2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8 will be held in Kontiolahti, Finland, from 10 February until 12 February 2012.

Schedule of events

Date	Time	Events
February 10	12:00 CET	Mixed 2x6+2x7.5 km Relay
February 11	10:30 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	12:30 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
February 12	12:15 CET	Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
	13:00 CET	Women's 10 km Pursuit

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade France	24:58.2 (0+1)	Timofey Lapshin Russia	24:59.0 (0+0)	Benjamin Weger Switzerland	24:59.8 (0+0)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	33:43.8 (2+0+0+0)	Martin Fourcade France	33:57.6 (0+1+0+2)	Dmitry Malyshko Russia	34:06.5 (1+0+1+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
7.5 km Sprint details	Magdalena Neuner Germany	23:07.4 (1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	23:19.7 (1+0)	Darya Domracheva Belarus	23:24.4 (2+0)
10 km Pursuit details	Kaisa Mäkäräinen Finland	32:23.0 (0+1+0+0)	Magdalena Neuner Germany	32:58.9 (0+1+1+2)	Darya Domracheva Belarus	33:00.0 (2+0+2+0)

Mixed

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7.5 km Relay details	France Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Vincent Jay	1:26:22.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Olena Pidhrushna Andriy Deryzemlya Serguei Sednev	1:26:23.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	Slovakia Jana Gerekova Anastasiya Kuzmina Matej Kazar Miroslav Matiaško	1:27:06.5 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

• Timofey Lapshin (RUS), 2nd place in Sprint
• Christian Stebler (SUI), 22nd place in Sprint
• Erik Lesser (GER), 23rd place in Sprint and 22nd in Pursuit
• Aliaksandr Babchyn (BLR), 24th place in Sprint
• Karolis Zlatkauskas (LTU), 49th place in Sprint
• Haibin Chen (CHN), 72nd place in Sprint
• Arturs Kolesnikovs (LAT), 84th place in Sprint
• Edin Hodzic (SRB), 85th place in Sprint
• Dmitry Malyshko (RUS), 3rd place in Pursuit
• Matej Kazar (SVK), 17th place in Pursuit
• Lukas Kristejn (CZE), 44th place in Pursuit
• Juliya Dzhyma (UKR), 19th place in Sprint
• Yan Zhang (CHN), 64th place in Sprint
• Anete Brice (LAT), 79th place in Sprint
• Kadri Lehtla (EST), 18th place in Pursuit
• Anastasia Zagoruiko (RUS), 26th place in Pursuit

First World Cup race

• Lukas Kristejn (CZE), 56th place in Sprint
• Michal Krcmar (CZE), 73rd place in Sprint
• Anastasia Zagoruiko (RUS), 44th place in Sprint