2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men will start at Sunday December 4, 2011 in Östersund and will finish Sunday March 17, 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Tarjei Bø of Norway.

Competition format edit

This is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.[1] The contestants ski a distance of 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490 ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.

To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.

Points are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.

2010-11 Top 3 Standings edit

Medal Athlete Points
Gold:   Tarjei Bø 334
Silver:   Martin Fourcade 320
Bronze:   Emil Hegle Svendsen 304

Medal winners edit

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund
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Martin Fourcade
  France
32:56.0
(0+0+0+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
33:21.5
(0+0+1+1)
Jaroslav Soukup
  Czech Republic
33:22.9
(0+1+0+0)
Hochfilzen
details
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
33:09.0
(1+0+1+0)
Tarjei Bø
  Norway
33:09.1
(0+0+1+0)
Benjamin Weger
  Switzerland
33:13.9
(1+0+0+0)
Hochfilzen (2)
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Andreas Birnbacher
  Germany
35:40.3
(0+0+0+0)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
  Norway
35:40.5
(0+0+0+0)
Simon Fourcade
  France
35:41.6
(1+0+0+0)
Nové Město
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Anton Shipulin
  Russia
34:50.8
(0+0+1+0)
Martin Fourcade
  France
35:01.9
(1+0+1+1)
Arnd Peiffer
  Germany
35:01.9
(1+0+1+1)
Holmenkollen
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Arnd Peiffer
  Germany
31:44.0
(0+0+0+0)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
32:15.2
(0+1+0+1)
Evgeniy Garanichev
  Russia
32:20.3
(0+0+1+1)
Kontiolahti
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Ole Einar Bjørndalen
  Norway
33:43.8
(2+0+0+0)
Martin Fourcade
  France
33:57.6
(0+1+0+2)
Dmitry Malyshko
  Russia
34:06.5
(1+0+1+0)
Biathlon World Championships 2012
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Martin Fourcade
  France
33:39.4
(1+1+0+2)
Carl Johan Bergman
  Sweden
33:44.6
(0+1+1+0)
Anton Shipulin
  Russia
34:01.5
(1+0+0+0)
Khanty-Mansiysk
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Martin Fourcade
  France
34:47.1
(0+0+1+0)
Arnd Peiffer
  Germany
35:06.7
(0+0+0+1)
Emil Hegle Svendsen
  Norway
35:21.8
(1+1+0+0)

Standings edit

# Name ÖST HOC1 HOC2 NOV HOL KON WCH KHA Total[2]
1   Martin Fourcade (FRA) 60 17 36 54 43 54 60 60 384
2   Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 54 60 17 32 54 43 40 48 348
3   Arnd Peiffer (GER) 19 32 14 54 60 24 54 257
4   Tarjei Bø (NOR) 43 54 43 20 21 36 40 257
5   Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) 14 40 54 26 31 60 14 239
6   Andreas Birnbacher (GER) 38 26 60 29 30 29 27 239
7   Benjamin Weger (SUI) 36 48 40 18 27 36 25 230
8   Carl Johan Bergman (SWE) 40 43 34 22 54 34 227
9   Anton Shipulin (RUS) 18 36 60 34 48 28 224
10   Simon Fourcade (FRA) 12 6 48 43 23 31 38 201
11   Lowell Bailey (USA) 28 24 16 23 29 29 21 15 185
12   Andrei Makoveev (RUS) 13 30 28 31 28 22 25 177
13   Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS) 9 36 48 40 27 16 176
14   Björn Ferry (SWE) 27 31 24 24 12 30 26 174
15   Dmitry Malyshko (RUS) 20 2 40 19 48 43 172
16   Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS) 24 27 30 28 36 17 162
17   Tim Burke (USA) 32 0 25 38 30 13 20 158
18   Jakov Fak (SLO) 20 19 0 11 40 34 30 154
19   Michal Šlesingr (CZE) 29 13 9 32 17 12 38 150
20   Fredrik Lindström (SWE) 26 4 0 38 6 31 31 136
21   Simon Schempp (GER) 30 25 19 13 13 32 132
22   Florian Graf (GER) 15 34 23 4 34 3 14 126
23   Lukas Hofer (ITA) 25 21 0 15 32 28 5 126
24   Dominik Landertinger (AUT) 0 18 20 24 10 36 108
25   Jay Hakkinen (USA) 17 0 32 14 16 27 1 107
26   Jaroslav Soukup (CZE) 48 0 22 10 20 0 100
27   Christoph Sumann (AUT) 23 14 21 1 38 0 97
28   Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT) 0 38 0 11 43 92
29   Simon Hallenbarter (SUI) 7 7 15 20 10 0 32 91
30   Ondřej Moravec (CZE) 16 0 19 0 7 26 22 90
31   Alexis Bœuf (FRA) 0 28 13 22 0 23 86
32   Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA) 29 0 17 16 0 23 85
33   Markus Windisch (ITA) 0 11 7 25 21 11 10 85
34   Timofey Lapshin (RUS) 23 25 7 26 0 81
35   Michael Greis (GER) 31 22 0 18 0 71
36   Serhiy Semenov (UKR) 3 15 0 23 0 29 70
37   Simon Eder (AUT) 22 0 38 7 67
38   Brendan Green (CAN) 9 8 1 21 28 67
39   Jean Philippe Leguellec (CAN) 34 0 15 15 0 64
40   Alexey Volkov (RUS) 31 30 61
41   Klemen Bauer (SLO) 0 14 22 9 18 61
42   Lars Berger (NOR) 34 10 9 0 0 1 54
43   Matej Kazar (SVK) 24 17 11 52
44   Krasimir Anev (BUL) 0 12 11 24 47
45   Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR) 5 19 21 45
46   Vincent Jay (FRA) 0 18 17 10 45
47   Rune Brattsveen (NOR) 11 0 18 15 44
48   Daniel Böhm (GER) 8 25 7 40
49   Christian De Lorenzi (ITA) 0 26 0 4 6 36
50   Daniel Graf (GER) 21 14 35
51   Ivan Joller (SUI) 3 26 5 0 34
52   Erik Lesser (GER) 12 19 31
53   Magnús Jónsson (SWE) 0 0 27 3 0 30
54   Michail Kletcherov (BUL) 2 16 12 0 0 30
55   Michael Rösch (GER) 29 29
56   Olexander Bilanenko (UKR) 0 27 0 27
57   Russell Currier (USA) 6 18 0 24
58   Jarkko Kauppinen (FIN) 2 20 22
59   Sergey Novikov (BLR) 6 0 16 22
60   Vladimir Iliev (BUL) 0 19 19
61   Serguei Sednev (UKR) 0 16 1 17
62   Indrek Tobreluts (EST) 0 3 13 0 16
63   Scott Perras (CAN) 0 8 0 8 16
64   Alexander Os (NOR) 14 0 14
65   Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR) 10 4 14
66   Benedikt Doll (GER) 13 13
67   Henrik L'Abée-Lund (NOR) 12 12
68   Janez Maric (SLO) 11 0 11
69   Martin Eng (NOR) 10 10
70   Aliaksandr Babchyn (BLR) 9 9
71   Friedrich Pinter (AUT) 0 0 9 9
72   Maksim Burtasov (RUS) 9 9
73   Zdeněk Vítek (CZE) 0 5 4 0 0 9
74   Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) 8 0 0 8
75   Junji Nagai (JPN) 0 0 8 8
76   Pavol Hurajt (SVK) 0 8 8
77   Yuryi Liadov (BLR) 8 8
78   Leif Nordgren (USA) 8 8
79   Tomasz Sikora (POL) 0 7 0 0 7
80   Artem Pryma (UKR) 5 0 2 7
81   Roman Pryma (UKR) 0 2 5 7
82   Sven Grossegger (AUT) 6 0 0 6
83   Dušan Šimočko (SVK) 0 0 6 6
84   Tomas Holubec (CZE) 6 6
85   Lois Habert (FRA) 0 5 1 6
86   Yan Savitskiy (KAZ) 0 5 5
87   Dominik Windisch (ITA) 4 4
88   Evgeny Abramenko (BLR) 4 0 0 0 0 4
89   Roland Lessing (EST) 2 0 2 4
90   Nathan Smith (CAN) 0 3 3
91   Rene Laurent Vuillermoz (ITA) 3 3
92   Vladimir Alenishko (BLR) 3 0 3
93   Timo Antila (FIN) 2 2
94   Alexsandr Chervyhkov (KAZ) 1 1 2

References edit

  1. ^ To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race – the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line.
  2. ^ Standings Pursuit Men