Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Men's 12.5 kilometres

Men's 12.5 km at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Paralympic biathlon
Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Dates	March 11

Men's 12.5 km (visually impaired) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	10 from 4 nations
Medalists
Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Borys Babar   Ukraine   Nikolay Polukhin Guide: Andrey Tokarev   Russia   Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide: Mikhail Lebedzeu   Belarus

Men's 12.5 km (sitting) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	19 from 10 nations
Medalists
Roman Petushkov   Russia   Alexey Bychenok   Russia   Grigory Murygin   Russia

Men's 12.5 km (standing) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	18 from 11 nations
Medalists
Azat Karachurin   Russia   Nils-Erik Ulset   Norway   Mark Arendz   Canada

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Men		7.5 km		12.5 km		15 km
Women		6 km		10 km		12.5 km

The men's 12.5 km competition of the Sochi 2014 Paralympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana. The competition took place on 11 March.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	2	1	5
2	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
3	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
4	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Total	3	3	3	9

Visually Impaired

In biathlon, visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairement has a sighted guide.^[2] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	39	Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Borys Babar	Ukraine	0+0+0+0	31:04.0	31:04.0	-
	40	Nikolay Polukhin Guide: Andrey Tokarev	Russia	0+0+1+0	31:52.6	31:14.3	+10.3
	33	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide: Mikhail Lebedzeu	Belarus	2+1+0+1	32:38.2	31:59.0	+55.0
4	36	Iurii Utkin Guide: Vitaliy Kazakov	Ukraine	0+0+0+0	32:04.5	32:04.5	+1:00.5
5	35	Oleg Ponomarev Guide: Andrei Romanov	Russia	0+0+0+0	32:57.7	32:57.7	+1:53.7
6	32	Iaroslav Reshetynskiy Guide: Dmytro Khurtyk	Ukraine	0+0+0+0	33:21.9	33:21.9	+2:17.9
7	31	Dmytro Shulga Guide: Artur Gergardt	Ukraine	0+0+0+0	36:27.7	35:43.9	+4:39.9
DNF	38	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn	Ukraine	0+0+3
DNS	34	Wilhelm Brem Guide: Florian Grimm	Germany
DNS	37	Vladimir Udaltcov Guide: Ruslan Bogachev	Russia

Sitting

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	69	Roman Petushkov	Russia	0+0+0+0	34:48.8	34:48.8	-
	66	Alexey Bychenok	Russia	0+0+0+0	35:29.7	35:29.7	+40.9
	67	Grigory Murygin	Russia	1+0+0+1	35:59.6	35:59.6	+1:10.8
4	62	Ivan Goncharov	Russia	0+0+0+0	37:50.6	36:42.5	+1:53.7
5	64	Andrew Soule	United States	0+0+0+0	37:04.7	37:04.7	+2:15.9
6	68	Kozo Kubo	Japan	0+0+0+0	39:57.8	37:33.9	+2:45.1
7	65	Maksym Yarovyi	Ukraine	0+1+2+3	43:42.6	37:35.4	+2:46.6
8	60	Dzmitry Loban	Belarus	0+0+0+0	37:51.7	37:51.7	+3:02.9
9	58	Martin Fleig	Germany	0+0+1+0	39:25.1	38:14.1	3:25.3
10	59	Mykhaylo Tkachenko	Ukraine	0+1+0+1	38:48.4	38:48.4	+3:59.6
11	63	Daniel Cnossen	United States	1+0+1+1	39:01.0	39:01.0	+4:12.2
12	56	Sean Halsted	United States	0+0+2+1	40:46.1	39:32.7	+4:43.9
13	53	Kamil Rosiek	Poland	0+2+0+1	40:25.0	40:25.0	+5:36.2
14	61	Enzo Masiello	Italy	1+1+1+2	43:02.4	40:27.5	+5:38.7
15	54	Oleksandr Korniiko	Ukraine	0+0+0+2	40:34.2	40:34.2	+5:45.4
16	55	Jeremy Wagner	United States	0+0+1+0	42:06.9	40:51.1	+6:02.3
17	57	Trygve Steinar Larsen	Norway	1+1+2+0	41:18.1	41:18.1	+6:29.3
18	52	Vladimir Gajdiciar	Slovakia	1+1+1+0	41:19.4	41:19.4	+6:30.6
19	51	Augusto Jose Perez	United States	1+0+2+4	48:40.9	48:40.9	+13:52.1

Standing

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Misses	Real Time	Calculated Time	Difference
	18	Azat Karachurin	Russia	0+0+0+1	33:31.4	29:30.0	-
	16	Nils-Erik Ulset	Norway	0+0+0+2	34:10.1	30:24.6	+54.6
	17	Mark Arendz	Canada	0+0+1+0	31:47.3	30:31.0	+1:01.1
4	11	Aleksandr Pronkov	Russia	0+0+0+2	34:48.3	30:37.7	+1:07.7
5	9	Ivan Kodlozerov	Russia	1+0+0+0	32:04.8	31:07.1	+1:37.1
6	12	Kirill Mikhaylov	Russia	1+0+1+1	32:07.1	31:09.3	+1:39.3
7	14	Grygorii Vovchynskyi	Ukraine	1+0+1+1	32:24.6	31:26.3	+1:56.3
8	13	Aleksandr Iaremchuk	Russia	0+1+0+1	32:48.0	31:29.3	+1:59.3
9	10	Benjamin Daviet	France	1+0+2+0	34:47.8	32:00.8	+2:30.8
10	8	Keiichi Sato	Japan	0+0+1+0	33:40.1	32:39.5	+3:09.5
11	5	Siarhei Silchanka	Belarus	1+1+1+0	34:08.7	33:07.2	+3:37.2
12	15	Ihor Reptyukh	Ukraine	2+1+2+3	34:16.6	33:14.9	+3:44.9
13	6	Vitalii Sytnyk	Ukraine	0+0+0+2	34:39.4	33:16.2	+3:46.2
14	7	Vladyslav Maystrenko	Ukraine	1+2+0+1	34:33.4	33:31.2	+4:01.2
15	4	Michael Kurz	Austria	4+2+0+0	38:42.3	34:50.1	+5:20.1
16	1	Witold Skupien	Poland	3+3+2+1	41:56.4	36:54.4	+7:24.4
17	3	Omar Bermejo	United States	0+1+1+0	38:56.3	37:22.8	+7:52.8
18	2	Juha Harkonen	Finland	3+1+3+0	40:20.4	39:07.8	+9:37.8

References

1. http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/biathlon
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/25580284 Sochi Winter Paralympics: Guide to the sports