2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Women
Introduction The '''2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Women''' will start at Sunday January 10, 2010 in Oberhof and will finish Saturday March 27, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Helena Jonsson of Sweden.
[[Biathlon#Mass start|Competition format]] In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this  competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race.) with rest of the shooting bouts being at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, you shoot at lane five.). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).
2008–09 Top 3 Standings '''Medal''''''Athlete''''''Points''''''Gold:''' '''Helena Jonsson'''210'''Silver:''' Kati Wilhelm186'''Bronze:''' Simone Hauswald174
Medal winners '''Event:''''''Gold:'''Time'''Silver:'''Time'''Bronze:'''TimeOberhof ''details'''''Andrea Henkel''' 40:53.6(1+1+0+0)Helena Jonsson 41:17.0(0+1+0+1)Tora Berger 41:33.9(0+0+0+2)Ruhpolding ''details'''''Helena Jonsson''' 40:58.7(0+0+0+0)Simone Hauswald 41:21.8(0+1+1+0)Magdalena Neuner 41:33.7(1+1+1+2)2010 Winter Olympics''details'''''Magdalena Neuner''' 32:37.5(1+0+1+0)Olga Zaitseva 32:25.1(0+0+1+0)Simone Hauswald 35:26.9(0+0+2+0)Oslo ''details'''''Simone Hauswald''' 37:00.7(1+1+0+0)Vita Semerenko37:15.4(0+0+0+0)Magdalena Neuner 37:22.9(0+1+1+1)Khanty-Mansiysk ''details'''''Magdalena Neuner''' 36:20.0(0+0+2+1)Sandrine Bailly 36:37.2(0+0+1+0)Anastasiya Kuzmina 36:43.6(0+0+0+1)
Standings  #  Name  OBE  RUH  OLY  OSL  KHA  Total 1    – 48 60  48 60  '''216''' 2    36 54 48 60  23  '''198''' 3   60  34  32  43  28  '''169''' 4   54 60  31  13  21  '''166''' 5    38  26 54  19   36  '''154''' 6    27  0  36  26 54  '''143''' 7    31  40  16  31  38  '''140''' 8    32  36  38  34  27  '''140''' 9   48  28  23  22  40  '''139''' 10    43  43  –  36  12  '''134''' 11    23  38  40  30  25  '''133''' 12    26  32  26  20  43  '''127''' 13    40  –  – 54  31  '''125''' 14    15  31  43  –  32  '''121''' 15     29  23  28  32  18  '''112''' 16    21  30  –  25  30  '''106''' 17    –  –  34  23 48  '''105''' 18    28  29  –  17  24  '''98''' 19    13  20  25  24  29  '''98''' 20    18  –  22  40  17  '''97''' 21    30  21  11  29  16  '''96''' 22     25  –  27  15  26  '''93''' 23    –  19  –  38  34  '''91''' 24    –  17  30  27  14  '''88''' 25    24  25  19  14  15  '''83''' 26     22  –  29  12  13  '''76''' 27    –  15  24  18  19  '''76''' 28    12  22  –  16  22  '''72''' 29    34  –  –  28  –  '''62''' 30    16  24  –  11  11  '''62''' 31    –  –  12  21  20  '''53''' 32    17  27  –  –  –  '''44''' 33    20  –  18  –   –  '''38''' 34    19  16  –  –  –  '''35''' 35    14  13  –  –  –  '''27''' 36    –  –  21  –  –  '''21''' 37    –  –  20  –  –  '''20''' 38    –  18  –  –  –  '''18''' 39    –  –  17  –   –  '''17''' 40    –  –  15  –  –  '''15''' 41    –  14  –  –  –  '''14''' 41    –  –  14  –  –  '''14''' 43    –  –  13  –  –  '''13''' 44    –  12  –  –  –  '''12'''
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