2014–15 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

None The 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on Wednesday December 3, 2014 in Östersund and finished on Thursday March 12, 2015 at the World Championships in Kontiolahti. The defending titlist Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway finished on the 3rd place. Serhiy Semenov of Ukraine won the title. Competition format The 20 km 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. 2013–14 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold:NOR Emil Hegle Svendsen83Silver:AUT Simon Eder 79Bronze:RUS Evgeny Ustyugov 76 Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsEmil Hegle Svendsen 53:25.6(0+0+0+0)Serhiy Semenov 54:43.2(0+1+0+0)Michal Šlesingr 55:33.9(0+0+1+0)HolmenkollendetailsMartin Fourcade 51:26.8(0+0+0+0)Evgeniy Garanichev 51:41.0(0+0+0+0)Serhiy Semenov 52:15.6(0+0+0+0)World ChampionshipsdetailsMartin Fourcade 47:29.4(0+1+0+0)Emil Hegle Svendsen 47:50.3(0+0+0+0)Ondřej Moravec 48:09.9(0+1+0+0) Standings # Name ÖST HOL WCH TotalIndividual Men 1 Serhiy Semenov UKR 54 48 40 142 2 Martin Fourcade FRA 0 60 60 120 3 Emil Hegle Svendsen NOR 60 DNS 54 114 4 Michal Šlesingr CZE 48 34 27 109 5 Johannes Thingnes Bø NOR 34 38 36 108 6 Simon Fourcade FRA 32 25 43 100 7 Erik Lesser GER 43 32 23 98 8 Jakov Fak SLO 17 43 31 91 9 Evgeniy Garanichev RUS 26 54 6 86 10 Ondřej Moravec CZE 29 0 48 77 11 Ole Einar Bjørndalen NOR 38 — 38 76 12 Benjamin Weger SUI 24 40 11 75 13 Daniel Böhm GER 18 26 30 74 14 Simon Schempp GER 16 14 34 64 15 Fredrik Lindström SWE 40 18 3 61 16 Anton Shipulin RUS 0 36 25 61 17 Arnd Peiffer GER 25 16 19 60 18 Quentin Fillon Maillet FRA 31 27 0 58 19 Maxim Tsvetkov RUS 23 31 — 54 20 Dominik Landertinger AUT 36 0 13 49 20 Krasimir Anev BUL 27 0 22 49 20 Vladimir Iliev BUL 11 24 14 49 23 Yuryi Liadov BLR 0 23 24 47 24 Aleksei Volkov RUS — 9 32 41 25 Tim Burke USA 30 0 10 40 26 Lowell Bailey USA 21 0 17 38 27 Klemen Bauer SLO 19 0 18 37 28 Andreas Birnbacher GER 6 30 — 36 29 Michael Rösch BEL 0 7 28 35 30 Dominik Windisch ITA 28 5 0 33 30 Roland Lessing EST 7 0 26 33 32 Simon Eder AUT — 10 21 31 33 Nathan Smith CAN 0 29 0 29 33 Christian De Lorenzi ITA 0 0 29 29 33 Leif Nordgren USA 0 21 8 29 36 Timofey Lapshin RUS 0 28 0 28 36 Tarjei Bø NOR 12 — 16 28 38 Vladimir Chepelin BLR 0 22 0 22 38 Thomas Bormolini ITA 22 0 0 22 40 Brendan Green CAN 0 0 20 20 40 Tobias Arwidson SWE 20 0 0 20 40 Peppe Femling SWE — 20 0 20 40 Jean-Guillaume Béatrix FRA 14 6 0 20 44 Andrejs Rastorgujevs LAT DNS 19 0 19 45 Antonin Guigonnat FRA — 17 — 17 46 Tomáš Krupčík CZE 0 0 15 15 46 Michal Krčmář CZE — 15 — 15 46 Jeremy Finello SUI 15 0 — 15 49 Cornel Puchianu ROU 13 — 0 13 49 Benedikt Doll GER — 13 — 13 49 Jaroslav Soukup CZE 8 0 5 13 52 Sven Grossegger AUT 0 0 12 12 52 Lars Helge Birkeland NOR 0 12 — 12 54 Henrik L'Abée-Lund NOR — 11 — 11 54 Artem Pryma UKR — 4 7 11 56 Tobias Eberhard AUT 10 — — 10 57 Tsusaka Kobonoki JPN 9 0 0 9 57 Janez Maric SLO — — 9 9 59 Oleksander Zhyrnyi UKR — 8 — 8 60 David Komatz AUT 5 — — 5 61 Ted Armgren SWE 0 0 4 4 61 Artem Tyshchenko UKR 4 0 0 4 63 Ahti Toivanen FIN 3 DNS 0 3 63 Dmitry Malyshko RUS 0 3 — 3 65 Simon Desthieux FRA 2 0 0 2 65 Lee-Steve Jackson GBR 0 — 2 2 65 Erlend Bjøntegaard NOR — 2 — 2 65 Kalev Ermits EST 0 1 1 2 69 Tomáš Hasilla SVK 1 0 — 1 References Individual Men