Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint

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Men's biathlon sprint
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
Dates13 February
Competitors87 from 34 nations
Winning time24:51.3
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sven Fischer  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wolfgang Perner  Austria
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The Men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February, at Soldier Hollow. Competitors raced over two 3.0 kilometre loops and one 4.0 kilometre loop of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.[1][2]

Results[]

Ole Einar Bjørndalen, having won the men's 20 kilometre Individual race two days before, came in as one of the favourites. Bjørndalen was also the defending World Cup champion in the sprint, as well as the defending Olympic champion in the discipline.[3] In addition, he had won the 2001 test event at Soldier Hollow, beating countryman Frode Andresen,[4] and won one of the four World Cup sprints earlier in the season.[1] Raphaël Poirée, the defending overall World Cup champion, had also won a World Cup sprint race in 2001/02, but neither Poirée nor Bjørndalen was leading the World Cup standings, which were closely contested between Andresen, Frank Luck and the defending World Champion in the distance, Pavel Rostovtsev.[1]

Germans Ricco Groß and Sven Fischer set the early pace, both shooting clear on the first shoot, then missing one in the second, with Fischer pulling away over the last loop to lead his countryman by 25 seconds at the finish. Poirée led both of them after the first shoot, but put two shots wide on his final round, dropping him out of contention. Rovstovtsev, not skiing as quickly as Poirée, was also well placed after one shoot, but his one miss on the second left him five seconds behind Groß at the finish.[5]

Andresen, fresh off a disappointment in the final round of shooting in the individual, was clear on the first shoot, and quick on the skis, but, like the individual, struggled on the last shoot, missing twice and ending up in 8th. The man starting directly behind him, Wolfgang Perner, was slower on the course, but didn't miss a shot, and just managed to edge Groß at the line, finishing 0.2 seconds ahead for, at the time, second place.

But Bjørndalen was still to come, and did not disappoint. The Norwegian shot clear at the opening attempt, but only left the range in 4th, behind Poirée, Andresen and Fischer. However, where all three of those had stumbled at the second shooting round, Bjørndalen made no mistake, shooting clear. He left the range 30 seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Fischer, and held that lead until the finish line for his second gold medal of the games. [5] This was Bjørndalen's third Olympic gold medal, making him the first biathlete to achieve such a feat.[6]

The race was held at 11:00.[7]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+S) Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 81 Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway 24:51.3 0 (0+0)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 10 Sven Fischer  Germany 25:20.2 1 (0+1) +28.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 63 Wolfgang Perner  Austria 25:44.4 0 (0+0) +53.1
4 6 Ricco Groß  Germany 25:44.6 1 (0+1) +53.3
5 23 Wolfgang Rottmann  Austria 25:48.8 2 (1+1) +57.5
6 39 Pavel Rostovtsev  Russia 25:50.1 1 (0+1) +58.8
7 24 Viktor Maigourov  Russia 25:50.9 0 (0+0) +59.6
8 62 Frode Andresen  Norway 25:51.5 2 (0+2) +1:00.2
9 35 Raphaël Poirée  France 25:56.9 2 (0+2) +1:05.6
10 2 Ludwig Gredler  Austria 26:04.3 2 (1+1) +1:13.0
11 87 Oleg Ryzhenkov  Belarus 26:05.5 0 (0+0) +1:14.2
12 58 Vadim Sashurin  Belarus 26:09.9 0 (0+0) +1:18.6
13 77 Halvard Hanevold  Norway 26:12.5 0 (0+0) +1:21.2
14 72 Zdeněk Vítek  Czech Republic 26:14.0 1 (0+1) +1:22.7
15 51 Michael Greis  Germany 26:18.4 2 (1+1) +1:27.1
16 50 Paavo Puurunen  Finland 26:24.7 1 (1+0) +1:33.4
17 55 Björn Ferry  Sweden 26:30.5 2 (1+1) +1:39.2
18 74 Wojciech Kozub  Poland 26:31.9 1 (0+1) +1:40.6
19 17 Timo Antila  Finland 26:33.4 1 (0+1) +1:42.1
20 34 Jeremy Teela  United States 26:36.6 2 (0+2) +1:45.3
21 8 Vincent Defrasne  France 26:36.7 2 (1+1) +1:45.4
22 75 René Cattarinussi  Italy 26:37.3 1 (0+1) +1:46.0
23 49 Tomaž Globočnik  Slovenia 26:40.0 1 (0+1) +1:48.7
24 76 Egil Gjelland  Norway 26:42.5 1 (1+0) +1:51.2
25 29 Vesa Hietalahti  Finland 26:43.2 0 (0+0) +1:51.9
26 67 Jay Hakkinen  United States 26:43.5 1 (1+0) +1:52.2
27 84 Marko Dolenc  Slovenia 26:47.0 1 (0+1) +1:55.7
28 82 Carl Johan Bergman  Sweden 26:47.1 1 (0+1) +1:55.8
29 37 Frank Luck  Germany 26:47.7 2 (1+1) +1:56.4
30 1 Dimitri Borovik  Estonia 26:50.1 2 (1+1) +1:58.8
31 54 Tomasz Sikora  Poland 26:59.3 1 (0+1) +2:08.0
32 83 Tomáš Holubec  Czech Republic 27:01.8 1 (0+1) +2:10.5
33 42 Sergey Rusinov  Russia 27:04.3 1 (0+1) +2:13.0
34 44 Roman Dostál  Czech Republic 27:04.9 2 (0+2) +2:13.6
35 56 Julien Robert  France 27:05.1 2 (1+1) +2:13.8
36 16 Vyacheslav Derkach  Ukraine 27:05.3 1 (0+1) +2:14.0
37 59 Alexei Aidarov  Belarus 27:06.4 2 (1+1) +2:15.1
38 26 Andriy Deryzemlia  Ukraine 27:11.1 1 (0+1) +2:19.8
39 11 Marek Matiaško  Slovakia 27:12.6 1 (0+1) +2:21.3
40 41 Ilmārs Bricis  Latvia 27:17.3 2 (1+1) +2:26.0
41 30 Kyoji Suga  Japan 27:21.0 1 (0+1) +2:29.7
42 31 Marian Blaj  Romania 27:25.5 1 (1+0) +2:34.2
43 52 Robin Clegg  Canada 27:28.3 2 (1+1) +2:37.0
44 73 Janez Marič  Slovenia 27:28.6 2 (0+2) +2:37.3
45 27 Janno Prants  Estonia 27:29.2 3 (1+2) +2:37.9
46 80 Oļegs Maļuhins  Latvia 27:30.7 3 (1+2) +2:39.4
47 21 Petr Garabík  Czech Republic 27:30.9 2 (0+2) +2:39.6
48 69 Indrek Tobreluts  Estonia 27:31.1 2 (0+2) +2:39.8
49 25 Paolo Longo  Italy 27:31.9 0 (0+0) +2:40.6
50 86 Wilfried Pallhuber  Italy 27:35.7 1 (0+1) +2:44.4
51 43 Sergei Rozhkov  Russia 27:39.8 4 (3+1) +2:48.5
52 19 Jēkabs Nākums  Latvia 27:40.9 1 (1+0) +2:49.6
53 66 Ruslan Lysenko  Ukraine 27:43.1 2 (0+2) +2:51.8
54 20 Lawton Redman  United States 27:43.4 2 (1+1) +2:52.1
55 45 Roland Zwahlen  Switzerland 27:43.7 1 (1+0) +2:52.4
56 38 Zhang Qing  China 27:45.3 3 (2+1) +2:54.0
40 Aleksandr Syman  Belarus 27:45.3 1 (1+0) +2:54.0
58 13 Wiesław Ziemianin  Poland 27:47.0 2 (0+2) +2:55.7
59 22 Sašo Grajf  Slovenia 27:52.6 2 (0+2) +3:01.3
60 60 Georgi Kasabov  Bulgaria 27:55.8 1 (0+1) +3:04.5
61 78 Krzysztof Topór  Poland 28:02.2 3 (1+2) +3:10.9
62 5 Hidenori Isa  Japan 28:03.6 2 (1+1) +3:12.3
63 68 Henrik Forsberg  Sweden 28:04.0 6 (2+4) +3:12.7
64 64 Jean-Marc Chabloz  Switzerland 28:08.6 1 (0+1) +3:17.3
65 70 Gundars Upenieks  Latvia 28:11.9 3 (3+0) +3:20.6
66 32 Gilles Marguet  France 28:20.1 4 (1+3) +3:28.8
67 9 Matthias Simmen  Switzerland 28:22.8 3 (1+2) +3:31.5
68 18 Devis Da Canal  Italy 28:25.9 2 (0+2) +3:34.6
69 71 Yukio Mochizuki  Japan 28:28.5 2 (2+0) +3:37.2
70 79 Roland Lessing  Estonia 28:34.4 2 (2+0) +3:43.1
71 61 Jason Sklenar  Great Britain 28:43.4 4 (2+2) +3:52.1
72 7 Mark Gee  Great Britain 28:57.8 2 (2+0) +4:06.5
73 65 Olli-Pekka Peltola  Finland 28:58.5 1 (1+0) +4:07.2
74 53 Mike Dixon  Great Britain 28:58.7 1 (0+1) +4:07.4
75 4 Imre Tagscherer  Hungary 29:08.6 3 (1+2) +4:17.3
76 85 Roman Pryma  Ukraine 29:16.1 3 (1+2) +4:24.8
77 28 Aleksandr Tropnikov  Kyrgyzstan 29:30.2 2 (1+1) +4:38.9
78 12 Tord Wiksten  Sweden 29:39.5 4 (2+2) +4:48.2
79 33 Dmitry Pantov  Kazakhstan 29:46.3 5 (2+3) +4:55.0
80 47 Shin Byung-Kook  South Korea 29:51.1 2 (1+1) +4:59.8
81 36 Ricardo Oscare  Argentina 30:00.2 3 (0+3) +5:08.9
82 48 Liutauras Barila  Lithuania 30:01.4 5 (2+3) +5:10.1
83 46 Mihail Gribuşencov  Moldova 30:02.2 2 (1+1) +5:10.9
84 15 Žarko Galjanić  Croatia 30:33.0 3 (1+2) +5:41.7
85 14 Stavros Khristoforidis  Greece 31:51.4 2 (1+1) +7:00.1
86 3 Carlos Varas  Chile 32:48.1 0 (0+0) +7:56.8
57 Christoph Sumann  Austria DNF 2 (0+2)

References[]

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  7. ^ Final results
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