2018 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Mass Start (Men)

sport	biathlon
discipline	15 km mass start
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Alpensia Biathlon Center
Competition phase	February 18, 2018
Winning time	35: 47.3 min
Medalist  Martin Fourcade ( FRA )  Simon Schempp ( GER )  Emil Hegle Svendsen ( NOR )

Biathlon competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics
sprint	Women	Men
persecution	Women	Men
Mass start	Women	Men
singles	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men	Mixed

The men's 15 km mass start race in biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on February 18, 2018 at 8:15 p.m. The venue was the Alpensia Biathlon Center . After a photo finish against Simon Schempp from Germany, the Frenchman Martin Fourcade became Olympic champion . Bronze went to a sprint finish with the German Erik Lesser of Emil Hegle Svendsen from Norway.

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. They ran four laps of equal length, after the first four laps they each started the shooting range once. The shooting was in the order lying / lying / standing / standing. For each target not hit, the athlete had to complete a 150 meter penalty loop. For the qualification of the mass start race, the same qualification criteria applied as for the biathlon world championships . The gold medal winners of the previous individual competitions entered the race with start numbers 1–3, 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 thus 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 were awarded to the athletes who would have won the most points in the previous races according to the point system of the Biathlon World Cup . There was no personal right to start for the mass start winner from the previous year like at the world championships.

Total ascent: 510 m, maximum ascent: 38 m, difference in altitude: 37 m
30 participants from 13 countries, all in the rating.

Results

space	athlete	country	Time (min)	Penalties (L + L + S + S)
1	Martin Fourcade	France	35: 47.3	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)
2	Simon Schempp	Germany	35: 47.3	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
3	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	35: 58.5	2 (1 + 0 + 1 + 0)
4th	Erik Lesser	Germany	35: 58.9	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)
5	Benedikt Doll	Germany	36: 06.1	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
6th	Julian Eberhard	Austria	36: 18.0	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
7th	Erlend Bjøntegaard	Norway	36: 19.4	2 (0 + 0 + 2 + 0)
8th	Tarjei Bø	Norway	36: 21.9	3 (1 + 0 + 2 + 0)
9	Jesper Nelin	Sweden	36: 21.9	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)
10	Jakov Fak	Slovenia	36: 23.4	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
11	Ondřej Moravec	Czech Republic	36: 23.6	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
12	Dominik Landertinger	Austria	36: 47.3	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
13	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	36: 47.5	4 (1 + 0 + 1 + 2)
14th	Simon Eder	Austria	37: 01.0	3 (1 + 0 + 0 + 2)
15th	Fredrik Lindström	Sweden	37: 02.6	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)
16	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norway	37: 07.3	3 (0 + 3 + 0 + 0)
17th	Dominik Windisch	Italy	37: 07.7	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)
18th	Lukas Hofer	Italy	37: 07.7	4 (1 + 1 + 0 + 2)
19th	Antonin Guigonnat	France	37: 15.3	5 (1 + 0 + 2 + 2)
20th	Klemen Bauer	Slovenia	37: 19.8	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)
21st	Tero Seppälä	Finland	37: 25.0	3 (1 + 2 + 0 + 0)
22nd	Simon Desthieux	France	37: 45.9	5 (1 + 2 + 2 + 0)
23	Sebastian Samuelsson	Sweden	37: 58.8	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)
24	Serafin Wiestner	Switzerland	38: 00.9	3 (2 + 1 + 0 + 0)
25th	Timofei Lapschin	South Korea	38: 07.4	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)
26th	Michal Krčmář	Czech Republic	38: 09.9	5 (1 + 1 + 1 + 2)
27	Benjamin Weger	Switzerland	38: 10.5	5 (2 + 2 + 1 + 0)
28	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Latvia	38: 47.4	3 (0 + 1 + 0 + 2)
29	Quentin Fillon Maillet	France	38: 57.5	7 (3 + 2 + 2 + 0)
30th	Tomas Kaukėnas	Lithuania	38: 58.0	5 (2 + 0 + 2 + 1)

Web links

• Official results of the IBU (PDF, 89 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
2. ↑ Final result - mass start men. (PDF, 90 kB) biathlonresults.com, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018 (English).