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Biathlon World Championships 2007 – Men's pursuit

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Men's pursuit
at the Biathlon World Championships 2007
LocationAntholz-Anterselva, Italy
Date4 February
Competitors58 from 17 nations
Winning time32:21.2
Medalists
gold medal    Norway
silver medal    Russia
bronze medal    France
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The men's pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Championships 2007 was held on 4 February 2007.[1]

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Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his second gold medal in as many days, started in front, but Michal Šlesingr caught up with his four-second deficit before the first shooting, and Šlesingr completed a faultless shoot to take a 15-second lead. Deryzemlya and Björn Ferry missed, so no one else were within fifty seconds of the lead, with a group of three including Tomasz Sikora, Mattias Nilsson and Lars Berger (who advanced 13 places from his starting position through the fastest skiing).

Bjørndalen cut the deficit to Šlesingr by half during the second loop, but Šlesingr held onto his lead thanks to a faultless shoot. Berger and Sikora entered the range fighting for third place, with Emil Hegle Svendsen and Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. close behind, and Sikora, Svendsen and Kruglov (after a slow shooting) filled all their targets to leave within a few seconds of each other.

Bjørndalen and Šlesingr came in together to the first standing shooting, about half a minute ahead of the competitors. The leaders missed a few shots, with Bjørndalen getting one penalty loop and Šlesingr two, and Šlesingr thus lost half a minute and was just ahead of Sikora, who also missed once. Svendsen missed twice and was fourth, over a minute behind, and heading a group also consisting of Lars Berger, Vincent Defrasne and Raphaël Poirée.

Bjørndalen's half-a-minute lead grew to 45 seconds by the time he arrived at the shooting range for the final shoot. With a perfect shooting, he had a massive lead into the final 2.5-kilometre loop, and the fight was for the silver medal. Sikora missed twice, while Šlesingr lost many seconds in shooting speed and also missed a target. In the group behind, Berger had taken a lead before the shooting, but missed three shots, and Svendsen and Poirée also missed to leave Defrasne with a lead of 13 seconds on Šlesingr, but over a minute up to Bjørndalen. Maxim Tchoudov, who had not been better than 14th at any stage, now shot a full house and left the range in a group with Svendsen, Poirée and Sikora.

There were no errors for Bjørndalen, who could ski the final loop as a lap of honour and still win by a minute, while Tchoudov distanced all his competitors in the chase for medals. Svendsen and Poirée were dropped, he caught and left Šlesingr, before pipping Olympic gold medallist Defrasne to the line and taking silver.

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The race was started at 11:15.[2]

Rank Bib Name Nationality Start Penalties (P+P+S+S) Time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 1 Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway 0:00 2 (1+0+1+0) 32:21.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 13 Maxim Tchoudov  Russia 1:03 3 (1+0+2+0) 33:31.0 +1:09.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 16 Vincent Defrasne  France 1:11 1 (0+0+1+0) 33:31.1 +1:09.9
4 2 Michal Šlesingr  Czech Republic 0:05 3 (0+0+2+1) 33:35.9 +1:14.7
5 7 Emil Hegle Svendsen  Norway 0:48 3 (0+0+2+1) 33:38.4 +1:17.2
6 8 Raphaël Poirée  France 0:50 3 (1+0+1+1) 33:40.0 +1:18.8
7 5 Tomasz Sikora  Poland 0:39 3 (0+0+1+2) 33:40.6 +1:19.4
8 27 Dmitri Yaroshenko  Russia 1:38 1 (1+0+0+0) 33:48.7 +1:27.5
9 22 Ivan Tcherezov  Russia 1:35 1 (0+0+1+0) 33:57.3 +1:36.1
10 18 Michael Roesch  Germany 1:18 2 (0+0+1+1) 34:05.5 +1:44.3
11 14 Lars Berger  Norway 1:04 6 (0+2+1+3) 34:07.0 +1:45.8
12 19 Michael Greis  Germany 1:19 4 (1+0+2+1) 34:07.7 +1:46.5
13 17 Andreas Birnbacher  Germany 1:13 3 (1+0+1+1) 34:10.6 +1:49.4
14 15 Alexander Wolf  Germany 1:10 3 (0+0+2+1) 34:14.4 +1:53.2
15 30 Christoph Sumann  Austria 1:43 2 (1+0+0+1) 34:20.7 +1:59.5
16 12 Nikolay Kruglov  Russia 0:59 4 (0+0+3+1) 34:37.8 +2:16.6
17 43 Sven Fischer  Germany 2:22 0 (0+0+0+0) 34:39.9 +2:18.7
18 38 Jay Hakkinen  United States 2:11 1 (0+0+1+0) 34:45.3 +2:24.1
19 6 Mattias Nilsson  Sweden 0:40 4 (0+1+1+2) 34:48.8 +2:27.6
20 23 Halvard Hanevold  Norway 1:35 2 (1+1+0+0) 34:52.3 +2:31.1
21 28 Friedrich Pinter  Austria 1:39 2 (0+0+2+0) 34:56.3 +2:35.1
22 4 Björn Ferry  Sweden 0:34 5 (1+0+2+2) 35:07.5 +2:46.3
23 34 Carl Johan Bergman  Sweden 1:48 3 (1+1+0+1) 35:12.2 +2:51.0
24 10 Matthias Simmen  Switzerland 0:57 6 (1+1+2+2) 35:12.2 +2:51.0
25 37 Simon Fourcade  France 2:08 3 (1+0+1+1) 35:23.6 +3:02.4
26 3 Andriy Deryzemlya  Ukraine 0:26 5 (1+1+0+3) 35:31.2 +3:10.0
27 24 Wilfried Pallhuber  Italy 1:35 3 (0+0+1+2) 35:35.6 +3:14.4
28 9 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz  Italy 0:54 6 (1+0+3+2) 35:46.7 +3:25.5
29 36 Alexei Korobeynikov  Ukraine 2:02 3 (0+1+2+0) 35:51.6 +3:30.4
30 33 Magnús Jónsson  Sweden 1:48 3 (1+0+1+1) 35:55.5 +3:34.3
31 29 Alexei Aidarov  Ukraine 1:40 3 (0+1+1+1) 36:06.0 +3:44.8
32 35 Tim Burke  United States 1:58 5 (0+1+2+2) 36:06.5 +3:45.3
33 32 Jaroslav Soukup  Czech Republic 1:45 5 (1+1+2+1) 36:10.4 +3:49.2
34 25 Janez Marič  Slovenia 1:36 6 (2+1+2+1) 36:10.5 +3:49.3
35 26 Daniel Mesotitsch  Austria 1:38 6 (2+1+3+0) 36:37.7 +4:16.5
36 40 Rustam Valiullin  Belarus 2:17 3 (1+0+1+1) 36:54.1 +4:32.9
37 42 Roland Lessing  Estonia 2:21 4 (2+0+2+0) 36:55.3 +4:34.1
38 21 Olexander Bilanenko  Ukraine 1:30 6 (2+2+1+1) 36:55.6 +4:34.4
39 39 Sergey Novikov  Belarus 2:11 4 (0+1+2+1) 36:59.8 +4:38.6
40 50 Roman Dostál  Czech Republic 2:49 3 (0+1+1+1) 37:16.0 +4:54.8
41 44 Ludwig Gredler  Austria 2:24 5 (1+2+1+1) 37:16.9 +4:55.7
42 49 Jouni Kinnunen  Finland 2:49 1 (0+0+1+0) 37:44.5 +5:23.3
43 59 Ferréol Cannard  France 3:23 1 (0+0+0+1) 37:55.9 +5:34.7
44 11 Christian De Lorenzi  Italy 0:57 7 (2+2+3+0) 38:01.4 +5:40.2
45 31 Klemen Bauer  Slovenia 1:44 7 (0+1+4+2) 38:04.5 +5:43.3
46 46 Jeremy Teela  United States 2:32 7 (2+0+3+2) 38:05.2 +5:44.0
47 54 Gregor Brvar  Slovenia 3:08 3 (1+0+1+1) 38:13.6 +5:52.4
48 51 Timo Antila  Finland 2:57 4 (2+2+0+0) 38:18.9 +5:57.7
49 56 Ondřej Moravec  Czech Republic 3:17 5 (1+1+2+1) 38:22.3 +6:01.1
50 48 Lowell Bailey  United States 2:45 6 (2+0+3+1) 38:25.4 +6:04.2
51 45 Vasja Rupnik  Slovenia 2:24 7 (0+1+3+3) 38:46.1 +6:24.9
52 52 Simon Hallenbarter  Switzerland 2:58 5 (1+2+1+1) 39:03.0 +6:41.8
53 57 Jarkko Kauppinen  Finland 3:19 3 (1+0+1+1) 39:09.8 +6:48.6
54 58 Alexandr Syman  Belarus 3:20 7 (2+2+1+2) 39:59.4 +7:38.2
55 53 Jaime Robb  Canada 3:05 7 (2+0+3+2) 40:01.2 +7:40.0
20 Indrek Tobreluts  Estonia 1:22 (2+3+2+ ) Did not finish
47 Markus Windisch  Italy 2:33 (3+4+ + )
55 Mirosław Kobus  Poland 3:12 (2+3+ + ) Lapped
41 Wiesław Ziemianin  Poland 2:19 Did not start
60 Robin Clegg  Canada 3:25

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