Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start
Introduction 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 The race was held at 10:00.Rank  Bib  Name  Country  Time  Penalties (P+P+S+S)  Deficit  1 Michael Greis  47:20.01 (0+0+1+0)   12 Tomasz Sikora  47:26.31 (0+0+0+1)   4 Ole Einar Bjørndalen  47:32.33 (0+0+1+2)   27 Paavo Puurunen  47:43.70 (0+0+0+0)   11 Sergei Tchepikov  47:59.10 (0+0+0+0)   18 Emil Hegle Svendsen  48:13.82 (0+1+0+1)   5 Halvard Hanevold  48:14.93 (1+0+1+1)   10 Alexander Wolf  48:15.32 (0+0+1+1)   15 Christoph Sumann  48:17.42 (1+0+0+1)  10 8 Michael Rösch  48:19.93 (1+0+1+1)  11 3 Vincent Defrasne  48:20.74 (0+1+1+2) +1:00.7 12 7 Raphaël Poirée  48:24.92 (1+1+0+0) +1:04.9 13 29 Jay Hakkinen  48:29.61 (0+0+1+0) +1:09.6 14 25 Mattias Nilsson  48:37.71 (1+0+0+0) +1:17.7 15 9 Maxim Tchoudov  48:40.24 (1+0+1+2) +1:20.2 16 16 Julien Robert  48:51.82 (0+1+1+0) +1:31.8 17 2 Sven Fischer  48:53.72 (0+1+0+1) +1:33.7 18 17 Björn Ferry  48:56.42 (0+1+1+0) +1:36.4 19 6 Frode Andresen  49:03.66 (0+2+2+2) +1:43.6 20 20 Sergei Rozhkov  49:09.72 (0+0+1+1) +1:49.7 21 14 Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.  49:20.12 (1+0+1+0) +2:00.1 22 24 Zdeněk Vítek  49:21.32 (0+0+1+1) +2:01.3 23 21 Roman Dostál  49:29.94 (0+0+2+2) +2:09.9 24 23 Wilfried Pallhuber  49:41.52 (2+0+0+0) +2:21.5 25 28 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz  49:53.14 (2+0+1+1) +2:33.1 26 22 Christian De Lorenzi  49:59.64 (2+1+0+1) +2:39.6 27 26 Marek Matiaško  50:11.13 (0+0+1+2) +2:51.1 28 13 Ilmārs Bricis  50:27.63 (0+0+1+2) +3:07.6 29 19 Carl Johan Bergman  50:54.44 (2+1+0+1) +3:34.4 30 30 Kyoji Suga  52:01.65  (1+0+3+1) +4:41.6
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