The 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 5 was the fifth event of the season and was held in Ruhpolding, Germany, from January 9 until January 13, 2008.

Schedule of events

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Medal winners

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
4 x 7.5 km Relay details	Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Rune Brattsveen Halvard Hanevold Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:27:06.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1)	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Nikolay Kruglov Jr. Dmitri Yaroshenko Maxim Tchoudov	1:27:26.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Germany Michael Rösch Alexander Wolf Carsten Pump Michael Greis	1:27:52.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)
10 km Sprint details	Michael Greis  Germany	24:59.2 (0+0)	Maxim Tchoudov  Russia	25:19.0 (1+0)	Alexander Wolf  Germany	25:29.7 (0+1)
12.5 km Pursuit details	Michael Greis  Germany	36:23.4 (0+0+0+1)	Maxim Tchoudov  Russia	36:51.6 (1+1+1+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	37:17.3 (0+0+1+0)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
4 x 6 km Relay details	Germany Kathrin Hitzer Magdalena Neuner Sabrina Buchholz Kati Wilhelm	1:17:56.0 (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) (2+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Norway Tora Berger Anne Ingstadbjørg Solveig Rogstad Ann Kristin Flatland	1:18:20.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3)	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Anisimova Ekaterina Iourieva Natalia Guseva	1:19:11.9 (0+3) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)
7.5 km Sprint details	Svetlana Sleptsova  Russia	24:25.4 (0+0)	Helena Jonsson  Sweden	24:43.7 (0+0)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	24:46.6 (0+2)
10 km Pursuit details	Solveig Rogstad  Norway	33:43.2 (0+0+0+0)	Kati Wilhelm  Germany	33:55.8 (0+1+1+0)	Kaisa Mäkäräinen  Finland	34:14.1 (1+0+0+0)

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