Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's pursuit

Men's pursuit
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
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
 Björn Ferry  Sweden
 Christoph Sumann  Austria
 Vincent Jay  France
Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Individual   men   women
Sprint   men   women
Pursuit   men   women
Mass start   men   women
Relay   men   women

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, gold medalist(s) 8 Björn Ferry Sweden 1:12 33:38.4 1 (0+0+0+1) 0.00
2nd, silver medalist(s) 12 Christoph Sumann Austria 1:25 33:54.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +16.5
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 1 Vincent Jay France 0:00 34:06.6 2 (0+0+1+1) +28.2
4 11 Simon Eder Austria 1:24 34:09.4 3 (0+0+2+1) +31.0
5 21 Michael Greis Germany 1:48 34:29.6 1 (0+0+0+1) +51.2
6 10 Ivan Tcherezov Russia 1:18 34:29.6 2 (1+0+1+0) +51.2
7 17 Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway 1:41 34:29.8 2 (0+0+0+2)+51.4
8 2 Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway 0:12 34:30.4 4 (0+1+2+1) +52.0
9 4 Klemen Bauer Slovenia 0:17 34:33.8 5 (1+0+2+2) +55.4
10 22 Serguei Sednev Ukraine 1:49 34:50.0 0 (0+0+0+0)+1:11.6
11 6 Jean-Philippe Leguellec Canada 0:50 34:51.9 2 (0+1+0+1) +1:13.5
12 13 Thomas Frei Switzerland 1:29 34:56.4 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:18.0
13 23 Andreas Birnbacher Germany 1:59 35:03.4 2 (1+0+1+0) +1:25.0
14 34 Dominik Landertinger Austria 2:16 35:06.7 3 (1+0+1+1) +1:28.3
15 15 Evgeny Ustyugov Russia 1:40 35:07.4 4 (1+1+2+0) +1:29.0
16 7 Pavol Hurajt Slovakia 1:07 35:12.8 3 (1+0+0+2) +1:34.4
17 24 Halvard Hanevold Norway 2:00 35:13.1 2 (1+1+0+0) +1:34.7
18 29 Tomasz Sikora Poland 2:08 35:14.3 3 (1+1+0+1) +1:35.9
19 42 Carl Johan Bergman Sweden 2:34 35:14.6 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:36.2
20 30 Anton Shipulin Russia 2:11 35:34.4 3 (0+1+2+0) +1:56.0
21 40 Sergey Novikov Belarus 2:30 35:35.2 2 (0+0+1+1) +1:56.8
22 53 Vincent Defrasne France 3:07 35:35.6 0 (0+0+0+0) +1:57.2
23 46 Lars Berger Norway 2:45 35:37.2 2 (0+0+0+2) +1:58.8
24 9 Jeremy Teela United States 1:14 35:45.4 4 (0+0+2+2) +2:07.0
25 3 Jakov Fak Croatia 0:14 35:45.6 4 (2+1+0+1)+2:07.2
26 5 Andriy Deryzemlya Ukraine 0:41 35:48.7 6 (1+0+3+2) +2:10.3
27 39 Yan Savitskiy Kazakhstan 2:27 35:49.6 1 (0+0+1+0) +2:11.2
28 26 Matthias Simmen Switzerland 2:04 35:55.0 1 (3+0+0+0) +2:16.6
29 18 Michal Šlesingr Czech Republic 1:43 35:58.8 3 (0+0+1+2)+2:20.4
30 19 Christoph Stephan Germany 1:43 36:02.3 4 (1+0+1+2) +2:23.9
31 20 Alexandr Syman Belarus 1:46 36:13.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:35.5
32 14 Ilmārs Bricis Latvia 1:34 36:14.9 4 (0+0+2+2) +2:36.5
33 38 Fredrik Lindström Sweden 2:26 36:25.5 4 (0+1+1+2) +2:47.1
34 35 Martin Fourcade France 2:18 36:28.4 5 (1+0+2+2) +2:50.0
35 32 Zhang Chengye China 2:12 36:28.7 5 (0+2+1+2) +2:50.3
36 36 Lowell Bailey United States 2:19 36:34.0 3 (0+2+1+0) +2:55.6
37 37 Arnd Peiffer Germany 2:2136:44.9 4 (0+0+1+3) +3:06.5
38 28 Zdeněk Vítek Czech Republic 2:06 36:45.1 5 (1+1+1+2) +3:06.7
39 33 Serhiy Semenov Ukraine 2:13 36:55.7 4 (3+1+0+0)+3:17.3
40 49 Evgeny Abramenko Belarus 2:50 36:56.0 1 (0+0+1+0)+3:17.6
41 45 Daniel Mesotitsch Austria 2:38 36:56.0 4 (0+0+3+1) +3:17.6
42 43 Rustam Valiullin Belarus 2:36 37:05.5 5 (1+0+2+2) +3:27.1
43 16 Simon Hallenbarter Switzerland 1:41 37:07.9 6 (1+2+1+2) +3:29.5
44 59 Michail Kletcherov Bulgaria 3:15 37:08.1 0 (0+0+0+0) +3:29.7
45 25 Krasimir Anev Bulgaria 2:01 37:24.2 3 (2+0+0+1) +3:45.8
46 47 Tim Burke United States 2:47 37:26.8 5 (0+2+1+2) +3:48.4
47 27 Janez Marič Slovenia 2:05 37:28.4 5 (0+1+3+1) +3:50.0
48 31 Indrek Tobreluts Estonia 2:11 37:29.0 5 (2+0+2+1) +3:50.6
49 51 Alexsandr Chervyhkov Kazakhstan 3:02 37:30.5 3 (1+0+1+1) +3:52.1
50 48 Kauri Koiv Estonia 2:48 37:45.5 4 (0+1+2+1)+4:07.1
51 52 Jaroslav Soukup Czech Republic 3:03 38:04.9 4 (1+1+1+1) +4:26.5
52 41 Timo Antila Finland 2:30 38:22.1 6 (0+1+2+3) +4:43.7
53 44 Markus Windisch Italy 2:37 39:50.8 6 (0+2+3+1)+6:12.4
54 56 Lukas Hofer Italy 3:11 39:50.9 5 (2+0+2+1)+6:12.5
55 60 Mattia Cola Italy 3:17 39:50.9 4 (0+0+0+4)+6:12.5
56 55 Lee-Steve Jackson Great Britain 3:10 39:54.7 4 (0+1+3+0) +6:16.3
57 54 Jay Hakkinen United States 3:10 40:33.2 6 (1+2+3+0) +6:54.8
58 50 Andrejs Rastorgujevs Latvia 2:58 41:35.9 9 (2+2+3+2) +7:57.5
59 57 Vasja Rupnik Slovenia 3:13 41:59.2 11 (1+2+4+4) +8:20.8
58 Peter Dokl 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. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. 1 2 Agence France-Presse (2010-02-16). "Biathlon (Sprint): Sweden's Ferry wins men's 12.5km pursuit". Vancouver 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  3. ↑ Gustus, Lauren, (Gannett News Service), "Starter error frustrates biathletes, guardsman", Military Times, February 18, 2010.

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