Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start
The Men's 15 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 25 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.[1]
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| Venue | Cesana San Sicario | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 25 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 47:20.0 | ||||||||||||
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| Individual | men | women |
| Sprint | men | women |
| Pursuit | men | women |
| Mass start | men | women |
| Relay | men | women |
Only thirty athletes competed in the mass start, which was making its Olympic debut. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was defending World Champion, but was tenth in the overall World Cup, which was led by France's Raphaël Poirée. Tomasz Sikora's silver medal finish was the first biathlon medal ever for Poland, men's or women's.
Results
The race was held at 10:00.[2]
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | Michael Greis |  Germany | 47:20.0 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | – |
 | 12 | Tomasz Sikora |  Poland | 47:26.3 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +6.3 |
 | 4 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen |  Norway | 47:32.3 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | +12.3 |
| 4 | 27 | Paavo Puurunen |  Finland | 47:43.7 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +23.7 |
| 5 | 11 | Sergei Tchepikov |  Russia | 47:59.1 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +39.1 |
| 6 | 18 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Norway | 48:13.8 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +53.8 |
| 7 | 5 | Halvard Hanevold | Norway | 48:14.9 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | +54.9 |
| 8 | 10 | Alexander Wolf | Germany | 48:15.3 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | +55.3 |
| 9 | 15 | Christoph Sumann |  Austria | 48:17.4 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | +57.4 |
| 10 | 8 | Michael Rösch | Germany | 48:19.9 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | +59.9 |
| 11 | 3 | Vincent Defrasne |  France | 48:20.7 | 4 (0+1+1+2) | +1:00.7 |
| 12 | 7 | Raphaël Poirée | France | 48:24.9 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +1:04.9 |
| 13 | 29 | Jay Hakkinen |  United States | 48:29.6 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +1:09.6 |
| 14 | 25 | Mattias Nilsson |  Sweden | 48:37.7 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | +1:17.7 |
| 15 | 9 | Maxim Tchoudov | Russia | 48:40.2 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | +1:20.2 |
| 16 | 16 | Julien Robert | France | 48:51.8 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | +1:31.8 |
| 17 | 2 | Sven Fischer | Germany | 48:53.7 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +1:33.7 |
| 18 | 17 | Björn Ferry | Sweden | 48:56.4 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | +1:36.4 |
| 19 | 6 | Frode Andresen | Norway | 49:03.6 | 6 (0+2+2+2) | +1:43.6 |
| 20 | 20 | Sergei Rozhkov | Russia | 49:09.7 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | +1:49.7 |
| 21 | 14 | Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. | Russia | 49:20.1 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | +2:00.1 |
| 22 | 24 | Zdeněk Vítek |  Czech Republic | 49:21.3 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | +2:01.3 |
| 23 | 21 | Roman Dostál | Czech Republic | 49:29.9 | 4 (0+0+2+2) | +2:09.9 |
| 24 | 23 | Wilfried Pallhuber | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Italy | 49:41.5 | 2 (2+0+0+0) | +2:21.5 |
| 25 | 28 | Rene Laurent Vuillermoz | Italy | 49:53.1 | 4 (2+0+1+1) | +2:33.1 |
| 26 | 22 | Christian De Lorenzi | Italy | 49:59.6 | 4 (2+1+0+1) | +2:39.6 |
| 27 | 26 | Marek Matiaško |  Slovakia | 50:11.1 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | +2:51.1 |
| 28 | 13 | Ilmārs Bricis |  Latvia | 50:27.6 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | +3:07.6 |
| 29 | 19 | Carl Johan Bergman | Sweden | 50:54.4 | 4 (2+1+0+1) | +3:34.4 |
| 30 | 30 | Kyoji Suga |  Japan | 52:01.6 | 5 (1+0+3+1) | +4:41.6 |
References
- "Biathlon at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's 15 kilometres Mass Start". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- Final results
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