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New feature: Complete IBU Cup & Junior level data

Posted on 2021-09-29 | by real biathlon | Leave a Comment on New feature: Complete IBU Cup & Junior level data

The website already offered data for single races of below World Cup level events (IBU Cups, European Championships, IBU Junior Cups, Youth/Junior World Championships). Now you can also search for aggregated shooting and skiing data of IBU Cup seasons or junior level seasons, as well as updated athlete data, which includes all lower level IBU events.

The athletes, teams, races and seasons pages have been updated with a “Level” selection (sidebar) that allows you to switch between categories (competition levels: World Cup level, IBU Cup level, Junior level). For example: junior level races of last season.

The real biathlon database now includes the same seasonal data for IBU Cup seasons and junior seasons as it’s already available for all World Cup seasons. Below I listed the men’s performance scores for the 2020–21 IBU Cup. Interestingly, the scores for top IBU Cup athletes seem to be much closer to the mean (roughly one standard deviation better) than your average World Cup winner (-1.2 to -1.4) at the top international level.

Top overall performance scores | 2020–21 IBU Cup Men

NoFamily NameGiven NameNationRacesRank
(avg)
Ski Speed
Score
Hit Rate
Score
Range Time
Score
Total
Performance
Score
NoFamily NameGiven NameNationRacesRank
(avg)
Ski Speed
Score
Hit Rate
Score
Range Time
Score
Total
Performance
Score
1BakkenSivert GuttormNOR
159.5-0.84-1.22-1.57-1.04
2KhaliliSaid KarimullaRUS
66.3-0.84-1.66-0.36-1.02
3CappellariDanieleITA
1521.2-0.44-1.73-1.85-0.99
4AndersenFilip FjeldNOR
158.7-1.00-0.93-0.87-0.96
5AndersenAleksander FjeldNOR
1510.5-0.89-0.97-1.24-0.95
6StroemsheimEndreNOR
1212.2-0.92-0.69-1.50-0.93
7NawrathPhilippGER
1510.7-1.07-0.76-0.32-0.89
8TsymbalBogdanUKR
720.1-0.79-0.98-0.94-0.86
9StrelowJustusGER
1520.6-0.65-1.22-0.98-0.85
10PorshnevNikitaRUS
1418.4-0.62-1.44-0.52-0.84

The new data also allows you to compare athletes at different competition levels. Below you can see a comparison of junior level race results for Dzinara Alimbekava and Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold. Even though Tandrevold was by far the better junior (winning 5 individual youth/junior world championship medals), Alimbekava took last season’s first ever Under-25 score (blue bib), beating Tandrevold by 27 points.

Other useful additions include tables for Youth/Junior World Championships medals for all athletes, the possibility to compare season data for athletes at different levels (who is shooting better/worse at World Cup level?) and complete results lists (particularly useful for athletes that often change between World Cup and lower levels),

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Biathlon World Cup wins | Men (1958 – 2021)

Posted on 2021-09-10 | by real biathlon | Leave a Comment on Biathlon World Cup wins | Men (1958 – 2021)

I have been experimenting with bar chart races lately. I think it’s an interesting visualization that gives a unique historical perspective that you don’t get by simply looking up records.

Here is one of my first attempts, non-team victories in men’s World Cup level races (Biathlon World Cup, World Championships, Olympics) from 1958- 2021. I hope you like it.

Women:

Posted in Biathlon Media, Long-term trends

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