# 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on 28 November 2020 in Kontiolahti and will finished on 17 February 2021 in Pokljuka.

## Competition format

The 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. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds. The distance skied is usually 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) with a fixed penalty time of one minute per missed target that is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. In the "Short Individual" the distance is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) with a penalty time of 45 seconds per missed target.

## 2019–20 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Martin Fourcade | 174 |
| Silver: | Johannes Thingnes Bø | 145 |
| Bronze: | Quentin Fillon Maillet | 120 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Kontiolahti details | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 48:57.0 (0+0+0+0) | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 49:16.6 (1+0+0+0) | Erik Lesser Germany | 50:00.6 (0+1+0+0) |
| Antholz-Anterselva details | Alexander Loginov Russia | 48:41.8 (0+0+0+0) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 49:40.3 (0+1+1+0) | Quentin Fillon Maillet France | 49:52.4 (0+0+1+1) |
| World Championships details | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 49:27.6 (0+0+0+0) | Arnd Peiffer Germany | 49:44.5 (0+0+0+0) | Johannes Dale Norway | 50:08.5 (0+1+0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Name | KON | ANT | POK | Total |
| 1 | Sturla Holm Lægreid (NOR) | 60 | 54 | 60 | 120 |
| 2 | Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR) | 54 | 31 | 40 | 94 |
| 3 | Alexander Loginov (RUS) | 31 | 60 | 10 | 91 |
| 4 | Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) | 43 | 48 | 43 | 91 |
| 5 | Arnd Peiffer (GER) | 24 | 30 | 54 | 84 |
| 6 | Ondřej Moravec (CZE) | 40 | 8 | 30 | 70 |
| 7 | Simon Eder (AUT) | 19 | 34 | 36 | 70 |
| 8 | Johannes Dale (NOR) | 18 | 14 | 48 | 66 |
| 9 | Lukas Hofer (ITA) | 21 | 43 | 22 | 65 |
| 10 | Émilien Jacquelin (FRA) | 34 | 16 | 28 | 62 |
| 11 | Erlend Bjøntegaard (NOR) | 28 | 32 | – | 60 |
| 12 | Jakov Fak (SLO) | 36 | 4 | 20 | 56 |
| 13 | Roman Rees (GER) | 13 | 25 | 31 | 56 |
| 14 | Tarjei Bø (NOR) | 29 | 26 | 0 | 55 |
| 15 | Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE) | 38 | 0 | 16 | 54 |
| 16 | Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS) | – | 27 | 25 | 52 |
| 17 | Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) | 32 | 19 | – | 51 |
| 18 | Artem Pryma (UKR) | 14 | 18 | 32 | 50 |
| 19 | Benedikt Doll (GER) | 12 | 15 | 34 | 49 |
| 20 | Erik Lesser (GER) | 48 | 0 | – | 48 |
| 21 | Jeremy Finello (SUI) | 0 | 24 | 24 | 48 |
| 22 | Simon Desthieux (FRA) | 26 | 20 | 13 | 46 |
| 23 | Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE) | 0 | 38 | 6 | 44 |
| 24 | Michal Krčmář (CZE) | 30 | – | 14 | 44 |
| 25 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) | 20 | 0 | 23 | 43 |
| 26 | Anton Dudchenko (UKR) | 0 | 40 | 0 | 40 |
| 27 | David Komatz (AUT) | 11 | 29 | 0 | 40 |
| 28 | Johannes Kühn (GER) | 1 | 23 | 17 | 40 |
| 29 | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR) | 3 | 36 | – | 39 |
| 30 | Felix Leitner (AUT) | 0 | 12 | 27 | 39 |
| # | Name | KON | ANT | POK | Total |
| 31 | Said Karimulla Khalili (RUS) | – | – | 38 | 38 |
| 32 | Anton Smolski (BLR) | 22 | 13 | 12 | 35 |
| 33 | Vladimir Iliev (BUL) | 0 | – | 29 | 29 |
| 34 | Benjamin Weger (SUI) | 8 | 21 | 0 | 29 |
| 35 | Didier Bionaz (ITA) | 0 | 28 | 0 | 28 |
| 36 | Florent Claude (BEL) | 7 | 0 | 21 | 28 |
| 37 | Tuomas Harjula (FIN) | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 38 | Peppe Femling (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| 39 | Tero Seppälä (FIN) | 0 | 22 | 4 | 26 |
| 40 | Vytautas Strolia (LTU) | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 41 | Leif Nordgren (USA) | 16 | 0 | 9 | 25 |
| 42 | Christian Gow (CAN) | 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| 43 | Mikita Labastau (BLR) | 0 | 9 | 11 | 20 |
| 44 | Jake Brown (USA) | 0 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 45 | Miha Dovžan (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 46 | Kosuke Ozaki (JPN) | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 47 | Sergey Bocharnikov (BLR) | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 48 | Milan Žemlička (CZE) | – | 2 | 15 | 17 |
| 49 | Julian Eberhard (AUT) | 6 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 50 | Matvey Eliseev (RUS) | 15 | – | 0 | 15 |
| 51 | Philipp Horn (GER) | – | 11 | – | 11 |
| 52 | Rene Zahkna (EST) | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 53 | Harald Lemmerer (AUT) | 10 | 0 | – | 10 |
| 54 | Jesper Nelin (SWE) | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 55 | Karol Dombrovski (LTU) | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 56 | Artem Tyshchenko (UKR) | – | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 57 | Tomáš Krupčík (CZE) | 0 | 6 | – | 6 |
| 58 | Alex Cisar (SLO) | – | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 59 | George Buta (ROU) | – | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 60 | Petr Pashchenko (RUS) | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| # | Name | KON | ANT | POK | Total |
| 61 | Adam Runnalls (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 62 | Sean Doherty (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 63 | Andrzej Nędza-Kubiniec (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 64 | Scott Gow (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |