Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Soldier Hollow. Competitors raced over five loops of a 4.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.[1][2]

Men's biathlon individual
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
Dates11 February
Competitors87 from 34 nations
Winning time49:03.3
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Frank Luck  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Viktor Maigourov  Russia
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Results edit

Raphaël Poirée was defending overall World Cup champion, while Sergei Rozhkov was the defending World Cup champion in the individual race. Paavo Puurunen had won the most recent world championships, and Halvard Hanevold had won the 1998 Olympic title.[3] Ole Einar Bjørndalen, who had finished just behind Poirée in the overall world cup, had dominated the test event in 2001, winning all three races, including the individual, beating Sven Fischer.[4]Frank Luck led the World Cup in the Individual entering the Games, having won one of the warmup events, with Pavel Rostovtsev and Daniel Mesotitsch winning the others.[1]

Bjørndalen, having just placed 5th in the 30 kilometre cross-country race, was the earliest of the favourites to start. He missed once on both his second and third shoots, but still had the fastest time, just ahead of Viktor Maigourov, who had missed only once. Neither would miss on the last shoot, but over the final two loops, Bjørndalen would gain more than 30 seconds on the Russian, easily taking the early lead. Poirée was ahead of Bjørndalen with only a single miss on the first three shots, but faded after missing a shot on the last set, ending up 10th. Rozkhov shot clear, but struggled with his skiing, unable to get anywhere near the leaders with his pace on the snow, and ending up 12th.[5]

Just behind him, Ricco Groß was level with Bjørndalen early, and while he did record one of the faster ski times, his two misses meant he finished nearly a minute behind, in third for the time being. Like Rozkhov, Frank Luck also shot clear, and after Bjørndalen's second miss, he was ahead of the Norwegian by 23 seconds. He couldn't match the Norwegian's ski time over the final section, though, ending up just ahead of Maigurov in silver medal position. Hanevold was another who shot clear, but ended up 5th. Frode Andresen, the last starter, and the closest to matching Bjørndalen in ski pace, was ahead of his countryman by 90 seconds after the third shoot, having been clear to that point, but then missed three on the final shoot, sending him all the way down to 7th and securing Bjørndalen's victory.[5] "It was worse to stand here watching Frode shoot than shoot myself," Bjørndalen said.[6]

The race was started at 13:30.[7]

Rank Bib Name Country Result Penalties (P+S+P+S) Deficit
  26 Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway 51:03.3 2 (0+1+1+0)
  77 Frank Luck   Germany 51:39.4 0 (0+0+0+0) +36.1
  28 Viktor Maigourov   Russia 51:40.6 1 (0+0+1+0) +37.3
4 53 Ricco Groß   Germany 51:58.7 2 (0+1+0+1) +55.4
5 78 Halvard Hanevold   Norway 52:16.3 0 (0+0+0+0) +1:13.0
6 39 Pavel Rostovtsev   Russia 52:33.5 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:30.2
7 87 Frode Andresen   Norway 52:39.1 3 (0+0+0+3) +1:35.8
8 11 Sergei Tchepikov   Russia 52:44.2 1 (0+0+0+1) +1:40.9
9 50 Vadim Sashurin   Belarus 52:52.6 0 (0+0+0+0) +1:49.3
10 31 Raphaël Poirée   France 52:52.9 2 (0+1+0+1) +1:49.6
11 12 Ludwig Gredler   Austria 53:19.3 2 (2+0+0+0) +2:16.0
12 52 Sergei Rozhkov   Russia 53:43.8 0 (0+0+0+0) +2:40.5
13 67 Marko Dolenc   Slovenia 53:45.8 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:42.5
14 48 Jeremy Teela   United States 53:56.5 2 (1+1+0+0) +2:53.2
15 4 Paavo Puurunen   Finland 54:15.7 3 (1+1+0+1) +3:12.4
16 61 Egil Gjelland   Norway 54:16.1 2 (0+0+0+2) +3:12.8
17 27 Alexei Aidarov   Belarus 54:25.3 3 (1+0+2+0) +3:22.0
18 49 Tomaž Globočnik   Slovenia 54:40.6 1 (0+1+0+0) +3:37.3
19 55 Vesa Hietalahti   Finland 54:47.0 2 (0+0+0+2) +3:43.7
20 15 Kyoji Suga   Japan 54:51.9 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:48.6
21 40 René Cattarinussi   Italy 54:57.2 2 (0+1+0+1) +3:53.9
22 36 Christoph Sumann   Austria 55:00.3 3 (0+1+0+2) +3:57.0
23 62 Vyacheslav Derkach   Ukraine 55:01.3 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:58.0
24 84 Ruslan Lysenko   Ukraine 55:02.1 2 (1+1+0+0) +3:58.8
25 43 Petr Garabík   Czech Republic 55:12.2 2 (1+1+0+0) +4:08.9
26 14 Jay Hakkinen   United States 55:13.8 3 (0+2+0+1) +4:10.5
27 47 Andriy Deryzemlia   Ukraine 55:14.8 1 (0+1+0+0) +4:11.5
28 34 Robin Clegg   Canada 55:17.5 2 (0+1+0+1) +4:14.2
29 60 Sven Fischer   Germany 55:23.2 4 (1+1+1+1) +4:19.9
30 75 Wiesław Ziemianin   Poland 55:35.2 1 (0+0+0+1) +4:31.9
31 23 Oleg Ryzhenkov   Belarus 55:56.6 4 (0+1+1+2) +4:53.3
32 64 Wolfgang Perner   Austria 56:00.4 5 (0+2+0+3) +4:57.1
33 3 Paolo Longo   Italy 56:11.9 1 (0+1+0+0) +5:08.6
34 30 Alexander Wolf   Germany 56:16.6 5 (1+2+0+2) +5:13.3
35 8 Roman Dostál   Czech Republic 56:19.6 4 (0+1+0+3) +5:16.3
35 82 Jēkabs Nākums   Latvia 56:19.6 1 (0+0+0+1) +5:16.3
37 58 Vincent Defrasne   France 56:20.3 3 (1+1+0+1) +5:17.0
38 35 Björn Ferry   Sweden 56:20.7 4 (2+1+0+1) +5:17.4
39 56 Ilmārs Bricis   Latvia 56:24.4 3 (0+2+1+0) +5:21.1
40 79 Carl Johan Bergman   Sweden 56:24.5 3 (1+1+1+0) +5:21.2
41 69 Timo Antila   Finland 56:33.5 3 (1+1+1+0) +5:30.2
42 81 Ivan Masařík   Czech Republic 56:40.6 3 (1+1+0+1) +5:37.3
43 17 Janez Marič   Slovenia 56:51.9 5 (0+3+0+2) +5:48.6
44 37 Hidenori Isa   Japan 56:52.8 4 (0+1+2+1) +5:49.5
45 80 Roland Lessing   Estonia 57:08.4 3 (2+1+0+0) +6:05.1
46 54 Tomasz Sikora   Poland 57:08.5 4 (0+1+2+1) +6:05.2
47 71 Henrik Forsberg   Sweden 57:22.0 6 (3+0+2+1) +6:18.7
48 65 Jason Sklenar   Great Britain 57:27.2 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:23.9
49 45 Dmitry Pantov   Kazakhstan 57:32.8 3 (1+2+0+0) +6:29.5
50 76 Wilfried Pallhuber   Italy 57:33.2 5 (0+2+1+2) +6:29.9
51 2 Marian Blaj   Romania 57:36.8 3 (1+1+0+1) +6:33.5
52 46 Marek Matiaško   Slovakia 57:37.8 4 (1+0+1+2) +6:34.5
53 66 Indrek Tobreluts   Estonia 57:52.1 4 (1+1+0+2) +6:48.8
54 41 Julien Robert   France 57:54.0 3 (1+0+0+2) +6:50.7
55 22 Tord Wiksten   Sweden 58:02.3 2 (0+1+0+1) +6:59.0
56 21 Dimitri Borovik   Estonia 58:02.5 5 (0+2+1+2) +6:59.2
57 68 Zdeněk Vítek   Czech Republic 58:07.9 6 (1+1+2+2) +7:04.6
58 33 Roland Zwahlen   Switzerland 58:10.6 4 (2+1+0+1) +7:07.3
59 29 Zhang Qing   China 58:13.9 4 (2+0+0+2) +7:10.6
60 70 Rustam Valiullin   Belarus 58:46.7 6 (3+1+0+2) +7:43.4
61 72 Jean-Marc Chabloz   Switzerland 58:59.4 3 (1+2+0+0) +7:56.1
62 16 Liutauras Barila   Lithuania 59:02.3 4 (0+2+1+1) +7:59.0
63 24 Janno Prants   Estonia 59:14.0 6 (0+2+3+1) +8:10.7
64 44 Daniel Mesotitsch   Austria 59:15.9 6 (2+0+2+2) +8:12.6
65 6 Georgi Kassabov   Bulgaria 59:16.1 4 (2+1+0+1) +8:12.8
66 63 Hironao Meguro   Japan 59:29.2 3 (1+0+0+2) +8:25.9
67 51 Ville Räikkönen   Finland 59:34.2 4 (1+1+2+0) +8:30.9
68 20 Oleksandr Bilanenko   Ukraine 59:34.4 4 (0+2+0+2) +8:31.1
69 7 Wojciech Kozub   Poland 59:35.1 5 (2+0+1+2) +8:31.8
70 5 Imre Tagscherer   Hungary 59:51.8 3 (1+0+0+2) +8:48.5
71 59 Gundars Upenieks   Latvia 59:56.0 5 (2+0+3+0) +8:52.7
72 85 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz   Italy 1:00:00.7 6 (2+1+1+2) +8:57.4
73 42 Aleksandr Tropnikov   Kyrgyzstan 1:00:05.3 2 (0+1+1+0) +9:02.0
74 83 Krzysztof Topór   Poland 1:00:36.8 6 (0+4+0+2) +9:33.5
75 32 Shin Byung-kook   South Korea 1:00:58.1 4 (1+2+1+0) +9:54.8
76 73 Dan Campbell   United States 1:00:58.6 6 (2+1+2+1) +9:55.3
77 74 Ferréol Cannard   France 1:01:32.9 5 (1+1+1+2) +10:29.6
78 18 Matthias Simmen   Switzerland 1:02:03.0 6 (2+2+0+2) +10:59.7
79 38 Mike Dixon   Great Britain 1:02:04.9 5 (2+1+1+1) +11:01.6
80 1 Ricardo Oscare   Argentina 1:02:08.1 6 (2+2+1+1) +11:04.8
81 19 Mark Gee   Great Britain 1:02:10.2 5 (0+2+2+1) +11:06.9
82 86 Janez Ožbolt   Slovenia 1:03:16.2 6 (1+2+2+1) +12:12.9
83 25 Žarko Galjanić   Croatia 1:04:54.4 6 (0+2+1+3) +13:51.1
84 57 Mihail Gribuşencov   Moldova 1:05:58.5 7 (2+2+1+2) +14:55.2
85 13 Stavros Khristoforidis   Greece 1:08:09.5 5 (2+1+0+2) +17:06.2
86 9 Carlos Varas   Chile 1:10:32.2 3 (0+1+1+1) +19:28.9
10 Oļegs Maļuhins   Latvia DNF 4 (1+2+1+ )

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 1" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 6, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  2. ^ "Biathlon at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 20 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  3. ^ "IBU Biathlon Guide 2012/13" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 21, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  4. ^ World Cup 7 - 20 km Individual Results Archived July 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 6 February 2013
  5. ^ a b - Competition Analysis, Men's 20 km Individual - SLOC
  6. ^ "Bjoerndalen takes gold in men's 20 km". CNNSI.com. AP. February 11, 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  7. ^ Final results