Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre, Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea. There were eleven events contested: men and women competed in each of sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay; there was also a mixed relay event. The eleven events were scheduled to take place between 9 and 23 February 2018.
Qualification
A total of 230 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games (115 men and 115 women). Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the Nation Cup scores of their top three athletes in the individual, sprint, and relay competitions, during the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup season. The final twelve quota spots were available the following season.
Competition schedule The following was the competition schedule for all eleven events.
Notes Women's 15 km individual was postponed due to high winds from 14 February to 15 February.
All times are (UTC+9). Date Time Event 10 February 20:15 Women's 7.5 km sprint 11 February 20:15 Men's 10 km sprint12 February 19:10 Women's 10 km pursuit 21:00 Men's 12.5 km pursuit15 February 17:15 Women's 15 km individual 20:20 Men's 20 km individual 17 February 20:15 Women's 12.5 km mass start 18 February 20:15 Men's 15 km mass start 20 February 20:15 Mixed 2 x 6 km / 2 x 7.5 km relay 22 February 20:15 Women's 4 x 6 km relay 23 February 20:15 Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Medal summary Medal table
Men's events IndividualMen's individual results 48:03.8 48:09.3 48:18.0 SprintMen's sprint results 23:38.8 23:43.2 23:46.5 PursuitMen's pursuit results 32:51.7 33:03.7 33:06.8 Mass startMen's mass start results 35:47.3 35:47.3 35:58.5 RelayMen's relay resultsPeppe FemlingJesper NelinSebastian SamuelssonFredrik Lindström 1:15:16.5Lars Helge BirkelandTarjei BøJohannes Thingnes BøEmil Hegle Svendsen 1:16:12.0Erik LesserBenedikt DollArnd PeifferSimon Schempp 1:17:23.6
Women's events IndividualWomen's individual results 41:07.2 41:31.9 41:48.4 SprintWomen's sprint results 21:06.2 21:30.4 21:32.0 PursuitWomen's pursuit results 30:35.3 31:04.7 31:04.9 Mass startWomen's mass start results 35:23.0 35:41.8 35:50.7 RelayWomen's relay resultsNadezhda SkardinoIryna KryukoDzinara AlimbekavaDarya Domracheva 1:12.03.4Linn PerssonMona BrorssonAnna MagnussonHanna Öberg 1:12.14.1Anaïs ChevalierMarie Dorin HabertJustine BraisazAnaïs Bescond 1:12.21.0
Mixed event RelayMixed relay resultsMarie Dorin HabertAnaïs BescondSimon DesthieuxMartin Fourcade 1:08.34.3Marte OlsbuTiril EckhoffJohannes Thingnes BøEmil Hegle Svendsen 1:08.55.2Lisa VittozziDorothea WiererLukas HoferDominik Windisch 1:09.01.2
Participating nations A total of 219 athletes from 28 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participateNumber of Entries by NOC pyeongchang2018.com (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).
References
External links Official Results Book – Biathlon