2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 8 was held in Sochi, Russia, from 7 March until 10 March 2013.

Schedule of events

Date	Time	Events
March 7	12:15 CET	Women's 15 km Individual
	15:30 CET	Men's 20 km Individual
March 9	13:00 CET	Men's 10 km Sprint
	16:00 CET	Women's 7.5 km Sprint
March 10	12:30 CET	Men's 4x7.5 km Relay
	15:30 CET	Women's 4x6 km Relay

Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Tim
20 km Individual details	Martin Fourcade France	49:40.6 (1+0+0+0)	Andreas Birnbacher Germany	49:47.5 (0+0+0+0)	Serhiy Semenov Ukraine	50:12.5 (0+0+0+0)
10 km Sprint details	Martin Fourcade France	25:17.3 (0+0)	Evgeny Ustyugov Russia	25:59.6 (0+1)	Henrik L'Abée-Lund Norway	26:08.3 (0+0)
4x7.5 km Relay details	Russia Anton Shipulin Alexandr Loginov Dmitry Malyshko Evgeny Ustyugov	1:09:50.8 (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:10:29.1 (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3)	Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr Jaroslav Soukup Vit Janov Ondřej Moravec	1:10:33.7 (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
15 km Individual details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	45:45.2 (0+0+0+2)	Olga Zaitseva Russia	46:19.8 (0+0+0+0)	Tora Berger Norway	46:32.0 (0+1+0+0)
7.5 km Sprint details	Magdalena Gwizdoń Poland	25:28.7 (0+0)	Anastasiya Kuzmina Slovakia	25:38.9 (1+0)	Tora Berger Norway	25:42.4 (0+1)
4x6 km Relay details	Germany Andrea Henkel Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Laura Dahlmeier	1:09:27.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma Olena Pidhrushna Valj Semerenko Mariya Panfilova	1:09:39.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Hilde Fenne Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Flatland Tora Berger	1:09:48.3 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)

Achievements

Best performance for all time

• Serhiy Semenov (UKR), 3rd place in Individual
• Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT), 4th place in Individual
• Benedikt Doll (GER), 6th place in Individual
• Alexey Slepov (RUS), 27th place in Individual and 9th in Sprint
• Alexei Almoukov (AUS), 33rd place in Individual
• Sergey Klyachin (RUS), 38th place in Individual
• Dmytro Pidruchnyi (UKR), 46th place in Individual
• Damir Rastić (SRB), 59th place in Individual
• Krisjanis Meirans (LAT), 96th place in Individual
• Henrik L'Abée-Lund (NOR), 3rd place in Sprint
• Dominik Windisch (ITA), 5th place in Sprint
• Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR), 20th place in Sprint
• Vit Janov (CZE), 39th place in Sprint
• Mariya Panfilova (UKR), 13th place in Individual
• Annelies Cook (USA), 14th place in Individual
• Iris Schwabl (AUT), 19th place in Individual
• Hilde Fenne (NOR), 25th place in Individual
• Victoria Padial (ESP), 40th place in Individual
• Galina Vishnevskaya (KAZ), 43rd place in Individual
• Chardine Sloof (NED), 66th place in Individual
• Jaqueline Mourão (BRA), 83rd place in Individual
• Outi Groendahl (FIN), 87th place in Individual
• Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle (GER), 6th place in Sprint
• Jitka Landová (CZE), 37th place in Sprint
• Vanessa Hinz (GER), 43rd place in Sprint
• Sanna Markkanen (FIN), 57th place in Sprint

First World Cup race

• Vanessa Hinz (GER), 45th place in Individual
• Olga Podchufarova (RUS), 58th place in Sprint