Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the XXII Olympic Winter Games

Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates	8–22 February
No. of events	11
Competitors	220 Quota limit
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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Qualification
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed
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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The eleven events took place between 8–22 February 2014.^[1]

For the first time ever, a mixed relay event was staged after being voted onto the Olympic program in 2011.^[2]

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Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events.^[3]

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
8 February	18:30	Men's 10 km sprint
9 February	18:30	Women's 7.5 km sprint
10 February	19:00	Men's 12.5 km pursuit
11 February	19:00	Women's 10 km pursuit
13 February	18:00	Men's 20 km individual
14 February	18:00	Women's 15 km individual
17 February	19:00	Women's 12.5 km mass start
18 February	14:30	Men's 15 km mass start
19 February	18:30	Mixed 4 x 6 km / 7.5 km relay
21 February	18:30	Women's 4 x 6 km relay
22 February	18:30	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Medal summary

Notably absent from the medals for biathlon in the 2014 Games were the German women who had won six medals in 2006 and five in 2010. The men's team meanwhile recovered from a poor Games in Vancouver to achieve two silver medals. France's women, who had won three medals in 2010, also missed the podium, as did Canada, despite some promising performances. Sweden's men were also expected to win a medal but they too missed out.

13 athletes went home with two or more medals with five athletes winning three medals each. Belarus's Darya Domracheva won three gold medals to be the most successful biathlete at the Games, while France's Martin Fourcade was the most successful male winning two gold and one silver medal. 2012/13 women's World Cup winner Tora Berger won a medal of each color, while team-mate Tiril Eckhoff won one gold and two bronze at her first Games. Czech athlete Ondřej Moravec won two silver and one bronze.

The biathlon portion was marred by German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle's positive doping test. Sachenbacher-Stehle had finished fourth in both the mass start and the mixed relay but was disqualified from both events after testing positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine.

On 27 November 2017, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova (both from Russia) were disqualified for doping violations.^[4] On 1 December 2017, their teammate Olga Zaitseva was also disqualified.^[5] On 24 September 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport removed the sanctions from Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, but upheld them on their teammate Olga Zaitseva.^[6] Medals in the women's relay were redistributed by the IOC on 19 May 2022.^[7]

On 15 February 2020, it was announced that because of a doping violation Evgeny Ustyugov and Russian relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics.^[8] There is no official decision by the IOC yet.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	3	2	1	6
2	Belarus	3	0	1	4
3	France	2	1	1	4
4	Russia	1	1	1	3
5	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
6	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
7	Czech Republic	0	3	3	6
8	Germany	0	2	0	2
9	Austria	0	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Italy	0	0	1	1
11	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Martin Fourcade France	49:31.7	Erik Lesser Germany	49:43.9	Evgeniy Garanichev Russia	50:06.2
Sprint details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	24:33.5	Dominik Landertinger Austria	24:34.8	Jaroslav Soukup Czech Republic	24:39.2
Pursuit details	Martin Fourcade France	33:48.6	Ondřej Moravec Czech Republic	34:02.7	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix France	34:12.8
Mass start details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	42:29.1	Martin Fourcade France	42:29.1	Ondřej Moravec Czech Republic	42:42.9
Relay details	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	1:12:15.9	Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:12:19.4	Austria Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	1:12:45.7

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	43:19.6	Selina Gasparin Switzerland	44:35.3	Nadezhda Skardino Belarus	44:57.8
Sprint details	Anastasiya Kuzmina Slovakia	21:06.8	Olga Vilukhina Russia	21:26.7	Vita Semerenko Ukraine	21:28.5
Pursuit details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	29:30.7	Tora Berger Norway	30:08.3	Teja Gregorin Slovenia	30:12.7
Mass start details	Darya Domracheva Belarus	35:25.6	Gabriela Koukalová Czech Republic	35:45.8	Tiril Eckhoff Norway	35:52.9
Relay details	Ukraine Vita Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	1:10:02.5	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Aafeldt Flatland Tora Berger	1:10:40.1	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Koukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	1:11:25.7

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Relay details	Norway Tora Berger Tiril Eckhoff Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:09:17.0	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Koukalová Jaroslav Soukup Ondřej Moravec	1:09:49.6	Italy Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:10:15.2

Participating NOCs

Thirty-five nations sent biathletes to compete in the events.

Qualification

A total quota of 220 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (113 men and 107 women). Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the Nation Cup scores of their top 3 athletes in the individual sprint and relay competitions at the 2012 and 2013 World Championships.^[9]

References

^ "Laura Cross-country Ski & Biathlon Center". SOOC. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ "New events for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ "Biathlon Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
^ "IOC sanctions five Russian athletes and publishes first full decision as part of the Oswald Commission findings". International Olympic Committee. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ "IOC sanctions three Russian athletes as part of the Oswald Commission findings". International Olympic Committee. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
^ "Decisions Rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Appeal Arbitrations between Russian Athletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaytseva, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC)" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ https://olympics.com/ioc/news/events-from-sochi-2014-and-tokyo-2020-to-have-medals-and-diplomas-reallocated^[bare URL]
^ IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel renders verdicts on Sleptsova and Ustyugov
^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

External links

Official Results Book – Biathlon

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