# Biathlon World Championships 2007 – Men's pursuit

The men's pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Championships 2007 was held on 4 February 2007.

## Info

Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his second gold medal in as many days, started in front, but Michal Šlesingr caught up with his four-second deficit before the first shooting, and Šlesingr completed a faultless shoot to take a 15-second lead. Deryzemlya and Björn Ferry missed, so no one else were within fifty seconds of the lead, with a group of three including Tomasz Sikora, Mattias Nilsson and Lars Berger (who advanced 13 places from his starting position through the fastest skiing).
Bjørndalen cut the deficit to Šlesingr by half during the second loop, but Šlesingr held onto his lead thanks to a faultless shoot. Berger and Sikora entered the range fighting for third place, with Emil Hegle Svendsen and Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. close behind, and Sikora, Svendsen and Kruglov (after a slow shooting) filled all their targets to leave within a few seconds of each other.
Bjørndalen and Šlesingr came in together to the first standing shooting, about half a minute ahead of the competitors. The leaders missed a few shots, with Bjørndalen getting one penalty loop and Šlesingr two, and Šlesingr thus lost half a minute and was just ahead of Sikora, who also missed once. Svendsen missed twice and was fourth, over a minute behind, and heading a group also consisting of Lars Berger, Vincent Defrasne and Raphaël Poirée.
Bjørndalen's half-a-minute lead grew to 45 seconds by the time he arrived at the shooting range for the final shoot. With a perfect shooting, he had a massive lead into the final 2.5-kilometre loop, and the fight was for the silver medal. Sikora missed twice, while Šlesingr lost many seconds in shooting speed and also missed a target. In the group behind, Berger had taken a lead before the shooting, but missed three shots, and Svendsen and Poirée also missed to leave Defrasne with a lead of 13 seconds on Šlesingr, but over a minute up to Bjørndalen. Maxim Tchoudov, who had not been better than 14th at any stage, now shot a full house and left the range in a group with Svendsen, Poirée and Sikora.
There were no errors for Bjørndalen, who could ski the final loop as a lap of honour and still win by a minute, while Tchoudov distanced all his competitors in the chase for medals. Svendsen and Poirée were dropped, he caught and left Šlesingr, before pipping Olympic gold medallist Defrasne to the line and taking silver.

## Results

The race was started at 11:15.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Nationality | Start | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Time | Deficit |
| | 1 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 0:00 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 32:21.2 | |
| | 13 | Maxim Tchoudov | Russia | 1:03 | 3 (1+0+2+0) | 33:31.0 | +1:09.8 |
| | 16 | Vincent Defrasne | France | 1:11 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 33:31.1 | +1:09.9 |
| 4 | 2 | Michal Šlesingr | Czech Republic | 0:05 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 33:35.9 | +1:14.7 |
| 5 | 7 | Emil Hegle Svendsen | Norway | 0:48 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 33:38.4 | +1:17.2 |
| 6 | 8 | Raphaël Poirée | France | 0:50 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 33:40.0 | +1:18.8 |
| 7 | 5 | Tomasz Sikora | Poland | 0:39 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 33:40.6 | +1:19.4 |
| 8 | 27 | Dmitri Yaroshenko | Russia | 1:38 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 33:48.7 | +1:27.5 |
| 9 | 22 | Ivan Tcherezov | Russia | 1:35 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 33:57.3 | +1:36.1 |
| 10 | 18 | Michael Roesch | Germany | 1:18 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 34:05.5 | +1:44.3 |
| 11 | 14 | Lars Berger | Norway | 1:04 | 6 (0+2+1+3) | 34:07.0 | +1:45.8 |
| 12 | 19 | Michael Greis | Germany | 1:19 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 34:07.7 | +1:46.5 |
| 13 | 17 | Andreas Birnbacher | Germany | 1:13 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 34:10.6 | +1:49.4 |
| 14 | 15 | Alexander Wolf | Germany | 1:10 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 34:14.4 | +1:53.2 |
| 15 | 30 | Christoph Sumann | Austria | 1:43 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 34:20.7 | +1:59.5 |
| 16 | 12 | Nikolay Kruglov | Russia | 0:59 | 4 (0+0+3+1) | 34:37.8 | +2:16.6 |
| 17 | 43 | Sven Fischer | Germany | 2:22 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 34:39.9 | +2:18.7 |
| 18 | 38 | Jay Hakkinen | United States | 2:11 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 34:45.3 | +2:24.1 |
| 19 | 6 | Mattias Nilsson | Sweden | 0:40 | 4 (0+1+1+2) | 34:48.8 | +2:27.6 |
| 20 | 23 | Halvard Hanevold | Norway | 1:35 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 34:52.3 | +2:31.1 |
| 21 | 28 | Friedrich Pinter | Austria | 1:39 | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 34:56.3 | +2:35.1 |
| 22 | 4 | Björn Ferry | Sweden | 0:34 | 5 (1+0+2+2) | 35:07.5 | +2:46.3 |
| 23 | 34 | Carl Johan Bergman | Sweden | 1:48 | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 35:12.2 | +2:51.0 |
| 24 | 10 | Matthias Simmen | Switzerland | 0:57 | 6 (1+1+2+2) | 35:12.2 | +2:51.0 |
| 25 | 37 | Simon Fourcade | France | 2:08 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 35:23.6 | +3:02.4 |
| 26 | 3 | Andriy Deryzemlya | Ukraine | 0:26 | 5 (1+1+0+3) | 35:31.2 | +3:10.0 |
| 27 | 24 | Wilfried Pallhuber | Italy | 1:35 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 35:35.6 | +3:14.4 |
| 28 | 9 | Rene Laurent Vuillermoz | Italy | 0:54 | 6 (1+0+3+2) | 35:46.7 | +3:25.5 |
| 29 | 36 | Alexei Korobeynikov | Ukraine | 2:02 | 3 (0+1+2+0) | 35:51.6 | +3:30.4 |
| 30 | 33 | Magnús Jónsson | Sweden | 1:48 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 35:55.5 | +3:34.3 |
| 31 | 29 | Alexei Aidarov | Ukraine | 1:40 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 36:06.0 | +3:44.8 |
| 32 | 35 | Tim Burke | United States | 1:58 | 5 (0+1+2+2) | 36:06.5 | +3:45.3 |
| 33 | 32 | Jaroslav Soukup | Czech Republic | 1:45 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 36:10.4 | +3:49.2 |
| 34 | 25 | Janez Marič | Slovenia | 1:36 | 6 (2+1+2+1) | 36:10.5 | +3:49.3 |
| 35 | 26 | Daniel Mesotitsch | Austria | 1:38 | 6 (2+1+3+0) | 36:37.7 | +4:16.5 |
| 36 | 40 | Rustam Valiullin | Belarus | 2:17 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 36:54.1 | +4:32.9 |
| 37 | 42 | Roland Lessing | Estonia | 2:21 | 4 (2+0+2+0) | 36:55.3 | +4:34.1 |
| 38 | 21 | Olexander Bilanenko | Ukraine | 1:30 | 6 (2+2+1+1) | 36:55.6 | +4:34.4 |
| 39 | 39 | Sergey Novikov | Belarus | 2:11 | 4 (0+1+2+1) | 36:59.8 | +4:38.6 |
| 40 | 50 | Roman Dostál | Czech Republic | 2:49 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | 37:16.0 | +4:54.8 |
| 41 | 44 | Ludwig Gredler | Austria | 2:24 | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 37:16.9 | +4:55.7 |
| 42 | 49 | Jouni Kinnunen | Finland | 2:49 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 37:44.5 | +5:23.3 |
| 43 | 59 | Ferréol Cannard | France | 3:23 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 37:55.9 | +5:34.7 |
| 44 | 11 | Christian De Lorenzi | Italy | 0:57 | 7 (2+2+3+0) | 38:01.4 | +5:40.2 |
| 45 | 31 | Klemen Bauer | Slovenia | 1:44 | 7 (0+1+4+2) | 38:04.5 | +5:43.3 |
| 46 | 46 | Jeremy Teela | United States | 2:32 | 7 (2+0+3+2) | 38:05.2 | +5:44.0 |
| 47 | 54 | Gregor Brvar | Slovenia | 3:08 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 38:13.6 | +5:52.4 |
| 48 | 51 | Timo Antila | Finland | 2:57 | 4 (2+2+0+0) | 38:18.9 | +5:57.7 |
| 49 | 56 | Ondřej Moravec | Czech Republic | 3:17 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 38:22.3 | +6:01.1 |
| 50 | 48 | Lowell Bailey | United States | 2:45 | 6 (2+0+3+1) | 38:25.4 | +6:04.2 |
| 51 | 45 | Vasja Rupnik | Slovenia | 2:24 | 7 (0+1+3+3) | 38:46.1 | +6:24.9 |
| 52 | 52 | Simon Hallenbarter | Switzerland | 2:58 | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 39:03.0 | +6:41.8 |
| 53 | 57 | Jarkko Kauppinen | Finland | 3:19 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 39:09.8 | +6:48.6 |
| 54 | 58 | Alexandr Syman | Belarus | 3:20 | 7 (2+2+1+2) | 39:59.4 | +7:38.2 |
| 55 | 53 | Jaime Robb | Canada | 3:05 | 7 (2+0+3+2) | 40:01.2 | +7:40.0 |
| | 20 | Indrek Tobreluts | Estonia | 1:22 | (2+3+2+ ) | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 47 | Markus Windisch | Italy | 2:33 | (3+4+ + ) | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 55 | Mirosław Kobus | Poland | 3:12 | (2+3+ + ) | Lapped | Lapped |
| | 41 | Wiesław Ziemianin | Poland | 2:19 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 60 | Robin Clegg | Canada | 3:25 | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |