# 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men

The 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Men started on 4 December 2019 in Östersund and will finished on 19 February 2020 in Antholz-Anterselva.

## 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.

## 2018–19 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Johannes Thingnes Bø | 128 |
| Silver: | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | 118 |
| Bronze: | Lars Helge Birkeland | 97 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Östersund details | Martin Fourcade France | 53:11.9 (0+0+0+1) | Simon Desthieux France | 53:24.6 (0+1+0+0) | Quentin Fillon Maillet France | 55:02.7 (2+0+0+1) |
| Pokljuka details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 47:54.3 (0+0+0+0) | Martin Fourcade France | 48:05.7 (0+0+0+0) | Fabien Claude France | 48:19.9 (0+0+0+0) |
| World Championships details | Martin Fourcade France | 49:43.1 (0+0+0+1) | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 50:40.1 (1+0+0+1) | Dominik Landertinger Austria | 51:05.2 (0+0+0+1) |

## Standings

| # | Name | ÖST | POK | ANT | Total |
| 1 | Martin Fourcade (FRA) | 60 | 54 | 60 | 174 |
| 2 | Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR) | 31 | 60 | 54 | 145 |
| 3 | Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) | 48 | 36 | 36 | 120 |
| 4 | Tarjei Bø (NOR) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |
| 5 | Fabien Claude (FRA) | 36 | 48 | 22 | 106 |
| 6 | Benjamin Weger (SUI) | 40 | 19 | 40 | 99 |
| 7 | Benedikt Doll (GER) | 25 | 31 | 29 | 85 |
| 8 | Alexandr Loginov (RUS) | 32 | 25 | 26 | 83 |
| 9 | Lukas Hofer (ITA) | 22 | 28 | 28 | 78 |
| 10 | Johannes Dale (NOR) | 5 | 40 | 32 | 77 |
| 11 | Simon Desthieux (FRA) | 54 | 20 | 0 | 74 |
| 12 | Jakov Fak (SLO) | 0 | 29 | 43 | 72 |
| 13 | Dominik Landertinger (AUT) | 20 | 0 | 48 | 68 |
| 14 | Ondřej Moravec (CZE) | 24 | 16 | 25 | 65 |
| 15 | Evgeniy Garanichev (RUS) | 30 | 6 | 27 | 63 |
| 16 | Philipp Horn (GER) | 14 | 27 | 20 | 61 |
| 17 | Simon Eder (AUT) | 29 | 26 | 1 | 56 |
| 18 | Émilien Jacquelin (FRA) | 43 | 9 | – | 52 |
| 19 | Johannes Kühn (GER) | 0 | 34 | 15 | 49 |
| 20 | Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE) | 18 | – | 31 | 49 |
| 21 | Krasimir Anev (BUL) | 26 | DNF | 23 | 49 |
| 22 | Leif Nordgren (USA) | 0 | 14 | 34 | 48 |
| 23 | Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) | 7 | 22 | 19 | 48 |
| 24 | Philipp Nawrath (GER) | – | 43 | 0 | 43 |
| 25 | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR) | 10 | 32 | 0 | 42 |
| 26 | Matvey Eliseev (RUS) | 34 | 3 | – | 37 |
| 27 | Felix Leitner (AUT) | 23 | 0 | 14 | 37 |
| 28 | Nikita Porshnev (RUS) | 0 | 4 | 30 | 34 |
| 29 | Erlend Bjøntegaard (NOR) | 28 | 5 | – | 33 |
| 30 | Dmytro Pidruchnyi (UKR) | 21 | 11 | – | 32 |
| # | Name | ÖST | POK | ANT | Total |
| 31 | Florent Claude (BEL) | 16 | 0 | 16 | 32 |
| 32 | Artem Pryma (UKR) | 3 | 23 | 5 | 31 |
| 33 | Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) | 0 | 30 | – | 30 |
| 34 | Michal Krčmář (CZE) | 12 | 0 | 18 | 30 |
| 35 | Anton Babikov (RUS) | 27 | – | – | 27 |
| 36 | Peppe Femling (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 37 | Kirill Streltsov (RUS) | – | 24 | – | 24 |
| 38 | Scott Gow (CAN) | 8 | 15 | 0 | 23 |
| 39 | Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE) | 11 | – | 12 | 23 |
| 40 | Christian Gow (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| 41 | Erik Lesser (GER) | 0 | 21 | – | 21 |
| 42 | Cheng Fangming (CHN) | 19 | – | 0 | 19 |
| 43 | Karol Dombrovski (LTU) | 0 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 44 | Sergey Bocharnikov (BLR) | 0 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 45 | Eduard Latypov (RUS) | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 46 | Julian Eberhard (AUT) | 17 | 0 | DNF | 17 |
| 47 | Sean Doherty (USA) | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 48 | Tero Seppälä (FIN) | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 49 | Klemen Bauer (SLO) | 0 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 50 | Maksim Varabei (BLR) | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 51 | Thomas Bormolini (ITA) | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 52 | Jules Burnotte (CAN) | DNS | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 53 | Anton Smolski (BLR) | 6 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
| 54 | Vladimir Iliev (BUL) | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 55 | Sergii Semenov (UKR) | – | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 56 | Rok Trsan (SLO) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 57 | George Buta (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 58 | Jakub Štvrtecký (CZE) | 9 | – | 0 | 9 |
| 59 | Rene Zahkna (EST) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 60 | Lukasz Szczurek (POL) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| # | Name | ÖST | POK | ANT | Total |
| 61 | Lars Helge Birkeland (NOR) | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| 62 | Thierry Langer (BEL) | 0 | – | 3 | 3 |
| 63 | Martin Otcenas (SVK) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 64 | Andrzej Nedza-Kubiniec (POL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 65 | Dmitry Malyshko (RUS) | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| 66 | Michal Šlesingr (CZE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |