2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started at Wednesday November 28, 2012 in Östersund and will finish in Sochi. Defending titlist is Simon Fourcade of France.

Competition format

The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

2011-12 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Simon Fourcade	125
Silver:	Jakov Fak	113
Bronze:	Emil Hegle Svendsen	108

Medal winners

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Östersund details	Martin Fourcade  France	50:44.7 (0+1+0+0)	Dominik Landertinger  Austria	50:57.0 (0+1+0+0)	Erik Lesser  Germany	51:06.4 (0+0+0+0)
Biathlon World Championships 2013 details	Martin Fourcade  France	49:43.0 (0+0+0+1)	Tim Burke  United States	50:06.5 (0+0+0+1)	Fredrik Lindström  Sweden	50:16.7 (0+0+0+1)
Sochi details	Martin Fourcade  France	49:40.6 (1+0+0+0)	Andreas Birnbacher  Germany	49:47.5 (0+0+0+0)	Serhiy Semenov  Ukraine	50:12.5 (0+0+0+0)

Standings

#	Name	ÖST	WCH	SOC	Total[1]
	Martin Fourcade (FRA)	60	60	60	180
2	Andreas Birnbacher (GER)	16	34	54	104
3	Tim Burke (USA)	8	54	40	102
4	Dominik Landertinger (AUT)	54	27	19	100
5	Ondrej Moravec (CZE)	27	43	27	98
6	Björn Ferry (SWE)	2	40	36	78
7	Fredrik Lindström (SWE)	17	48	7	72
8	Lukas Hofer (ITA)	0	36	34	70
9	Henrik L'Abbe-Lund (NOR)	14	32	23	69
10	Krasimir Anev (BUL)	34	4	28	66
11	Erlend Bjoentegaard (NOR)	36	—	25	61
12	Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS)	40	0	20	60
13	Erik Lesser (GER)	48	7	0	55
14	Tarjei Bø (NOR)	—	29	26	55
15	Dominik Windisch (ITA)	29	23	0	52
16	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA)	0	28	24	52
17	Arnd Peiffer (GER)	30	13	6	49
18	Serhiy Semenov (UKR)	0	—	48	48
19	Ivan Joller (SUI)	—	17	31	48
20	Alexey Volkov (RUS)	0	26	22	48
21	Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)	15	—	32	47
22	Yan Savitskiy (KAZ)	0	30	15	45
23	Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR)	0	24	21	45
24	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)	0	0	43	43
25	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)	43	—	—	43
26	Anton Shipulin (RUS)	32	8	—	40
27	Jakov Fak (SLO)	0	21	18	39
28	Friedrich Pinter (AUT)	38	0	0	38
29	Simon Fourcade (FRA)	—	38	0	38
29	Benedikt Döll (GER)	—	—	38	38
31	Miroslav Matiasko (SVK)	28	9	0	37
32	Michal Slesingr (CZE)	10	11	16	37
33	Christoph Sumann (AUT)	7	—	29	36
34	Carl Johan Bergman (SWE)	23	6	4	33
35	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	—	16	17	33
36	Jarkko Kauppinen (FIN)	31	0	1	32
37	Alexis Boeuf (FRA)	18	14	—	32
38	Jean-Philippe Leguellec (CAN)	0	31	0	31
39	Zdeněk Vítek (CZE)	0	0	30	30
40	Simon Eder (AUT)	21	0	9	30
41	Claudio Böckli (SUI)	25	3	0	28
42	Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS)	22	—	5	27
43	Serguei Sednev (UKR)	26	0	—	26
44	Sergey Novikov (BLR)	1	25	0	26
45	Matej Kazar (SVK)	24	0	0	24
46	Scott Perras (CAN)	9	15	0	24
47	Christian De Lorenzi (ITA)	12	0	11	23
48	Benjamin Weger (SUI)	0	22	0	22
49	Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR)	20	0	—	20
50	Peter Dokl (SLO)	0	20	0	20
51	Artem Pryma (UKR)	19	0	0	19
52	Leif Nordgren (USA)	0	19	0	19
53	Tomas Kaukėnas (LTU)	0	18	0	18
54	Lowell Bailey (USA)	4	12	0	16
55	Alexey Slepov (RUS)	—	—	14	14
56	Klemen Bauer (SLO)	0	0	13	13
57	Hidenori Isa (JPN)	13	0	0	13
58	Michail Kletcherov (BUL)	0	0	12	12
59	Florian Graf (GER)	11	1	0	12
60	Pavol Hurajt (SVK)	—	0	10	10
61	Scott Gow (CAN)	—	10	0	10
62	Alexei Almoukov (AUS)	0	0	8	8
63	Simon Schempp (GER)	6	—	—	6
64	Kauri Kõiv (EST)	0	5	0	5
65	Andrei Makoveev (RUS)	5	0	—	5
66	Evgeny Abramenko (BLR)	3	—	2	5
67	Sergey Klyachin (RUS)	—	—	3	3
68	Jaroslav Soukup (CZE)	—	2	0	2

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