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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The eleven events took place between 8–22 February 2014.[1]

Biathlon
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
VenueLaura Biathlon & Ski Complex, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates8–22 February
No. of events11
Competitors220 Quota limit
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For the first time ever, a mixed relay event was staged after being voted onto the Olympic program in 2011.[2]

Competition schedule

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The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events.[3]

All times are (UTC+4).

DateTimeEvent
8 February18:30Men's 10 km sprint
9 February18:30Women's 7.5 km sprint
10 February19:00Men's 12.5 km pursuit
11 February19:00Women's 10 km pursuit
13 February18:00Men's 20 km individual
14 February18:00Women's 15 km individual
17 February19:00Women's 12.5 km mass start
18 February14:30Men's 15 km mass start
19 February18:30Mixed 4 x 6 km / 7.5 km relay
21 February18:30Women's 4 x 6 km relay
22 February18:30Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Medal summary

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Notably absent from the medals for biathlon in the 2014 Games were the German women who had won six medals in 2006 and five in 2010. The men's team meanwhile recovered from a poor Games in Vancouver to achieve two silver medals. France's women, who had won three medals in 2010, also missed the podium, as did Canada, despite some promising performances. Sweden's men were also expected to win a medal but they too missed out.

13 athletes went home with two or more medals with five athletes winning three medals each. Belarus's Darya Domracheva won three gold medals to be the most successful biathlete at the Games, while France's Martin Fourcade was the most successful male winning two gold and one silver medal. 2012/13 women's World Cup winner Tora Berger won a medal of each color, while team-mate Tiril Eckhoff won one gold and two bronze at her first Games. Czech athlete Ondřej Moravec won two silver and one bronze.

The biathlon portion was marred by German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle's positive doping test. Sachenbacher-Stehle had finished fourth in both the mass start and the mixed relay but was disqualified from both events after testing positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine.

On 27 November 2017, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova (both from Russia) were disqualified for doping violations.[4] On 1 December 2017, their teammate Olga Zaitseva was also disqualified.[5] On 24 September 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport removed the sanctions from Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, but upheld them on their teammate Olga Zaitseva.[6] Medals in the women's relay were redistributed by the IOC on 19 May 2022.[7]

On 15 February 2020, the International Biathlon Union announced that because of a doping violation, Evgeny Ustyugov and Russian men's 4 x 7.5km relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics.[8] The International Olympic Committee results affirm the decision.[9] In May 2025 the final appeals of the decision were exhausted, leaving the IOC to formally reallocate Ustyugov's medals — a gold and a bronze from 2010 and a relay gold from 2014 — to other athletes.[10] In September 2025 the IOC Executive Board approved the medal reallocations.[11]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Norway3227
2 Belarus3014
3 France2114
4 Germany1102
5 Ukraine1012
6 Slovakia1001
7 Czech Republic0336
8 Austria0202
9 Russia0112
10 Switzerland0101
11 Italy0011
 Slovenia0011
Totals (12 entries)11111133

Men's events

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Women's events

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Mixed event

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Participating NOCs

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Qualification

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A total quota of 220 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (113 men and 107 women). Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the Nation Cup scores of their top 3 athletes in the individual sprint and relay competitions at the 2012 and 2013 World Championships.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ "Laura Cross-country Ski & Biathlon Center". SOOC. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "New events for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Biathlon Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "IOC sanctions five Russian athletes and publishes first full decision as part of the Oswald Commission findings". International Olympic Committee. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "IOC sanctions three Russian athletes as part of the Oswald Commission findings". International Olympic Committee. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Decisions Rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Appeal Arbitrations between Russian Athletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaytseva, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC)" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Events from Sochi 2014 and Tokyo 2020 to have medals and diplomas reallocated".
  8. ↑ "IBU anti-doping hearing panel renders verdicts on Sleptsova and Ustyugov". Biathlon World. International Biathlon Union. 15 February 2020. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  9. ↑ Sochi 2014 Biathlon 4x7.5km relay men Results
  10. ↑ "Doping ruling to strip Ustyugov of 2010 and 2014 Olympics medals". ESPN. The Associated Press. 22 May 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "IOC Executive Board approves Olympic medal reallocations for Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014". olympics.com. 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  12. ↑ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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