# 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men will start at Wednesday November 30, 2011 in Östersund and will finish Tuesday March 6, 2012 in Ruhpolding at Biathlon World Championships 2012 event. Defending titlist is Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway.

## Competition format

The 20 kilometres (12 mi) 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.

## 2010-11 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Emil Hegle Svendsen | 188 |
| Silver: | Tarjei Bø | 172 |
| Bronze: | Martin Fourcade | 133 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Östersund details | Martin Fourcade France | 53:29.8 (0+0+0+1) | Michal Šlesingr Czech Republic | 55:24.1 (0+1+0+0) | Simon Schempp Germany | 55:24.3 (1+0+0+0) |
| Nové Město details | Andrei Makoveev Russia | 47:19.0 (0+0+0+0) | Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway | 48:18.7 (1+0+0+1) | Björn Ferry Sweden | 48:33.8 (0+0+0+1) |
| Biathlon World Championships 2012 details | Jakov Fak Slovenia | 46:48.2 (0+0+0+1) | Simon Fourcade France | 46:55.2 (0+0+1+0) | Jaroslav Soukup Czech Republic | 47:00.5 (0+1+0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Name | ÖST | NOV | WCH | Total |
| 1 | Simon Fourcade (FRA) | 28 | 43 | 54 | 125 |
| 2 | Jakov Fak (SLO) | 34 | 19 | 60 | 113 |
| 3 | Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) | 20 | 54 | 34 | 108 |
| 4 | Martin Fourcade (FRA) | 60 | 31 | 16 | 107 |
| 5 | Jaroslav Soukup (CZE) | 24 | 27 | 48 | 99 |
| 6 | Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT) | 29 | 40 | 28 | 97 |
| 7 | Michal Šlesingr (CZE) | 54 | 0 | 38 | 92 |
| 8 | Andreas Birnbacher (GER) | 13 | 34 | 43 | 90 |
| 9 | Dominik Landertinger (AUT) | 43 | 13 | 26 | 82 |
| 10 | Simon Eder (AUT) | 26 | 38 | 18 | 82 |
| 11 | Andrei Makoveev (RUS) | 21 | 60 | — | 81 |
| 12 | Arnd Peiffer (GER) | 1 | 32 | 36 | 69 |
| 13 | Fredrik Lindström (SWE) | 15 | 23 | 31 | 69 |
| 14 | Tarjei Bø (NOR) | 16 | 28 | 23 | 67 |
| 15 | Alexey Volkov (RUS) | 30 | 15 | 20 | 65 |
| 16 | Simon Schempp (GER) | 48 | 11 | 0 | 59 |
| 17 | Jean-Philippe Leguellec (CAN) | 27 | 24 | 0 | 51 |
| 18 | Ondřej Moravec (CZE) | 0 | 21 | 29 | 50 |
| 19 | Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS) | 31 | 18 | — | 49 |
| 20 | Krasimir Anev (BUL) | 2 | 25 | 22 | 49 |
| 21 | Björn Ferry (SWE) | 0 | 48 | 0 | 48 |
| 22 | Rune Brattsveen (NOR) | 36 | 7 | 0 | 43 |
| 23 | Markus Windisch (ITA) | 7 | 16 | 19 | 42 |
| 24 | Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS) | 40 | — | 0 | 40 |
| 25 | Klemen Bauer (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40 |
| 26 | Anton Shipulin (RUS) | 11 | 29 | — | 40 |
| 27 | Michael Greis (GER) | 9 | — | 30 | 39 |
| 28 | Christoph Sumann (AUT) | 38 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| 29 | Vincent Jay (FRA) | 0 | 26 | 12 | 38 |
| 30 | Florian Graf (GER) | 0 | 36 | — | 36 |
| 31 | Lowell Bailey (USA) | 32 | 0 | 3 | 35 |
| 32 | Jay Hakkinen (USA) | 23 | 0 | 10 | 33 |
| 33 | Sergey Novikov (BLR) | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 34 | Carl Johan Bergman (SWE) | 22 | 9 | — | 31 |
| 35 | Lukas Hofer (ITA) | 10 | — | 21 | 31 |
| 36 | Artem Pryma (UKR) | 0 | 14 | 17 | 31 |
| 37 | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (FRA) | — | 30 | — | 30 |
| 38 | Timofey Lapshin (RUS) | — | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 39 | Tomáš Holubec (CZE) | 18 | 0 | 8 | 26 |
| 40 | Alexis Bœuf (FRA) | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 41 | Vladimir Iliev (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 42 | Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 43 | Brendan Green (CAN) | 0 | 22 | — | 22 |
| 44 | Tomasz Sikora (POL) | 17 | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| 45 | Yan Savitskiy (KAZ) | 0 | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| 46 | Olexander Bilanenko (UKR) | — | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 47 | Roland Lessing (EST) | 8 | 12 | 0 | 20 |
| 48 | Serguei Sednev (UKR) | 19 | — | — | 19 |
| 49 | Daniel Böhm (GER) | — | 17 | — | 17 |
| 50 | Kauri Koiv (EST) | 0 | — | 15 | 15 |
| 51 | Michail Kletcherov (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 52 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) | 14 | — | 0 | 14 |
| 53 | Christian De Lorenzi (ITA) | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 54 | Benjamin Weger (SUI) | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 55 | Hidenori Isa (JPN) | — | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 56 | Simon Hallenbarter (SUI) | 6 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 57 | Indrek Tobreluts (EST) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 58 | Dimitry Malyshko (RUS) | — | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 59 | Janez Maric (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 60 | Sven Grossegger (AUT) | 0 | 6 | — | 6 |
| 61 | Lois Habert (FRA) | 0 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 62 | Vasja Rupnik (SLO) | 5 | 0 | — | 5 |
| 63 | Florent Claude (FRA) | 4 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 64 | Vladimir Alenishko (BLR) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 65 | Junji Nagai (JPN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 66 | Lars Elge Birkeland (NOR) | 0 | — | 2 | 2 |
| 67 | Matej Kazar (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 68 | Sergey Naumik (KAZ) | — | 1 | 0 | 1 |