Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's pursuit

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Men's pursuit
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
File:2010 Winter Olympics - Medalists for the Mens Pursuit Biathlon.jpg
The medalists for the event. From left: Christoph Sumann (silver), Björn Ferry (gold) and Vincent Jay (bronze)
VenueWhistler Olympic Park
DateFebruary 16
Competitors60 from 24 nations
Winning time33:38.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Björn Ferry File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Christoph Sumann File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vincent Jay File:Flag of France.svg France
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Biathlon at the
2010 Winter Olympics
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Individualmenwomen
Sprintmenwomen
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Mass startmenwomen
Relaymenwomen

The men's pursuit competition in biathlon at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia on February 16, 2010. It was won by Swedish athlete Björn Ferry, after both Ferry and second place finisher Christoph Sumann of Austria successfully pursued and overtook the leader at the start of the race, France's Vincent Jay.

Competition

The pursuit takes place over a distance of 12.5 km (8 mi). The start of the competition was marred by irregularities in how officials released athletes at the beginning of their runs. In pursuit competitions, athlete's start times are staggered by the differences in their times in a previous sprint, in this case the 10km sprint event held on February 14. Thus, officials need to release athletes to begin the event at exact times. Athletes in both the men's and women's pursuit competitions were started earlier and later than their appropriate times, resulting in a number of complaints from coaches and athletes. Officials attempted to correct the errors by making alterations in the final times of competitors. Nonetheless, media reports cited the incident as embarrassing for the International Biathlon Union. Norbert Baier, the chief technical delegate from the IBU at the Games and the official responsible for ensuring that the rules were implemented correctly by officials, called it, "the worst day of my career."[1] Following the sprint, Vincent Jay of France led the field and started first. Jay would continue to set the pace throughout much of the race. Björn Ferry of Sweden, who started the race in 8th place more than a minute behind Jay, pushed hard through much of the race and finally overtook Jay in the final lap. Following Ferry, Austrian Christoph Sumann also overtook Jay and won the silver medal. Jay held on to third place, beating his closest opponent by less than three seconds at the finish line, and securing the bronze medal. Ferry's victory was the first Olympic biathlon gold medal won by a Swedish athlete in 50 years.[2] Norwegian competitors Emil Hegle Svendsen and Ole Einar Bjørndalen, a five-time Olympic champion, were expected to do well before the race but failed to live up to those expectations. Svendsen missed four shooting targets and Bjørndalen finished nearly a minute behind Ferry.[2]

Confusion and starter errors

Observers and participants reported that several starter errors occurred during the race start. Competitors Jeremy Teela and Jean-Philippe Leguellec were started too early, before racers who were seeded higher than them. Teela stated that the early start threw-off his strategy, contributing to his missing two targets in his first two shooting range stops. Said Teela, "We have a couple more races this week. Hopefully the organizers figure this problem out and they make the races fair." Starter confusion was reportedly also present during the Women's pursuit earlier that day. U.S. coach Per Nilsson stated that he had never seen an Olympic biathlon as poorly managed as the February 16 women's race.[3]

Results

Rank Bib Name Country Start Time Penalties (P+P+S+S) Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 Björn Ferry File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 1:12 33:38.4 1 (0+0+0+1) –
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 12 Christoph Sumann File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 1:25 33:54.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +16.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 Vincent Jay File:Flag of France.svg France 0:00 34:06.6 2 (0+0+1+1) +28.2
4 11 Simon Eder File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 1:24 34:09.4 3 (0+0+2+1) +31.0
5 21 Michael Greis File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 1:48 34:29.6 1 (0+0+0+1) +51.2
6 10 Ivan Tcherezov File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 1:18 34:29.6 2 (1+0+1+0) +51.2
7 17 Ole Einar Bjørndalen File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway 1:41 34:29.8 2 (0+0+0+2) +51.4
8 2 Emil Hegle Svendsen File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway 0:12 34:30.4 4 (0+1+2+1) +52.0
9 4 Klemen Bauer File:Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 0:17 34:33.8 5 (1+0+2+2) +55.4
10 22 Serhiy Sednev File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 1:49 34:50.0 0 (0+0+0+0) +1:11.6
11 6 Jean-Philippe Leguellec File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 0:50 34:51.9 2 (0+1+0+1) +1:13.5
12 13 Thomas Frei File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 1:29 34:56.4 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:18.0
13 23 Andreas Birnbacher File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 1:59 35:03.4 2 (1+0+1+0) +1:25.0
14 34 Dominik Landertinger File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 2:16 35:06.7 3 (1+0+1+1) +1:28.3
15 15 Evgeny Ustyugov File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 1:40 35:07.4 4 (1+1+2+0) +1:29.0
16 7 Pavol Hurajt File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia 1:07 35:12.8 3 (1+0+0+2) +1:34.4
17 24 Halvard Hanevold File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway 2:00 35:13.1 2 (1+1+0+0) +1:34.7
18 29 Tomasz Sikora File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland 2:08 35:14.3 3 (1+1+0+1) +1:35.9
19 42 Carl Johan Bergman File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 2:34 35:14.6 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:36.2
20 30 Anton Shipulin File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 2:11 35:34.4 3 (0+1+2+0) +1:56.0
21 40 Sergey Novikov File:Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg Belarus 2:30 35:35.2 2 (0+0+1+1) +1:56.8
22 53 Vincent Defrasne File:Flag of France.svg France 3:07 35:35.6 0 (0+0+0+0) +1:57.2
23 46 Lars Berger File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway 2:45 35:37.2 2 (0+0+0+2) +1:58.8
24 9 Jeremy Teela File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 1:14 35:45.4 4 (0+0+2+2) +2:07.0
25 3 Jakov Fak File:Civil ensign of Croatia.svg Croatia 0:14 35:45.6 4 (2+1+0+1) +2:07.2
26 5 Andriy Deryzemlya File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 0:41 35:48.7 6 (1+0+3+2) +2:10.3
27 39 Yan Savitskiy File:Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg Kazakhstan 2:27 35:49.6 1 (0+0+1+0) +2:11.2
28 26 Matthias Simmen File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 2:04 35:55.0 1 (3+0+0+0) +2:16.6
29 18 Michal Šlesingr File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 1:43 35:58.8 3 (0+0+1+2) +2:20.4
30 19 Christoph Stephan File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 1:43 36:02.3 4 (1+0+1+2) +2:23.9
31 20 Alexandr Syman File:Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg Belarus 1:46 36:13.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:35.5
32 14 Ilmārs Bricis File:Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg Latvia 1:34 36:14.9 4 (0+0+2+2) +2:36.5
33 38 Fredrik Lindström File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 2:26 36:25.5 4 (0+1+1+2) +2:47.1
34 35 Martin Fourcade File:Flag of France.svg France 2:18 36:28.4 5 (1+0+2+2) +2:50.0
35 32 Zhang Chengye File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 2:12 36:28.7 5 (0+2+1+2) +2:50.3
36 36 Lowell Bailey File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 2:19 36:34.0 3 (0+2+1+0) +2:55.6
37 37 Arnd Peiffer File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 2:21 36:44.9 4 (0+0+1+3) +3:06.5
38 28 Zdeněk Vítek File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 2:06 36:45.1 5 (1+1+1+2) +3:06.7
39 33 Serhiy Semenov File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 2:13 36:55.7 4 (3+1+0+0) +3:17.3
40 49 Evgeny Abramenko File:Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg Belarus 2:50 36:56.0 1 (0+0+1+0) +3:17.6
41 45 Daniel Mesotitsch File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 2:38 36:56.0 4 (0+0+3+1) +3:17.6
42 43 Rustam Valiullin File:Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg Belarus 2:36 37:05.5 5 (1+0+2+2) +3:27.1
43 16 Simon Hallenbarter File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 1:41 37:07.9 6 (1+2+1+2) +3:29.5
44 59 Michail Kletcherov File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 3:15 37:08.1 0 (0+0+0+0) +3:29.7
45 25 Krasimir Anev File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 2:01 37:24.2 3 (2+0+0+1) +3:45.8
46 47 Tim Burke File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 2:47 37:26.8 5 (0+2+1+2) +3:48.4
47 27 Janez Marič File:Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 2:05 37:28.4 5 (0+1+3+1) +3:50.0
48 31 Indrek Tobreluts File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia 2:11 37:29.0 5 (2+0+2+1) +3:50.6
49 51 Alexsandr Chervyhkov File:Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg Kazakhstan 3:02 37:30.5 3 (1+0+1+1) +3:52.1
50 48 Kauri Koiv File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia 2:48 37:45.5 4 (0+1+2+1) +4:07.1
51 52 Jaroslav Soukup File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 3:03 38:04.9 4 (1+1+1+1) +4:26.5
52 41 Timo Antila File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland 2:30 38:22.1 6 (0+1+2+3) +4:43.7
53 44 Markus Windisch File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 2:37 39:50.8 6 (0+2+3+1) +6:12.4
54 56 Lukas Hofer File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 3:11 39:50.9 5 (2+0+2+1) +6:12.5
55 60 Mattia Cola File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 3:17 39:50.9 4 (0+0+0+4) +6:12.5
56 55 Lee-Steve Jackson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain 3:10 39:54.7 4 (0+1+3+0) +6:16.3
57 54 Jay Hakkinen File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 3:10 40:33.2 6 (1+2+3+0) +6:54.8
58 50 Andrejs Rastorgujevs File:Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg Latvia 2:58 41:35.9 9 (2+2+3+2) +7:57.5
59 57 Vasja Rupnik File:Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 3:13 41:59.2 11 (1+2+4+4) +8:20.8
58 Peter Dokl File:Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 3:13 LAP 5 (0+3+2+ )

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wright, Chris (2010-02-16). "Protests over start foul-ups mar biathlon". Agence France-Presse. CTV Olympics. Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Agence France-Presse (2010-02-16). "Biathlon (Sprint): Sweden's Ferry wins men's 12.5km pursuit". Vancouver 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-02-17. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  3. ↑ Gustus, Lauren, (Gannett News Service), "Starter error frustrates biathletes, guardsman Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine", Military Times, February 18, 2010.

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