Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's pursuit

Men's pursuit; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea
Date	12 February
Competitors	60 from 25 nations
Winning time	32:51.7
Medalists
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The men's 12.5 km pursuit competition of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics was held on 12 February 2018 at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1]^[2] The field was the same as for the sprint event, held on the previous day, with competitors starting time dependent on their final time in the sprint event.

Summary

The sprint champion, Arnd Peiffer, started on the first place. The starting intervals were very short, with number 10 starting merely half a minute behind Peiffer.

In the victory ceremony the day after, the medals were presented by Denis Oswald, member of the International Olympic Committee Executive Board, accompanied by Thomas Pfueller, IBU Vice President of Marketing.

Schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Round
12 February	21:00–21:50	Final

Results

The race was started at 21:00.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Start	Time	Penalties (P+P+S+S)	Deficit
	8	Martin Fourcade	France	00:22	32:51.7	1 (1+0+0+0)	–
	14	Sebastian Samuelsson	Sweden	00:34	33:03.7	1 (0+0+1+0)	+12.0
	6	Benedikt Doll	Germany	00:18	33:06.8	1 (0+1+0+0)	+15.1
4	13	Tarjei Bø	Norway	00:34	33:54.3	3 (0+0+1+2)	+1:02.6
5	7	Simon Schempp	Germany	00:21	33:54.4	3 (0+0+1+2)	+1:02.7
6	15	Benjamin Weger	Switzerland	00:37	33:54.8	2 (1+0+0+1)	+1:03.1
7	12	Simon Desthieux	France	00:32	33:55.4	3 (1+0+1+1)	+1:03.7
8	1	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	00:00	34:05.8	3 (0+0+1+2)	+1:14.1
9	5	Erlend Bjøntegaard	Norway	00:17	34:18.0	4 (1+0+0+3)	+1:26.3
10	10	Lukas Hofer	Italy	00:31	34:24.4	3 (1+1+1+0)	+1:32.7
11	11	Erik Lesser	Germany	00:32	34:27.6	2 (0+0+1+1)	+1:35.9
12	24	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Latvia	00:56	34:29.3	4 (1+0+1+2)	+1:37.6
13	17	Tomas Kaukėnas	Lithuania	00:45	34:31.8	2 (0+0+1+1)	+1:40.1
14	28	Simon Eder	Austria	01:04	34:33.1	2 (0+0+0+2)	+1:41.4
15	4	Julian Eberhard	Austria	00:08	34:36.9	6 (0+1+3+2)	+1:45.2
16	3	Dominik Windisch	Italy	00:08	34:57.9	5 (2+0+0+3)	+2:06.2
17	47	Tim Burke	United States	01:48	35:11.3	2 (0+1+1+0)	+2:19.6
18	30	Jesper Nelin	Sweden	01:08	35:15.5	4 (0+1+1+2)	+2:23.8
19	27	Antonin Guigonnat	France	00:59	35:27.9	5 (2+1+0+2)	+2:36.2
20	18	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	00:45	35:33.2	5 (0+2+2+1)	+2:41.5
21	31	Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norway	01:13	35:42.7	6 (0+2+4+0)	+2:51.0
22	16	Timofey Lapshin	South Korea	00:44	35:50.7	4 (1+0+2+1)	+2:59.0
23	38	Michael Rösch	Belgium	01:31	35:55.1	1 (0+0+0+1)	+3:03.4
24	26	Klemen Bauer	Slovenia	00:58	35:55.9	6 (2+0+2+2)	+3:04.2
25	20	Tero Seppälä	Finland	00:49	36:09.9	5 (1+1+3+0)	+3:18.2
26	25	Dominik Landertinger	Austria	00:57	36:22.2	5 (0+0+1+4)	+3:30.5
27	52	Martin Otčenáš	Slovakia	02:01	36:22.5	3 (0+0+3+0)	+3:30.8
28	9	Serafin Wiestner	Switzerland	00:24	36:37.0	6 (0+1+3+2)	+3:45.3
29	39	Fredrik Lindström	Sweden	01:35	36:41.5	5 (0+2+2+1)	+3:49.8
30	2	Michal Krčmář	Czech Republic	00:04	36:41.6	7 (2+0+3+2)	+3:49.9
31	22	Matej Kazár	Slovakia	00:55	36:42.4	5 (1+2+1+1)	+3:50.7
32	33	Lowell Bailey	United States	01:16	36:43.3	5 (0+0+3+2)	+3:51.6
33	35	Anton Smolski	Belarus	01:27	36:44.1	3 (1+1+1+0)	+3:52.4
34	21	Dmytro Pidruchnyi	Ukraine	00:49	36:53.2	4 (1+0+2+1)	+4:01.5
35	19	Olli Hiidensalo	Finland	00:48	37:03.9	7 (1+2+1+3)	+4:12.2
36	34	Vladimir Chepelin	Belarus	01:26	37:04.6	6 (0+0+3+3)	+4:12.9
37	42	Sergey Bocharnikov	Belarus	01:42	37:15.6	6 (1+3+0+2)	+4:23.9
38	40	Artem Pryma	Ukraine	01:36	37:16.3	6 (1+1+2+2)	+4:24.6
39	50	Giuseppe Montello	Italy	01:57	37:21.7	3 (0+0+2+1)	+4:30.0
40	57	Anton Babikov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	02:10	37:21.8	4 (1+1+2+0)	+4:30.1
41	36	Kalev Ermits	Estonia	01:28	37:43.0	6 (1+3+0+2)	+4:51.3
42	32	Peppe Femling	Sweden	01:13	37:45.8	5 (1+1+1+2)	+4:54.1
43	49	Vytautas Strolia	Lithuania	01:54	37:47.3	4 (1+0+2+1)	+4:55.6
44	48	Quentin Fillon Maillet	France	01:49	37:57.2	7 (3+0+2+2)	+5:05.5
45	37	Krasimir Anev	Bulgaria	01:30	37:57.9	5 (0+0+3+2)	+5:06.2
46	54	Vladimir Iliev	Bulgaria	02:04	38:08.7	7 (1+3+2+1)	+5:17.0
47	23	Jakov Fak	Slovenia	00:55	38:10.4	6 (2+1+3+0)	+5:18.7
48	51	Thomas Bormolini	Italy	02:01	38:10.7	6 (1+0+4+1)	+5:19.0
49	46	Serhiy Semenov	Ukraine	01:46	38:23.7	5 (1+0+2+2)	+5:32.0
50	58	Leif Nordgren	United States	02:10	38:40.4	5 (2+2+0+1)	+5:48.7
51	29	Ondřej Moravec	Czech Republic	01:08	38:45.9	8 (1+2+2+3)	+5:54.2
52	43	Roman Yeremin	Kazakhstan	01:43	38:51.1	8 (2+1+2+3)	+5:59.4
53	41	Roland Lessing	Estonia	01:41	38:54.4	7 (2+1+3+1)	+6:02.7
54	44	Nathan Smith	Canada	01:44	38:58.2	4 (0+0+1+3)	+6:06.5
55	45	Tuomas Grönman	Finland	01:46	38:58.9	6 (0+1+2+3)	+6:07.2
56	59	Grzegorz Guzik	Poland	02:13	39:07.3	6 (2+1+2+1)	+6:15.6
57	55	Florent Claude	Belgium	02:05	39:22.7	4 (1+1+1+1)	+6:31.0
58	60	Cornel Puchianu	Romania	02:14	39:37.6	5 (1+1+2+1)	+6:45.9
59	53	Miha Dovžan	Slovenia	02:03	40:13.2	7 (0+1+3+3)	+7:21.5
60	56	Anton Sinapov	Bulgaria	02:09	40:49.1	8 (0+1+3+4)	+7:57.4