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.

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

Competition schedule The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events.

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. On 1 December 2017, their teammate Olga Zaitseva was also disqualified. 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. Medals in the women's relay were redistributed by the IOC on 19 May 2022.

On 15 February 2020, the International Biathlon Union announced that because of a doping violation, Evgeny Ustyugov and Russian men's 4 x 7.5km relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee results affirm the decision.Sochi 2014 Biathlon 4x7.5km relay men Results In May 2025 the final appeals of the decision were exhausted, leaving the IOC to formally reallocate Ustyugov's medals a gold and a bronze from 2010 and a relay gold from 2014 to other athletes. In September 2025 the IOC Executive Board approved the medal reallocations.

Medal table

Men's events Individual 49:31.7 49:43.9 50:06.2 Sprint 24:33.5 24:34.8 24:39.2 Pursuit 33:48.6 34:02.7 34:12.8 Mass start 42:29.1 42:29.1 42:42.9 RelayErik LesserDaniel BöhmArnd PeifferSimon Schempp 1:12:19.4Christoph SumannDaniel MesotitschSimon EderDominik Landertinger 1:12:45.7Tarjei BøJohannes Thingnes BøOle Einar BjørndalenEmil Hegle Svendsen 1:13:10.3

Women's events Individual 43:19.6 44:35.3 44:57.8 Sprint 21:06.8 21:26.7 21:28.5 Pursuit 29:30.7 30:08.3 30:12.7 Mass start 35:25.6 35:45.8 35:52.9 RelayVita SemerenkoJuliya DzhymaValentyna SemerenkoOlena Pidhrushna 1:10:02.5Fanny Welle-Strand HornTiril EckhoffAnn Kristin Aafeldt FlatlandTora Berger 1:10:40.1Eva PuskarčíkováGabriela KoukalováJitka LandováVeronika Vítková 1:11:25.7

Mixed event RelayTora BergerTiril EckhoffOle Einar BjørndalenEmil Hegle Svendsen 1:09:17.0Veronika VítkováGabriela KoukalováJaroslav SoukupOndřej Moravec 1:09:49.6Dorothea WiererKarin OberhoferDominik WindischLukas 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.

References

External links Official Results Book – Biathlon