2014 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Mass Start (Men)

Biathlon 15 km mass start of the men of the 2014 Winter Olympics
gold	Emil Hegle Svendsen
silver	Martin Fourcade
bronze	Ondřej Moravec
Competitions
sprint	Women	Men
persecution	Women	Men
Mass start	Women	Men
singles	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men	Mixed

The men's 15km mass start biathlon race at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place on February 16, 2014 at 2:45 p.m. at the Laura Biathlon and Cross-Country Ski Center. The Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen made no mistakes in all four shoots and thus secured the gold medal. Silver went to the French Martin Fourcade , the bronze medal went to the Czech Ondřej Moravec .

Competition description

In the 15 km mass start, 30 athletes started the race at the same time. These lined up in ten rows of three athletes. Four laps of equal length were run, with the shooting range being run once each time. The shot had to be in the order lying / lying / standing / standing. For each target not hit, the athlete had to complete a 150 meter penalty loop. The same criteria applied to qualifying for the mass start race as for the biathlon world championships . The gold medal winners of the previous individual competitions entered the race with start numbers 1 to 3, the silver medalists with start numbers 4-6 and the bronze medalists with 7-9. In addition, the 15 best athletes in the overall ranking of the ongoing Biathlon World Cup were given the right to start. The number of remaining starting positions was based on how many athletes had won more than one medal in the previous competitions and so one or more starting positions of the first nine athletes were not occupied, the subsequent athletes then automatically moved up with their starting number. The at least six remaining starting places went to the athletes who, according to the Biathlon World Cup point system , would have won the most points in the previous races. There was no personal right to start for the mass start winner from the previous year like at the Biathlon World Championships.

Total ascent: 550 m, maximum ascent: 28 m, difference in altitude: 57 m
30 participants from 13 countries, 27 of them in the rating.

Results

space	athlete	country	Time (min)	Penalties (L + L + S + S)	Difference (min)
1	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	42: 29.1	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)	-
2	Martin Fourcade	France	42: 29.1	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+0: ​​00.0
3	Ondřej Moravec	Czech Republic	42: 42.9	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+0: ​​13.8
4th	Jakov Fak	Slovenia	42: 57.2	2 (0 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+0: ​​28.1
5	Yevgeny Garanichev	Russia	43: 25.3	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+0: ​​56.2
6th	Fredrik Lindström	Sweden	43: 30.5	2 (0 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+1: 01.4
7th	Dominik Landertinger	Austria	43: 32.8	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+1: 03.7
8th	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norway	43: 34.2	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	+1: 05.1
9	Brendan Green	Canada	43: 38.3	2 (1 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+1: 09.2
10	Jean-Philippe Leguellec	Canada	43: 41.6	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+1: 12.5
11	Anton Schipulin	Russia	43: 48.2	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+1: 19.1
12	Bjorn Ferry	Sweden	43: 48.3	3 (1 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+1: 19.2
13	Simon Schempp	Germany	43: 48.3	3 (2 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+1: 19.2
14th	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Latvia	43: 53.1	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+1: 24.0
15th	Matej Kazár	Slovakia	44: 25.6	2 (0 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+1: 56.5
16	Simon Eder	Austria	44: 30.7	4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+2: 01.6
17th	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix	France	44: 34.2	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+2: 05.1
18th	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	44: 35.0	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)	+2: 05.9
19th	Yevgeny Ustyugov	Russia	44: 37.3	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+2: 08.2
20th	Dmitri Malyshko	Russia	44: 42.9	4 (1 + 0 + 3 + 0)	+2: 13.8
21st	Tim Burke	United States	44: 55.9	4 (2 + 0 + 2 + 0)	+2: 26.8
22nd	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	45: 08.3	6 (2 + 0 + 0 + 4)	+2: 39.2
23	Lowell Bailey	United States	45: 19.2	5 (2 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+2: 50.1
24	Jaroslav Soukup	Czech Republic	45: 22.2	4 (0 + 1 + 0 + 3)	+2: 53.1
25th	Dominik Windisch	Italy	45: 28.4	5 (1 + 1 + 3 + 0)	+2: 59.3
26th	Erik Lesser	Germany	45: 34.2	4 (0 + 0 + 2 + 2)	+3: 05.1
27	Christoph Sumann	Austria	45: 39.0	4 (1 + 2 + 1 + 0)	+3: 09.9
	Lukas Hofer	Italy	DNF	4 (2 + 2 + 0)
	Nathan Smith	Canada	DNF	5 (2 + 3)
	Simon Fourcade	France	DNF	2 (2)

Web links

• Official result (PDF, 77 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBU Event and Competition Rules, 1.3.10; 12.6.1.3 (.pdf) on biathlonworld.com, accessed on February 9, 2018