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Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Dates	13–26 February
Competitors	221 from 37 nations
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Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women
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The biathlon competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics were held at Whistler Olympic ParkinWhistler, British Columbia. The events were held between the 13th and 26 February 2010.

The men's individual biathlon was notable for the awarding of two silver medals due to two competitors finishing with a tie (48:32.0). No bronze medal was awarded in this event.

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	3	2	0	5
2	Germany	2	1	2	5
3	Russia	2	1	1	4
4	France	1	2	3	6
5	Slovakia	1	1	1	3
6	Sweden	1	0	0	1
7	Austria	0	2	0	2
8	Belarus	0	1	1	2
9	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
10	Croatia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	11	9	30

Men's events[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	48:22.5	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway Sergey Novikov  Belarus	48:32.0	Not awarded
Sprint details	Vincent Jay  France	24:07.8	Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway	24:20.0	Jakov Fak  Croatia	24:21.8
Pursuit details	Björn Ferry  Sweden	33:38.4	Christoph Sumann  Austria	33:54.9	Vincent Jay  France	34:06.6
Mass start details	Evgeny Ustyugov  Russia	35:35.7	Martin Fourcade  France	35:46.2	Pavol Hurajt  Slovakia	35:52.3
Relay details	Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:38.1	Austria Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann	1:22:16.7	Russia Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Chudov Evgeny Ustyugov	1:22:16.9

Women's events[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Tora Berger  Norway	40:52.8	Elena Khrustaleva  Kazakhstan	41:13.5	Darya Domracheva  Belarus	41:21.0
Sprint details	Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia	19:55.6	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	19:57.1	Marie Dorin  France	20:06.5
Pursuit details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	30:16.0	Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia	30:28.3	Marie-Laure Brunet  France	30:44.3
Mass start details	Magdalena Neuner  Germany	35:19.6	Olga Zaytseva  Russia	35:25.1	Simone Hauswald  Germany	35:26.9
Relay details	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaytseva	1:09:36.3	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly	1:10:09.1	Germany Kati Wilhelm Simone Hauswald Martina Beck Andrea Henkel	1:10:13.4

Events[edit]

A total of ten biathlon events were held at Vancouver 2010:

Competition schedule[edit]

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Qualification[edit]

Athlete quotas[edit]

Athlete quotas: 220 athletes (113 men, 107 women)
ANOC may enter no more than 12 athletes (6 men and 6 women), and no more than 4 athletes per event.

Quotas by events:

• Individual: 88 (men's), 87 (women's)
• Sprint: 88 (men's), 87 (women's)
• Pursuit: 60 athletes¹
• Mass start: 30 athletes
• Relay: 20 teams (80 athletes)

¹Qualification to the pursuit is based on results from the sprint

Eligibility criteria[edit]

All competitors must comply with one of the three minimum qualifications standards set forward by the IBU:

• The athlete must have achieved a time that is less than 20% higher than the average time of the top 3 during a sprint or individual in the European Cup (IBU Cup), including the European championships, during the 2010/2009 or the 2009/2008 season.

or

• The athlete must achieve a top-half finish in the 2010 or 2009 World Junior Championships.

or

• The athlete must have participated in a Biathlon world cup or world championships during the 2008/2009 or 2009/2010 season.
• All members of a relay team must comply with those criteria.

Additionally, only athletes representing an NOC that is recognized by the IOC and member of the IBU can participate in the games.

Qualification criteria[edit]

All 220 quota places will be awarded using a point ranking combining the 2008 and 2009 Biathlon World Championships.

Men's

• Rank 1 to 5: six athletes
• Rank 6 to 20: five athletes
• Rank 21 to 28: one athlete

Women's

• Rank 1 to 5: six athletes
• Rank 6 to 15: five athletes
• Rank 16 to 20: four athletes
• Rank 21 to 27: one athlete

Participating nations[edit]

According to final report by VANOC these were the final participation numbers:^[1]

Nations	Men's	Women's	Total
Australia	1	0	1
Austria	6	0	6
Belarus	5	5	9
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1
Bulgaria	5	1	6
Canada	4	4	8
China	1	5	6
Croatia	1	1	2
Czech Republic	5	5	10
Denmark	1	0	1
Estonia	5	4	9
Finland	2	2	4
France	6	5	11
Germany	6	6	12
Great Britain	1	0	1
Greece	1	1	2
Hungary	1	0	1
Italy	5	5	10
Japan	1	1	2
Kazakhstan	5	4	9
Latvia	5	4	9
Lithuania	0	1	1
Moldova	1	1	2
Norway	6	5	11
New Zealand	0	1	1
Poland	2	5	7
Romania	0	5	5
Russia	5	6	11
Slovenia	4	4	8
South Korea	1	1	2
Spain	0	1	1
Serbia	1	0	1
Switzerland	5	1	6
Slovakia	5	5	10
Sweden	5	5	10
Ukraine	5	6	11
United States	5	4	9
Total: 37 NOCs	112	105	217

Rejected quota places: Finland earned five spots in both genders, but decided to send only two men and two women. Poland qualified 5 men, but sent only two men. Slovenia had earned 5 spots each, but decided to send only four women and men. Great Britain (women), Belgium (men), the Netherlands (men), and Austria (women) rejected their single spots earned in either men's or women's. Greenland has no NOC, so Greenland's spot earned in men's competition was used by Denmark.

References[edit]

See also[edit]

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