2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

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The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men will start at Sunday December 4, 2011 in Östersund and will finish Sunday March 17, 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Tarjei Bø of Norway.

1 Competition format
2 2010-11 Top 3 Standings
3 Medal winners
4 Standings
5 References

Competition format

This is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.^[1] The contestants ski a distance of 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490 ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.

To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-serve basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.

Points are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.

2010-11 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Tarjei Bø	334
Silver:	Martin Fourcade	320
Bronze:	Emil Hegle Svendsen	304

Medal winners

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund details	Martin Fourcade France	32:56.0 (0+0+0+0)	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	33:21.5 (0+0+1+1)	Jaroslav Soukup Czech Republic	33:22.9 (0+1+0+0)
Hochfilzen details	Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway	33:09.0 (1+0+1+0)	Tarjei Bø Norway	33:09.1 (0+0+1+0)	Benjamin Weger Switzerland	33:13.9 (1+0+0+0)
Hochfilzen (2) details	Andreas Birnbacher Germany	35:40.3 (0+0+0+0)	Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway	35:40.5 (0+0+0+0)	Simon Fourcade France	35:41.6 (1+0+0+0)
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Standings

#	Name	ÖST	HOC1	HOC2	Total^[2]
	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	43	54	43	140
2	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	54	60	17	131
3	Andreas Birnbacher (GER)	38	26	60	124
4	Benjamin Weger (SUI)	36	48	40	124
5	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	60	17	36	113
6	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	14	40	54	108
7	Carl Johan Bergman (SWE)	40	43	—	83
8	Björn Ferry (SWE)	27	31	24	82
9	Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)	24	27	30	81
10	Simon Schempp (GER)	30	25	19	74
11	Florian Graf (GER)	15	34	23	71
12	Andrei Makoveev (RUS)	13	30	28	71
13	Jaroslav Soukup (CZE)	48	0	22	70
14	Lowell Bailey (USA)	28	24	16	68
15	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	12	6	48	66
16	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	19	32	14	65
17	Simon Eder (AUT)	22	0	38	60
18	Christoph Sumann (AUT)	23	14	21	58
19	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	18	36	—	54
20	Michael Greis (GER)	31	22	0	53
21	Lars Berger (NOR)	34	10	9	53
22	Jay Hakkinen (USA)	17	0	32	49
23	Timofey Lapshin (RUS)	—	23	25	48
24	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	25	21	0	46
25	Michal Šlesingr (CZE)	29	13	—	42
26	Alexis Boeuf (FRA)	0	28	13	41
27	Jakov Fak (SLO)	20	19	0	39
28	Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT)	0	38	0	38
29	Dominik Landertinger (AUT)	0	18	20	38
30	Jean Philippe Leguellec (CAN)	—	—	34	34
31	Tim Burke (USA)	32	0	—	32
32	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	—	—	31	31
33	Fredrik Lindström (SWE)	26	4	0	30
34	Michail Kletcherov (BUL)	2	16	12	30
35	Jean Guillaume Beatrix (FRA)	—	—	29	29
35	Michael Rösch (GER)	—	29	—	29
37	Ivan Joller (SUI)	—	3	26	29
38	Simon Hallenbarter (SUI)	7	7	15	29
39	Olexander Bilanenko (UKR)	—	0	27	27
40	Krasimir Anev (BUL)	0	12	11	23
41	Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)	—	20	2	22
42	Daniel Graf (GER)	21	—	—	21
43	Vincent Jay (FRA)	0	—	18	18
44	Serhiy Semenov (UKR)	3	15	0	18
45	Brendan Green (CAN)	9	8	1	18
46	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)	16	0	—	16
47	Rune Bratsveen (NOR)	11	0	—	11
48	Markus Windisch (ITA)	0	11	—	11
49	Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR)	10	—	—	10
49	Martin Eng (NOR)	—	—	10	10
51	Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS)	—	9	—	9
52	Zdeněk Vítek (CZE)	0	5	4	9
53	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)	8	—	—	8
53	Leif Nordgren (USA)	—	—	8	8
55	Tomasz Sikora (POL)	—	0	7	7
56	Sven Grossegger (AUT)	6	—	0	6
57	Tomas Holubec (CZE)	—	—	6	6
58	Lois Habert (FRA)	0	—	5	5
59	Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR)	5	—	—	5
60	Evgeny Abramenko (BLR)	4	0	—	4
61	Vladimir Alenishko (BLR)	—	—	3	3
62	Roland Lessing (EST)	—	2	—	2
63	Alexsandr Chervyhkov (KAZ)	1	1	—	2

References

^ To be precise; the pursuit competition start intervals are determined by common rounding to the nearest whole second of the biathletes' time differences from the previous race – the amount of time each biathlete lagged after the winner to the finish line.
^ Standings Pursuit Men