Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Men's 12.5 kilometres explained

Event:Men's 12.5 km
Games:2014 Winter
Venue:Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Dates:March 11
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Event:Men's 12.5 km (visually impaired)
Games:2014 Winter
Competitors:10
Nations:4
Gold:Vitaliy Lukyanenko
Guide: Borys Babar
Goldnpc:UKR
Silver:Nikolay Polukhin
Guide: Andrey Tokarev
Silvernpc:RUS
Bronze:Vasili Shaptsiaboi
Guide: Mikhail Lebedzeu
Bronzenpc:BLR
Event:Men's 12.5 km (sitting)
Games:2014 Winter
Competitors:19
Nations:10
Gold:Roman Petushkov
Goldnpc:RUS
Silver:Alexey Bychenok
Silvernpc:RUS
Bronze:Grigory Murygin
Bronzenpc:RUS
Event:Men's 12.5 km (standing)
Games:2014 Winter
Competitors:18
Nations:11
Gold:Azat Karachurin
Goldnpc:RUS
Silver:Nils-Erik Ulset
Silvernpc:NOR
Bronze:Mark Arendz
Bronzenpc:CAN

The men's 12.5 km competition of the Sochi 2014 Paralympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi. The competition took place on 11 March.[1]

Visually Impaired

In biathlon, visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.[2] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Rank Bib Name Country Misses Real Time Calculated Time Difference
39 Vitaliy Lukyanenko
Guide
0+0+0+0 31:04.0 31:04.0 -
40 Nikolay Polukhin
Guide
0+0+1+0 31:52.6 31:14.3 +10.3
33 Vasili Shaptsiaboi
Guide
2+1+0+1 32:38.2 31:59.0 +55.0
4 36 Iurii Utkin
Guide
0+0+0+0 32:04.5 32:04.5 +1:00.5
5 35 Oleg Ponomarev
Guide
0+0+0+0 32:57.7 32:57.7 +1:53.7
6 32 Iaroslav Reshetynskiy
Guide
0+0+0+0 33:21.9 33:21.9 +2:17.9
7 31 Dmytro Shulga
Guide
0+0+0+0 36:27.7 35:43.9 +4:39.9
DNF 38 Anatolii Kovalevskyi
Guide
0+0+3
DNS 34 Wilhelm Brem
Guide
DNS 37 Vladimir Udaltcov
Guide

Sitting

Rank Bib Name Country Misses Real Time Calculated Time Difference
69 0+0+0+0 34:48.8 34:48.8 -
66 0+0+0+0 35:29.7 35:29.7 +40.9
67 1+0+0+1 35:59.6 35:59.6 +1:10.8
4 62 0+0+0+0 37:50.6 36:42.5 +1:53.7
5 64 0+0+0+0 37:04.7 37:04.7 +2:15.9
6 68 0+0+0+0 39:57.8 37:33.9 +2:45.1
7 65 0+1+2+3 43:42.6 37:35.4 +2:46.6
8 60 0+0+0+0 37:51.7 37:51.7 +3:02.9
9 58 0+0+1+0 39:25.1 38:14.1 3:25.3
10 59 0+1+0+1 38:48.4 38:48.4 +3:59.6
11 63 1+0+1+1 39:01.0 39:01.0 +4:12.2
12 56 0+0+2+1 40:46.1 39:32.7 +4:43.9
13 53 0+2+0+1 40:25.0 40:25.0 +5:36.2
14 61 1+1+1+2 43:02.4 40:27.5 +5:38.7
15 54 0+0+0+2 40:34.2 40:34.2 +5:45.4
16 55 0+0+1+0 42:06.9 40:51.1 +6:02.3
17 57 1+1+2+0 41:18.1 41:18.1 +6:29.3
18 52 1+1+1+0 41:19.4 41:19.4 +6:30.6
19 51 1+0+2+4 48:40.9 48:40.9 +13:52.1

Standing

Rank Bib Name Country Misses Real Time Calculated Time Difference
18 0+0+0+1 33:31.4 29:30.0 -
16 0+0+0+2 34:10.1 30:24.6 +54.6
17 0+0+1+0 31:47.3 30:31.0 +1:01.1
4 11 0+0+0+2 34:48.3 30:37.7 +1:07.7
5 9 1+0+0+0 32:04.8 31:07.1 +1:37.1
6 12 1+0+1+1 32:07.1 31:09.3 +1:39.3
7 14 1+0+1+1 32:24.6 31:26.3 +1:56.3
8 13 0+1+0+1 32:48.0 31:29.3 +1:59.3
9 10 1+0+2+0 34:47.8 32:00.8 +2:30.8
10 8 0+0+1+0 33:40.1 32:39.5 +3:09.5
11 5 1+1+1+0 34:08.7 33:07.2 +3:37.2
12 15 2+1+2+3 34:16.6 33:14.9 +3:44.9
13 6 0+0+0+2 34:39.4 33:16.2 +3:46.2
14 7 1+2+0+1 34:33.4 33:31.2 +4:01.2
15 4 4+2+0+0 38:42.3 34:50.1 +5:20.1
16 1 3+3+2+1 41:56.4 36:54.4 +7:24.4
17 3 0+1+1+0 38:56.3 37:22.8 +7:52.8
18 2 3+1+3+0 40:20.4 39:07.8 +9:37.8

Notes and References

  1. Web site: International Paralympic Committee | IPC. 2014-03-11. 2014-02-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20140223194228/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/biathlon. dead.
  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/25580284 Sochi Winter Paralympics: Guide to the sports