# Biathlon World Championships 2016 – Men's pursuit

The Men's pursuit event of the Biathlon World Championships 2016 was held on 6 March 2016. The fastest 60 athletes of the sprint competition participated over a course of 12.5 km.

## Results

The race was started at 13:30 CET.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Nationality | Start | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Time | Deficit |
| | 1 | Martin Fourcade | France | 0:00 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 32:56.5 | |
| | 2 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 0:27 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 33:16.6 | +20.1 |
| | 17 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Norway | 1:16 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 33:27.7 | +31.2 |
| 4 | 4 | Johannes Thingnes Bø | Norway | 0:36 | 3 (0+2+0+1) | 33:34.8 | +38.3 |
| 5 | 39 | Jakov Fak | Slovenia | 1:47 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 33:38.4 | +41.9 |
| 6 | 12 | Simon Desthieux | France | 1:00 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 33:39.4 | +42.9 |
| 7 | 19 | Erik Lesser | Germany | 1:19 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 33:39.8 | +43.3 |
| 8 | 3 | Serhiy Semenov | Ukraine | 0:28 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 33:46.5 | +50.0 |
| 9 | 45 | Anton Shipulin | Russia | 1:58 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 33:56.4 | +59.9 |
| 10 | 16 | Quentin Fillon Maillet | France | 1:13 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 33:56.4 | +59.9 |
| 11 | 6 | Evgeniy Garanichev | Russia | 0:40 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | 33:58.1 | +1:01.6 |
| 12 | 15 | Michal Šlesingr | Czech Republic | 1:10 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 34:02.7 | +1:06.2 |
| 13 | 7 | Arnd Peiffer | Germany | 0:42 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 34:13.5 | +1:17.0 |
| 14 | 9 | Dominik Landertinger | Austria | 0:46 | 4 (1+1+0+2) | 34:18.4 | +1:21.9 |
| 15 | 46 | Nathan Smith | Canada | 1:59 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 34:19.7 | +1:23.2 |
| 16 | 27 | Simon Eder | Austria | 1:34 | 3 (0+2+1+0) | 34:23.3 | +1:26.8 |
| 17 | 14 | Tim Burke | United States | 1:09 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 34:23.8 | +1:27.3 |
| 18 | 8 | Simon Schempp | Germany | 0:44 | 4 (1+2+0+1) | 34:30.1 | +1:33.6 |
| 19 | 40 | Yan Savitskiy | Kazakhstan | 1:48 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 34:34.5 | +1:38.0 |
| 20 | 11 | Serafin Wiestner | Switzerland | 0:57 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 34:43.2 | +1:46.7 |
| 21 | 23 | Anton Babikov | Russia | 1:24 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 34:52.6 | +1:56.1 |
| 22 | 24 | Michal Krčmář | Czech Republic | 1:25 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 34:56.0 | +1:59.5 |
| 23 | 13 | Vladimir Chepelin | Belarus | 1:08 | 4 (0+0+1+3) | 34:56.4 | +1:59.9 |
| 24 | 10 | Vladimir Iliev | Bulgaria | 0:52 | 5 (3+0+1+1) | 34:56.7 | +2:00.2 |
| 25 | 28 | Oleksander Zhyrnyi | Ukraine | 1:35 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 35:02.8 | +2:06.3 |
| 26 | 36 | Julian Eberhard | Austria | 1:45 | 6 (3+1+2+0) | 35:04.2 | +2:07.7 |
| 27 | 20 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Latvia | 1:20 | 5 (0+2+1+2) | 35:05.9 | +2:09.4 |
| 28 | 5 | Dominik Windisch | Italy | 0:40 | 6 (0+3+1+2) | 35:08.7 | +2:12.2 |
| 29 | 34 | Krasimir Anev | Bulgaria | 1:41 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 35:09.5 | +2:13.0 |
| 30 | 25 | Martin Otčenáš | Slovakia | 1:29 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 35:21.2 | +2:24.7 |
| 31 | 54 | Tarjei Bø | Norway | 2:10 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 35:27.7 | +2:31.2 |
| 32 | 22 | Artem Pryma | Ukraine | 1:22 | 4 (2+1+1+0) | 35:29.2 | +2:32.7 |
| 33 | 35 | Brendan Green | Canada | 1:44 | 3 (1+1+1+0) | 35:29.4 | +2:32.9 |
| 34 | 30 | Fredrik Lindström | Sweden | 1:35 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 35:32.4 | +2:35.9 |
| 35 | 37 | Roland Lessing | Estonia | 1:45 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 35:32.7 | +2:36.2 |
| 36 | 29 | Lowell Bailey | United States | 1:35 | 5 (0+0+2+3) | 35:53.7 | +2:57.2 |
| 37 | 56 | Thomas Bormolini | Italy | 2:15 | 2 (0+2+0+0) | 35:55.7 | +2:59.2 |
| 38 | 31 | Jesper Nelin | Sweden | 1:37 | 4 (0+0+1+3) | 35:57.5 | +3:01.0 |
| 39 | 33 | Benedikt Doll | Germany | 1:41 | 6 (2+2+1+1) | 36:13.0 | +3:16.5 |
| 40 | 53 | Simon Fourcade | France | 2:09 | 4 (2+0+1+1) | 36:17.3 | +3:20.8 |
| 41 | 60 | Jaroslav Soukup | Czech Republic | 2:28 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 36:20.2 | +3:23.7 |
| 42 | 49 | Michail Kletcherov | Bulgaria | 2:06 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 36:25.9 | +3:29.4 |
| 43 | 42 | Maxim Tsvetkov | Russia | 1:54 | 4 (1+1+0+2) | 36:32.7 | +3:36.2 |
| 44 | 57 | Matej Kazár | Slovakia | 2:21 | 3 (1+0+2+0) | 36:35.9 | +3:39.4 |
| 45 | 43 | Sean Doherty | United States | 1:57 | 5 (0+2+1+2) | 36:48.6 | +3:52.1 |
| 46 | 32 | Aliaksandr Darozhka | Belarus | 1:37 | 6 (0+1+2+3) | 36:58.0 | +4:01.5 |
| 47 | 21 | Tomas Kaukėnas | Lithuania | 1:20 | 7 (2+1+3+1) | 37:09.3 | +4:12.8 |
| 48 | 51 | Sven Grossegger | Austria | 2:08 | 4 (2+0+0+2) | 37:18.2 | +4:21.7 |
| 49 | 47 | Scott Gow | Canada | 2:04 | 6 (0+3+1+2) | 37:26.6 | +4:30.1 |
| 50 | 26 | Cornel Puchianu | Romania | 1:29 | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 37:29.6 | +4:33.1 |
| 51 | 55 | Olli Hiidensalo | Finland | 2:12 | 4 (0+0+1+3) | 37:38.2 | +4:41.7 |
| 52 | 18 | Leif Nordgren | United States | 1:17 | 7 (2+2+1+2) | 38:07.3 | +5:10.8 |
| 53 | 58 | Macx Davies | Canada | 2:22 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | 38:23.3 | +5:26.8 |
| 54 | 41 | Christian De Lorenzi | Italy | 1:48 | 8 (4+3+0+1) | 38:24.3 | +5:27.8 |
| 55 | 48 | Martin Jäger | Switzerland | 2:05 | 8 (3+1+2+2) | 38:45.3 | +5:48.8 |
| 56 | 50 | Klemen Bauer | Slovenia | 2:07 | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 39:05.0 | +6:08.5 |
| 57 | 38 | Kauri Kõiv | Estonia | 1:46 | 7 (0+1+3+3) | 39:05.3 | +6:08.8 |
| — | 52 | Benjamin Weger | Switzerland | 2:08 | 9 (4+3+2) | DNF | DNF |
| — | 44 | Dmytro Pidruchnyi | Ukraine | 1:57 | DNS | DNS | DNS |
| — | 59 | Ondřej Moravec | Czech Republic | 2:23 | DNS | DNS | DNS |