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 Quentin Fillon Maillet of France, his first individual Olympic medal. Anton Smolski of Belarus won the silver medal. This was his first Olympic medal. The defending champion, Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway, won bronze.

Summary In addition to being the defending champion, Johannes Thingnes Bø won the 2018-19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 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, Jakov Fak, qualified for the Olympics, whereas the bronze medalist, Dominik Landertinger, 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 Tarjei Bø.

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

Qualification

Results The race was started at 16:30.

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+S+P+S) Deficit 11 Quentin Fillon Maillet 48:47.4 2 (0+1+1+0) 28 Anton Smolski 49:02.2 0 (0+0+0+0) 2 Johannes Thingnes Bø 49:18.5 2 (1+0+0+1) 4 1 Maxim Tsvetkov 49:22.3 1 (0+0+0+1) 5 9 Scott Gow 49:53.0 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:05.6 6 44 Benedikt Doll 49:54.5 2 (1+0+0+1) +1:07.1 7 54 Roman Rees 50:09.0 1 (0+0+1+0) +1:21.6 8 5 Tarjei Bø 50:17.0 1 (0+0+0+1) +1:29.6 9 48 Fabien Claude 50:25.5 2 (1+1+0+0) +1:38.1 10 31 Alexander Loginov 50:27.6 3 (0+1+0+2) +1:40.2 11 47 Eduard Latypov 51:13.1 3 (0+1+1+1) +2:25.7 12 16 Martin Ponsiluoma 51:16.8 3 (2+0+0+1) +2:29.4 13 23 Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 51:21.3 3 (1+2+0+0) +2:33.9 14 39 Dominik Windisch 51:25.6 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:38.2 15 53 Sturla Holm Lægreid 51:28.1 3 (1+1+1+0) +2:40.7 16 36 Felix Leitner 51:41.7 1 (1+0+0+0) +2:54.3 17 15 Simon Desthieux 51:46.8 3 (1+2+0+0) +2:59.4 18 21 Dmytro Pidruchnyi 51:49.3 3 (0+1+1+1) +3:01.9 19 57 Benjamin Weger 52:06.9 2 (0+0+1+1) +3:19.5 20 13 Simon Eder 52:09.4 2 (0+0+1+1) +3:22.0 21 20 Vytautas Strolia 52:10.4 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:23.0 22 32 Joscha Burkhalter 52:12.4 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:25.0 23 92 Tero Seppälä 52:14.3 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:26.9 24 37 Christian Gow 52:21.9 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:34.5 25 40 Vladislav Kireyev 52:29.2 0 (0+0+0+0) +3:41.8 26 3 Pavel Magazeev 52:41.7 2 (1+1+0+0) +3:54.3 27 35 Lukas Hofer 52:43.6 2 (0+2+0+0) +3:56.2 28 75 Jake Brown 52:45.4 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:58.0 29 29 Jakov Fak 52:48.0 3 (1+1+0+1) +4:00.6 30 33 Sebastian Samuelsson 52:51.7 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:04.3 31 66 Mikuláš Karlík 52:56.3 3 (0+0+0+3) +4:08.9 32 22 Campbell Wright 52:59.8 2 (0+1+1+0) +4:12.4 33 90 Adam Runnalls 53:24.7 3 (1+0+0+2) +4:37.3 34 56 Said Karimulla Khalili 53:26.5 4 (2+1+0+1) +4:39.1 35 30 Paul Schommer 53:27.6 3 (0+1+0+2) +4:40.2 36 78 Jules Burnotte 53:32.3 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:44.9 37 46 Artem Pryma 53:36.2 4 (1+2+0+1) +4:48.8 38 45 Miha Dovžan 53:39.4 2 (0+0+0+2) +4:52.0 39 49 Yan Xingyuan 53:40.6 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:53.2 40 71 Peppe Femling 53:43.6 2 (1+0+0+1) +4:56.2 41 42 Dimitar Gerdzhikov 53:54.2 2 (1+0+1+0) +5:06.8 42 55 Sean Doherty 53:55.8 4 (1+1+1+1) +5:08.4 43 6 Michal Šíma 54:09.0 2 (0+1+0+1) +5:21.6 44 34 Tsukasa Kobonoki 54:16.6 3 (1+0+1+1) +5:29.2 45 65 David Komatz 54:24.1 3 (1+0+1+1) +5:36.7 46 76 Lovro Planko 54:27.9 4 (2+1+0+1) +5:40.5 47 73 Mikita Labastau 54:29.7 4 (1+2+0+1) +5:42.3 48 79 Didier Bionaz 54:44.7 3 (1+1+1+0) +5:57.3 49 24 Grzegorz Guzik 54:47.9 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:00.5 50 63 Anton Dudchenko 54:54.9 4 (1+0+1+2) +6:07.5 51 8 Johannes Kühn 54:58.0 6 (3+2+1+0) +6:10.6 52 12 Alexandr Mukhin 55:00.4 4 (1+1+0+2) +6:13.0 53 80 Sebastian Stalder 55:12.6 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:25.2 54 81 Rok Tršan 55:14.7 1 (1+0+0+0) +6:27.3 55 91 Bogdan Tsymbal 55:19.0 4 (3+0+1+0) +6:31.6 56 77 Niklas Hartweg 55:19.7 4 (0+2+0+2) +6:32.3 57 88 Harald Lemmerer 55:22.7 4 (0+1+2+1) +6:35.3 58 14 Dzmitry Lazouski 55:26.4 4 (3+0+1+0) +6:39.0 59 41 Michal Krčmář 55:27.9 5 (0+1+3+1) +6:40.5 60 74 Kristo Siimer 55:32.7 3 (0+0+1+2) +6:45.3 61 7 Vladimir Iliev 55:37.5 5 (2+1+1+1) +6:50.1 62 83 Milan Žemlička 55:44.3 2 (0+1+0+1) +6:56.9 63 67 Thomas Bormolini 55:48.6 5 (0+1+2+2) +7:01.2 64 60 Jesper Nelin 55:49.7 5 (0+2+0+3) +7:02.3 65 17 Jakub Štvrtecký 55:52.7 5 (0+3+0+2) +7:05.3 66 4 Heikki Laitinen 55:52.8 5 (0+2+1+2) +7:05.4 67 27 Erik Lesser 55:59.5 5 (0+3+0+2) +7:12.1 68 38 Rene Zahkna 56:06.0 3 (0+0+1+2) +7:18.6 69 10 Cheng Fangming 56:07.8 6 (2+1+0+3) +7:20.4 70 69 Tomas Kaukėnas 56:30.0 5 (1+0+2+2) +7:42.6 71 43 Karol Dombrovski 56:30.1 4 (0+1+0+3) +7:42.7 72 26 Émilien Jacquelin 56:31.4 7 (0+3+2+2) +7:44.0 73 86 Raido Ränkel 56:32.4 5 (0+2+1+2) +7:45.0 74 50 Olli Hiidensalo 56:45.6 5 (0+2+0+3) +7:58.2 75 19 Florent Claude 57:11.2 5 (0+2+3+0) +8:23.8 76 18 Timofey Lapshin 57:13.0 5 (1+1+2+1) +8:25.6 77 61 Thierry Langer 57:18.3 5 (1+1+2+1) +8:30.9 78 25 Kalev Ermits 57:21.3 6 (2+2+0+2) +8:33.9 79 84 Linas Banys 57:46.2 3 (1+1+0+1) +8:58.8 80 70 Tomáš Sklenárik 58:08.1 5 (2+2+1+0) +9:20.7 81 62 Tuomas Harjula 58:14.9 4 (1+2+1+0) +9:27.5 82 52 Kosuke Ozaki 58:37.9 6 (1+0+4+1) +9:50.5 83 85 Zhu Zhenyu 58:42.6 4 (1+2+1+0) +9:55.2 84 87 Matej Baloga 58:47.1 4 (0+1+1+2) +9:59.7 85 72 Anton Sinapov 58:47.6 6 (2+1+1+2) +10:00.2 86 51 Maksim Varabei 58:59.5 8 (1+3+2+2) +10:12.1 87 89 Leif Nordgren 59:29.8 7 (2+2+1+2) +10:42.4 88 58 Šimon Bartko 59:47.8 7 (2+3+1+1) +11:00.4 89 59 George Colțea 8 (1+4+0+3) +13:08.1 90 68 Tom Lahaye-Goffart 7 (2+1+3+1) +13:38.8 91 82 César Beauvais 7 (1+1+1+4) +14:03.1 92 64 Zhang Chunyu 12 (2+4+5+1) +18:24.8

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