2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on Thursday 6 December 2018 in Pokljuka and finished on Wednesday 13 March 2019 in Östersund. The defending titlist was Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway.

The small crystal globe winner for the category was Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway.

Competition format

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.

2017–18 Top 3 standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Johannes Thingnes Bø	108
Gold:	Martin Fourcade	108
Bronze:	Quentin Fillon Maillet	75

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Pokljuka details	Martin Fourcade France	47:09.2 (0+0+0+0)	Johannes Kühn Germany	47:13.4 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Eder Austria	47:28.9 (0+0+0+0)
Canmore details	Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway	35:27.9 (0+0+0+0)	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Norway	37:38.1 (1+0+0+1)	Alexandr Loginov Russia	38:08.9 (1+1+0+0)
World Championships details	Arnd Peiffer Germany	52:42.4 (0+0+0+0)	Vladimir Iliev Bulgaria	53:51.1 (0+1+0+0)	Tarjei Bø Norway	53:51.5 (0+1+0+0)

Standings

#	Name	POK	CAN	ÖST	Total
1	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)	36	60	32	128
2	Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR)	30	54	34	118
3	Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR)	31	43	23	97
4	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	0	28	60	88
5	Alexandr Loginov (RUS)	12	48	27	87
6	Simon Desthieux (FRA)	19	30	38	87
7	Simon Eder (AUT)	48	38	DNF	86
8	Erik Lesser (GER)	18	34	30	82
9	Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE)	32	—	43	75
10	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	14	20	40	74
11	Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS)	5	27	36	68
12	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	60	—	2	62
13	Johannes Kühn (GER)	54	5	—	59
14	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	—	36	22	58
15	Christian Gow (CAN)	25	31	DNF	56
16	Vladimir Iliev (BUL)	0	0	54	54
17	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	6	—	48	54
18	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)	9	16	29	54
19	Dominik Windisch (ITA)	0	40	12	52
20	Tomáš Krupčík (CZE)	0	29	19	48
21	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)	—	18	28	46
22	Antonin Guigonnat (FRA)	34	10	—	44
23	Michal Krčmář (CZE)	26	0	18	44
24	Jakov Fak (SLO)	43	—	0	43
25	Scott Gow (CAN)	27	1	15	43
26	Jesper Nelin (SWE)	28	—	13	41
27	Simon Schempp (GER)	40	—	—	40
28	Serhiy Semenov (UKR)	38	0	0	38
29	Sean Doherty (USA)	0	14	24	38
30	Jeremy Finello (SUI)	0	21	17	38
#	Name	POK	CAN	ÖST	Total
31	Felix Leitner (AUT)	24	2	11	37
32	Roman Rees (GER)	—	12	21	33
33	Peppe Femling (SWE)	0	32	0	32
34	Benedikt Doll (GER)	0	0	31	31
35	Dominik Landertinger (AUT)	8	22	0	30
36	Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)	29	—	—	29
37	Erlend Bjøntegaard (NOR)	3	25	0	28
38	Roland Lessing (EST)	—	11	16	27
39	Vladimir Chepelin (BLR)	0	—	26	26
40	Eduard Latypov (RUS)	0	26	—	26
41	Leif Nordgren (USA)	1	0	25	26
42	Emilien Jacquelin (FRA)	13	13	—	26
43	Philipp Nawrath (GER)	—	24	—	24
44	Alexander Povarnitsyn (RUS)	—	23	0	23
45	Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE)	23	—	0	23
46	Anton Sinapov (BUL)	22	0	DNF	22
47	Matvey Eliseev (RUS)	21	—	—	21
48	Dimitar Gerdzhikov (BUL)	0	0	20	20
49	Artem Pryma (UKR)	20	—	—	20
50	Thomas Bormolini (ITA)	0	19	0	19
51	Julian Eberhard (AUT)	4	15	0	19
52	Grzegorz Guzik (POL)	0	17	0	17
53	Mikito Tachizaki (JPN)	17	—	—	17
54	Artem Tyshchenko (UKR)	10	7	0	17
55	Karol Dombrovski (LTU)	16	—	0	16
56	Mario Dolder (SUI)	15	0	0	15
57	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	11	—	4	15
58	Florent Claude (BEL)	0	6	9	15
59	Krasimir Anev (BUL)	0	—	14	14
60	Tero Seppala (FIN)	3	—	10	13
#	Name	POK	CAN	ÖST	Total
61	Taras Lesiuk (UKR)	—	9	—	9
62	Matej Kazár (SVK)	—	8	1	9
63	Raman Yaliotnau (BLR)	0	0	8	8
64	Timofey Lapshin (KOR)	0	0	7	7
65	Roman Yeremin (KAZ)	7	—	0	7
66	Michal Šlesingr (CZE)	0	0	6	6
67	Kalev Ermits (EST)	0	3	3	6
68	Nikita Porshnev (RUS)	—	—	5	5
69	Benjamin Weger (SUI)	0	4	0	4