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Best performers in January

Posted on 2022-01-23 | by

Who is in top shape going into the Winter Olympics which start in less than two weeks? A lot of favorites skipped some races recently, still the January results probably give a better indication of current form than the races in December.

Note: The scores are standard scores (or z-scores), indicating how many standard deviations (SD) an athlete is back from the World Cup mean (negative values indicate performances better than the mean). The Total Performance Score is calculated by approximating the importance of skiing, hit rate and shooting pace using the method of least squares (for more details, see here and here), and then weighting each z-score value accordingly.

Men

2021–22 z-Scores in January | Non-Team events

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Points (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Points (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
1	Loginov	Alexandr	RUS	5	9.4	39.8	-1.43	-1.00	-0.72	-1.22
2	Laegreid	Sturla Holm	NOR	4	3.8	44.8	-1.51	-0.80	-0.40	-1.17
3	Boe	Johannes Thingnes	NOR	4	13.8	32.5	-1.83	-0.07	-0.58	-1.17
4	Boe	Tarjei	NOR	4	6.3	41.5	-1.78	-0.36	-0.01	-1.16
5	Fillon Maillet	Quentin	FRA	6	6.7	44.5	-1.44	-0.67	-0.93	-1.16
6	Doll	Benedikt	GER	6	13.2	33.7	-1.40	-0.77	-0.79	-1.14
7	Samuelsson	Sebastian	SWE	4	10.3	35.0	-1.27	-1.04	-0.48	-1.11
8	Lesser	Erik	GER	4	8.8	34.0	-1.04	-1.04	-1.09	-1.04
9	Tsvetkov	Maksim	RUS	4	23.5	16.2	-1.10	-1.04	0.10	-0.94
10	Serokhvostov	Daniil	RUS	4	14.8	21.2	-1.13	-0.70	-0.32	-0.91
11	Desthieux	Simon	FRA	6	16.7	26.8	-1.02	-0.87	-0.43	-0.90
12	Claude	Fabien	FRA	6	17.3	24.2	-1.14	-0.36	-1.00	-0.90
13	Jacquelin	Emilien	FRA	5	20.4	26.0	-0.91	-0.62	-1.31	-0.87
14	Khalili	Said Karimulla	RUS	5	26.6	17.2	-0.96	-1.00	-0.14	-0.87
15	Babikov	Anton	RUS	5	19.6	32.0	-0.77	-1.12	-0.59	-0.85
16	Hofer	Lukas	ITA	4	21.0	20.5	-1.07	-0.36	-0.52	-0.80
17	Bakken	Sivert Guttorm	NOR	4	21.0	21.0	-1.15	-0.07	-0.74	-0.79
18	Seppala	Tero	FIN	6	19.0	23.2	-0.91	-0.67	-0.45	-0.78
19	Eder	Simon	AUT	5	21.6	18.5	-0.44	-1.12	-1.47	-0.76
20	Nawrath	Philipp	GER	4	33.0	10.5	-1.28	-0.02	0.07	-0.75
21	Leitner	Felix	AUT	4	29.8	13.5	-0.92	-0.51	-0.47	-0.74
22	Smolski	Anton	BLR	6	20.3	24.8	-1.04	-0.36	0.08	-0.71
23	Rees	Roman	GER	5	15.0	27.4	-0.71	-0.74	-0.58	-0.70
24	Ponsiluoma	Martin	SWE	4	31.0	14.0	-1.11	0.32	-0.81	-0.66
25	Christiansen	Vetle Sjaastad	NOR	4	19.3	21.8	-0.94	-0.07	-0.31	-0.61
26	Claude	Florent	BEL	6	22.2	19.5	-0.52	-1.07	0.31	-0.58
27	Krcmar	Michal	CZE	6	28.5	13.8	-0.55	-0.77	-0.11	-0.56
28	Hiidensalo	Olli	FIN	5	30.2	11.3	-0.52	-0.74	-0.24	-0.55
29	Bormolini	Thomas	ITA	6	22.2	17.7	-0.64	-0.46	-0.23	-0.54
30	Guigonnat	Antonin	FRA	5	41.0	12.0	-0.73	-0.11	-0.63	-0.54
31	Strolia	Vytautas	LTU	5	21.2	20.8	-0.52	-0.49	-0.34	-0.49
32	Vaclavik	Adam	CZE	5	39.2	5.8	-0.85	0.15	-0.16	-0.48
33	Pidruchnyi	Dmytro	UKR	4	32.3	10.0	-0.77	0.49	-1.15	-0.45
34	Burkhalter	Joscha	SUI	4	27.3	13.8	0.02	-0.87	-1.75	-0.45
35	Iliev	Vladimir	BUL	5	41.8	7.4	-0.80	0.02	0.14	-0.45
36	Povarnitsyn	Alexander	RUS	5	37.0	3.2	-0.34	-0.53	-0.78	-0.45
37	Giacomel	Tommaso	ITA	4	43.8	4.5	-0.91	0.66	-0.70	-0.43
38	Windisch	Dominik	ITA	5	37.4	11.0	-0.84	0.53	-0.57	-0.41
39	Tsymbal	Bogdan	UKR	5	33.4	12.8	-0.26	-0.74	-0.33	-0.41
40	Fak	Jakov	SLO	5	37.8	11.8	-0.11	-0.87	-0.63	-0.39

Women

2021–22 z-Scores in January | Non-Team events

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Points (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Points (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
1	Roeiseland	Marte Olsbu	NOR	4	1.3	58.5	-1.36	-1.35	-1.94	-1.43
2	Oeberg	Hanna	SWE	4	6.3	41.0	-1.45	-0.73	-1.99	-1.31
3	Simon	Julia	FRA	6	8.2	39.0	-1.30	-0.61	-2.10	-1.20
4	Oeberg	Elvira	SWE	4	6.3	44.0	-1.52	-0.73	-0.71	-1.19
5	Alimbekava	Dzinara	BLR	6	4.3	43.7	-1.37	-0.79	-1.26	-1.19
6	Wierer	Dorothea	ITA	6	6.8	40.2	-1.14	-0.51	-2.29	-1.10
7	Brorsson	Mona	SWE	5	11.0	32.0	-1.39	-0.54	-0.55	-1.04
8	Braisaz-Bouchet	Justine	FRA	6	14.0	31.7	-1.76	0.14	-0.30	-1.03
9	Chevalier-Bouchet	Anais	FRA	5	8.8	35.6	-0.94	-0.89	-1.50	-0.99
10	Davidova	Marketa	CZE	6	13.5	28.2	-1.23	-0.51	-0.24	-0.90
11	Sola	Hanna	BLR	5	23.0	16.7	-1.42	0.51	-1.65	-0.89
12	Tandrevold	Ingrid Landmark	NOR	4	8.5	33.8	-1.26	-0.22	-0.11	-0.82
13	Reztsova	Kristina	RUS	5	16.2	26.4	-1.37	0.39	-0.98	-0.81
14	Hauser	Lisa Theresa	AUT	6	13.0	27.7	-0.83	-0.33	-1.71	-0.79
15	Persson	Linn	SWE	4	26.3	18.8	-1.11	-0.11	-0.70	-0.77
16	Nigmatullina	Uliana	RUS	5	34.8	16.2	-0.76	-0.77	-0.46	-0.72
17	Hojnisz-Starega	Monika	POL	4	28.0	14.5	-0.73	-0.73	-0.65	-0.72
18	Chevalier	Chloe	FRA	6	18.5	22.5	-0.95	-0.42	-0.11	-0.69
19	Voigt	Vanessa	GER	5	17.6	23.8	-0.56	-1.24	0.07	-0.68
20	Bescond	Anais	FRA	6	23.5	24.8	-1.02	-0.05	-0.51	-0.67
21	Hildebrand	Franziska	GER	6	22.8	19.0	-0.91	-0.33	-0.28	-0.66
22	Stremous	Alina	MDA	6	22.7	18.3	-0.93	-0.79	1.35	-0.61
23	Vasnetcova	Valeriia	RUS	6	26.7	18.0	-0.84	0.04	-1.08	-0.61
24	Hinz	Vanessa	GER	4	35.5	10.3	-0.82	-0.11	-0.42	-0.56
25	Eder	Mari	FIN	5	22.4	15.5	-1.24	0.39	0.46	-0.56
26	Kazakevich	Irina	RUS	6	30.8	14.2	-0.94	-0.14	0.29	-0.56
27	Minkkinen	Suvi	FIN	4	38.8	8.8	-0.24	-0.89	-1.35	-0.56
28	Haecki	Lena	SUI	4	31.0	10.3	-0.43	-0.22	-1.94	-0.55
29	Todorova	Milena	BUL	5	36.4	5.6	-0.84	0.04	-0.30	-0.52
30	Erdal	Karoline	NOR	4	36.0	14.3	-0.52	-0.42	-0.54	-0.49
31	Bendika	Baiba	LAT	4	36.5	5.4	-0.95	0.35	-0.16	-0.48
32	Sanfilippo	Federica	ITA	4	44.5	5.0	-0.93	0.04	0.64	-0.46
33	Herrmann	Denise	GER	4	28.5	9.6	-1.14	0.66	0.16	-0.46
34	Jislova	Jessica	CZE	6	22.3	18.7	-0.25	-1.07	0.00	-0.46
35	Zuk	Kamila	POL	4	31.8	10.3	-0.95	0.51	-0.36	-0.45
36	Tomingas	Tuuli	EST	5	33.0	8.6	-0.64	-0.30	0.19	-0.44
37	Lien	Ida	NOR	4	33.5	10.8	-1.07	0.58	0.19	-0.44
38	Fialkova	Ivona	SVK	5	42.8	2.0	-0.79	0.39	-0.72	-0.44
39	Leshchanka	Iryna	BLR	4	41.5	9.6	-0.88	0.35	-0.12	-0.43
40	Lie	Lotte	BEL	6	36.5	7.8	-0.09	-0.89	-0.60	-0.39

Biathlon World Cup wins by age | Men

Posted on 2021-12-16 | by

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Men’s individual/non-team wins in World Cup level races by age. Biathlon World Cup, World Championships, Olympics – Women (1958 – 2021).

Biathlon World Cup wins by age | Women

Posted on 2021-12-09 | by

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Women’s individual/non-team wins in World Cup level races by age (in y – years and d – days).

Biathlon World Cup, World Championships, Olympics – Women (1984- 2021).

New feature: Complete IBU Cup & Junior level data

Posted on 2021-09-29 | by

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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

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Rank (avg)	Ski Speed Score	Hit Rate Score	Range Time Score	Total Performance Score
1	Bakken	Sivert Guttorm	NOR	15	9.5	-0.84	-1.22	-1.57	-1.04
2	Khalili	Said Karimulla	RUS	6	6.3	-0.84	-1.66	-0.36	-1.02
3	Cappellari	Daniele	ITA	15	21.2	-0.44	-1.73	-1.85	-0.99
4	Andersen	Filip Fjeld	NOR	15	8.7	-1.00	-0.93	-0.87	-0.96
5	Andersen	Aleksander Fjeld	NOR	15	10.5	-0.89	-0.97	-1.24	-0.95
6	Stroemsheim	Endre	NOR	12	12.2	-0.92	-0.69	-1.50	-0.93
7	Nawrath	Philipp	GER	15	10.7	-1.07	-0.76	-0.32	-0.89
8	Tsymbal	Bogdan	UKR	7	20.1	-0.79	-0.98	-0.94	-0.86
9	Strelow	Justus	GER	15	20.6	-0.65	-1.22	-0.98	-0.85
10	Porshnev	Nikita	RUS	14	18.4	-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),

New database search function

Posted on 2021-07-18 | by

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I have been working on a new feature that allows to search the real biathlon database for all-time records, seasonal data/records or specific data subsets. You can search three separate categories: among all single races, aggregated seasonal data, and career statistics. I implemented a new web interface available in the Patreon section for more complex database searches that allows combined queries for multiple values/ranges.

Below are a few examples of possible queries:

Since 2001–02, there have been only 3 races in which an athlete topped all major stats (rank, ski rank, hit rate, shooting time): all these “perfect” races where done by Ole Einar Bjørndalen between 2001 and 2005. There hasn’t been a single race like this on the women’s side.

“Perfect” races, all time

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Date	Level	Place	Discipline	Rank	Ski Rank	Total Percent	Shooting Time Rank
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Date	Level	Place	Discipline	Rank	Ski Rank	Total Percent	Shooting Time Rank
1	Bjoerndalen	Ole Einar	NOR	2001-12-06	WC	Hochfilzen	SP	1	1	100	1
2	Bjoerndalen	Ole Einar	NOR	2004-12-11	WC	Oslo Holmenkollen	SP	1	1	100	1
3	Bjoerndalen	Ole Einar	NOR	2005-01-23	WC	Antholz-Anterselva	PU	1	1	100	1
4	Bjoerndalen	Ole Einar	NOR	2005-02-20	WC	Pokljuka	MS	1	2	100	2
5	Eberhard	Julian	AUT	2017-03-03	WC	PyeongChang	SP	1	2	100	1

Who was the fastest skier ever? That’s difficult to answer, because results will always differ depending on your criteria. But the list of the top female skiers (per season) in terms of percent back from top 10 median isn’t a bad benchmark.

Kaisa Mäkäräinen, Magdalena Neuner and Darya Domracheva had 3 seasons each skiing at least 1.6% faster than the top 10 median. Interestingly, all seasons are from at least 6 years ago. Either the depth of the women’s field has increased a lot in just a couple of years, or there aren’t as many all-time great skiers in today’s field.

Fastest skiers (top 10 median back) | Women’s seasons

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Season Id	Discipline	Year	Skiing Top 10 Median Back	Ski Rank	Speed
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	Races	Season Id	Discipline	Year	Skiing Top 10 Median Back	Ski Rank	Speed
1	Makarainen	Kaisa	FIN	25	1415	NonTeam	2015	-2.638	2.4	23.01
2	Neuner	Magdalena	GER	25	0708	NonTeam	2008	-2.502	1.32	22.255
3	Domracheva	Darya	BLR	26	1112	NonTeam	2012	-2.454	2.346	22.385
4	Domracheva	Darya	BLR	25	1415	NonTeam	2015	-2.064	2.125	22.852
5	Zidek	Anna Carin	SWE	23	0506	NonTeam	2006	-1.999	2.435	21.226
6	Domracheva	Darya	BLR	24	1314	NonTeam	2014	-1.89	1.917	22.472
7	Neuner	Magdalena	GER	25	1112	NonTeam	2012	-1.82	2.72	22.261
8	Neuner	Magdalena	GER	21	1011	NonTeam	2011	-1.774	1.952	22.14
9	Makarainen	Kaisa	FIN	26	1213	NonTeam	2013	-1.736	2.692	22.404
10	Makarainen	Kaisa	FIN	26	1112	NonTeam	2012	-1.735	2.615	22.211
11	Goessner	Miriam	GER	24	1213	NonTeam	2013	-1.6	4.083	22.375

Below are the fastest female shooters – average of all career shooting times (at least 10 races). Unsurprisingly, that list is dominated by current athletes, as shooting speed have increased considerably over the last decade. Julia Simon tops this ranking with a average 25.5s shooting time in her 80 career races to date.

Fastest shooters (below 27 sec) | Women’s career data

No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	First Year	Last Year	Races	Discipline	Total Shooting Time	Total Percent	Races
No	Family Name	Given Name	Nation	First Year	Last Year	Races	Discipline	Total Shooting Time	Total Percent	Races
1	Simon	Julia	FRA	2017	2021	80	NonTeam	25.478	77.857	80
2	Cadurisch	Irene	SUI	2012	2021	68	NonTeam	25.888	79.044	68
3	Kummer	Luise	GER	2014	2016	22	NonTeam	26.35	87.045	22
4	Merkushyna	Anastasiya	UKR	2015	2021	76	NonTeam	26.515	84.737	76
5	Bankes	Megan	CAN	2017	2021	43	NonTeam	26.629	74.39	43
6	Wierer	Dorothea	ITA	2009	2021	238	NonTeam	26.719	85.506	238
7	Ghilenko	Alla	MDA	2017	2021	36	NonTeam	26.824	79.545	36
8	Poje	Urska	SLO	2014	2020	36	NonTeam	26.868	84.583	36

Best performers in January

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Biathlon World Cup wins by age | Men

Biathlon World Cup wins by age | Women

New feature: Complete IBU Cup & Junior level data

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