) 1:05:53.3 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 5.  Zdeněk Hák (TCH); 6.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS); 7.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 8.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR); 9.  Gottlieb Taschler (ITA); 10.  Fritz Fischer (FRG);
		2.  André Sehmisch (GDR) +0:45.1 (0+0+0+1)
		3.  Alfred Eder (AUT) +2:27.2 (0+0+0+1)
15 March	10 km sprint[1][2][3][19][20]	1.  Matthias Jacob (GDR) 29:51.4 (0+0)	4.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 5.  Alexandr Popov (URS); 6.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS); 7.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 8.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN); 9.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 10.  Alfred Eder (AUT);
		2.  Sergei Antonov (URS) +0:16.6 (0+0)
		3.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) +0:29.9 (1+0)
16 March	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][19]	1.  Soviet Union 1:37:23 (0) Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Alexandr Popov Sergei Antonov	4.  West Germany 1:40:58 (2); 5.  Norway 1:41:47 (4);
		2.  East Germany 1:39:39 (0)
		3.  Finland 1:39:40 (1)

Results

Overall World Cup[1][2][19] Rank Name Points 1 André Sehmisch 158 2 Peter Angerer 146 3 Matthias Jacob 124 4 Tapio Piipponen 123 5 Alfred Eder 120 6 Andreas Zingerle 113 7 Jan Matouš 110 8 Sergei Antonov 109 9 Eirik Kvalfoss 103 10 Juri Kashkarov 93 11 Fritz Fischer 92 12 Frank-Peter Roetsch 91 13 Dmitry Vasilyev 87 14 Gisle Fenne 83 15 Jürgen Wirth 82 ... 21 Øivind Nerhagen 68 ... 30 Bjarne Thomassen 34 ... 37 Kjell Søbak 32 ... 47 Geir Einang 15 ... 49 Thov Løvstuen 14 ... 53 Jan Engen 9 ... 62 Tor Skattebo 2

Nation Cup[1][19] Rank Name Points 1 East Germany 4571 2 Soviet Union 4370 3 West Germany 4340 4 Finland 4243 5 Norway 3992 6 Austria 3960 7 Italy 3802 8 France 3533 9 Czechoslovakia 2834 10 Canada 2618

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS), 21, in his 1st season — the WC 1 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was his first podium
•  Andrei Nepein (URS), in his 3rd season — the WC 2 Sprint in Feistritz; first podium was 1985–86 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  André Sehmisch (GDR), 21, in his 3rd season — the WC 4 Sprint in Lahti; first podium was 1984–85 Sprint in Lahti
•  Tapio Piipponen (FIN), 28, in his 7th season — the WC 5 Individual in Boden; first podium was 1981–82 Sprint in Ruhpolding

First World Cup podium

•  Gottlieb Taschler (ITA), 24, in his 5th season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Andrei Nepein (URS), in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Gisle Fenne (NOR), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 1 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Anatoly Zhdanovich (URS), 23, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Oberhof
•  Jan Matouš (TCH), 24, in his 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Individual in Lahti
•  Andreas Zingerle (ITA), 24, in his 5th season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Individual in Lahti
•  André Sehmisch (GDR), 20, in his 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Lahti

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

•  Peter Angerer (FRG), 3 (9) first places
•  Matthias Jacob (GDR), 2 (4) first places
•  Sergei Antonov (URS), 1 (2) first places
•  Valeriy Medvedtsev (URS), 1 (1) first places
•  Andrei Nepein (URS), 1 (1) first places
•  André Sehmisch (GDR), 1 (1) first places
•  Tapio Piipponen (FIN), 1 (1) first places

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1985–86 season:

•  Kjell Søbak (NOR)^[21]

References

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