# Biathlon World Championships 2024 – Men's pursuit

The Men's pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Championships 2024 was held on 11 February 2024.
Johannes Thingnes Bø was the defending champion and successfully defended his title. The sprint's world champion Sturla Holm Lægreid also defended his silver medal and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen won his second bronze medal at this world championships.
For the first time in the history of the pursuit race at the world championships, the Norwegians took all the places on the podium.

## Results

The race was started at 17:05.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Nationality | Start | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Time | Deficit |
| | 2 | Johannes Thingnes Bø | Norway | 0:04 | 3 (1+2+0+0) | 32:36.9 | |
| | 1 | Sturla Holm Lægreid | Norway | 0:00 | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 33:05.6 | +28.7 |
| | 3 | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | Norway | 0:19 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 33:15.4 | +38.5 |
| 4 | 6 | Tarjei Bø | Norway | 0:38 | 4 (0+0+0+4) | 33:30.9 | +54.0 |
| 5 | 7 | Johannes Dale-Skjevdal | Norway | 0:38 | 3 (0+0+3+0) | 33:57.8 | +1:20.9 |
| 6 | 5 | Sebastian Samuelsson | Sweden | 0:37 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 34:05.2 | +1:28.3 |
| 7 | 10 | Martin Ponsiluoma | Sweden | 1:03 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 34:13.7 | +1:36.8 |
| 8 | 20 | Endre Strømsheim | Norway | 1:54 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 34:19.3 | +1:42.4 |
| 9 | 18 | Lukas Hofer | Italy | 1:48 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 34:24.8 | +1:47.9 |
| 10 | 26 | Fabien Claude | France | 2:14 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 34:31.9 | +1:55.0 |
| 11 | 8 | Quentin Fillon Maillet | France | 0:41 | 6 (2+2+2+0) | 34:48.3 | +2:11.4 |
| 12 | 11 | Campbell Wright | United States | 1:08 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 34:58.4 | +2:21.5 |
| 13 | 9 | Émilien Jacquelin | France | 0:55 | 6 (3+2+1+0) | 35:10.8 | +2:33.9 |
| 14 | 4 | Éric Perrot | France | 0:29 | 6 (0+0+2+4) | 35:39.4 | +3:02.5 |
| 15 | 14 | Johannes Kühn | Germany | 1:42 | 4 (0+1+1+2) | 35:45.5 | +3:08.6 |
| 16 | 13 | Benedikt Doll | Germany | 1:41 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 35:52.7 | +3:15.8 |
| 17 | 25 | Philipp Horn | Germany | 2:12 | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 35:56.3 | +3:19.4 |
| 18 | 19 | Michal Krčmář | Czech Republic | 1:53 | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 35:57.8 | +3:20.9 |
| 19 | 12 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs | Latvia | 1:17 | 6 (2+0+1+3) | 35:59.1 | +3:22.2 |
| 20 | 15 | Tommaso Giacomel | Italy | 1:43 | 6 (2+1+2+1) | 36:03.9 | +3:27.0 |
| 21 | 16 | Philipp Nawrath | Germany | 1:45 | 5 (0+2+2+1) | 36:09.3 | +3:32.4 |
| 22 | 22 | Niklas Hartweg | Switzerland | 2:06 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 36:25.6 | +3:48.7 |
| 23 | 21 | Dmytro Pidruchnyi | Ukraine | 2:05 | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 36:39.0 | +4:02.1 |
| 24 | 27 | Jakov Fak | Slovenia | 2:19 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 36:41.3 | +4:04.4 |
| 25 | 39 | Anton Dudchenko | Ukraine | 3:00 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 36:46.6 | +4:09.7 |
| 26 | 44 | Sean Doherty | United States | 3:10 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 36:58.2 | +4:21.3 |
| 27 | 33 | Tomáš Mikyska | Czech Republic | 2:32 | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 37:03.5 | +4:26.6 |
| 28 | 35 | Alexandr Mukhin | Kazakhstan | 2:51 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 37:03.7 | +4:26.8 |
| 29 | 32 | Florent Claude | Belgium | 2:30 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | 37:04.3 | +4:27.4 |
| 30 | 29 | David Komatz | Austria | 2:25 | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 37:06.4 | +4:29.5 |
| 31 | 40 | Konrad Badacz | Poland | 3:01 | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 37:14.3 | +4:37.4 |
| 32 | 28 | Didier Bionaz | Italy | 2:20 | 3 (2+2+0+2) | 37:20.4 | +4:43.5 |
| 33 | 24 | Viktor Brandt | Sweden | 2:09 | 4 (0+0+2+2) | 37:24.6 | +4:47.7 |
| 34 | 54 | Otto Invenius | Finland | 3:30 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 37:27.0 | +4:50.1 |
| 35 | 30 | Timofei Lapshin | South Korea | 2:27 | 5 (2+1+2+0) | 37:32.5 | +4:55.6 |
| 36 | 37 | Pavel Magazeev | Moldova | 2:56 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 37:33.0 | +4:56.1 |
| 37 | 38 | Jake Brown | United States | 2:57 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 37:53.6 | +5:16.7 |
| 38 | 34 | Lovro Planko | Slovenia | 2:49 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 38:13.1 | +5:36.2 |
| 39 | 49 | Felix Leitner | Austria | 3:24 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 38:32.9 | +5:56.0 |
| 40 | 36 | Rene Zahkna | Estonia | 2:53 | 6 (0+2+2+2) | 38:43.9 | +6:07.0 |
| 41 | 23 | Jesper Nelin | Sweden | 2:08 | 6 (1+1+2+2) | 38:50.7 | +6:13.8 |
| 42 | 50 | Sebastian Stalder | Switzerland | 3:25 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 38:52.3 | +6:15.4 |
| 43 | 53 | Patrick Jakob | Austria | 3:29 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 38:53.7 | +6:16.8 |
| 44 | 57 | Joscha Burkhalter | Switzerland | 3:33 | 4 (1+2+1+0) | 38:54.5 | +6:17.6 |
| 45 | 42 | Maksim Makarov | Moldova | 3:07 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 39:06.7 | +6:29.8 |
| 46 | 47 | Anton Vidmar | Slovenia | 3:18 | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 39:13.9 | +6:37.0 |
| 47 | 41 | Jakub Štvrtecký | Czech Republic | 3:04 | 8 (3+2+3+0) | 39:19.0 | +6:41.2 |
| 48 | 52 | Patrick Braunhofer | Italy | 3:28 | 4 (0+0+4+0) | 39:19.1 | +6:42.2 |
| 49 | 31 | Tero Seppälä | Finland | 2:29 | 8 (2+2+3+1) | 39:29.3 | +6:52.4 |
| 50 | 17 | Adam Runnalls | Canada | 1:47 | 10 (2+2+3+3) | 39:46.3 | +7:09.4 |
| 51 | 55 | Heikki Laitinen | Finland | 3:31 | 5 (1+3+0+1) | 40:25.5 | +7:48.6 |
| 52 | 45 | Vladislav Kireyev | Kazakhstan | 3:11 | 8 (1+3+2+2) | 40:48.3 | +8:11.4 |
| 53 | 51 | Raido Ränkel | Estonia | 3:27 | 10 (0+3+4+3) | 40:57.3 | +8:20.4 |
| – | 43 | Tomas Kaukėnas | Lithuania | 3:08 | (1+1+2+) | Lapped | Lapped |
| – | 46 | Jeremy Finello | Switzerland | 3:17 | (2+4+) | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| – | 48 | George Colțea | Romania | 3:22 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 56 | Vytautas Strolia | Lithuania | 3:32 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 58 | Jonáš Mareček | Czech Republic | 3:35 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 59 | Dmitrii Shamaev | Romania | 3:36 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 60 | Artem Pryma | Ukraine | 3:37 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |