2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Men

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mass start Men is scheduled to start on Sunday December 18, 2016 in Nové Město and will finish on Sunday March 19, 2017 in Oslo Holmenkollen. The defending titlist is Martin Fourcade of France.

Competition format

In the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to the competitor's bib number (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race), with the rest of the shooting bouts being on a first-come, first-served basis (If a competitor arrives at the lane in fifth place, they shoot at lane 5). As in sprint and pursuit, competitors must ski one 150 metres (490 ft) penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).

2015–16 Top 3 Standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Martin Fourcade	242
Silver:	Quentin Fillon Maillet	162
Bronze:	Anton Shipulin	155

Medal winners

Standings

#	Name	NOV	OBE	ANT	WCH	HOL	Total
1	Martin Fourcade (FRA)						'
2	Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA)						'
3	Anton Shipulin (RUS)						'
4	Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR)						'
5	Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS)						'
6	Arnd Peiffer (GER)						'
7	Benedikt Doll (GER)						'
8	Tarjei Bø (NOR)						'
9	Dominik Windisch (ITA)						'
10	Simon Desthieux (FRA)						'
11	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)						'
12	Ondřej Moravec (CZE)						'
13	Dominik Landertinger (AUT)						'
14	Simon Schempp (GER)						'
15	Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)						'
16	Erik Lesser (GER)						'
17	Lowell Bailey (USA)						'
18	Simon Eder (AUT)						'
19	Simon Fourcade (FRA)						'
20	Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA)						'
21	Nathan Smith (CAN)						'
22	Andreas Birnbacher (GER)						'
23	Tim Burke (USA)						'
24	Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT)						'
25	Michal Krčmář (CZE)						'
26	Dmytro Pidruchnyi (UKR)						'
27	Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)						'
28	Serhiy Semenov (UKR)						'
29	Maxim Tsvetkov (RUS)						'
30	Sven Grossegger (AUT)						'
31	Fredrik Lindström (SWE)						'
32	Michal Šlesingr (CZE)						'
33	Alexey Slepov (RUS)						'
34	Jakov Fak (SLO)						'
35	Julian Eberhard (AUT)						'
36	Matej Kazár (SVK)						'
37	Vladimir Chepelin (BLR)						'
37	Artem Pryma (UKR)						'
39	Anton Babikov (RUS)						'
40	Krasimir Anev (BUL)						'
41	Torstein Stenersen (SWE)						'
42	Vladimir Iliev (BUL)						'
43	Alexander Os (NOR)						'
43	Lukas Hofer (ITA)						'
45	Serafin Wiestner (SUI)						'
46	Erlend Bjøntegaard (NOR)						'
46	Alexey Volkov (RUS)						'
48	Yan Savitskiy (KAZ)						'
49	Klemen Bauer (SLO)						'

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