Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Men's 15 kilometres explained

Event:	Men's 15 km
Games:	2014 Winter
Venue:	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Dates:	March 14
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Event:	Men's 15 km (visually impaired)
Games:	2014 Winter
Competitors:	12
Nations:	5
Gold:	Nikolay Polukhin Guide: Andrey Tokarev
Goldnpc:	RUS
Silver:	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn
Silvernpc:	UKR
Bronze:	Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Borys Babar
Bronzenpc:	UKR
Bronze2:	Stanislav Chokhlaev Guide: Maksim Pirogov
Bronzenpc2:	RUS

Event:	Men's 15 km (sitting)
Games:	2014 Winter
Competitors:	22
Nations:	11
Gold:	Roman Petushkov
Goldnpc:	RUS
Silver:	Grigory Murygin
Silvernpc:	RUS
Bronze:	Aleksandr Davidovich
Bronzenpc:	RUS

Event:	Men's 15 km (standing)
Games:	2014 Winter
Competitors:	18
Nations:	10
Gold:	Grygorii Vovchynskyi
Goldnpc:	UKR
Silver:	Nils-Erik Ulset
Silvernpc:	NOR
Bronze:	Kirill Mikhaylov
Bronzenpc:	RUS

The men's 15 km competition of the Sochi 2014 Paralympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi. The competition took place on 14 March.

Visually Impaired

In biathlon, visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.^[1] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Rank	Bib	Name	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	42	Nikolay Polukhin Guide	0+0+0+0	37:27.9	36:42.9	-
	39	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide	0+1+0+0	38:03.9	38:18.2	+1:35.3
	40	Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide	0+1+0+0	37:21.6	38:21.6	+1:38.7
	41	Stanislav Chokhlaev Guide	0+1+0+0	42:56.5	38:21.6	+1:38.7
5	38	Iurii Utkin Guide	0+0+0+0	39:11.0	39:11.0	+2:28.1
6	35	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide	0+1+1+1	38:16.0	40:30.1	+3:47.2
7	34	Iaroslav Reshetynskiy Guide	0+0+0+0	41:19.5	41:19.5	+4:36.6
8	33	Alexsander Artemov Guide	1+0+0+0	46:29.5	41:26.9	+4:44.0
9	36	Wilhelm Brem Guide	1+0+0+2	45:23.4	42:29.4	+5:46.5
10	37	Oleg Ponomarev Guide	1+0+0+1	40:35.0	42:35.0	+5:52.1
11	32	Dmytro Shulga Guide	0+0+1+0	44:09.1	44:16.1	+7:33.2
12	31	Kevin Burton Guide	2+1+1+2	43:09.8	48:18.0	+11:35.1

Sitting

Rank	Bib	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	72	0+0+0+0	42:20.8	42:20.8	-
	70	0+1+0+1	44:25.7	44:25.7	+2:04.9
	69	0+0+0+0	44:46.2	44:46.2	+2:25.4
4	67	0+0+0+0	44:52.6	44:52.6	+2:31.8
5	65	0+0+0+0	46:52.4	45:28.0	+3:07.2
6	71	0+0+0+0	49:04.1	46:07.5	+3:46.7
7	63	0+0+0+0	46:12.9	46:12.9	+3:52.1
8	61	0+1+0+0	46:43.6	46:19.5	+3:58.7
9	59	0+0+0+0	46:58.6	46:58.6	+4:37.8
10	66	1+1+0+0	46:27.8	48:27.8	+6:07.0
11	57	1+0+1+0	47:57.4	48:31.1	+6:10.3
12	68	0+1+4+0	51:06.2	48:56.9	+6:36.1
13	55	1+1+0+0	47:17.0	49:17.0	+6:56.2
14	60	0+0+0+1	51:25.8	49:20.7	+6:59.9
15	62	0+1+2+0	46:23.6	49:23.6	+7:02.8
16	53	0+0+0+1	48:36.7	49:36.7	+7:15.9
17	54	1+0+1+2	47:39.7	51:39.7	+9:18.9
18	56	1+0+1+1	50:55.1	52:23.4	+10:02.6
19	51	1+2+2+3	48:29.0	55:01.7	+12:40.9
20	64	2+3+1+2	50:39.4	55:37.0	+13:16.2
21	52	2+0+1+2	50:40.5	55:40.5	+13:19.7
DNF	58	3+2

Standing

Rank	Bib	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	14	0+0+0+0	38:51.0	37:41.1	-
	16	0+0+0+0	42:24.1	37:44.2	+3.1
	12	0+0+0+0	38:55.7	37:45.6	+4.5
4	18	0+0+1+0	42:17.0	38:12.6	+31.5
5	10	0+2+0+0	38:21.2	38:49.2	+1:08.1
6	11	0+1+0+1	42:06.8	39:03.6	+1:22.5
7	13	1+0+0+1	39:21.3	39:46.8	+2:05.7
8	9	0+1+0+0	40:19.6	40:07.0	+2:25.9
9	15	1+1+1+0	38:20.2	40:11.2	+2:30.1
10	8	0+0+0+0	41:34.4	40:19.6	+2:38.5
11	17	1+0+0+1	40:10.6	40:34.2	+2:53.1
12	5	0+0+1+0	40:52.3	40:38.7	+2:57.6
13	6	0+0+0+0	43:33.6	41:49.1	+4:08.0
14	7	2+0+0+1	43:30.1	45:11.8	+7:30.7
15	2	1+1+0+1	45:36.9	47:14.8	+9:33.7
16	4	1+4+1+1	46:58.8	49:16.9	+11:35.8
17	3	1+2+0+0	48:17.7	49:21.8	+11:40.7
18	1	5+1+1+1	49:43.2	51:45.2	+14:04.1

Notes and References

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/25580284 Sochi Winter Paralympics: Guide to the sports