Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Biathlon - Singles (Men)

sport	biathlon
discipline	20 km individual
gender	Men
Attendees	86 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Alpensia Biathlon Center
Competition phase	15th February 2018
Winning time	48: 03.8 min
Medalist  Johannes Thingnes Bø ( NOR )  Jakov Fak ( SLO )  Dominik Landertinger ( AUT )

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 20 km individual race in biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on February 15, 2018 at 8:20 p.m. The venue was the Alpensia Biathlon Center . The start was originally planned at 8:00 p.m. Since the women's individual race from the previous day had also been postponed to February 15 due to strong winds, the start of the men's race was postponed by 20 minutes. The gold medal went to the Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Bø , ahead of Jakov Fak from Slovenia and Dominik Landertinger from Austria.

Competition description

The individual competition is the oldest discipline in biathlon and is therefore also considered a "classic". The 20 km are divided into five equally long running laps, after the first four the athletes have to hit five targets at the shooting range in the order lying-standing-lying-standing. Unlike in the other disciplines, the athletes received a penalty of one minute for each target not hit. The winner was whoever achieved the fastest overall time at the finish.

Total ascent: 670 m, maximum ascent: 38 m, difference in altitude: 37 m
86 participants from 26 countries, all in the rating.

Results

space	athlete	country	Time (min)	Penalty minutes (L + S + L + S)
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norway	48: 03.8	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)
2	Jakov Fak	Slovenia	48: 09.3	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)
3	Dominik Landertinger	Austria	48: 18.0	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)
4th	Sebastian Samuelsson	Sweden	48: 32.9	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
5	Martin Fourcade	France	48: 46.2	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)
6th	Benjamin Weger	Switzerland	48: 52.4	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)
7th	Michal Krčmář	Czech Republic	49: 19.3	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)
8th	Fredrik Lindström	Sweden	49: 25.9	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
9	Erik Lesser	Germany	49: 31.1	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)
10	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	49: 40.5	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)
11	Simon Eder	Austria	49: 55.8	2 (1 + 0 + 1 + 0)
12	Ondřej Moravec	Czech Republic	49: 56.9	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
13	Tarjei Bø	Norway	50: 05.3	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)
14th	Scott Gow	Canada	50: 06.3	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
15th	Klemen Bauer	Slovenia	50: 07.0	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)
16	Anton Babikov	OAR	50: 08.0	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
17th	Julian Eberhard	Austria	50: 15.6	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)
18th	Sergei Botscharnikov	Belarus	50: 25.3	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
19th	Vladimir Iliev	Bulgaria	50: 25.9	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)
20th	Timofei Lapschin	South Korea	50: 28.6	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)
21st	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	50: 29.6	3 (0 + 0 + 3 + 0)
22nd	Brendan Green	Canada	50: 30.4	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
23	Antonin Guigonnat	France	50: 33.5	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)
24	Jesper Nelin	Sweden	50: 37.1	3 (0 + 0 + 0 + 3)
25th	Krassimir Anev	Bulgaria	50: 41.8	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)
26th	Christian Gow	Canada	51: 01.0	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)
27	Simon Desthieux	France	51: 03.6	4 (0 + 2 + 1 + 1)
28	Matwei Yelisseyev	OAR	51: 07.1	3 (0 + 2 + 0 + 1)
29	Artem Tyschtschenko	Ukraine	51: 15.2	0 (0 + 0 + 0 + 0)
30th	Uladsimir Tschapelin	Belarus	51: 27.9	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
31	Vladimir Semakov	Ukraine	51: 32.1	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)
32	Kalev Ermits	Estonia	51: 43.6	2 (1 + 0 + 1 + 0)
33	Grzegorz Guzik	Poland	51: 51.8	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)
34	Matej Kazár	Slovakia	51: 52.4	2 (0 + 1 + 1 + 0)
35	Miha Dovžan	Slovenia	51: 54.2	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)
36	Simon Schempp	Germany	51: 54.8	4 (2 + 2 + 0 + 0)
37	George Buta	Romania	51: 55.6	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)
38	Martin Ponsiluoma	Sweden	51: 56.6	2 (2 + 0 + 0 + 0)
39	Maksim Varabej	Belarus	52: 01.3	3 (0 + 2 + 0 + 1)
40	Giuseppe Montello	Italy	52: 01.9	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)
41	Tim Burke	United States	52: 05.7	4 (1 + 1 + 0 + 2)
42	Oskars Muižnieks	Latvia	52: 06.0	3 (0 + 2 + 0 + 1)
43	Dimitar Gerdschikow	Bulgaria	52: 12.0	3 (2 + 0 + 1 + 0)
44	Sean Doherty	United States	52: 25.6	3 (2 + 0 + 1 + 0)
45	Michal Šlesingr	Czech Republic	52: 35.5	4 (0 + 3 + 0 + 1)
46	Artem Pryma	Ukraine	52: 36.5	4 (1 + 2 + 0 + 1)
47	Jeremy Finello	Switzerland	52: 37.5	3 (0 + 1 + 0 + 2)
48	Tuomas Grönman	Finland	52: 44.1	3 (0 + 2 + 0 + 1)
49	Mario Dolder	Switzerland	52: 46.5	3 (0 + 1 + 0 + 2)
50	Dominik Windisch	Italy	52: 54.3	5 (2 + 0 + 3 + 0)
51	Lowell Bailey	United States	52: 56.8	4 (2 + 1 + 0 + 1)
52	Raman Jaljotnau	Belarus	52: 57.6	5 (1 + 2 + 1 + 1)
53	Serhiy Semenov	Ukraine	52: 57.9	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
54	Florent Claude	Belgium	53: 03.2	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)
55	Cornel Puchianu	Romania	53: 12.1	4 (0 + 2 + 0 + 2)
56	Thomas Bormolini	Italy	53: 26.6	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)
57	Tobias Eberhard	Austria	53: 33.6	4 (1 + 1 + 0 + 2)
58	Johannes Kühn	Germany	53: 36.6	6 (1 + 1 + 1 + 3)
59	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Latvia	53: 41.8	6 (1 + 1 + 3 + 1)
60	Lars Helge Birkeland	Norway	53: 46.8	4 (2 + 1 + 1 + 0)
61	Maxim Braun	Kazakhstan	53: 50.7	2 (0 + 1 + 0 + 1)
62	Vasily Podkorytov	Kazakhstan	53: 52.5	2 (1 + 0 + 1 + 0)
63	Lukas Hofer	Italy	53: 54.1	5 (1 + 2 + 1 + 1)
64	Mikito Tachizaki	Japan	54: 11.5	3 (0 + 1 + 2 + 0)
65	Rene Zahkna	Estonia	54: 20.1	4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)
66	Leif Nordgren	United States	54: 31.1	5 (1 + 1 + 3 + 0)
67	Adam Václavík	Czech Republic	54: 31.7	6 (0 + 4 + 1 + 1)
68	Kauri Kõiv	Estonia	54: 36.4	3 (0 + 0 + 0 + 3)
69	Gheorghe Pop	Romania	54: 40.1	3 (2 + 0 + 1 + 0)
70	Roland Lessing	Estonia	54: 46.0	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)
71	Anton Zinapov	Bulgaria	54: 48.4	5 (0 + 2 + 0 + 3)
72	Timur Chamitgatin	Kazakhstan	54: 52.7	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)
73	Olli Hiidensalo	Finland	54: 57.6	5 (0 + 1 + 3 + 1)
74	Remus Faur	Romania	55: 01.5	4 (0 + 0 + 0 + 4)
75	Michael Rösch	Belgium	55: 10.1	5 (0 + 3 + 0 + 2)
76	Tero Seppälä	Finland	55: 10.8	6 (0 + 2 + 2 + 2)
77	Émilien Jacquelin	France	55: 26.1	7 (2 + 2 + 2 + 1)
78	Tomas Kaukėnas	Lithuania	55: 38.4	6 (0 + 2 + 1 + 3)
79	Andrzej Nędza-Kubiniec	Poland	55: 39.9	5 (2 + 1 + 1 + 1)
80	Mitja Drinovec	Slovenia	56: 06.4	5 (2 + 1 + 2 + 0)
81	Nathan Smith	Canada	56: 15.7	5 (0 + 1 + 4 + 0)
82	Vytautas Strolia	Lithuania	56: 27.0	6 (0 + 2 + 1 + 3)
83	Vladislav Witenko	Kazakhstan	57: 11.3	7 (2 + 2 + 1 + 2)
84	Martin Otčenáš	Slovakia	57: 16.0	5 (1 + 2 + 0 + 2)
85	Michal Šíma	Slovakia	57: 52.3	6 (1 + 1 + 2 + 2)
86	Tomáš Hasilla	Slovakia	58: 55.2	9 (3 + 1 + 3 + 2)

Web links

• Official results of the IBU (PDF, 96 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBU Event and Competition Rules, 1.3.10 (.pdf) on biathlonworld.com, accessed on February 9, 2018
2. ↑ Final result - individual men. (PDF, 89 kB) biathlonresults.com, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018 (English).