Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint

Men’s sprint
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Biathlon
VenueHualindong Ski Resort
Date12 February
Competitors94 from 28 nations
Winning time24:00.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Quentin Fillon Maillet  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tarjei Bø  Norway
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The Men's sprint competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 12 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 Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway. Quentin Fillon Maillet of France won silver, and Tarjei Bø of Norway bronze.

Summary

The 2018 champion, Arnd Peiffer, retired from competitions. The silver medalist, Michal Krčmář, qualified for the Olympics.[3] as well as the bronze medalist, Dominik Windisch. The overall leader of the 2021–22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics was Fillon Maillet, and the leader in the sprint was Sebastian Samuelsson, with Fillon Maillet and Émilien Jacquelin standing very close to Samuelsson.

Maxim Tsvetkov was an early leader. Johannes Thingnes Bø improved his time by 40 seconds. Then Fillon Maillet finished 25 seconds behind Bø, and Tarjei Bø took the bronze improving Tsvetkov's time by 2 seconds. Tsvetkov was also fourth in the individual.

Qualification

Main article: Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Results

The race was started at 17:00.[4]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+S) Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 16 Johannes Thingnes Bø  Norway 24:00.4 1 (0+1) —
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 18 Quentin Fillon Maillet  France 24:25.9 1 (1+0) +25.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 27 Tarjei Bø  Norway 24:39.3 1 (0+1) +38.9
4 9 Maxim Tsvetkov  ROC 24:41.0 0 (0+0) +40.6
5 56 Sebastian Samuelsson  Sweden 24:52.4 1 (1+0) +52.0
6 26 Martin Ponsiluoma  Sweden 24:54.1 2 (0+2) +53.7
7 40 Sturla Holm Lægreid  Norway 25:02.7 2 (1+1) +1:02.3
8 30 Benedikt Doll  Germany 25:05.4 1 (0+1) +1:05.0
9 34 Émilien Jacquelin  France 25:06.3 2 (1+1) +1:05.9
10 24 Anton Smolski  Belarus 25:12.9 1 (0+1) +1:12.5
11 12 Eduard Latypov  ROC 25:14.8 3 (2+1) +1:14.4
12 58 Christian Gow  Canada 25:15.5 0 (0+0) +1:15.1
13 15 Dmytro Pidruchnyi  Ukraine 25:19.0 1 (0+1) +1:18.6
14 62 Lukas Hofer  Italy 25:19.6 1 (0+1) +1:19.2
15 60 Artem Pryma  Ukraine 25:19.8 1 (0+1) +1:19.4
16 36 Michal Krčmář  Czech Republic 25:22.4 1 (0+1) +1:22.0
17 42 Roman Rees  Germany 25:24.3 0 (0+0) +1:23.9
18 21 Simon Eder  Austria 25:26.9 1 (0+1) +1:26.5
19 48 Daniil Serokhvostov  ROC 25:38.0 2 (0+2) +1:37.6
20 8 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen  Norway 25:38.4 3 (2+1) +1:38.0
21 37 Fabien Claude  France 25:41.6 3 (1+2) +1:41.2
22 4 Philipp Nawrath  Germany 25:43.4 3 (1+2) +1:43.0
23 92 Thomas Bormolini  Italy 25:44.1 1 (1+0) +1:43.7
24 2 Simon Desthieux  France 25:45.0 2 (0+2) +1:44.6
25 6 Tero Seppälä  Finland 25:47.5 3 (1+2) +1:47.1
26 29 Jakov Fak  Slovenia 25:48.0 1 (0+1) +1:47.6
27 88 Sebastian Stalder  Switzerland 25:48.3 0 (0+0) +1:47.9
28 59 Mikuláš Karlík  Czech Republic 25:48.8 3 (0+3) +1:48.4
29 83 Jules Burnotte  Canada 25:50.3 2 (2+0) +1:49.9
30 20 Dominik Windisch  Italy 25:51.6 2 (0+2) +1:51.2
31 3 Vladimir Iliev  Bulgaria 25:52.2 2 (0+2) +1:51.8
32 5 Cheng Fangming  China 25:53.3 1 (0+1) +1:52.9
33 50 Johannes Kühn  Germany 25:53.7 4 (2+2) +1:53.3
34 31 Scott Gow  Canada 25:56.7 2 (1+1) +1:56.3
35 79 Adam Runnalls  Canada 26:00.5 2 (1+1) +2:00.1
36 22 Jake Brown  United States 26:04.7 2 (0+2) +2:04.3
37 68 Niklas Hartweg  Switzerland 26:05.7 2 (1+1) +2:05.3
38 10 Alexander Loginov  ROC 26:15.5 4 (2+2) +2:15.1
38 11 Olli Hiidensalo  Finland 26:15.5 3 (1+2) +2:15.1
40 61 Yan Xingyuan  China 26:16.7 1 (1+0) +2:16.3
41 19 Tsukasa Kobonoki  Japan 26:17.8 1 (0+1) +2:17.4
42 75 Lovro Planko  Slovenia 26:22.3 2 (0+2) +2:21.9
43 32 Vytautas Strolia  Lithuania 26:22.4 2 (1+1) +2:22.0
44 53 Kosuke Ozaki  Japan 26:24.1 0 (0+0) +2:23.7
45 46 Joscha Burkhalter  Switzerland 26:28.3 2 (1+1) +2:27.9
46 52 Felix Leitner  Austria 26:33.8 2 (1+1) +2:33.4
47 65 Sean Doherty  United States 26:35.2 4 (1+3) +2:34.8
48 17 Grzegorz Guzik  Poland 26:36.2 1 (0+1) +2:35.8
49 13 Alexandr Mukhin  Kazakhstan 26:37.2 1 (1+0) +2:36.8
50 76 Rene Zahkna  Estonia 26:37.9 1 (0+1) +2:37.5
51 45 Raido Ränkel  Estonia 26:39.1 2 (0+2) +2:38.7
52 69 Blagoy Todev  Bulgaria 26:39.2 1 (0+1) +2:38.8
53 14 Benjamin Weger  Switzerland 26:39.6 1 (0+1) +2:39.2
54 39 Heikki Laitinen  Finland 26:41.1 2 (1+1) +2:40.7
55 44 Jesper Nelin  Sweden 26:43.6 4 (3+1) +2:43.2
56 82 Anton Sinapov  Bulgaria 26:45.4 2 (0+2) +2:45.0
57 51 Mikita Labastau  Belarus 26:47.0 4 (2+2) +2:46.6
58 77 Jakub Štvrtecký  Czech Republic 26:48.3 3 (1+2) +2:47.9
59 84 Adam Václavík  Czech Republic 26:50.2 3 (2+1) +2:49.8
60 70 Anton Dudchenko  Ukraine 26:51.6 2 (2+0) +2:51.2
61 74 Tommaso Giacomel  Italy 26:52.2 4 (1+3) +2:51.8
62 38 Miha Dovžan  Slovenia 26:53.1 2 (2+0) +2:52.7
63 57 Dimitar Gerdzhikov  Bulgaria 26:56.5 2 (1+1) +2:56.1
64 72 Peppe Femling  Sweden 26:58.5 3 (2+1) +2:58.1
65 43 Šimon Bartko  Slovakia 26:58.8 3 (2+1) +2:58.4
66 81 Bogdan Tsymbal  Ukraine 26:59.0 3 (3+0) +2:58.6
67 49 Thierry Langer  Belgium 26:59.8 1 (1+0) +2:59.4
68 33 Michal Šíma  Slovakia 27:02.3 1 (1+0) +3:01.9
69 80 David Komatz  Austria 27:02.5 2 (0+2) +3:02.1
70 87 Kristo Siimer  Estonia 27:06.6 1 (1+0) +3:06.2
71 78 Maksim Varabei  Belarus 27:10.4 4 (3+1) +3:10.0
72 91 Patrick Jakob  Austria 27:10.9 1 (0+1) +3:10.5
73 67 Karol Dombrovski  Lithuania 27:11.2 1 (0+1) +3:10.8
74 54 Paul Schommer  United States 27:13.3 4 (1+3) +3:12.9
75 25 Campbell Wright  New Zealand 27:14.1 2 (1+1) +3:13.7
76 85 Zhang Chunyu  China 27:14.2 1 (0+1) +3:13.8
77 55 Vladislav Kireyev  Kazakhstan 27:21.7 1 (1+0) +3:21.3
78 23 Dzmitry Lazouski  Belarus 27:22.9 3 (0+3) +3:22.5
79 28 Pavel Magazeev  Moldova 27:25.0 3 (2+1) +3:24.6
80 47 Tomas Kaukėnas  Lithuania 27:27.9 2 (1+1) +3:27.5
81 71 Zhu Zhenyu  China 27:28.6 3 (2+1) +3:28.2
82 35 Timofey Lapshin  South Korea 27:30.8 2 (1+1) +3:30.4
83 90 Leif Nordgren  United States 27:31.8 3 (0+3) +3:31.4
84 7 Florent Claude  Belgium 27:35.1 4 (1+3) +3:34.7
85 93 Matej Baloga  Slovakia 27:41.3 1 (0+1) +3:40.9
86 86 Rok Tršan  Slovenia 27:45.7 1 (0+1) +3:45.3
87 64 Tomáš Sklenárik  Slovakia 27:46.3 3 (1+2) +3:45.9
88 1 Kalev Ermits  Estonia 27:46.4 4 (2+2) +3:46.0
89 41 George Colțea  Romania 27:54.7 2 (1+1) +3:54.3
90 89 Linas Banys  Lithuania 28:05.8 3 (1+2) +4:05.4
91 73 Tom Lahaye-Goffart  Belgium 28:15.1 1 (1+0) +4:14.7
92 66 Tuomas Harjula  Finland 28:21.2 2 (0+2) +4:20.8
93 63 Maksim Makarov  Moldova 29:45.6 5 (2+3) +5:45.2
94 94 César Beauvais  Belgium 30:06.8 4 (1+3) +6:06.4

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. ^ Houston, Michael (12 January 2022). "Czech Republic name record-size Winter Olympic team and reveal Beijing 2022 uniform". Insidethegames.biz.
  4. ^ "Final results" (PDF). Ibu.blob.core.windows.net. 12 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.