2002 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Pursuit (Men)

sport	biathlon
discipline	12.5 km pursuit
gender	Men
Attendees	60 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Soldier Hollow
Competition phase	February 10, 2002
Winning time	32: 34.6 min
Medalist  Ole Einar Bjørndalen ( NOR )  Raphaël Poirée ( FRA )  Ricco Gross ( GER )
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Biathlon competitions at the 2002 Winter Olympics
sprint	Women	Men
persecution	Women	Men
Mass start	Women	Men
singles	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men

The men's biathlon 12.5 km pursuit at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Soldier Hollow on February 16 . Of the 60 best athletes in the sprint competition , 57 from 23 nations started.

The Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen , who had already won the sprint, was the first to enter the cross-country ski run with a margin of 29 seconds over the German Sven Fischer . Wolfgang Perner from Austria and Ricco Groß from Germany took up the chase, 53 seconds behind . World Cup winner and defending champion Raphael Poirée from France was another favorite, but started one minute and six seconds behind. The reigning world champion Pawel Rostowzew from Russia started with almost a minute behind Bjørndalen in sixth.

In the first shooting, Bjørndalen missed a shot, the two Germans Fischer and Groß, unlike Perner, stayed clear and were able to shorten the gap to 14 seconds. Bjørndalen cleared the second and third stages. While one shot missed the target in his last shooting. However, at this point his lead was well over a minute and so he won his third gold medal at these games despite the penalty loop. No biathlete had ever achieved this before.

After the second shooting, Fischer and Groß left the shooting range together because Fischer made a mistake. However, when he had to complete a penalty loop again on the third stage, he fell back. Poirée seized the opportunity with three clean shoots and continued to work his way forward. Groß came to the last shooting with about 25 seconds ahead of the French. There the German showed his nerve and shot his first two penalties, Poirée remained clear and was able to defend his lead of 20 seconds to the finish and secured silver. The Austrian Ludwig Gredler , who was a good 25 seconds behind Groß after the last shooting, caught up and crossed the finish line just four seconds after the German and finished fourth. Fischer, who started the race second, was only twelfth due to his four penalties.

Competition description

The 60 best athletes from the previous sprint race qualified for the 12.5 km pursuit . The winner of the sprint went into the race first, the other athletes started with the time gap they had at the finish of the sprint. Five laps of equal length had to be completed; after the first four, the athletes had to hit five targets at the shooting range in the order lying-lying-standing-standing. For each target not hit, the athlete had to complete a 150-meter penalty loop. The winner was whoever crossed the finish line first.

Results

rank	Stnr.	athlete	country	Start time	Time (min)	Penalties (L + L + S + S)	Deficit (min)
1	1	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	0:00	32: 34.6	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+0: ​​00.0
2	9	Raphaël Poirée	France	1:06	33: 17.6	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+0: ​​43.0
3	4th	Ricco Great	Germany	0:53	33: 30.6	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)	+0: ​​56.0
4th	10	Ludwig Gredler	Austria	1:13	33: 35.5	2 (0 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+1: 00.9
5	6th	Pavel Rostovtsev	Russia	0:59	33: 43.1	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+1: 08.5
6th	5	Wolfgang Rottmann	Austria	0:57	33: 45.1	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+1: 10.5
7th	7th	Viktor Maigurov	Russia	1:00	33: 55.1	3 (2 + 0 + 1 + 0)	+1: 20.5
8th	13	Halvard Hanevold	Norway	1:21	33: 59.6	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+1: 25.0
9	3	Wolfgang Perner	Austria	0:53	34: 00.1	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+1: 25.5
10	12	Vadsim Sashuryn	Belarus	1:19	34: 00.5	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+1: 25.9
11	29	Frank Luck	Germany	1:56	34: 01.0	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+1: 26.4
12	2	Sven Fischer	Germany	0:29	34: 09.5	4 (0 + 1 + 1 + 2)	+1: 34.9
13	26th	Jay Hakkinen	United States	1:52	34: 11.8	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+1: 37.2
14th	8th	Frode Andresen	Norway	1:00	34: 14.5	5 (2 + 0 + 0 + 3)	+1: 39.9
15th	24	Egil Gjelland	Norway	1:51	34: 16.9	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+1: 42.3
16	15th	Michael Greis	Germany	1:27	34: 19.9	3 (1 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+1: 45.3
17th	14th	Zdeněk Vítek	Czech Republic	1:23	34: 21.0	3 (0 + 1 + 0 + 2)	+1: 46.4
18th	21st	Vincent Defrasne	France	1:45	34: 33.6	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+1: 59.0
19th	23	Tomaž Globočnik	Slovenia	1:49	34: 42.6	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+2: 08.0
20th	22nd	René Cattarinussi	Italy	1:46	35: 00.9	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)	+2: 26.3
21st	11	Aleh Ryshankou	Belarus	1:14	35: 08.3	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+2: 33.7
22nd	25th	Vesa Hietalahti	Finland	1:52	35: 10.0	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+2: 35.4
23	20th	Jeremy Teela	United States	1:45	35: 18.1	3 (0 + 1 + 2 + 0)	+2: 43.5
24	17th	Bjorn Ferry	Sweden	1:39	35: 27.5	4 (0 + 0 + 3 + 1)	+2: 52.9
25th	31	Tomasz Sikora	Poland	2:08	35: 30.0	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+2: 55.4
26th	30th	Dimitri Borovik	Estonia	1:59	35: 33.1	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+2: 58.5
27	51	Sergei Roshkov	Russia	2:48	35: 37.3	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+3: 02.7
28	16	Paavo Puurunen	Finland	1:33	36: 03.5	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+3: 28.9
29	27	Marko Dolenc	Slovenia	1:56	36: 06.1	4 (0 + 0 + 1 + 3)	+3: 31.5
30th	46	Oļegs Maļuhins	Latvia	2:39	36: 10.5	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+3: 35.9
31	33	Sergei Russinov	Russia	2:13	36: 14.5	3 (0 + 2 + 0 + 1)	+3: 39.9
32	19th	Timo Antila	Finland	1:42	36: 16.7	5 (0 + 0 + 3 + 2)	+3: 42.1
33	50	Wilfried Pallhuber	Italy	2:44	36: 19.7	2 (1 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+3: 45.1
34	18th	Wojciech Kozub	Poland	1:41	36: 27.8	4 (2 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+3: 53.2
35	41	Kyōji Suga	Japan	2:30	36: 28.8	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+3: 54.2
36	28	Carl Johan Bergman	Sweden	1:56	36: 33.4	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+3: 58.8
37	49	Paolo Longo	Italy	2:41	36: 38.8	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+4: 04.2
38	44	Janez Marič	Slovenia	2:37	36: 51.4	5 (1 + 1 + 1 + 2)	+4: 16.8
39	35	Julien Robert	France	2:14	36: 55.4	4 (2 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+4: 20.8
40	36	Vyacheslav Derkach	Ukraine	2:14	36: 56.8	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+4: 22.2
41	48	Indrek Tobreluts	Estonia	2:40	36: 57.4	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+4: 22.8
42	43	Robin Clegg	Canada	2:37	37: 04.6	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+4: 30.0
43	39	Marek Matiaško	Slovakia	2:21	37: 26.0	5 (2 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+4: 51.4
44	34	Roman Dostál	Czech Republic	2:14	37: 26.8	6 (1 + 1 + 1 + 3)	+4: 52.2
45	32	Tomáš Holubec	Czech Republic	2:11	37: 31.1	6 (2 + 1 + 1 + 2)	+4: 56.5
46	59	Aleksander Grajf	Slovenia	3:01	37: 38.9	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+5: 04.3
47	55	Roland Zwahlen	Switzerland	2:52	37: 40.6	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+5: 06.0
48	37	Oleksiy Ajdarov	Belarus	2:15	37: 43.0	6 (0 + 0 + 3 + 3)	+5: 08.4
49	57	Alyaksandr Syman	Belarus	2:54	38: 05.8	3 (1 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+5: 31.2
50	58	Wiesław Ziemianin	Poland	2:56	38: 45.7	4 (0 + 3 + 1 + 0)	+6: 11.1
51	40	Ilmārs Bricis	Latvia	2:26	38: 49.9	7 (0 + 1 + 3 + 3)	+6: 15.3
52	54	Lawton Redman	United States	2:52	38: 59.0	6 (1 + 0 + 3 + 2)	+6: 24.4
53	56	Zhang Qing	China	2:54	39: 11.1	5 (0 + 3 + 1 + 1)	+6: 36.5
54	52	Jēkabs Nākums	Latvia	2:50	39: 19.3	5 (1 + 2 + 2 + 0)	+6: 44.7
55	42	Marian Blaj	Romania	2:34	39: 31.2	6 (2 + 2 + 1 + 1)	+6: 56.6
56	60	Georgi Kassabov	Bulgaria	3:04	40: 38.5	7 (1 + 3 + 2 + 1)	+8: 03.9
	45	Janno Prants	Estonia	2:38	DNF	9 (4+ + +)	+9: 59.0
	38	Andrij Derysemlya	Ukraine	2:20	DNS
	47	Petr Garabík	Czech Republic	2:40
	53	Ruslan Lysenko	Ukraine	2:52

Web links

• Official Results (PDF)