Biathlon at the XXII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia |
Dates | 8–22 February |
No. of events | 11 |
Competitors | 220 Quota limit |
Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Individual | men | women | |
Sprint | men | women | |
Pursuit | men | women | |
Mass start | men | women | |
Relay | men | women | mixed |
Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The eleven events took place between 8–22 February 2014. [1]
For the first time ever, a mixed relay event was staged after being voted onto the Olympic program in 2011. [2]
The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events. [3]
All times are (UTC+4).
Date | Time | Event |
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8 February | 18:30 | Men's 10 km sprint |
9 February | 18:30 | Women's 7.5 km sprint |
10 February | 19:00 | Men's 12.5 km pursuit |
11 February | 19:00 | Women's 10 km pursuit |
13 February | 18:00 | Men's 20 km individual |
14 February | 18:00 | Women's 15 km individual |
17 February | 19:00 | Women's 12.5 km mass start |
18 February | 14:30 | Men's 15 km mass start |
19 February | 18:30 | Mixed 4 x 6 km / 7.5 km relay |
21 February | 18:30 | Women's 4 x 6 km relay |
22 February | 18:30 | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
Notably absent from the medals for biathlon in the 2014 Games were the German women who had won six medals in 2006 and five in 2010. The men's team meanwhile recovered from a poor Games in Vancouver to achieve two silver medals. France's women, who had won three medals in 2010, also missed the podium, as did Canada, despite some promising performances. Sweden's men were also expected to win a medal but they too missed out.
13 athletes went home with two or more medals with five athletes winning three medals each. Belarus's Darya Domracheva won three gold medals to be the most successful biathlete at the Games, while France's Martin Fourcade was the most successful male winning two gold and one silver medal. 2012/13 women's World Cup winner Tora Berger won a medal of each color, while team-mate Tiril Eckhoff won one gold and two bronze at her first Games. Czech athlete Ondřej Moravec won two silver and one bronze.
The biathlon portion was marred by German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle's positive doping test. Sachenbacher-Stehle had finished fourth in both the mass start and the mixed relay but was disqualified from both events after testing positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine.
On 27 November 2017, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova (both from Russia) were disqualified for doping violations. [4] On 1 December 2017, their teammate Olga Zaitseva was also disqualified. [5] On 24 September 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport removed the sanctions from Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, but upheld them on their teammate Olga Zaitseva. [6] Medals in the women's relay were redistributed by the IOC on 19 May 2022. [7]
On 15 February 2020, it was announced that because of a doping violation Evgeny Ustyugov and Russian relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics. [8] There is no official decision by the IOC yet.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
9 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (12 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | Martin Fourcade ![]() | 49:31.7 | Erik Lesser ![]() | 49:43.9 | Evgeniy Garanichev ![]() | 50:06.2 |
Sprint | Ole Einar Bjørndalen ![]() | 24:33.5 | Dominik Landertinger ![]() | 24:34.8 | Jaroslav Soukup ![]() | 24:39.2 |
Pursuit | Martin Fourcade ![]() | 33:48.6 | Ondřej Moravec ![]() | 34:02.7 | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix ![]() | 34:12.8 |
Mass start | Emil Hegle Svendsen ![]() | 42:29.1 | Martin Fourcade ![]() | 42:29.1 | Ondřej Moravec ![]() | 42:42.9 |
Relay | ![]() Alexey Volkov Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin | 1:12:15.9 | ![]() Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:12:19.4 | ![]() Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger | 1:12:45.7 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | Darya Domracheva ![]() | 43:19.6 | Selina Gasparin ![]() | 44:35.3 | Nadezhda Skardino ![]() | 44:57.8 |
Sprint | Anastasiya Kuzmina ![]() | 21:06.8 | Olga Vilukhina ![]() | 21:26.7 | Vita Semerenko ![]() | 21:28.5 |
Pursuit | Darya Domracheva ![]() | 29:30.7 | Tora Berger ![]() | 30:08.3 | Teja Gregorin ![]() | 30:12.7 |
Mass start | Darya Domracheva ![]() | 35:25.6 | Gabriela Koukalová ![]() | 35:45.8 | Tiril Eckhoff ![]() | 35:52.9 |
Relay | ![]() Vita Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna | 1:10:02.5 | ![]() Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Aafeldt Flatland Tora Berger | 1:10:40.1 | ![]() Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Koukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková | 1:11:25.7 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Relay | ![]() Tora Berger Tiril Eckhoff Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:09:17.0 | ![]() Veronika Vítková Gabriela Koukalová Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec | 1:09:49.6 | ![]() Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer | 1:10:15.2 |
Thirty-five nations sent biathletes to compete in the events.
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