| Men's 12.5 kilometre pursuit at the 2003 Asian Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Iwakisan Sports Park | |||||||||
| Dates | 5 February 2003 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 16 from 4 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games | ||
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| Sprint | men | women |
| Pursuit | men | women |
| Relay | men | women |
The men's 12.5 kilometre sprint at the 2003 Asian Winter Games was held on 5 February 2003 at Iwakisan Sports Park, Japan.
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 5 February 2003 | 10:00 | Final |
| Rank | Athlete | Start | Penalties | Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | S | S | Total | ||||
 |  Hironao Meguro (JPN) | 0:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 39:09.8 |
 | Sunao Noto (JPN) | 0:34 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 41:34.3 |
 | Kyoji Suga (JPN) | 1:43 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 41:56.9 |
| 4 |  Yerden Abdrakhmanov (KAZ) | 1:22 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 43:47.5 |
| 5 |  Qiu Lianhai (CHN) | 1:25 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 45:20.0 |
| 6 | Tatsumi Kasahara (JPN) | 1:05 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 45:44.8 |
| 7 | Dmitriy Pozdnyakov (KAZ) | 2:44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 45:46.0 |
| 8 | Zhang Qing (CHN) | 2:16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 46:24.0 |
| 9 | Igor Zelenkov (KAZ) | 2:56 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 46:31.3 |
| 10 |  Kim Kyung-tae (KOR) | 3:11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 46:36.2 |
| 11 | Shin Byung-kook (KOR) | 4:28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 47:45.3 |
| 12 | Son Hae-kwon (KOR) | 2:13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 48:28.9 |
| 13 | Zhang Hongjun (CHN) | 4:06 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 49:01.8 |
| 14 | Wang Xin (CHN) | 3:50 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 49:54.8 |
| 15 | Alexandr Fadeyev (KAZ) | 2:40 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 54:31.5 |
| 16 | Park Yoon-bae (KOR) | 5:00 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 55:01.0 |
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