The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on Thursday 1 December 2016 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 16 February 2017 at the World Championships in Hochfilzen. The defending titlist was Martin Fourcade of France.
The small crystal globe winner for the category was Martin Fourcade of France.
The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.
2015–16 Top 3 standings
edit| Medal | Athlete | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Gold: |  Martin Fourcade |
140 |
| Silver: |  Simon Eder |
138 |
| Bronze: | Dominik Landertinger |
105 |
Medal winners
edit| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Östersund details |
Martin Fourcade France |
51:33.8 (0+2+0+0) |
Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway |
52:03.3 (0+0+0+2) |
Vladimir Chepelin Belarus |
52:58.1 (1+0+0+0) |
| Antholz-Anterselva details |
Anton Shipulin Russia |
50:38.1 (0+0+1+0) |
Martin Fourcade France |
51:19.1 (0+1+1+0) |
Serhiy Semenov Ukraine |
51:34.9 (0+0+0+1) |
| World Championships details |
Lowell Bailey United States |
48:07.4 (0+0+0+0) |
Ondřej Moravec Czech Republic |
48:10.7 (0+0+0+0) |
Martin Fourcade France |
48:28.6 (1+0+1+0) |
Standings
edit| # | Name | ÖST | ANT | HOC | Total [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Fourcade (FRA) |
60 | 54 | 48 | 162 |
| 2 | Anton Shipulin (RUS) |
30 | 60 | 36 | 126 |
| 3 |  Lowell Bailey (USA) |
26 | 31 | 60 | 117 |
| 4 | Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR) |
54 | 27 | 34 | 115 |
| 5 | Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR) |
43 | 28 | 32 | 103 |
| 6 |  Krasimir Anev (BUL) |
36 | 38 | 25 | 99 |
| 7 | Serhiy Semenov (UKR) |
0 | 48 | 40 | 88 |
| 8 |  Benjamin Weger (SUI) |
31 | 22 | 31 | 84 |
| 9 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) |
40 | 43 | 0 | 83 |
| 10 | Ondřej Moravec (CZE) |
24 | 0 | 54 | 78 |
| 11 |  Erik Lesser (GER) |
10 | 20 | 43 | 73 |
| 12 | Michal Krčmář (CZE) |
0 | 34 | 38 | 72 |
| 13 | Simon Schempp (GER) |
0 | 40 | 28 | 68 |
| 14 | Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS) |
18 | 29 | 21 | 68 |
| 15 | Benedikt Doll (GER) |
11 | 30 | 22 | 63 |
| 16 | Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) |
13 | 26 | 24 | 63 |
| 17 | Vladimir Chepelin (BLR) |
48 | 3 | 10 | 61 |
| 18 | Simon Eder (AUT) |
29 | — | 29 | 58 |
| 19 | Maxim Tsvetkov (RUS) |
19 | 36 | — | 55 |
| 20 |  Fredrik Lindström (SWE) |
32 | 19 | 3 | 54 |
| 21 | Julian Eberhard (AUT) |
23 | — | 27 | 50 |
| 22 | Arnd Peiffer (GER) |
9 | 32 | 7 | 48 |
| 23 | Simon Fourcade (FRA) |
28 | 15 | — | 43 |
| 24 | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA) |
6 | 18 | 19 | 43 |
| 25 | Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT) |
15 | 0 | 26 | 41 |
| 26 | Michal Šlesingr (CZE) |
16 | 0 | 23 | 39 |
| 27 |  Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) |
38 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| 28 | Tim Burke (USA) |
25 | 7 | 5 | 37 |
| 29 |  Dominik Windisch (ITA) |
0 | 17 | 20 | 37 |
| 30 | Florian Graf (GER) |
34 | — | — | 34 |
| # | Name | ÖST | ANT | HOC | Total |
| 31 |  Tuomas Grönman (FIN) |
21 | 10 | — | 31 |
| 32 |  Kauri Kõiv (EST) |
20 | 0 | 11 | 31 |
| 33 | Alexey Volkov (RUS) |
— | — | 30 | 30 |
| 34 | Leif Nordgren (USA) |
DNS | 12 | 18 | 30 |
| 35 | Vegard Gjermundshaug (NOR) |
17 | 13 | — | 30 |
| 36 | Lukas Hofer (ITA) |
22 | DNS | 7 | 29 |
| 37 |  Cornel Puchianu (ROU) |
27 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 38 | Dominik Landertinger (AUT) |
0 | 11 | 15 | 26 |
| 39 | Vladimir Semakov (UKR) |
0 | 25 | — | 25 |
| 40 |  Scott Gow (CAN) |
0 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| 41 | Vladimir Iliev (BUL) |
7 | 0 | 17 | 24 |
| 42 | Simon Desthieux (FRA) |
0 | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| 43 | Lorenz Wäger (AUT) |
— | 21 | — | 21 |
| 44 | Fabien Claude (FRA) |
0 | 4 | 16 | 20 |
| 45 |  Matej Kazár (SVK) |
5 | 0 | 12 | 17 |
| 46 | Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE) |
— | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 47 | Tomáš Hasilla (SVK) |
14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 48 | Peppe Femling (SWE) |
0 | 14 | — | 14 |
| 49 | Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) |
— | — | 14 | 14 |
| 50 | Dzmitry Abasheu (BLR) |
— | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 51 | Martin Otčenáš (SVK) |
12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 52 | Henrik L'Abée-Lund (NOR) |
0 | 9 | — | 9 |
| 53 | Tomáš Krupčík (CZE) |
— | — | 9 | 9 |
| 54 |  Yan Savitskiy (KAZ) |
0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 55 |  Klemen Bauer (SLO) |
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 56 | Paul Schommer (USA) |
— | 8 | — | 8 |
| 57 | Lenart Oblak (SLO) |
— | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 58 | Anton Sinapov (BUL) |
4 | — | 2 | 6 |
| 59 | Sean Doherty (USA) |
— | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 60 | Torstein Stenersen (SWE) |
0 | — | 4 | 4 |
| # | Name | ÖST | ANT | HOC | Total |
| 61 | Thomas Bormolini (ITA) |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 62 | Anton Babikov (RUS) |
0 | 2 | — | 2 |
| 63 | Mitja Drinovec (SLO) |
2 | DNS | — | 2 |
| 64 | Sergey Bocharnikov (BLR) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 | Jaroslav Soukup (CZE) |
0 | 1 | — | 1 |
| 66 | Maksim Varabei (BLR) |
1 | 0 | — | 1 |