Men's mass start at the XXII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex | ||||||||||||
Date | 18 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 30 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 42:29.1 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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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 |
The men's mass start competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. [1] The race was initially scheduled for the evening of 16 February 2014, but it was rescheduled for the following morning due to poor visibility conditions. [2] However, fog caused two additional delays on 17 February 2014, so the race was not run until the afternoon of 18 February. [3]
The race started at 14:30. [4]
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Deficit |
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9 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Norway | 42:29.1 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | — | |
2 | Martin Fourcade | France | 42:29.1 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | +0.0 | |
4 | Ondřej Moravec | Czech Republic | 42:42.9 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +13.8 | |
4 | 25 | Jakov Fak | Slovenia | 42:57.2 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | +28.1 |
5 | 8 | Evgeniy Garanichev | Russia | 43:25.3 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | +56.2 |
6 | 18 | Fredrik Lindström | Sweden | 43:30.5 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +1:01.4 |
7 | 3 | Dominik Landertinger | Austria | 43:32.8 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | +1:03.7 |
8 | 12 | Johannes Thingnes Bø | Norway | 43:34.2 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | +1:05.1 |
9 | 28 | Brendan Green | Canada | 43:38.3 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +1:09.2 |
10 | 22 | Jean-Philippe Leguellec | Canada | 43:41.6 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +1:12.5 |
11 | 13 | Anton Shipulin | Russia | 43:48.2 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | +1:19.1 |
12 | 23 | Björn Ferry | Sweden | 43:48.3 | 3 (1+1+1+0) | +1:19.2 |
13 | 10 | Simon Schempp | Germany | 43:48.3 | 3 (2+1+0+0) | +1:19.2 |
14 | 21 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Latvia | 43:53.1 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | +1:24.0 |
15 | 27 | Matej Kazár | Slovakia | 44:25.6 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | +1:56.5 |
16 | 11 | Simon Eder | Austria | 44:30.7 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | +2:01.6 |
17 | 7 | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix | France | 44:34.2 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | +2:05.1 |
18 | 16 | Arnd Peiffer | Germany | 44:35.0 | 4 (0+1+2+1) | +2:05.9 |
19 | 14 | Evgeny Ustyugov [5] | Russia | 3 (0+0+1+2) | +2:08.2 | |
20 | 15 | Dmitry Malyshko | Russia | 44:42.9 | 4 (1+0+3+0) | +2:13.8 |
21 | 30 | Tim Burke | United States | 44:55.9 | 4 (2+0+2+0) | +2:26.8 |
22 | 1 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 45:08.3 | 6 (2+0+0+4) | +2:39.2 |
23 | 29 | Lowell Bailey | United States | 45:19.2 | 5 (2+1+1+1) | +2:50.1 |
24 | 6 | Jaroslav Soukup | Czech Republic | 45:22.2 | 4 (0+1+0+3) | +2:53.1 |
25 | 26 | Dominik Windisch | Italy | 45:28.4 | 5 (1+1+3+0) | +2:59.3 |
26 | 5 | Erik Lesser | Germany | 45:34.2 | 4 (0+0+2+2) | +3:05.1 |
27 | 20 | Christoph Sumann | Austria | 45:39.0 | 4 (1+2+1+0) | +3:09.9 |
17 | Lukas Hofer | Italy | DNF | 4 (2+2+0) | ||
19 | Nathan Smith | Canada | DNF | 5 (2+3) | ||
24 | Simon Fourcade | France | DNF | 2 (2) |
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