Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start

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Men’s mass start
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Biathlon pictogram.svg
VenueHualindong Ski Resort
Date18 February
Competitors30 from 13 nations
Winning time38:14.4
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Johannes Thingnes Bø Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Silver medal icon.svg Martin Ponsiluoma Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Bronze medal icon.svg Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
  2018
2026 

The Men's mass start competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 18 February, at the National Biathlon Centre, [1] in the Zhangjiakou cluster of competition venues, 180 kilometres (110 mi) north of Beijing, at an elevation of 1,665 metres (5,463 ft). [2] Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway won the event. Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden won the silver medal, his first Olympic medal, and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen of Norway won bronze, his first individual Olympic medal.

Summary

All three 2018 medalists, the champion Martin Fourcade, Simon Schempp, and Emil Hegle Svendsen, retired from competitions. The overall leader of the 2021–22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics was Quentin Fillon Maillet, and the leader in the mass start was Benedikt Doll, with Fillon Maillet second.

After the third shooting, Johannes Thingnes Bø was leading, despite two penalty loops. Ponsiluoma and Fillon Maillet were 20-25 seconds behind. The next pursuers, Christian Gow and Sebastian Samuelsson, were a minute behind Bø. At the last shooting, Bø had to ski two penalty loops, Fillon Maillet three, and Ponsiluoma one. Bø still emerged as a leader, with Ponsiluoma 18 seconds behind. Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen was third, 45 seconds behind Bø, and Fillon Maillet was further 20 seconds behind Sjåstad Christiansen. They finished in the same order.

Qualification

Results

The race was started at 17:00. [3]

RankBibNameCountryTimePenalties (P+P+S+S)Deficit
Gold medal icon.svg2 Johannes Thingnes Bø Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 38:14.44 (1+0+1+2)
Silver medal icon.svg18 Martin Ponsiluoma Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 38:54.72 (1+0+0+1)+40.3
Bronze medal icon.svg8 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 39:26.93 (2+0+1+0)+1:12.5
41 Quentin Fillon Maillet Flag of France.svg  France 39:40.05 (1+1+0+3)+1:25.6
523 Dominik Windisch Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 39:52.83 (0+2+1+0)+1:38.4
69 Sturla Holm Lægreid Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 40:00.55 (1+2+1+1)+1:46.1
726 Simon Eder Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 40:10.82 (2+0+0+0)+1:56.4
812 Benedikt Doll Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 40:45.86 (0+0+2+4)+2:31.4
914 Tero Seppälä Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 40:47.15 (1+0+2+2)+2:32.7
1015 Johannes Kühn Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 40:52.75 (1+0+2+2)+2:38.3
117 Sebastian Samuelsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 41:01.04 (0+0+1+3)+2:46.6
124 Tarjei Bø Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 41:01.84 (0+1+2+1)+2:47.4
1325 Christian Gow Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 41:02.53 (0+0+0+3)+2:48.1
1417 Roman Rees Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 41:05.23 (0+0+1+2)+2:50.8
1510 Alexander Loginov Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 41:06.27 (2+0+2+3)+2:51.8
1611 Simon Desthieux Flag of France.svg  France 41:11.45 (1+2+1+1)+2:57.0
173 Anton Smolski Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 41:22.34 (1+1+0+2)+3:07.9
1829 Jules Burnotte Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 41:35.05 (2+1+1+1)+3:20.6
195 Eduard Latypov Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 41:35.47 (1+3+1+2)+3:21.0
2016 Maxim Tsvetkov Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 41:37.76 (1+1+2+2)+3:23.3
2128 Michal Krčmář Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 41:54.95 (0+1+1+3)+3:40.5
226 Émilien Jacquelin Flag of France.svg  France 42:08.75 (2+1+0+2)+3:54.3
2327 Philipp Nawrath Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 42:10.17 (0+0+3+4)+3:55.7
2420 Dmytro Pidruchnyi Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 42:16.27 (0+3+2+2)+4:01.8
2521 Scott Gow Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 42:17.67 (0+4+2+1)+4:03.2
2613 Fabien Claude Flag of France.svg  France 42:49.85 (1+2+1+1)+4:35.4
2719 Lukas Hofer Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 42:58.86 (1+1+2+2)+4:44.4
2824 Artem Pryma Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 43:12.67 (2+1+3+1)+4:58.2
2922 Felix Leitner Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 43:37.97 (2+1+2+2)+5:23.5
3030 Cheng Fangming Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 44:26.84 (4+0+0+0)+6:12.4

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