Biathlon World Championships 2007 – Men's individual

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Men's individual
at the Biathlon World Championships 2007
Location Antholz-Anterselva, Italy
Date6 February
Competitors112 from 34 nations
Winning time56:14.6
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
  2005
2008  

The men's individual competition at the Biathlon World Championships 2007 was held on 6 February 2007. [1]

Results

The race was started at 14:15. [2]

RankBibNameNationalityPenalties (P+S+P+S)TimeDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg17 Raphaël Poirée Flag of France.svg  France 0 (0+0+0+0)56.14.6
Silver medal icon.svg14 Michael Greis Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2 (0+1+0+1)56.41.4+26.8
Bronze medal icon.svg13 Michal Šlesingr Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2 (0+2+0+0)56.52.0+37.4
480 Frode Andresen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1 (0+1+0+0)56.53.9+39.3
511 Nikolay Kruglov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 0 (0+0+0+0)57.05.7+51.1
69 Ivan Tcherezov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1 (0+1+0+0)57.24.2+1:09.6
725 Tim Burke Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2 (0+1+0+1)57.42.0+1:27.4
815 Simon Fourcade Flag of France.svg  France 1 (0+0+0+1)57.48.1+1:33.5
912 Ricco Groß Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0 (0+0+0+0)57.52.4+1:37.8
1096 Halvard Hanevold Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1 (1+0+0+0)58.16.4+2:01.8
1110 Christoph Sumann Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1 (0+0+0+1)58.19.5+2:04.9
1228 Daniel Mesotitsch Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2 (1+0+0+1)58.27.4+2:12.8
138 Alexander Wolf Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3 (0+1+0+2)58.28.5+2:13.9
146 Björn Ferry Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3 (0+0+0+3)58.29.2+2:14.6
157 Sergei Rozhkov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2 (0+1+1+0)58.29.5+2:14.9
1663 Alexei Korobeynikov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2 (0+2+0+0)58.33.1+2:18.5
175 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3 (0+1+2+0)58.45.8+2:31.2
1890 Olexander Bilanenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 0 (0+0+0+0)59.12.1+2:57.5
193 Andreas Birnbacher Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3 (1+2+0+0)59.21.1+3:06.5
2016 Sven Fischer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3 (2+0+0+1)59.35.4+3:20.8
2120 Tomasz Sikora Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3 (0+2+0+1)59.42.4+3:27.8
2286 Loïs Habert Flag of France.svg  France 1 (0+1+0+0)59.44.5+3:29.9
2355 Roland Lessing Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1 (1+0+0+0)1:00:00.3+3:45.7
2446 Janis Berzins Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1 (0+0+0+1)1:00:26.9+4:12.3
2576 Alexandr Syman Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 3 (1+0+1+1)1:00:29.3+4:14.7
2626 Christian De Lorenzi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3 (1+0+0+2)1:00:34.6+4:20.0
2757 Marek Matiasko Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1 (0+0+0+1)1:00:36.9+4:22.3
2862 Mattias Nilsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4 (1+1+0+2)1:00:42.8+4:28.2
2950 Simon Hallenbarter Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 3 (2+0+1+0)1:00:44.4+4:29.8
302 Matthias Simmen Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 5 (2+0+1+2)1:00:57.2+4:42.6
3143 Jay Hakkinen Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3 (0+2+0+1)1:01:02.0+4:47.4
3289 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 6 (3+0+2+1)1:01:05.5+4:50.9
3364 Filipp Shulman Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 4 (1+2+0+1)1:01:11.7+4:57.1
3448 Sergey Novikov Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 5 (0+2+0+3)1:01:54.0+5:39.4
3592 Roland Zwahlen Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 3 (0+1+1+1)1:01:55.8+5:41.2
3669 Janez Marič Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 5 (1+0+1+3)1:02:01.9+5:47.3
3747 Miroslav Matiaško Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2 (0+2+0+0)1:02:12.2+5:57.6
3877 Pavol Hurajt Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2 (1+0+0+1)1:02:13.7+5:59.1
391 Carl Johan Bergman Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4 (1+0+1+2)1:02:28.3+6:13.7
4087 Jean-Philippe Le Guellec Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3 (2+1+0+0)1:02:33.8+6:19.2
41114 Lowell Bailey Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3 (1+0+1+1)1:02:34.2+6:19.6
42112 Serguei Sednev Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 3 (0+1+1+1)1:02:36.6+6:22.0
43100 Tomáš Holubec Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3 (0+1+1+1)1:02:39.4+6:24.8
4432 Alexei Aidarov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 5 (0+2+0+3)1:02:40.6+6:26.0
4567 Jeremy Teela Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 4 (1+1+0+2)1:02:40.6+6:26.0
4645 Wilfried Pallhuber Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 4 (2+1+1+0)1:02:46.0+6:31.4
4730 Indrek Tobreluts Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 5 (1+0+1+3)1:02:50.9+6:36.3
4821 Rustam Valiullin Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 6 (3+1+1+1)1:02:53.4+6:38.8
4970 Lars Berger Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 5 (1+1+2+1)1:03:09.7+6:55.1
5022 Jouni Kinnunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1 (1+0+0+0)1:03:18.4+7:03.8
5138 Julien Robert Flag of France.svg  France 2 (0+0+0+2)1:03:22.9+7:08.3
5265 David Ekholm Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4 (2+0+2+0)1:03:26.3+7:11.7
5378 Jaroslav Soukup Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 7 (2+2+1+2)1:03:30.9+7:16.3
5451 Zdeněk Vítek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 6 (1+2+1+2)1:03:32.3+7:17.7
55105 Sergey Dashkevich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 2 (0+0+0+2)1:03:40.3+7:25.7
5661 Zhang Qing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 4 (0+0+1+3)1:03:45.9+7:31.3
5785 Markus Windisch Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 5 (1+2+1+1)1:03:49.2+7:34.6
58107 Claudio Bockli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 5 (1+1+1+2)1:03:50.0+7:35.4
594 Friedrich Pinter Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 5 (1+2+1+1)1:03:57.9+7:43.3
6099 David Leoni Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4 (1+1+1+1)1:04:07.0+7:52.4
6129 Krzysztof Pływaczyk Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3 (2+1+0+0)1:04:12.1+7:57.5
6236 Robin Clegg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3 (0+2+0+1)1:04:17.8+8:03.2
63111 Vladimir Iliev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3 (1+0+0+2)1:04:21.0+8:06.4
6424 Timo Antila Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 4 (1+2+1+0)1:04:21.4+8:06.8
6527 Zhang Chengye Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7 (0+4+1+2)1:04:39.9+8:25.3
6684 Wieslaw Ziemianin Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1 (0+0+0+1)1:04:40.9+8:26.3
6791 Jarkko Kauppinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1 (1+0+0+0)1:04:41.9+8:27.3
6874 Simon Eder Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 4 (1+0+1+2)1:04:52.9+8:38.3
6972 Priit Viks Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 5 (0+1+3+1)1:04:55.1+8:40.5
7060 Vitaliy Rudenchyk Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 5 (1+2+0+2)1:05:01.2+8:46.6
7179 Kristaps Libietis Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2 (0+1+1+0)1:05:23.4+9:08.8
7258 Alexsandr Chervyhkov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 4 (0+3+1+0)1:05:35.8+9:21.2
7398 Dušan Šimočko Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 4 (1+0+1+2)1:05:38.7+9:24.1
7434 Jaime Robb Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6 (1+1+0+4)1:05:39.0+9:24.4
7559 Lee-Steve Jackson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2 (1+0+0+1)1:05:56.8+9:42.2
7697 Mirosław Kobus Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 4 (2+1+0+1)1:06:03.2+9:48.6
7723 Mark Raymond Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 5 (1+2+1+1)1:06:11.3+9:56.7
7852 Gregor Brvar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 5 (0+3+1+1)1:06:22.6+10:08.0
7982 Klemen Bauer Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 7 (2+2+0+3)1:06:23.9+10:09.3
8081 Michail Kletcherov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3 (0+0+2+1)1:06:35.5+10:20.9
8171 Sebastian Beltrame Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4 (1+1+1+1)1:06:37.5+10:22.9
82103 Ren Long Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 6 (1+2+1+2)1:06:47.7+10:33.1
83106 Yan Savitskiy Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 4 (1+0+2+1)1:06:48.1+10:33.5
8475 Athanassios Tsakiris Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 4 (0+2+0+2)1:06:55.4+10:40.8
8535 Edgars Piksons Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 7 (1+3+1+2)1:07:25.7+11:11.1
8642 Lee In-bok Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3 (0+1+0+2)1:07:35.6+11:21.0
8719 Hidenori Isa Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 5 (0+1+2+2)1:07:55.3+11:40.7
8854 Martin Møller Flag of Greenland.svg  Greenland 7 (1+3+1+2)1:08:31.5+12:16.9
89108 Danilo Kodela Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 6 (1+2+1+2)1:09:02.5+12:47.9
9083 Shinya Saito Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 8 (2+3+1+2)1:09:27.3+13:12.7
9137 Jose Damian Barcos Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1 (0+0+0+1)1:09:48.0+13:33.4
9268 Alexandr Trifonov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 8 (1+1+2+4)1:09:52.2+13:37.6
9327 Jakov Fak Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 8 (1+2+1+4)1:09:55.2+13:40.6
9433 Alari Remmelg Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 7 (2+2+1+2)1:10:07.7+13:53.1
95102 Tian Ye Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7 (1+2+3+1)1:10:19.5+14:04.9
9688 Lance Hodgkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 4 (0+1+1+2)1:10:31.3+14:16.7
9740 Joe Brooks Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2 (1+0+0+1)1:10:45.5+14:30.9
98109 Kevin Kane Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 4 (0+0+2+2)1:10:46.4+14:31.8
9994 Mika Kaljunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 6 (1+1+2+2)1:10:59.0+14:44.4
100113 Sergey Naumik Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 10 (3+1+1+5)1:11:14.4+14:59.8
10118 Gints Rozenbergs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 7 (1+3+1+2)1:11:29.3+15:14.7
102101 Thorsten Langer Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 5 (1+1+2+1)1:11:31.0+15:16.4
10353 Stavros Christoforidis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 5 (1+1+2+1)1:11:52.9+15:38.3
10441 Oystein Slettemark Flag of Greenland.svg  Greenland 10 (2+4+2+2)1:12:04.7+15:50.1
10593 Pascal Langer Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 5 (0+3+0+2)1:12:43.1+16:28.5
10673 Bojan Samardžija Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 (3+2+1+2)1:13:05.8+16:51.2
10744 Imre Tagscherer Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 8 (2+1+1+4)1:13:16.4+17:01.8
10856 Zoltán Tagscherer Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 8 (4+1+1+2)1:13:29.3+17:14.7
10931 Aleksandar Milenković Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 10 (1+3+4+2)1:14:12.5+17:57.9
11049 Csaba Cseke Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 8 (3+1+1+3)1:14:31.3+18:16.7
11195 Károly Gombos Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9 (1+4+2+2)1:17:00.1+20:45.5
104 Kiril Vasilev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria (0+0+1)Did not finish
66 Damir Rastić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Did not start
110 Vincent Naveau Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium

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