Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Men's 7.5 kilometres explained

Event:	Men's 7.5 km (visually impaired)
Games:	2014 Winter
Competitors:	18
Nations:	9
Gold:	Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Borys Babar
Goldnpc:	UKR
Silver:	Nikolay Polukhin Guide: Andrey Tokarev
Silvernpc:	RUS
Bronze:	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide: Mikhail Lebedzeu
Bronzenpc:	BLR

The men's 7.5 km competition of the Sochi 2014 Paralympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi. The competition took place on 8 March.

Visually Impaired

In this event, 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
	34	Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide	0+0	20:18.8	20:18.8	—
	31	Nikolay Polukhin Guide	1+0	20:54.9	20:29.8	+11.0
	40	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide	1+0	21:32.4	21:06.6	+47.8
4	37	Iurii Utkin Guide	0+0	21:14.6	21:14.6	+55.8
5	32	Stanislav Chokhlaev Guide	1+0	24:31.4	21:20.1	+1:01.3
6	35	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide	0+0	21:47.7	21:21.5	+1:02.7
7	39	Wilhelm Brem Guide	0+1	25:31.4	22:12.3	+1:53.5
8	33	Zebastian Modin Guide	0+2	25:38.0	22:18.1	+1:59.3
9	43	Alexsander Artemov Guide	0+0	25:54.7	22:32.6	+2:13.8
10	38	Oleg Ponomarev Guide	0+2	22:37.1	22:37.1	+2:18.3
11	41	Iaroslav Reshetynskiy Guide	0+1	22:55.2	22:55.2	+2:36.4
12	36	Vladimir Udaltcov Guide	0+2	23:26.6	23:26.6	+3:07.8
13	44	Dmytro Shulga Guide	1+1	24:48.4	24:18.6	+3:59.8
14	47	Jacob Adicoff Guide	5+2	25:35.6	25:35.6	+5:16.8
15	45	Thomas Clarion Guide	2+5	30:04.3	26:09.7	+5:50.9
16	46	Kevin Burton Guide	2+2	27:01.1	26:28.7	+6:09.9
17	48	Kairat Kanafin Guide	4+2	29:52.1	29:16.3	+8:57.5
	42	Brian McKeever Guide	DNS

Rank	Bib	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	51	0+0	21:03.7	21:03.7	—
	55	0+0	24:38.9	21:11.9	+8.2
	52	0+0	23:08.9	21:45.6	+41.9
4	56	0+0	21:48.5	21:48.5	+44.8
5	54	1+0	21:58.2	21:58.2	+54.5
6	59	0+0	22:18.7	22:18.7	+1:15.0
7	58	0+0	23:17.3	22:35.4	+1.31.7
8	63	0+0	23:00.2	23:00.2	+1:56.5
9	61	0+1	24:03.3	23:20.0	+2:16.3
10	53	1+3	23:35.8	23:35.8	+2:32.1
11	64	1+1	23:47.5	23:47.5	+2:43.8
12	60	0+1	23:58.3	23:58.3	+2:54.6
13	68	0+1	24:00.7	24:00.7	+2:57.0
14	57	3+0	24:13.8	24:13.8	+3:10.1
15	69	0+0	24:17.8	24:17.8	+3:14.1
16	62	0+0	26:01.9	24:28.2	+3:24.5
17	67	1+0	24:37.3	24:37.3	+3:33.6
18	66	0+1	26:16.1	25:28.8	+4:25.1
19	71	2+2	26:46.6	25:58.4	+4:54.7
20	70	0+5	27:35.2	27:35.2	+6:31.5
	65	DSQ

Rank	Bib	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	10	0+1	20:01.8	19:13.7	—
	2	1+0	20:02.5	19:14.4	+0.7
	1	0+1	21:52.4	19:14.9	+1.2
4	7	1+0	20:02.3	19:26.2	+12.5
5	6	1+0	20:15.8	19:27.2	+13.5
6	3	0+0	21:52.7	19:28.3	+14.6
7	9	0+1	21:14.5	19:32.5	+18.8
8	5	0+1	20:14.8	19:38.4	+24.7
9	11	1+1	20:16.2	19:39.7	+26.0
10	8	1+1	22:25.9	19:44.4	+30.7
11	4	1+0	20:49.8	20:12.3	+58.6
12	16	1+0	22:50.3	20:33.3	+1:19.6
13	12	0+0	21:35.3	20:56.4	+1:42.7
14	15	1+2	22:01.4	21:21.8	+2.08.1
15	14	0+1	22:21.6	21:27.9	+2:14.2
16	13	2+2	23:51.8	23:08.8	+3:55.1
17	18	0+1	23:53.2	23:10.2	+3:56.5
18	17	1+0	25:23.8	24:22.8	+5:09.1
19	19	3+4	28:26.4	25:01.6	+5:47.9