The Men's mass start competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 18 February, at the National Biathlon Centre, in the Zhangjiakou cluster of competition venues, north of Beijing, at an elevation of . Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway won the event. Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden won the silver medal, his first Olympic medal, and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen of Norway won bronze, his first individual Olympic medal.
Summary All three 2018 medalists, the champion Martin Fourcade, Simon Schempp, and Emil Hegle Svendsen, retired from competitions. The overall leader of the 2021–22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics was Quentin Fillon Maillet, and the leader in the mass start was Benedikt Doll, with Fillon Maillet second.
After the third shooting, Johannes Thingnes Bø was leading, despite two penalty loops. Ponsiluoma and Fillon Maillet were 20-25 seconds behind. The next pursuers, Christian Gow and Sebastian Samuelsson, were a minute behind Bø. At the last shooting, Bø had to ski two penalty loops, Fillon Maillet three, and Ponsiluoma one. Bø still emerged as a leader, with Ponsiluoma 18 seconds behind. Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen was third, 45 seconds behind Bø, and Fillon Maillet was further 20 seconds behind Sjåstad Christiansen. They finished in the same order.
Qualification
Results The race was started at 17:00.
Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+P+S+S) Deficit 2 Johannes Thingnes Bø 38:14.4 4 (1+0+1+2) — 18 Martin Ponsiluoma 38:54.7 2 (1+0+0+1) 8 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 39:26.9 3 (2+0+1+0) +1:12.5 4 1 Quentin Fillon Maillet 39:40.0 5 (1+1+0+3) +1:25.6 5 23 Dominik Windisch 39:52.8 3 (0+2+1+0) +1:38.4 6 9 Sturla Holm Lægreid 40:00.5 5 (1+2+1+1) +1:46.1 7 26 Simon Eder 40:10.8 2 (2+0+0+0) +1:56.4 8 12 Benedikt Doll 40:45.8 6 (0+0+2+4) +2:31.4 9 14 Tero Seppälä 40:47.1 5 (1+0+2+2) +2:32.7 10 15 Johannes Kühn 40:52.7 5 (1+0+2+2) +2:38.3 11 7 Sebastian Samuelsson 41:01.0 4 (0+0+1+3) +2:46.6 12 4 Tarjei Bø 41:01.8 4 (0+1+2+1) +2:47.4 13 25 Christian Gow 41:02.5 3 (0+0+0+3) +2:48.1 14 17 Roman Rees 41:05.2 3 (0+0+1+2) +2:50.8 15 10 Alexander Loginov 41:06.2 7 (2+0+2+3) +2:51.8 16 11 Simon Desthieux 41:11.4 5 (1+2+1+1) +2:57.0 17 3 Anton Smolski 41:22.3 4 (1+1+0+2) +3:07.9 18 29 Jules Burnotte 41:35.0 5 (2+1+1+1) +3:20.6 19 5 Eduard Latypov 41:35.4 7 (1+3+1+2) +3:21.0 20 16 Maxim Tsvetkov 41:37.7 6 (1+1+2+2) +3:23.3 21 28 Michal Krčmář 41:54.9 5 (0+1+1+3) +3:40.5 22 6 Émilien Jacquelin 42:08.7 5 (2+1+0+2) +3:54.3 23 27 Philipp Nawrath 42:10.1 7 (0+0+3+4) +3:55.7 24 20 Dmytro Pidruchnyi 42:16.2 7 (0+3+2+2) +4:01.8 25 21 Scott Gow 42:17.6 7 (0+4+2+1) +4:03.2 26 13 Fabien Claude 42:49.8 5 (1+2+1+1) +4:35.4 27 19 Lukas Hofer 42:58.8 6 (1+1+2+2) +4:44.4 28 24 Artem Pryma 43:12.6 7 (2+1+3+1) +4:58.2 29 22 Felix Leitner 43:37.9 7 (2+1+2+2) +5:23.5 30 30 Cheng Fangming 44:26.8 4 (4+0+0+0) +6:12.4
References