Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's pursuit

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Men's biathlon pursuit
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue Soldier Hollow
Dates16 February
Competitors57 from 25 nations
Winning time32:34.6
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ole Einar Bjørndalen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Silver medal icon.svg Raphaël Poirée Flag of France.svg  France
Bronze medal icon.svg Ricco Groß Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2006  

The Men's 12.5 kilometre pursuit biathlon competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on 16 February, at Soldier Hollow. Competitors raced over four 2.5 kilometre loops and one 2.75 kilometre loop of the skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop. [1]

The pursuit was a newly introduced race at the 2002 Olympics, with athletes starting in the same order, and with the same time gaps, as their finish in the sprint event a few days earlier. Only the top 60 from the sprint were eligible to enter, though three athletes of the top 60 opted not to start. [2]

Results

Ole Einar Bjørndalen, having won both of the previous individual events in Soldier Hollow, was going for an unprecedented sweep, and based on his win in the sprint, would start 29 seconds ahead of Sven Fischer, and more than 50 seconds ahead of the third and fourth starters, Wolfgang Perner and Ricco Groß. The World Cup pursuit leader, and defending World Cup overall and pursuit champion Raphael Poirée, was another serious challenger, but he would start over a minute behind Bjørndalen. Pavel Rostovtsev was the defending World Champion, though unlike the World Championships, where he started with the lead, in Salt Lake he started a minute behind the leader, in 6th. [1] [3]

Bjørndalen missed a shot on his first set of attempts, but still held the lead after the first shot, as even a clear shoot from Fischer behind him still gave the Norwegian a 14-second lead. Perner missed once to fall back, with Groß going clear to move into a clear third. That was as close as anyone would get to Bjørndalen all day, as he shot clean at the second and third attempts, and while he missed a shot on the final set, his lead at that point was well over a minute, and the one penalty loop did not cause him any trouble, as he easily claimed the gold medal. [4] Bjørndalen's performance secured a third gold medal in the Salt Lake games, a first for any biathlete. [5]

Fischer and Groß left the second shoot together, after Fischer missed a shot, but a further miss from Fischer on the third set of shots dropped him out of contention. Poirée missed a shot on the second shoot, but went clear at the third, and found himself in third place after misses from men ahead of him, including Rostovtsev, who had been clear before that. Groß arrived at the final shoot with a 25-second lead over Poirée, but missed two shots, while the Frenchman shot clear to virtually reverse the margin, leaving with a 20-second lead of his own, which he held onto to secure silver. Ludwig Gredler seemed to be out of it after a miss in the final shoot, as he left the range 25 seconds behind Gross. The Austrian put in a good chase, though, cutting the lead to just 4 seconds and ending up 4th. [4]

The race was started at 09:00. [6]

RankBibNameCountryStartTimePenaltiesDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg1 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 0:0032:34.62 (1+0+0+1)
Silver medal icon.svg9 Raphaël Poirée Flag of France.svg  France 1:0633:17.61 (0+1+0+0)+43.0
Bronze medal icon.svg4 Ricco Groß Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0:5333:30.62 (0+0+0+2)+56.0
410 Ludwig Gredler Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:1333:35.52 (0+1+0+1)+1:00.9
56 Pavel Rostovtsev Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 0:5933:43.12 (0+0+1+1)+1:08.5
65 Wolfgang Rottmann Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 0:5733:45.14 (1+0+2+1)+1:10.5
77 Viktor Maigourov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:0033:55.13 (2+0+1+0)+1:20.5
813 Halvard Hanevold Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:2133:59.62 (0+2+0+0)+1:25.0
93 Wolfgang Perner Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 0:5334:00.13 (1+0+1+1)+1:25.5
1012 Vadim Sashurin Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:1934:00.51 (0+0+0+1)+1:25.9
1129 Frank Luck Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:5634:01.01 (0+0+0+1)+1:26.4
122 Sven Fischer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0:2934:09.54 (0+1+1+2)+1:34.9
1326 Jay Hakkinen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:5234:11.81 (0+0+0+1)+1:37.2
148 Frode Andresen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:0034:14.55 (2+0+0+3)+1:39.9
1524 Egil Gjelland Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:5134:16.91 (1+0+0+0)+1:42.3
1615 Michael Greis Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:2734:19.93 (1+1+1+0)+1:45.3
1714 Zdeněk Vítek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:2334:21.03 (0+1+0+2)+1:46.4
1821 Vincent Defrasne Flag of France.svg  France 1:4534:33.63 (0+0+2+1)+1:59.0
1923 Tomaž Globočnik Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:4934:42.60 (0+0+0+0)+2:08.0
2022 René Cattarinussi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:4635:00.91 (0+0+1+0)+2:26.3
2111 Oleg Ryzhenkov Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:1435:08.32 (0+2+0+0)+2:33.7
2225 Vesa Hietalahti Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:5235:10.01 (0+0+0+1)+2:35.4
2320 Jeremy Teela Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:4535:18.13 (0+1+2+0)+2:43.5
2417 Björn Ferry Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:3935:27.54 (0+0+3+1)+2:52.9
2531 Tomasz Sikora Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:0835:30.01 (0+0+0+1)+2:55.4
2630 Dimitri Borovik Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:5935:33.12 (1+0+0+1)+2:58.5
2751 Sergei Rozhkov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:4835:37.31 (1+0+0+0)+3:02.7
2816 Paavo Puurunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:3336:03.53 (1+1+0+1)+3:28.9
2927 Marko Dolenc Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:5636:06.14 (0+0+1+3)+3:31.5
3046 Oļegs Maļuhins Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 2:3936:10.53 (0+0+1+2)+3:35.9
3133 Sergey Rusinov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:1336:14.53 (0+2+0+1)+3:39.9
3219 Timo Antila Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:4236:16.75 (0+0+3+2)+3:42.1
3350 Wilfried Pallhuber Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:4436:19.72 (1+1+0+0)+3:45.1
3418 Wojciech Kozub Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:4136:27.84 (2+2+0+0)+3:53.2
3541 Kyoji Suga Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:3036:28.83 (1+1+0+1)+3:54.2
3628 Carl Johan Bergman Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:5636:33.41 (1+0+0+0)+3:58.8
3749 Paolo Longo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:4136:38.81 (0+0+0+1)+4:04.2
3844 Janez Marič Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 2:3736:51.45 (1+1+1+2)+4:16.8
3935 Julien Robert Flag of France.svg  France 2:1436:55.44 (2+1+1+0)+4:20.8
4036 Vyacheslav Derkach Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:1436:56.83 (0+0+1+2)+4:22.2
4148 Indrek Tobreluts Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:4036:57.43 (1+0+1+1)+4:22.8
4243 Robin Clegg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:3737:04.63 (0+1+1+1)+4:30.0
4339 Marek Matiaško Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:2137:26.05 (2+0+2+1)+4:51.4
4434 Roman Dostál Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:1437:26.86 (1+1+1+3)+4:52.2
4532 Tomáš Holubec Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:1137:31.16 (2+1+1+2)+4:56.5
4659 Sašo Grajf Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 3:0137:38.93 (1+0+1+1)+5:04.3
4755 Roland Zwahlen Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 2:5237:40.63 (0+0+1+2)+5:06.0
4837 Alexei Aidarov Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:1537:43.06 (0+0+3+3)+5:08.4
4957 Aleksandr Syman Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:5438:05.83 (1+2+0+0)+5:31.2
5058 Wiesław Ziemianin Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:5638:45.74 (0+3+1+0)+6:11.1
5140 Ilmārs Bricis Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 2:2638:49.97 (0+1+3+3)+6:15.3
5254 Lawton Redman Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:5238:59.06 (1+0+3+2)+6:24.4
5356 Zhang Qing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:5439:11.15 (0+3+1+1)+6:36.5
5452 Jēkabs Nākums Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 2:5039:19.35 (1+2+2+0)+6:44.7
5542 Marian Blaj Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:3439:31.26 (2+2+1+1)+6:56.6
5660 Georgi Kasabov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3:0440:38.57 (1+3+2+1)+8:03.9
45 Janno Prants Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:38DNF(4+ + + )
38 Andriy Deryzemlya Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:20Did not start
47 Petr Garabík Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:40
53 Ruslan Lysenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:52

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