2018 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Pursuit (Men)

sport	biathlon
discipline	12.5 km pursuit
gender	Men
Attendees	60 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Alpensia Biathlon Center
Competition phase	February 12, 2018
Winning time	32: 51.7 min
Medalist  Martin Fourcade ( FRA )  Sebastian Samuelsson ( SWE )  Benedikt Doll ( GER )
← 2014 2022 →

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 12.5 km biathlon pursuit at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on February 12, 2018 at 9:00 p.m. The venue was the Alpensia Biathlon Center . The Frenchman Martin Fourcade secured the gold medal with just one shooting error. Silver went to Sebastian Samuelsson from Sweden, the bronze medal went to Benedikt Doll from Germany .

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.

Total ascent: 425 m, maximum ascent: 40 m, difference in altitude: 36 m
60 participants from 25 countries, all in the rating.

Results

rank	athlete	nation	Start time (min)	Penalties (L + L + S + S)	Time (min)
1	Martin Fourcade	France	0:22	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)	32: 51.7
2	Sebastian Samuelsson	Sweden	0:34	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)	33: 03.7
3	Benedikt Doll	Germany	0:18	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)	33: 06.8
4th	Tarjei Bø	Norway	0:34	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	33: 54.3
5	Simon Schempp	Germany	0:21	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	33: 54.4
6th	Benjamin Weger	Switzerland	0:37	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)	33: 54.8
7th	Simon Desthieux	France	0:32	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	33: 55.4
8th	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	0:00	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	34: 05.8
9	Erlend Bjøntegaard	Norway	0:17	4 (1 + 0 + 0 + 3)	34: 18.0
10	Lukas Hofer	Italy	0:31	3 (1 + 1 + 1 + 0)	34: 24.4
11	Erik Lesser	Germany	0:32	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)	34: 27.6
12	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Latvia	0:56	4 (1 + 0 + 1 + 2)	34: 29.3
13	Tomas Kaukėnas	Lithuania	0:45	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)	34: 31.8
14th	Simon Eder	Austria	1:04	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)	34: 33.1
15th	Julian Eberhard	Austria	0:08	6 (0 + 1 + 3 + 2)	34: 36.9
16	Dominik Windisch	Italy	0:08	5 (2 + 0 + 0 + 3)	34: 57.9
17th	Tim Burke	United States	1:48	2 (0 + 1 + 1 + 0)	35: 11.3
18th	Jesper Nelin	Sweden	1:08	4 (0 + 1 + 1 + 2)	35: 15.5
19th	Antonin Guigonnat	France	0:59	5 (2 + 1 + 0 + 2)	35: 27.9
20th	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	0:45	5 (0 + 2 + 2 + 1)	35: 33.2
21st	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norway	1:13	6 (0 + 2 + 4 + 0)	35: 42.7
22nd	Timofei Lapschin	South Korea	0:44	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)	35: 50.7
23	Michael Rösch	Belgium	1:31	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	35: 55.1
24	Klemen Bauer	Slovenia	0:58	6 (2 + 0 + 2 + 2)	35: 55.9
25th	Tero Seppälä	Finland	0:49	5 (1 + 1 + 3 + 0)	36: 09.9
26th	Dominik Landertinger	Austria	0:57	5 (0 + 0 + 1 + 4)	36: 22.2
27	Martin Otčenáš	Slovakia	2:01	3 (0 + 0 + 3 + 0)	36: 22.5
28	Serafin Wiestner	Switzerland	0:24	6 (0 + 1 + 3 + 2)	36: 37.0
29	Fredrik Lindström	Sweden	1:35	5 (0 + 2 + 2 + 1)	36: 41.5
30th	Michal Krčmář	Czech Republic	0:04	7 (2 + 0 + 3 + 2)	36: 41.6
31	Matej Kazár	Slovakia	0:55	5 (1 + 2 + 1 + 1)	36: 42.4
32	Lowell Bailey	United States	1:16	5 (0 + 0 + 3 + 2)	36: 43.3
33	Anton Smolski	Belarus	1:27	3 (1 + 1 + 1 + 0)	36: 44.1
34	Dmytro Pidruchnyj	Ukraine	0:49	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)	36: 53.2
35	Olli Hiidensalo	Finland	0:48	7 (1 + 2 + 1 + 3)	37: 03.9
36	Uladsimir Tschapelin	Belarus	1:26	6 (0 + 0 + 3 + 3)	37: 04.6
37	Sergei Botscharnikov	Belarus	1:42	6 (1 + 3 + 0 + 2)	37: 15.6
38	Artem Pryma	Ukraine	1:36	6 (1 + 1 + 2 + 2)	37: 16.3
39	Giuseppe Montello	Italy	1:57	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)	37: 21.7
40	Anton Babikov	OAR	2:10	4 (1 + 1 + 2 + 0)	37: 21.8
41	Kalev Ermits	Estonia	1:28	6 (1 + 3 + 0 + 2)	37: 43.0
42	Peppe Femling	Sweden	1:13	5 (1 + 1 + 1 + 2)	37: 45.8
43	Vytautas Strolia	Lithuania	1:54	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)	37: 47.3
44	Quentin Fillon Maillet	France	1:49	7 (3 + 0 + 2 + 2)	37: 57.2
45	Krassimir Anev	Bulgaria	1:30	5 (0 + 0 + 3 + 2)	37: 57.9
46	Vladimir Iliev	Bulgaria	2:04	7 (1 + 3 + 2 + 1)	38: 08.7
47	Jakov Fak	Slovenia	0:55	6 (2 + 1 + 3 + 0)	38: 10.4
48	Thomas Bormolini	Italy	2:01	6 (1 + 0 + 4 + 1)	38: 10.7
49	Serhiy Semenov	Ukraine	1:46	5 (1 + 0 + 2 + 2)	38: 23.7
50	Leif Nordgren	United States	2:10	5 (2 + 2 + 0 + 1)	38: 40.4
51	Ondřej Moravec	Czech Republic	1:08	8 (1 + 2 + 2 + 3)	38: 45.9
52	Roman Jeremin	Kazakhstan	1:43	8 (2 + 1 + 2 + 3)	38: 51.1
53	Roland Lessing	Estonia	1:41	7 (2 + 1 + 3 + 1)	38: 54.4
54	Nathan Smith	Canada	1:44	4 (0 + 0 + 1 + 3)	38: 58.2
55	Tuomas Grönman	Finland	1:46	6 (0 + 1 + 2 + 3)	38: 58.9
56	Grzegorz Guzik	Poland	2:13	6 (2 + 1 + 2 + 1)	39: 07.3
57	Florent Claude	Belgium	2:05	4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)	39: 22.7
58	Cornel Puchianu	Romania	2:14	5 (1 + 1 + 2 + 1)	39: 37.6
59	Miha Dovžan	Slovenia	2:03	7 (0 + 1 + 3 + 3)	40: 13.2
60	Anton Zinapov	Bulgaria	2:09	8 (0 + 1 + 3 + 4)	40: 49.1

Web links

• Official results of the IBU (PDF, 92 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBU Event and Competition Rules, 1.3.10 (.pdf) on biathlonworld.com, accessed on February 9, 2018
2. ↑ Bottom line - persecution men. (PDF, 90 kB) biathlonresults.com, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018 (English).