The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on Thursday 1 December 2016 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 16 February 2017 at the World Championships in Hochfilzen. The defending titlist was Martin Fourcade of France.
The small crystal globe winner for the category was Martin Fourcade of France.
Competition format The individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.
2015–16 Top 3 standings Medal Athlete PointsGold: Martin Fourcade 140Silver: Simon Eder 138Bronze: Dominik Landertinger 105
Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Östersunddetails Martin Fourcade 51:33.8 Johannes Thingnes Bø 52:03.3 Vladimir Chepelin 52:58.1 Antholz-Anterselvadetails Anton Shipulin 50:38.1 Martin Fourcade 51:19.1 Serhiy Semenov 51:34.9 World Championshipsdetails Lowell Bailey 48:07.4 Ondřej Moravec 48:10.7 Martin Fourcade 48:28.6
Standings # Name ÖST ANT HOC Total Men's Individual 1 60 54 48 162 2 30 60 36 126 3 26 31 60 117 4 54 27 34 115 5 43 28 32 103 6 36 38 25 99 7 0 48 40 88 8 31 22 31 84 9 40 43 0 83 10 24 0 54 78 11 10 20 43 73 12 0 34 38 72 13 0 40 28 68 14 18 29 21 68 15 11 30 22 63 16 13 26 24 63 17 48 3 10 61 18 29 — 29 58 19 19 36 — 55 20 32 19 3 54 21 23 — 27 50 22 9 32 7 48 23 28 15 — 43 24 6 18 19 43 25 15 0 26 41 26 16 0 23 39 27 38 0 0 38 28 25 7 5 37 29 0 17 20 37 30 34 — — 34 # Name ÖST ANT HOC Total 31 21 10 — 31 32 20 0 11 31 33 — — 30 30 34 DNS 12 18 30 35 17 13 — 30 36 22 DNS 7 29 37 27 0 0 27 38 0 11 15 26 39 0 25 — 25 40 0 24 0 24 41 7 0 17 24 42 0 23 0 23 43 — 21 — 21 44 0 4 16 20 45 5 0 12 17 46 — 16 0 16 47 14 0 0 14 48 0 14 — 14 49 — — 14 14 50 — 0 13 13 51 12 0 0 12 52 0 9 — 9 53 — — 9 9 54 0 0 8 8 55 8 0 0 8 56 — 8 — 8 57 — 6 0 6 58 4 — 2 6 59 — 5 0 5 60 0 — 4 4 # Name ÖST ANT HOC Total 61 3 0 0 3 62 0 2 — 2 63 2 DNS — 2 64 0 0 1 1 65 0 1 — 1 66 1 0 — 1
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