The Men’s individual competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 8 February, at the National Biathlon Centre, in the Zhangjiakou cluster of competition venues, north of Beijing, at an elevation of . The event was won by

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of France, his first individual Olympic medal.

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of Belarus won the silver medal. This was his first Olympic medal. The defending champion,

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of Norway, won bronze.

Summary

In addition to being the defending champion, Johannes Thingnes Bø won the 2018-19, 2019–20, and

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Biathlon World Cup seasons overall, but in the 2021–22 season before the Olympics was stood fifth overall and fourth in the individual ranking. The 2018 silver medalist,

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, qualified for the Olympics, whereas the bronze medalist,

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, retired from competitions. The overall leader of the 2021-22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics was Fillon Maillet, and the leader in the individual was

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started first, and Johannes Thingnes Bø started second. He missed one more target than Tsvetkov but was faster, overtook him at the fourth shooting, and finished three seconds ahead, which eventually cost Tsvetkov a medal. Fillon Maillet, started eleventh, was even faster and finished first.

, who did not miss and had the starting number 28, became the surprising silver medalist.

Qualification

Results

The race was started at 16:30.

References

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