Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start

Men's biathlon mass start at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cesana San Sicario
Dates	February 25
Competitors	30 from 14 nations
Winning time	47:20.0
Medalists
Michael Greis   Germany   Tomasz Sikora   Poland   Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Norway

Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Pursuit		men		women
Mass start		men		women
Relay		men		women

The Men's 15 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 25 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.

Only thirty athletes competed in the mass start, which was making its Olympic debut. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was defending World Champion, but was tenth in the overall World Cup, which was led by France's Raphaël Poirée. Tomasz Sikora's silver medal finish was the first biathlon medal ever for Poland, men's or women's.

Results

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Rank	Name	Country	Penalties	Result
01 !	Michael Greis	Germany	1	47:20.0
02 !	Tomasz Sikora	Poland	1	+0:06.3
03 !	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	3	+0:12.3
4	Paavo Puurunen	Finland	0	+0:23.7
5	Sergey Chepikov	Russia	0	+0:39.1
6	Emil Hegle Svendsen	Norway	2	+0:53.8
7	Halvard Hanevold	Norway	3	+0:54.9
8	Alexander Wolf	Germany	2	+0:55.3
9	Christoph Sumann	Austria	2	+0:57.4
10	Michael Rösch	Germany	3	+0:59.9
11	Vincent Defrasne	France	4	+1:00.7
12	Raphaël Poirée	France	2	+1:04.9
13	Jay Hakkinen	United States	1	+1:09.6
14	Mattias Nilsson	Sweden	1	+1:17.7
15	Maxim Tchoudov	Russia	4	+1:20.2
16	Julien Robert	France	2	+1:31.8
17	Sven Fischer	Germany	2	+1:33.7
18	Björn Ferry	Sweden	2	+1:36.4
19	Frode Andresen	Norway	6	+1:43.6
20	Sergei Rozhkov	Russia	2	+1:49.7
21	Nikolay Kruglov	Russia	2	+2:00.1
22	Zdeněk Vítek	Czech Republic	2	+2:01.3
23	Roman Dostál	Czech Republic	4	+2:09.9
24	Wilfried Pallhuber	Italy	2	+2:21.5
25	Rene Laurent Vuillermoz	Italy	4	+2:33.1
26	Christian De Lorenzi	Italy	4	+2:39.6
27	Marek Matiaško	Slovakia	3	+2:51.1
28	Ilmārs Bricis	Latvia	3	+3:07.6
29	Carl Johan Bergman	Sweden	4	+3:34.4
30	Kyoji Suga	Japan	5	+4:41.6

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