Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 11 February, at Cesana San Sicario.[1]

Men's biathlon individual
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Men's biathlon 20 km individual final
VenueCesana San Sicario
Dates11 February
Competitors88 from 34 nations
Winning time54:23.0
Medalists
Michael Greis  Germany
Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway
Halvard Hanevold  Norway

The individual race consisted of five laps around a four kilometre loop with four stops at the shooting range. During each shooting section, each biathlete fired five shots at five targets. Misses resulted in penalties of one minute per miss being added to the time for the course. The first and third shooting sections were conducted in the prone position, while the second and fourth were done standing. A total of 88 biathletes competed, starting with a staggered start and 30 seconds behind each competitor.[2]

Michael Greis of Germany hit 19 of the 20 targets and used a net time of 54:23.0 (with one penalty minute) to clinch the gold medal, 16 seconds ahead of Norway's Ole Einar Bjørndalen. Norway also won the bronze medal, with Halvard Hanevold beating Sergei Tchepikov by 0.8 seconds despite two penalty minutes to the Russian's one.

The previous year's trial World Cup event at this track saw Michael Greis of Germany win the event in a time of 53:18.7.[3] At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria, the Czech Roman Dostál won,[4] while Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the defending Olympic champion, as he was in all the other men's events (except the mass start, which is held for the first time at the Olympics). However, neither Bjørndalen (9th) nor Dostal (33rd) headed the men's individual World Cup standings—the German Michael Greis did.[5]

The event started with early starters Ricco Groß (Germany, started as number 4) and Pavel Rostovtsev (Russia, 1) shooting well, missing one and two of their 20 shots respectively; Groß suffered his missed shot on the last of the four shootings. However, their cross-country times were not good enough, as Rene Vuillermoz (Italy, 13) beat Groß by 14 seconds on the first loop. With only one miss in his first 15 shots, Vuillermoz could have taken the lead if he had hit all five targets on the final shooting. However, he missed three times and eventually finished 25th. Maxim Tchoudov (Russia, 14) led after two loops, 28 seconds ahead of Groß, but had spoiled his chance with three missed shots. By that time, many of the best skiers had started, with Greis (38) coming into the third shooting after one miss on the second. He hit five targets, and went out in the second best time, 12 seconds behind Marek Matiasko (Slovakia, 21), who was yet to miss a shot. Meanwhile, the defending champion Bjørndalen (54) had missed once on each of the first two shootings, and when all had passed the second loop he was 15th.[2]

However, Bjørndalen completed the third loop quickly, and with five hits he cut Greis' lead from 39 to 23 seconds just before Greis was to shoot his fourth shooting. Greis did not miss, and with the leader Matiasko conceding one penalty minute, Greis took the lead nearly a minute ahead of second-placed Julien Robert (France, 35), who had not missed a single shot. Some other late starters visited the top ten after the first loops, such as Sven Fischer (Germany, 63) and Zdeněk Vítek (Czech Republic, 67) but vanished, and there were only four others who could beat Greis' skiing speed. Except for Bjørndalen, all of the previous had started before him, but missed too many shots to compete; however, Bjørndalen had caught 37 seconds on the first 12 km, and needed a further 23. Thus, Bjørndalen was the only threat, and though Bjørndalen hit all five targets on the final shooting, he struggled with loading the rifle before the final shot. He later said he lost "7-8 seconds" on the error.[6] Thus, Bjørndalen did not beat the German in the fourth loop, and though he cut a further seven seconds off Greis' time in the final loop, it was only enough to take the silver. The late starting Halvard Hanevold (Norway, 74), shot down the last 10 targets to jump from 28th place after two loops to a fourth place after the fourth, with third-placed Robert eight seconds ahead with two penalty minutes less. Hanevold had no problems with catching Robert on the final lap, ending nearly half a minute ahead, but lost seconds to Sergei Tchepikov (Russia, 28), who improved all the way through the course.[2] Eventually, his 6.3-second lead after the fourth loop turned into 0.8 seconds in goal; it was enough, though, and Hanevold could celebrate his second Olympic medal on the individual event. Jay Hakkinen become the first American to finish in the Top 10 ever in the Winter Olympic biathlon with his 10th-place finish.

Results

One Austrian athlete was disqualified after the IOC determined they had violated the Anti-Doping rules; Wolfgang Perner had originally placed 60th.[7]

The race was held at 13:00.[8]

RankBibNameCountryResultPenalties (P+S+P+S)Deficit
38Michael Greis Germany54:23.01 (0+1+0+0)
57Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway54:39.02 (1+1+0+0)+16.0
74Halvard Hanevold Norway55:31.92 (1+1+0+0)+1:08.9
428Sergei Tchepikov Russia55:32.71 (1+0+0+0)+1:09.7
521Marek Matiaško Slovakia55:48.61 (0+0+0+1)+1:25.6
635Julien Robert France55:59.40 (0+0+0+0)+1:36.4
754Christian De Lorenzi Italy56:04.01 (0+0+0+1)+1:41.0
822Ivan Tcherezov Russia56:05.72 (1+0+0+1)+1:42.7
966Wilfried Pallhuber Italy56:08.41 (1+0+0+0)+1:45.4
1031Jay Hakkinen United States56:10.93 (2+0+1+0)+1:47.9
114Ricco Groß Germany56:14.31 (0+0+0+1)+1:51.3
128Paavo Puurunen Finland56:38.91 (1+0+0+0)+2:15.9
131Pavel Rostovtsev Russia56:47.22 (1+0+0+1)+2:24.2
1452Kyoji Suga Japan56:57.71 (1+0+0+0)+2:34.7
1548Frode Andresen Norway57:10.23 (1+1+1+0)+2:47.2
1664Stian Eckhoff Norway57:11.83 (2+0+0+1)+2:48.8
1763Sven Fischer Germany57:14.33 (1+0+1+1)+2:51.3
1861Ruslan Lysenko Ukraine57:16.61 (0+1+0+0)+2:53.6
1915Ilmārs Bricis Latvia57:19.24 (1+1+0+2)+2:56.2
209Raphaël Poirée France57:21.13 (2+0+1+0)+2:58.1
2119Tomasz Sikora Poland57:22.13 (1+1+1+0)+2:59.1
2267Zdeněk Vítek Czech Republic57:26.83 (0+1+1+1)+3:03.8
235Carl Johan Bergman Sweden57:30.93 (1+1+0+1)+3:07.9
246Sergey Novikov Belarus58:02.63 (0+1+0+2)+3:39.6
2513Rene Laurent Vuillermoz Italy58:17.94 (0+1+0+3)+3:54.9
2670Friedrich Pinter Austria58:25.71 (0+0+0+1)+4:02.7
2779Lowell Bailey United States58:45.13 (2+1+0+0)+4:22.1
2858Björn Ferry Sweden58:49.04 (1+2+0+1)+4:26.0
2956Pavol Hurajt Slovakia58:49.63 (0+1+0+2)+4:26.6
3059Roman Dostál Czech Republic58:53.54 (1+2+0+1)+4:30.5
3143Simon Fourcade France59:01.73 (1+0+0+2)+4:38.7
3214Maxim Tchoudov Russia59:12.05 (0+0+3+2)+4:49.0
3381Tomáš Holubec Czech Republic59:13.12 (1+1+0+0)+4:50.1
342Vincent Defrasne France59:16.16 (3+1+0+2)+4:53.1
3583David Ekholm Sweden59:18.22 (0+1+0+1)+4:55.2
363Robin Clegg Canada59:21.52 (1+0+0+1)+4:58.5
3755Jānis Bērziņš Latvia59:24.32 (0+2+0+0)+5:01.3
3889Miroslav Matiaško Slovakia59:43.83 (3+0+0+0)+5:20.8
3947Andriy Deryzemlya Ukraine59:47.23 (3+0+0+0)+5:24.2
4033Janez Marič Slovenia59:53.05 (2+2+1+0)+5:30.0
4120Ludwig Gredler Austria59:55.13 (0+3+0+0)+5:32.1
4241Michael Rösch Germany59:56.66 (2+0+1+3)+5:33.6
4346Vladimir Drachev Belarus59:59.54 (1+1+0+2)+5:36.5
4468Mattias Nilsson Jr. Sweden1:00:01.15 (0+2+3+0)+5:38.1
4518Michal Šlesingr Czech Republic1:00:03.85 (1+0+2+2)+5:40.8
4686Rustam Valiullin Belarus1:00:04.15 (2+1+0+2)+5:41.1
4751Matjaž Poklukar Slovenia1:00:07.63 (0+1+1+1)+5:44.6
4877Jean Philippe Leguellec Canada1:00:28.03 (1+0+0+2)+6:05.0
4932Olexander Bilanenko Ukraine1:00:28.63 (2+1+0+0)+6:05.6
5024Zhang Chengye China1:00:49.17 (1+4+1+1)+6:26.1
5173Jeremy Teela United States1:01:03.35 (1+0+1+3)+6:40.3
5244Matthias Simmen Switzerland1:01:04.95 (2+0+0+3)+6:41.9
5323Wiesław Ziemianin Poland1:01:16.04 (2+0+1+1)+6:53.0
5482Oleksiy Korobeinikov Ukraine1:01:17.84 (0+2+1+1)+6:54.8
5587Paolo Longo Italy1:01:27.95 (0+2+1+2)+7:04.9
5676Dušan Šimočko Slovakia1:01:37.84 (1+0+2+1)+7:14.8
5749Tom Clemens Great Britain1:01:43.94 (0+1+1+2)+7:20.9
5842Tim Burke United States1:01:55.07 (3+3+1+0)+7:32.0
5960Daniel Mesotitsch Austria1:01:59.75 (1+3+0+1)+7:36.7
6080Klemen Bauer Slovenia1:02:25.55 (0+1+3+1)+8:02.5
6125Vitaly Rudenchik Bulgaria1:02:30.06 (0+3+1+2)+8:07.0
6245Roland Lessing Estonia1:02:31.25 (3+0+1+1)+8:08.2
637Hidenori Isa Japan1:02:33.26 (1+1+2+2)+8:10.2
6450David Leoni Canada1:02:37.86 (0+2+3+1)+8:14.8
6516Marian Blaj Romania1:02:38.86 (0+3+2+1)+8:15.8
6675Indrek Tobreluts Estonia1:02:43.65 (1+2+1+1)+8:20.6
6765Tatsumi Kasahara Japan1:02:44.65 (2+1+0+2)+8:21.6
6884Kristaps Lībietis Latvia1:03:13.44 (2+1+1+0)+8:50.4
6971Janez Ožbolt Slovenia1:03:18.55 (2+2+0+1)+8:55.5
7010Dimitri Borovik Estonia1:03:25.85 (2+1+2+0)+9:02.8
7172Alexandre Syman Belarus1:03:31.47 (2+3+1+1)+9:08.4
7262Grzegorz Bodziana Poland1:03:39.65 (0+2+1+2)+9:16.6
7311Alexsandr Chervyhkov Kazakhstan1:03:56.46 (1+3+1+1)+9:33.4
7488Priit Viks Estonia1:04:08.15 (2+2+0+1)+9:45.1
7553Krzysztof Pływaczyk Poland1:04:12.94 (1+0+2+1)+9:49.9
7637Simon Hallenbarter Switzerland1:04:37.08 (3+1+1+3)+10:14.0
7734Imre Tagscherer Hungary1:05:11.17 (1+3+1+2)+10:48.1
7885Shinya Saito Japan1:05:29.48 (2+2+3+1)+11:06.4
7969Edgars Piksons Latvia1:06:12.57 (4+1+1+1)+11:49.5
8012Luis Alberto Hernando Spain1:06:54.47 (2+2+0+3)+12:31.4
8139Park Yun-bae South Korea1:07:03.46 (0+3+2+1)+12:40.4
8236Cameron Morton Australia1:07:03.77 (1+2+1+3)+12:40.7
8330Miro Ćosić Bosnia and Herzegovina1:08:32.77 (1+3+1+2)+14:09.7
8417Sebastian Beltrame Argentina1:09:24.39 (1+2+4+2)+15:01.3
8527Aleksandar Milenković Serbia and Montenegro1:10:36.39 (1+3+1+4)+16:13.3
8629Marco Zúñiga Chile1:11:02.55 (1+1+1+2)+16:39.5
8740Stavros Christoforidis Greece1:13:13.311 (4+2+1+4)+18:50.3
26Mihail Gribusencov MoldovaDid not start
DSQ78Wolfgang Perner Austria1:02:22.55 (1+2+1+1)+7:59.5

References

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