title: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's 12.5 kilometres
text: # Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's 12.5 kilometres
  
  The Men's 12.5 kilometres competition of the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at Alpensia Biathlon Centre, South Korea. The competition took place on 13 March 2018.
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
  | 2 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 2 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 4 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 5 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
  
  ## Visually impaired
  
  In the biathlon visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide. The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.
  
  The race was started at 14:40.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 116 | Yury Holub Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich | Belarus | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 39:23.7 | 39:23.7 | – |
  | | 118 | Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Sergiy Kucheryaviy | Ukraine | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 44:48.7 | 39:26.1 | +2.4 |
  | | 125 | Iurii Utkin Guide: Ruslan Perekhoda | Ukraine | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 40:43.8 | 40:19.4 | +55.7 |
  | 4 | 123 | Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Ivan Marchyshak | Ukraine | 3 (2+0+1+0) | 40:19.8 | 40:19.8 | +56.1 |
  | 5 | 119 | Anthony Chalencon Guide: Simon Valverde | France | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 47:57.3 | 42:12.0 | +2:48.3 |
  | 6 | 122 | Vasily Shaptsiaboi Guide: Yuryi Liadov | Belarus | 5 (3+0+1+1) | 42:45.3 | 42:19.6 | +2:55.9 |
  | 7 | 121 | Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: Nazar Stefurak | Ukraine | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 43:26.9 | 43:00.8 | +3:37.1 |
  | 8 | 124 | Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn | Ukraine | 6 (3+3+0+0) | 44:56.1 | 44:29.1 | +5:05.4 |
  | 9 | 120 | Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Vasyl Potapenko | Ukraine | 3 (0+2+1+0) | 45:16.7 | 44:49.5 | +5:25.8 |
  | 10 | 114 | Oleksandr Makhotkin Guide: Denys Nikulin | Ukraine | 6 (3+2+1+0) | 47:28.8 | 47:28.8 | +8:05.1 |
  | 11 | 115 | Thomas Dubois Guide: Bastien Sauvage | France | 9 (3+3+3+0) | 57:49.3 | 50:53.0 | +11:29.3 |
  | 12 | 113 | Piotr Garbowski Guide: Jakub Twardowski | Poland | 11 (2+3+2+4) | 53:11.7 | 53:11.7 | +13:48.0 |
  | 13 | 112 | Choi Bo-gue Guide: Kim Hyun-woo | South Korea | 6 (3+1+0+2) | 53:20.8 | 53:20.8 | +13:57.1 |
  | 14 | 111 | Kairat Kanafin Guide: Anton Zhdanovich | Kazakhstan | 11 (2+2+3+4) | 56:32.4 | 55:58.5 | +16:34.8 |
  | | 117 | Nico Messinger Guide: Lutz Peter Klausmann | Germany | 5 (0+2+2+1) | DNF | DNF | DNF |
  
  ## Standing
  
  The race was started at 12:50.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 74 | Benjamin Daviet | France | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 38:55.5 | 35:25.3 | – |
  | | 73 | Ihor Reptyukh | Ukraine | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 37:00.6 | 35:31.8 | +6.5 |
  | | 72 | Mark Arendz | Canada | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 37:48.1 | 35:54.7 | +29.4 |
  | 4 | 71 | Nils Erik Ulset | Norway | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 45:18.4 | 40:19.4 | +4:54.1 |
  | 5 | 68 | Steffen Lehmker | Germany | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 42:32.5 | 40:50.4 | +5:25.1 |
  | 6 | 64 | Alexandr Gerlits | Kazakhstan | 6 (1+1+3+1) | 43:00.3 | 40:51.3 | +5:26.0 |
  | 7 | 67 | Serhii Romaniuk | Ukraine | 5 (0+0+3+2) | 42:38.6 | 40:56.3 | +5:31.0 |
  | 8 | 69 | Vitalii Sytnyk | Ukraine | 3 (0+0+1+2) | 43:42.4 | 41:31.3 | +6:06.0 |
  | 9 | 70 | Keiichi Sato | Japan | 4 (0+1+2+1) | 43:56.7 | 42:11.2 | +6:45.9 |
  | 10 | 65 | Juha Harkonen | Finland | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 45:04.1 | 43:43.0 | +8:17.7 |
  | 11 | 61 | Ruslan Reiter | United States | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 45:35.3 | 43:45.9 | +8:20.6 |
  | 12 | 66 | Kwon Sang-hyeon | South Korea | 5 (0+1+2+2) | 46:34.0 | 44:42.2 | +9:16.9 |
  | 13 | 62 | Wu Junbao | China | 4 (1+0+0+3) | 50:55.4 | 44:48.8 | +9:23.5 |
  | 14 | 63 | Masaru Hoshizawa | Japan | 10 (2+3+4+1) | 58:46.1 | 56:25.1 | +20:59.8 |
  
  ## Sitting
  
  The race was started at 10:55.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 36 | Taras Rad | Ukraine | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 45:35.6 | 45:35.6 | – |
  | | 32 | Daniel Cnossen | United States | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 46:37.3 | 46:37.3 | +1:01.7 |
  | | 33 | Andy Soule | United States | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 47:08.7 | 47:08.7 | +1:33.1 |
  | 4 | 37 | Martin Fleig | Germany | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 50:02.8 | 48:02.7 | +2:27.1 |
  | 5 | 35 | Sin Eui-hyun | South Korea | 7 (1+4+1+1) | 50:01.9 | 50:01.9 | +4:26.3 |
  | 6 | 34 | Dzmitry Loban | Belarus | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 50:52.7 | 50:52.7 | +5:17.1 |
  | 7 | 31 | Aaron Pike | United States | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 53:07.7 | 51:00.2 | +5:24.6 |
  | 8 | 30 | Yauheni Lukyanenka | Belarus | 5 (0+2+0+3) | 51:45.0 | 51:45.0 | +6:09.4 |
  | 9 | 29 | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 5 (1+2+0+2) | 51:51.5 | 51:51.5 | +6:15.9 |
  | 10 | 22 | Gao Xiaoming | China | 3 (1+1+1+0) | 51:51.6 | 51:51.6 | +6:16.0 |
  | 11 | 21 | Sergey Ussoltsev | Kazakhstan | 4 (1+3+0+0) | 53:36.8 | 53:36.8 | +8:01.2 |
  | 12 | 25 | Derek Zaplotinsky | Canada | 5 (2+1+1+1) | 59:54.9 | 53:55.4 | +8:19.8 |
  | 13 | 26 | Scott Meenagh | Great Britain | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 54:52.9 | 54:52.9 | +9:17.3 |
  | 14 | 24 | Sean Halsted | United States | 5 (2+0+1+2) | 58:05.3 | 55:45.9 | +10:10.3 |
  | 15 | 28 | Kamil Rosiek | Poland | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 56:29.0 | 56:29.0 | +10:53.4 |
  | 16 | 23 | Jeremy Wagner | United States | 10 (3+1+2+4) | 1:04:31.9 | 1:01:57.0 | +16:21.4 |
  | | 27 | Du Mingyuan | China | (3+3++) | DNF | DNF | DNF |
  