# 2022–23 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men

The 2022–23 Biathlon World Cup – Sprint Men started on 3 December 2022 in Kontiolahti and will conclude on 16 March 2023 in Oslo Holmenkollen.

## Competition format

The 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 metres (490 ft). Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

## 2022–23 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold: | Johannes Thingnes Bø | 450 |
| Silver: | Sturla Holm Lægreid | 330 |
| Bronze: | Martin Ponsiluoma | 213 |

## Events summary

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Kontiolahti details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 23:09.0 (0+1) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 23:19.5 (0+0) | Roman Rees Germany | 23:37.8 (0+0) |
| Hochfilzen details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 23:04.0 (0+0) | Émilien Jacquelin France | 23:47.0 (0+1) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 23:50.9 (0+1) |
| Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 22:52.2 (0+0) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 23:09.8 (0+0) | Benedikt Doll Germany | 23:31.0 (0+0) |
| Pokljuka details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 22:55.9 (1+0) | Tarjei Bø Norway | 24:44.0 (0+0) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 24:51.5 (1+0) |
| Antholz-Anterselva details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 22:44.1 (1+0) | Martin Ponsiluoma Sweden | 23:15.5 (1+0) | Sturla Holm Lægreid Norway | 23:21.4 (0+0) |
| Nové Město details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 22:39.6 (0+0) | Tarjei Bø Norway | 23:09.6 (0+0) | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Norway | 23:54.8 (0+1) |
| Oslo Holmenkollen details | Johannes Thingnes Bø Norway | 25:13.0 (0+1) | Martin Ponsiluoma Sweden | 25:36.9 (0+0) | Benedikt Doll Germany | 25:41.9 (0+0) |

## Standings

Intermediate standings after 5 competitions.
| # | Name | KON | HOC | LGB | POK | ANT | NOV | OSL | Total |
| 1. | Johannes Thingnes Bø (NOR) | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 630 |
| 2. | Sturla Holm Lægreid (NOR) | 75 | 60 | 75 | 60 | 60 | DNS | 45 | 375 |
| 3. | Martin Ponsiluoma (SWE) | 28 | 40 | 50 | 20 | 75 | 40 | 75 | 328 |
| 4. | Benedikt Doll (GER) | 30 | 27 | 60 | 50 | 29 | 29 | 60 | 285 |
| 5. | Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR) | 31 | 28 | 31 | 28 | 45 | 60 | 34 | 257 |
| 6. | Tarjei Bø (NOR) | 23 | 2 | 27 | 75 | 27 | 75 | 21 | 250 |
| 7. | Roman Rees (GER) | 60 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 50 | 34 | 23 | 226 |
| 8. | Quentin Fillon Maillet (FRA) | 27 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 21 | 27 | 36 | 213 |
| 9. | Michal Krčmář (CZE) | 9 | 26 | 40 | 45 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 202 |
| 10. | Johannes Dale (NOR) | 36 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 19 | 25 | 199 |
| 11. | Émilien Jacquelin (FRA) | 45 | 75 | 28 | 0 | 40 | – | – | 188 |
| 12. | Fabien Claude (FRA) | 26 | 15 | 36 | 4 | 31 | 45 | 22 | 179 |
| 13. | Antonin Guigonnat (FRA) | 14 | 25 | 16 | 31 | 22 | 36 | 28 | 172 |
| 14. | Niklas Hartweg (SUI) | 25 | 20 | 29 | 24 | 30 | 31 | 9 | 168 |
| 15. | Tommaso Giacomel (ITA) | 0 | 21 | 20 | 40 | 36 | 15 | 27 | 159 |
| 16. | Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE) | 50 | 22 | 24 | 16 | 11 | 26 | – | 149 |
| 17. | Jesper Nelin (SWE) | 34 | 30 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 32 | 0 | 147 |
| 18. | Filip Fjeld Andersen (NOR) | 40 | 50 | 26 | 26 | 0 | – | – | 142 |
| 19. | Andrejs Rastorgujevs (LAT) | – | 45 | 0 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 50 | 136 |
| 20. | Justus Strelow (GER) | 24 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 25 | 5 | 118 |
| 21. | Jakov Fak (SLO) | 20 | 16 | 12 | 29 | 12 | DNS | 24 | 113 |
| 22. | Florent Claude (BEL) | 15 | 24 | 15 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 111 |
| 23. | Simon Eder (AUT) | 0 | 0 | – | 27 | 34 | 16 | 30 | 107 |
| 24. | Johannes Kühn (GER) | 29 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 40 | 104 |
| 25. | Timofey Lapshin (KOR) | – | 15 | 45 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
| 26. | Sebastian Stalder (SUI) | 0 | 18 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 10 | 96 |
| 27. | Sean Doherty (USA) | 21 | 0 | 30 | 0 | – | 23 | 12 | 86 |
| 28. | Tero Seppälä (FIN) | 10 | 23 | 0 | – | 18 | 12 | 19 | 82 |
| 29. | David Zobel (GER) | 32 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 77 |
| 30. | Vytautas Strolia (LTU) | 19 | 29 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 73 |
| # | Name | KON | HOC | LGB | POK | ANT | NOV | OSL | Total |
| 31. | Philipp Nawrath (GER) | 12 | 13 | – | – | 2 | 11 | 32 | 70 |
| 32. | Adam Runnalls (CAN) | 22 | 1 | 0 | – | 28 | – | 16 | 67 |
| 33. | Olli Hiidensalo (FIN) | 8 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 15 | – | 4 | 67 |
| 34. | David Komatz (AUT) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 56 |
| 35. | Philipp Horn (GER) | – | – | 22 | 12 | – | – | 17 | 51 |
| 36. | Endre Strømsheim (NOR) | – | – | – | – | – | 50 | 0 | 50 |
| 37. | Artem Pryma (UKR) | 11 | 0 | 23 | – | 10 | 6 | 0 | 50 |
| 38. | Otto Invenius (FIN) | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | 29 | 47 |
| 39. | Anton Dudchenko (UKR) | 0 | 3 | 13 | DNS | 0 | 24 | 0 | 40 |
| 40. | Serafin Wiestner (SUI) | – | – | 0 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| 41. | Felix Leitner (AUT) | 0 | 12 | 25 | 0 | – | – | – | 37 |
| 42. | Christian Gow (CAN) | 0 | 5 | DNS | – | 24 | 0 | 6 | 35 |
| 43. | Jakub Štvrtecký (CZE) | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| 44. | Campbell Wright (NZL) | 18 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | – | 0 | 31 |
| 45. | Anton Vidmar (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 30 |
| 46. | Thierry Langer (BEL) | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 30 |
| 47. | Vladimir Iliev (BUL) | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 29 |
| 48. | Rene Zahkna (EST) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | – | 28 |
| 49. | Éric Perrot (FRA) | 7 | 0 | 0 | – | DNS | 20 | 0 | 27 |
| 50. | Émilien Claude (FRA) | 6 | 0 | 17 | 0 | – | – | – | 23 |
| 51. | Emil Nykvist (SWE) | 0 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | – | 23 |
| 52. | Miha Dovžan (SLO) | – | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 53. | Peppe Femling (SWE) | 0 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 54. | Karol Dombrovski (LTU) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 55. | Tomáš Mikyska (CZE) | 0 | 4 | 11 | – | 0 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
| 56. | Vebjørn Sørum (NOR) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | 18 |
| 57. | Didier Bionaz (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 58. | Mikito Tachizaki (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | DNS | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 59. | Dmitrii Shamaev (ROU) | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 60. | Paul Schommer (USA) | – | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | – | – | 16 |
| # | Name | KON | HOC | LGB | POK | ANT | NOV | OSL | Total |
| 61. | Lucas Fratzscher (GER) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | 14 |
| 62. | Michal Šíma (SVK) | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 63. | Tuomas Harjula (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | 14 |
| 64. | Einar Hedegart (NOR) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | 13 |
| 65. | George Colțea (ROU) | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 66. | Artem Tyshchenko (UKR) | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | – | 0 | 11 |
| 67. | Lovro Planko (SLO) | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 10 |
| 68. | Jeremy Finello (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | DNS | – | 10 |
| 69. | Krešimir Crnković (CRO) | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | DNS | 10 |
| 70. | Joscha Burkhalter (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 71. | Alex Cisar (SLO) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | 10 |
| 72. | Dmytro Pidruchnyi (UKR) | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | – | 9 |
| 73. | Grzegorz Guzik (POL) | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 9 |
| 74. | Jake Brown (USA) | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 8 |
| 75. | Jonáš Mareček (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 76. | Vladislav Kireyev (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 77. | Pavel Magazeev (MDA) | 0 | DSQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 78. | Malte Stefansson (SWE) | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 79. | Adam Václavík (CZE) | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 80. | Bogdan Tsymbal (UKR) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 81. | Patrick Braunhofer (ITA) | 0 | – | – | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 82. | Dominic Unterweger (AUT) | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | 0 | 5 |
| 83. | Václav Červenka (USA) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 4 |
| 84. | Taras Lesiuk (UKR) | 1 | 0 | DNS | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 |