Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

Men’s individual
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Biathlon
VenueHualindong Ski Resort
Date8 February 2022
Competitors92 from 28 nations
Winning time48:47.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Quentin Fillon Maillet  France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Anton Smolski  Belarus
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway
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The Men’s individual competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 8 February, at the National Biathlon Centre,[1] in the Zhangjiakou cluster of competition venues, 180 kilometres (110 mi) north of Beijing, at an elevation of 1,665 metres (5,463 ft).[2] The event was won by Quentin Fillon Maillet of France, his first individual Olympic medal. Anton Smolski of Belarus won the silver medal. This was his first Olympic medal. The defending champion, Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway, won bronze.

Summary

In addition to being the defending champion, Johannes Thingnes Bø won the 2018-19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup seasons overall, but in the 2021–22 season before the Olympics was stood fifth overall and fourth in the individual ranking. The 2018 silver medalist, Jakov Fak, qualified for the Olympics, whereas the bronze medalist, Dominik Landertinger, retired from competitions. The overall leader of the 2021-22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics was Fillon Maillet, and the leader in the individual was Tarjei Bø.

Maxim Tsvetkov started first, and Johannes Thingnes Bø started second. He missed one more target than Tsvetkov but was faster, overtook him at the fourth shooting, and finished three seconds ahead, which eventually cost Tsvetkov a medal. Fillon Maillet, started eleventh, was even faster and finished first. Anton Smolski, who did not miss and had the starting number 28, became the surprising silver medalist.

Qualification

Main article: Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Results

The race was started at 16:30.[3]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+S+P+S) Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 11 Quentin Fillon Maillet  France 48:47.4 2 (0+1+1+0)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 28 Anton Smolski  Belarus 49:02.2 0 (0+0+0+0) +14.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway 49:18.5 2 (1+0+0+1) +31.1
4 1 Maxim Tsvetkov  ROC 49:22.3 1 (0+0+0+1) +34.9
5 9 Scott Gow  Canada 49:53.0 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:05.6
6 44 Benedikt Doll  Germany 49:54.5 2 (1+0+0+1) +1:07.1
7 54 Roman Rees  Germany 50:09.0 1 (0+0+1+0) +1:21.6
8 5 Tarjei Bø  Norway 50:17.0 1 (0+0+0+1) +1:29.6
9 48 Fabien Claude  France 50:25.5 2 (1+1+0+0) +1:38.1
10 31 Alexander Loginov  ROC 50:27.6 3 (0+1+0+2) +1:40.2
11 47 Eduard Latypov  ROC 51:13.1 3 (0+1+1+1) +2:25.7
12 16 Martin Ponsiluoma  Sweden 51:16.8 3 (2+0+0+1) +2:29.4
13 23 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen  Norway 51:21.3 3 (1+2+0+0) +2:33.9
14 39 Dominik Windisch  Italy 51:25.6 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:38.2
15 53 Sturla Holm Lægreid  Norway 51:28.1 3 (1+1+1+0) +2:40.7
16 36 Felix Leitner  Austria 51:41.7 1 (1+0+0+0) +2:54.3
17 15 Simon Desthieux  France 51:46.8 3 (1+2+0+0) +2:59.4
18 21 Dmytro Pidruchnyi  Ukraine 51:49.3 3 (0+1+1+1) +3:01.9
19 57 Benjamin Weger  Switzerland 52:06.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +3:19.5
20 13 Simon Eder  Austria 52:09.4 2 (0+0+1+1) +3:22.0
21 20 Vytautas Strolia  Lithuania 52:10.4 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:23.0
22 32 Joscha Burkhalter  Switzerland 52:12.4 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:25.0
23 92 Tero Seppälä  Finland 52:14.3 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:26.9
24 37 Christian Gow  Canada 52:21.9 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:34.5
25 40 Vladislav Kireyev  Kazakhstan 52:29.2 0 (0+0+0+0) +3:41.8
26 3 Pavel Magazeev  Moldova 52:41.7 2 (1+1+0+0) +3:54.3
27 35 Lukas Hofer  Italy 52:43.6 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:56.2
28 75 Jake Brown  United States 52:45.4 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:58.0
29 29 Jakov Fak  Slovenia 52:48.0 3 (1+1+0+1) +4:00.6
30 33 Sebastian Samuelsson  Sweden 52:51.7 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:04.3
31 66 Mikuláš Karlík  Czech Republic 52:56.3 3 (0+0+0+3) +4:08.9
32 22 Campbell Wright  New Zealand 52:59.8 2 (0+1+1+0) +4:12.4
33 90 Adam Runnalls  Canada 53:24.7 3 (1+0+0+2) +4:37.3
34 56 Said Karimulla Khalili  ROC 53:26.5 4 (2+1+0+1) +4:39.1
35 30 Paul Schommer  United States 53:27.6 3 (0+1+0+2) +4:40.2
36 78 Jules Burnotte  Canada 53:32.3 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:44.9
37 46 Artem Pryma  Ukraine 53:36.2 4 (1+2+0+1) +4:48.8
38 45 Miha Dovžan  Slovenia 53:39.4 2 (0+0+0+2) +4:52.0
39 49 Yan Xingyuan  China 53:40.6 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:53.2
40 71 Peppe Femling  Sweden 53:43.6 2 (1+0+0+1) +4:56.2
41 42 Dimitar Gerdzhikov  Bulgaria 53:54.2 2 (1+0+1+0) +5:06.8
42 55 Sean Doherty  United States 53:55.8 4 (1+1+1+1) +5:08.4
43 6 Michal Šíma  Slovakia 54:09.0 2 (0+1+0+1) +5:21.6
44 34 Tsukasa Kobonoki  Japan 54:16.6 3 (1+0+1+1) +5:29.2
45 65 David Komatz  Austria 54:24.1 3 (1+0+1+1) +5:36.7
46 76 Lovro Planko  Slovenia 54:27.9 4 (2+1+0+1) +5:40.5
47 73 Mikita Labastau  Belarus 54:29.7 4 (1+2+0+1) +5:42.3
48 79 Didier Bionaz  Italy 54:44.7 3 (1+1+1+0) +5:57.3
49 24 Grzegorz Guzik  Poland 54:47.9 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:00.5
50 63 Anton Dudchenko  Ukraine 54:54.9 4 (1+0+1+2) +6:07.5
51 8 Johannes Kühn  Germany 54:58.0 6 (3+2+1+0) +6:10.6
52 12 Alexandr Mukhin  Kazakhstan 55:00.4 4 (1+1+0+2) +6:13.0
53 80 Sebastian Stalder  Switzerland 55:12.6 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:25.2
54 81 Rok Tršan  Slovenia 55:14.7 1 (1+0+0+0) +6:27.3
55 91 Bogdan Tsymbal  Ukraine 55:19.0 4 (3+0+1+0) +6:31.6
56 77 Niklas Hartweg  Switzerland 55:19.7 4 (0+2+0+2) +6:32.3
57 88 Harald Lemmerer  Austria 55:22.7 4 (0+1+2+1) +6:35.3
58 14 Dzmitry Lazouski  Belarus 55:26.4 4 (3+0+1+0) +6:39.0
59 41 Michal Krčmář  Czech Republic 55:27.9 5 (0+1+3+1) +6:40.5
60 74 Kristo Siimer  Estonia 55:32.7 3 (0+0+1+2) +6:45.3
61 7 Vladimir Iliev  Bulgaria 55:37.5 5 (2+1+1+1) +6:50.1
62 83 Milan Žemlička  Czech Republic 55:44.3 2 (0+1+0+1) +6:56.9
63 67 Thomas Bormolini  Italy 55:48.6 5 (0+1+2+2) +7:01.2
64 60 Jesper Nelin  Sweden 55:49.7 5 (0+2+0+3) +7:02.3
65 17 Jakub Štvrtecký  Czech Republic 55:52.7 5 (0+3+0+2) +7:05.3
66 4 Heikki Laitinen  Finland 55:52.8 5 (0+2+1+2) +7:05.4
67 27 Erik Lesser  Germany 55:59.5 5 (0+3+0+2) +7:12.1
68 38 Rene Zahkna  Estonia 56:06.0 3 (0+0+1+2) +7:18.6
69 10 Cheng Fangming  China 56:07.8 6 (2+1+0+3) +7:20.4
70 69 Tomas Kaukėnas  Lithuania 56:30.0 5 (1+0+2+2) +7:42.6
71 43 Karol Dombrovski  Lithuania 56:30.1 4 (0+1+0+3) +7:42.7
72 26 Émilien Jacquelin  France 56:31.4 7 (0+3+2+2) +7:44.0
73 86 Raido Ränkel  Estonia 56:32.4 5 (0+2+1+2) +7:45.0
74 50 Olli Hiidensalo  Finland 56:45.6 5 (0+2+0+3) +7:58.2
75 19 Florent Claude  Belgium 57:11.2 5 (0+2+3+0) +8:23.8
76 18 Timofey Lapshin  South Korea 57:13.0 5 (1+1+2+1) +8:25.6
77 61 Thierry Langer  Belgium 57:18.3 5 (1+1+2+1) +8:30.9
78 25 Kalev Ermits  Estonia 57:21.3 6 (2+2+0+2) +8:33.9
79 84 Linas Banys  Lithuania 57:46.2 3 (1+1+0+1) +8:58.8
80 70 Tomáš Sklenárik  Slovakia 58:08.1 5 (2+2+1+0) +9:20.7
81 62 Tuomas Harjula  Finland 58:14.9 4 (1+2+1+0) +9:27.5
82 52 Kosuke Ozaki  Japan 58:37.9 6 (1+0+4+1) +9:50.5
83 85 Zhu Zhenyu  China 58:42.6 4 (1+2+1+0) +9:55.2
84 87 Matej Baloga  Slovakia 58:47.1 4 (0+1+1+2) +9:59.7
85 72 Anton Sinapov  Bulgaria 58:47.6 6 (2+1+1+2) +10:00.2
86 51 Maksim Varabei  Belarus 58:59.5 8 (1+3+2+2) +10:12.1
87 89 Leif Nordgren  United States 59:29.8 7 (2+2+1+2) +10:42.4
88 58 Šimon Bartko  Slovakia 59:47.8 7 (2+3+1+1) +11:00.4
89 59 George Colțea  Romania 1:01:55.5 8 (1+4+0+3) +13:08.1
90 68 Tom Lahaye-Goffart  Belgium 1:02:26.2 7 (2+1+3+1) +13:38.8
91 82 César Beauvais  Belgium 1:02:50.5 7 (1+1+1+4) +14:03.1
92 64 Zhang Chunyu  China 1:07:12.2 12 (2+4+5+1) +18:24.8

References

  1. ^ "Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games". www.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  2. ^ "Beijing". Inside IBU. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  3. ^ "Final results" (PDF). Ibu.blob.core.windows.net. 8 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.