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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Biathlon World Cup seasons

1977–78
1978–79
1979–80
1980–81
1981–82
1982–83
1983–84
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–00
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
2016–17

1985–86 World Cup seasons in the winter sports

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Freestyle skiing Luge Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating

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