# Biathlon World Championships 2012 – Men's individual

The men's individual competition of the Biathlon World Championships 2012 was held on March 6, 2012 at 15:15 local time.

## Results

The race was started at 15:15.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Penalties (P+S+P+S) | Time | Deficit |
| | 15 | Jakov Fak | Slovenia | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 46:48.2 | |
| | 4 | Simon Fourcade | France | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 46:55.2 | +7.0 |
| | 28 | Jaroslav Soukup | Czech Republic | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 47:00.5 | +12.3 |
| 4 | 20 | Andreas Birnbacher | Germany | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 47:01.3 | +13.1 |
| 5 | 9 | Klemen Bauer | Slovenia | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 47:04.8 | +16.6 |
| 6 | 13 | Michal Šlesingr | Czech Republic | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 47:13.3 | +25.1 |
| 7 | 12 | Arnd Peiffer | Germany | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 47:24.7 | +36.5 |
| 8 | 26 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Norway | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 47:37.4 | +49.2 |
| 9 | 47 | Sergey Novikov | Belarus | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 47:38.0 | +49.8 |
| 10 | 29 | Fredrik Lindström | Sweden | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 47:40.2 | +52.0 |
| 11 | 36 | Michael Greis | Germany | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 47:46.4 | +58.2 |
| 12 | 2 | Ondřej Moravec | Czech Republic | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 47:47.9 | +59.7 |
| 13 | 18 | Daniel Mesotitsch | Austria | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 48:05.3 | +1:17.1 |
| 14 | 32 | Timofey Lapshin | Russia | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 48:25.3 | +1:37.1 |
| 15 | 37 | Dominik Landertinger | Austria | 2 (0+2+0+0) | 48:30.5 | +1:42.3 |
| 16 | 60 | Vladimir Iliev | Bulgaria | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 48:31.6 | +1:43.4 |
| 17 | 56 | Andriy Deryzemlya | Ukraine | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 48:36.1 | +1:47.9 |
| 18 | 16 | Tarjei Bø | Norway | 4 (2+0+1+1) | 48:58.6 | +2:10.4 |
| 19 | 1 | Krasimir Anev | Bulgaria | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 49:02.0 | +2:13.8 |
| 20 | 11 | Lukas Hofer | Italy | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 49:10.5 | +2:22.3 |
| 21 | 35 | Alexey Volkov | Russia | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 49:15.0 | +2:26.8 |
| 22 | 25 | Markus Windisch | Italy | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 49:17.2 | +2:29.0 |
| 23 | 38 | Simon Eder | Austria | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 49:20.5 | +2:32.3 |
| 24 | 40 | Artem Pryma | Ukraine | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 49:25.4 | +2:37.2 |
| 25 | 6 | Martin Fourcade | France | 5 (0+2+1+2) | 49:26.7 | +2:38.5 |
| 26 | 99 | Kauri Koiv | Estonia | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 49:37.6 | +2:49.4 |
| 27 | 10 | Michail Kletcherov | Bulgaria | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 49:40.9 | +2:52.7 |
| 28 | 51 | Yan Savitskiy | Kazakhstan | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 49:52.8 | +3:04.6 |
| 29 | 31 | Vincent Jay | France | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 49:56.5 | +3:08.3 |
| 30 | 92 | Hidenori Isa | Japan | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 49:57.3 | +3:09.1 |
| 31 | 33 | Jay Hakkinen | United States | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 50:06.0 | +3:17.8 |
| 32 | 64 | Christian De Lorenzi | Italy | 3 (1+1+1+0) | 50:16.5 | +3:28.3 |
| 33 | 58 | Tomáš Holubec | Czech Republic | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 50:18.6 | +3:30.4 |
| 34 | 43 | Janez Marič | Slovenia | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 50:21.3 | +3:33.1 |
| 35 | 21 | Dmitry Malyshko | Russia | 4 (0+2+2+0) | 50:23.4 | +3:35.2 |
| 36 | 5 | Simon Hallenbarter | Switzerland | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 50:24.2 | +3:36.0 |
| 37 | 134 | Tomasz Sikora | Poland | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 50:26.6 | +3:38.4 |
| 38 | 23 | Lowell Bailey | United States | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 50:27.8 | +3:39.6 |
| 39 | 50 | Lars Helge Birkeland | Norway | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 50:29.5 | +3:41.3 |
| 40 | 45 | Matej Kazar | Slovakia | 3 (2+1+0+0) | 50:30.1 | +3:41.9 |
| 41 | 3 | Benjamin Weger | Switzerland | 4 (2+1+1+0) | 50:31.0 | +3:42.8 |
| 42 | 42 | Jarkko Kauppinen | Finland | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 50:41.9 | +3:53.7 |
| 43 | 7 | Christoph Sumann | Austria | 3 (0+1+2+0) | 50:47.4 | +3:59.2 |
| 44 | 84 | Aliaksandr Babchyn | Belarus | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 50:47.9 | +3:59.7 |
| 45 | 62 | Scott Perras | Canada | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 50:49.3 | +4:01.1 |
| 46 | 30 | Rune Brattsveen | Norway | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 50:51.9 | +4:03.7 |
| 47 | 27 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 50:56.2 | +4:08.0 |
| 48 | 22 | Björn Ferry | Sweden | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 50:56.9 | +4:08.7 |
| 49 | 49 | Evgeny Abramenko | Belarus | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 50:57.3 | +4:09.1 |
| 50 | 14 | Evgeny Ustyugov | Russia | 5 (0+1+1+3) | 51:01.0 | +4:12.8 |
| 51 | 44 | Indrek Tobreluts | Estonia | 3 (0+0+0+3) | 51:03.3 | +4:15.1 |
| 52 | 34 | Alexis Bœuf | France | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 51:05.4 | +4:17.2 |
| 53 | 8 | Ted Armgren | Sweden | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 51:19.5 | +4:31.3 |
| 54 | 70 | Krzysztof Plywaczyk | Poland | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 51:25.6 | +4:37.4 |
| 55 | 52 | Ivan Joller | Switzerland | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 51:25.7 | +4:37.5 |
| 56 | 24 | Tim Burke | United States | 5 (0+2+1+2) | 51:26.3 | +4:38.1 |
| 57 | 78 | Priit Viks | Estonia | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 51:41.3 | +4:53.1 |
| 58 | 61 | Olexander Bilanenko | Ukraine | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 51:44.0 | +4:55.8 |
| 59 | 54 | Alexandr Chervyakov | Kazakhstan | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 52:08.4 | +5:20.2 |
| 60 | 19 | Serhiy Semenov | Ukraine | 5 (2+1+1+1) | 52:16.1 | +5:27.9 |
| 61 | 100 | Nathan Smith | Canada | 4 (2+2+0+0) | 52:17.6 | +5:29.4 |
| 62 | 59 | Junji Nagai | Japan | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 52:23.8 | +5:35.6 |
| 63 | 109 | Vladimir Alenishko | Belarus | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 52:24.1 | +5:35.9 |
| 64 | 55 | Mario Dolder | Switzerland | 4 (1+2+1+0) | 52:26.5 | +5:38.3 |
| 65 | 87 | Edgars Piksons | Latvia | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 52:28.3 | +5:40.1 |
| 66 | 72 | Martin Otcenas | Slovakia | 3 (2+1+0+0) | 52:45.5 | +5:57.3 |
| 67 | 57 | Roland Lessing | Estonia | 4 (2+0+0+2) | 52:47.0 | +5:58.8 |
| 68 | 46 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Latvia | 5 (2+0+1+2) | 52:57.5 | +6:09.3 |
| 69 | 89 | Marc-André Bédard | Canada | 4 (0+1+1+2) | 53:01.8 | +6:13.6 |
| 70 | 53 | Dušan Šimočko | Slovakia | 5 (1+0+2+2) | 53:03.0 | +6:14.8 |
| 71 | 17 | Jean-Philippe Leguellec | Canada | 6 (1+2+2+1) | 53:08.6 | +6:20.4 |
| 72 | 63 | Rene Laurent Vuillermoz | Italy | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 53:10.8 | +6:22.6 |
| 73 | 136 | Adam Kwak | Poland | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 53:26.9 | +6:38.7 |
| 74 | 69 | Tomas Kaukėnas | Lithuania | 4 (0+0+2+2) | 53:27.4 | +6:39.2 |
| 75 | 74 | Anton Pantov | Kazakhstan | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 53:28.3 | +6:40.1 |
| 76 | 94 | Lee In-bok | South Korea | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 53:34.1 | +6:45.9 |
| 77 | 95 | Rolands Pužulis | Latvia | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 53:37.0 | +6:48.8 |
| 78 | 83 | Pavol Hurajt | Slovakia | 5 (1+2+0+2) | 53:38.8 | +6:50.6 |
| 79 | 82 | Łukasz Szczurek | Poland | 3 (2+1+0+0) | 53:39.5 | +6:51.3 |
| 80 | 65 | Timo Antila | Finland | 6 (2+2+0+2) | 53:56.2 | +7:08.0 |
| 81 | 41 | Leif Nordgren | United States | 6 (0+1+2+3) | 54:07.1 | +7:18.9 |
| 82 | 105 | Alexei Almoukov | Australia | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 54:09.4 | +7:21.2 |
| 83 | 110 | Stefan Gavrila | Romania | 4 (0+3+0+1) | 54:13.3 | +7:25.1 |
| 84 | 108 | Peter Dokl | Slovenia | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 54:17.3 | +7:29.1 |
| 84 | 135 | Li Zhonghai | China | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 54:17.3 | +7:29.1 |
| 86 | 107 | Ville Simola | Finland | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 54:20.2 | +7:32.0 |
| 87 | 48 | Magnus Jonsson | Sweden | 6 (3+2+0+1) | 54:47.4 | +7:59.2 |
| 88 | 117 | Marcel Laponder | Great Britain | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 54:49.2 | +8:01.0 |
| 89 | 88 | Ahti Toivanen | Finland | 6 (1+2+1+2) | 54:54.8 | +8:06.6 |
| 90 | 30 | Simon Schempp | Germany | 7 (3+1+1+2) | 54:55.3 | +8:07.1 |
| 91 | 104 | Pedro Quintana Arias | Spain | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 55:04.8 | +8:16.6 |
| 92 | 93 | Ahmet Üstüntaş | Turkey | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 55:06.8 | +8:18.6 |
| 93 | 130 | Karol Dombrovski | Lithuania | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 55:22.1 | +8:33.9 |
| 94 | 86 | Chen Haibin | China | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 55:25.1 | +8:36.9 |
| 95 | 97 | Damir Rastić | Serbia | 4 (1+2+0+0) | 55:26.3 | +8:38.1 |
| 96 | 125 | Ren Long | China | 3 (1+2+1+0) | 55:38.2 | +8:50.0 |
| 97 | 123 | Arturs Kolesnikovs | Latvia | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 55:50.6 | +9:02.4 |
| 98 | 66 | Zhang Chengye | China | 4 (0+1+1+1) | 56:10.7 | +9:22.5 |
| 99 | 121 | Samuel Pulido Serrano | Spain | 3 (2+0+1+1) | 56:12.4 | +9:24.2 |
| 100 | 85 | Sergey Naumik | Kazakhstan | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 56:19.7 | +9:31.5 |
| 101 | 106 | Kazuya Inomata | Japan | 6 (2+1+2+1) | 56:46.8 | +9:58.6 |
| 102 | 127 | Herbert Cool | Netherlands | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 56:52.1 | +10:03.9 |
| 103 | 68 | Pete Beyer | Great Britain | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 57:19.5 | +10:31.3 |
| 104 | 113 | Karolis Zlatkauskas | Lithuania | 5 (0+4+0+1) | 57:20.2 | +10:32.0 |
| 105 | 112 | Thorsten Langer | Belgium | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 57:27.0 | +10:38.8 |
| 106 | 103 | Manuel Fernandez Musso | Spain | 5 (0+3+0+2) | 57:47.8 | +10:59.6 |
| 107 | 114 | Ryo Tsunoda | Japan | 7 (2+2+1+2) | 58:00.4 | +11:12.2 |
| 108 | 77 | Darko Damjanovski | Macedonia | 5 (0+4+0+1) | 58:00.9 | +11:12.7 |
| 109 | 73 | Lee-Steve Jackson | Great Britain | 8 (2+2+3+1) | 58:11.5 | +11:23.3 |
| 110 | 102 | Milan Szabó | Hungary | 5 (0+0+2+3) | 58:24.8 | +11:36.6 |
| 111 | 79 | Karoly Gombos | Hungary | 6 (1+3+1+1) | 58:51.0 | +12:02.8 |
| 112 | 71 | Milanko Petrović | Serbia | 11 (5+0+4+2) | 59:40.9 | +12:52.7 |
| 113 | 115 | Orhangazi Civil | Turkey | 4 (0+1+0+3) | 59:51.8 | +13:03.6 |
| 114 | 131 | Aleksandr Lavrinovič | Lithuania | 4 (2+1+0+1) | 59:52.0 | +13:03.8 |
| 115 | 119 | Nemanja Košarac | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 1:00:12.1 | +13:23.9 |
| 116 | 96 | Jun Je-uk | South Korea | 8 (4+2+2+0) | 1:00:13.3 | +13:25.1 |
| 117 | 111 | Martin Bogdanov | Bulgaria | 8 (3+3+1+1) | 1:00:20.7 | +13:32.5 |
| 118 | 139 | Edin Hodžić | Serbia | 5 (0+3+1+1) | 1:00:53.4 | +14:05.2 |
| 119 | 132 | Thierry Langer | Belgium | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 1:00:54.6 | +14:06.4 |
| 120 | 120 | Kim Yong-gyu | South Korea | 7 (1+2+3+1) | 1:01:02.6 | +14:14.4 |
| 121 | 133 | Athanassios Tsakiris | Greece | 3 (2+0+1+0) | 1:01:22.4 | +14:34.2 |
| 122 | 116 | Øystein Slettemark | Greenland | 7 (1+4+2+0) | 1:01:23.0 | +14:34.8 |
| 123 | 124 | Vincent Naveau | Belgium | 5 (2+2+1+0) | 1:01:29.5 | +14:41.3 |
| 124 | 76 | Gjorgji Icoski | Macedonia | 4 (0+2+0+2) | 1:01:37.3 | +14:49.1 |
| 125 | 67 | Kleanthis Karamichas | Greece | 2 (0+2+0+0) | 1:01:59.7 | +15:11.5 |
| 126 | 126 | Jurica Veverec | Croatia | 5 (1+0+3+1) | 1:02:48.0 | +15:59.8 |
| 127 | 80 | Tomislav Crnković | Croatia | 4 (0+1+2+1) | 1:03:07.8 | +16:19.6 |
| 128 | 138 | Emir Hrkalović | Serbia | 7 (1+2+2+2) | 1:03:34.7 | +16:46.5 |
| 129 | 90 | Victor Pinzaru | Moldova | 7 (0+2+2+3) | 1:04:13.4 | +17:25.2 |
| 130 | 98 | Stefan Lopatić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 (4+2+0+4) | 1:04:31.4 | +17:43.2 |
| 131 | 137 | Dyllan Harmer | Australia | 4 (1+1+0+2) | 1:04:36.0 | +17:47.8 |
| 132 | 101 | Anuzar Yunusov | Uzbekistan | 11 (4+2+2+3) | 1:07:13.1 | +20:24.9 |
| 133 | 81 | Aqqaluartaa Olsen | Greenland | 11 (2+2+3+4) | 1:07:50.1 | +21:01.9 |
| 134 | 91 | Dino Butković | Croatia | 9 (2+2+2+3) | 1:08:04.9 | +21:16.7 |
| 135 | 129 | István Muskatal | Hungary | 13 (3+5+2+3) | 1:09:14.9 | +22:26.7 |
| | 75 | Pascal Langer | Belgium | (3+3) | DNF | |
| | 122 | Laurentiu Vamanu | Romania | (1+2+4) | DNF | |
| | 128 | Kim Jong-min | South Korea | (1+0) | DNF | |
| | 118 | Ben Woolley | Great Britain | | DNS | |