2014–15 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men

None The 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup – Pursuit Men started on Saturday December 6, 2014 in Östersund and finished on Saturday March 21, 2015 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Martin Fourcade of France successfully defended his title. 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.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. The contestants ski a distance of 12.5 km 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 m 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-served 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. 2013-14 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold:FRA Martin Fourcade 294Silver:AUT Simon Eder 235Bronze:RUS Anton Shipulin 234 Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsMartin Fourcade 33:54.9(2+1+0+1)Anton Shipulin 34:04.9(0+0+1+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 34:21.2(0+1+0+1)HochfilzendetailsMartin Fourcade 32:53.7(0+0+0+0)Simon Schempp 32:57.8(0+0+0+0)Jakov Fak33:04.6(0+0+0+1)PokljukadetailsEmil Hegle Svendsen 30:43.3(0+0+0+0)Anton Shipulin 31:01.1(0+1+1+0)Martin Fourcade 31:42.8(0+0+1+0)AntholzdetailsSimon Schempp 31:27.9(1+1+0+0)Simon Eder 31:28.0(0+1+0+0)Evgeniy Garanichev 31:29.0(0+0+1+0)Nové MěstodetailsJakov Fak 37:24.9(0+0+0+1)Simon Schempp 37:29.3(0+1+0+0)Martin Fourcade 37:38.2(0+0+0+0)World ChampionshipsdetailsErik Lesser 30:47.9(0+0+0+0)Anton Shipulin 31:04.9(0+1+0+0)Tarjei Bø 31:06.6(0+0+1+0)Khanty-MansiyskdetailsNathan Smith 32:04.9 (0+0+0+1)Benedikt Doll 32:28.9(0+0+1+1)Anton Shipulin 32:40.6(1+1+0+2) Standings # Name ÖST HOC POK ANT NOV WCH KHA TotalPursuit Men 1 Martin Fourcade FRA 60 60 48 40 48 36 43 335 2 Anton Shipulin RUS 54 40 54 28 27 54 48 305 3 Jakov Fak SLO 43 48 30 36 60 34 31 282 4 Simon Schempp GER 38 54 22 60 54 — DNS 228 5 Erik Lesser GER 18 23 18 38 34 60 16 207 6 Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR 48 27 60 24 18 22 DNF 199 7 Tarjei Bø NOR 27 38 24 16 0 48 30 183 8 Fredrik Lindström SWE 28 19 29 21 31 17 36 181 9 Evgeniy Garanichev RUS 30 14 25 48 38 19 5 179 10 Nathan Smith CAN 25 0 19 — 40 28 60 172 11 Simon Fourcade FRA 7 15 21 34 28 31 30 166 12 Ondřej Moravec CZE 21 32 40 30 2 32 0 157 13 Arnd Peiffer GER 23 0 — 31 32 27 38 151 14 Dominik Landertinger AUT 40 34 43 — 7 26 — 150 15 Johannes Thingnes Bø NOR 11 43 34 19 29 10 — 146 16 Daniel Böhm GER 8 29 13 29 24 — 40 143 17 Jean-Guillaume Béatrix FRA 32 3 36 25 25 0 21 142 18 Simon Eder AUT 17 25 0 54 9 29 6 140 19 Ole Einar Bjørndalen NOR 31 — — 43 6 40 14 134 20 Michal Šlesingr CZE 22 — 4 0 30 43 32 131 21 Andreas Birnbacher GER 36 36 0 22 36 — — 130 22 Vladimir Iliev BUL 4 30 15 9 17 38 8 121 23 Benjamin Weger SUI — 21 32 13 15 8 28 117 24 Serhiy Semenov UKR 5 6 — — 43 30 25 109 25 Benedikt Doll GER — — — 18 20 13 54 105 26 Timofey Lapshin RUS 10 28 38 27 — 1 0 104 27 Andrejs Rastorgujevs LAT 13 24 0 6 — 16 34 93 28 Daniel Mesotitsch AUT 16 22 11 12 — 15 17 93 29 Lukas Hofer ITA 9 — 31 11 — 11 27 89 30 Quentin Fillon Maillet FRA 15 26 3 20 22 0 DNS 86 31 Brendan Green CAN — 0 8 23 11 25 18 85 32 Lowell Bailey USA 24 9 12 10 — 5 19 79 33 Krasimir Anev BUL 19 18 10 DNS 19 0 9 75 34 Tim Burke USA 6 16 20 1 4 21 0 68 35 Alexander Os NOR 34 8 14 7 — — — 63 36 Dmitry Malyshko RUS 0 31 7 0 — 0 20 58 37 Sven Grossegger AUT 0 — 17 14 23 — 2 56 38 Julian Eberhard AUT — 2 0 26 0 4 22 54 39 Michal Krčmář CZE 0 0 26 17 8 0 0 51 40 Maxim Tsvetkov RUS 12 20 6 — 13 — 0 51 41 Leif Nordgren USA 0 4 0 — 21 0 24 49 42 Dmytro Pidruchnyi UKR — 10 5 32 DNS 0 — 47 43 Simon Desthieux FRA 0 1 16 DNS 26 — — 43 44 Johannes Kühn GER — — 28 — — — 10 38 45 Klemen Bauer SLO 29 5 — — 0 2 1 37 46 Dominik Windisch ITA 0 0 23 5 — 6 0 34 47 Jaroslav Soukup CZE — — — 0 10 23 — 33 48 Vladimir Chepelin BLR — — — 3 DNS 3 26 32 49 Michael Roesch BEL — — — 2 0 18 11 31 50 Erlend Bjøntegaard NOR — — 27 — 3 — DNS 30 51 Artem Pryma UKR 3 12 — 15 0 — 0 30 52 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen NOR 26 — 2 — — — — 28 53 Christian De Lorenzi ITA — — — 8 DNS 20 — 28 54 Mario Dolder SUI — — — 0 12 9 7 28 55 Yan Savitskiy KAZ 14 13 0 0 — — — 27 56 Yuryi Liadov BLR 2 0 — DNS DNS 24 0 26 57 Matej Kazar SVK 0 17 9 0 0 0 0 26 58 Florian Graf GER 0 — — — — — 23 23 59 Tomas Krupcik CZE 20 — 0 — — — — 20 60 Alexei Slepov RUS — — — — 5 — 13 18 61 Antonin Guigonnat FRA — — — — 16 — — 16 62 Ivan Joller SUI — — 0 — — 0 15 15 63 Roland Lessing EST — — — — — 14 — 14 63 Matvei Elissev RUS — — — — 14 — — 14 65 Henrik L'Abée-Lund NOR — — — DNS 1 12 0 13 66 Alexey Volkov RUS — — — — — — 12 12 67 Lars Helge Birkeland NOR — 11 — — — — 0 11 68 Aleksandr Pechenkin RUS 0 7 — DNS — — — 7 69 Cornel Puchianu ROU 0 0 0 0 — 7 — 7 70 David Komatz AUT 1 — — 4 — — — 5 71 Kauri Koiv EST — 0 DNS — — 0 4 4 72 Oleksander Zhyrnyi UKR 0 0 — 0 — 0 3 3 73 Martin Otcenas SVK — 0 1 — — — — 1 References Pursuit Men