title: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's 15 kilometres
text: # Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's 15 kilometres
  
  The Men's 15 kilometres competition of the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at Alpensia Biathlon Centre, South Korea. The competition took place on 16 March 2018.
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
  | 2 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
  | 3 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 4 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 5 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 6 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 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 14:50.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Results | Diff |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 123 | Vitaliy Lukyanenko Guide: Ivan Marchyshak | Ukraine | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 44:12.9 | 44:12.9 | 45:12.9 | – |
  | | 118 | Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Sergiy Kucheryaviy | Ukraine | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 49:33.3 | 43:36.5 | 45:36.5 | +23.6 |
  | | 119 | Anthony Chalencon Guide: Simon Valverde | France | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 52:53.6 | 46:32.8 | 46:32.8 | +1:19.9 |
  | 4 | 124 | Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn | Ukraine | 3 (0+2+0+1) | 44:06.8 | 43:40.3 | 46:40.3 | +1:27.4 |
  | 4 | 125 | Iurii Utkin Guide: Ruslan Perekhoda | Ukraine | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 46:08.0 | 45:40.3 | 46:40.3 | +1:27.4 |
  | 6 | 120 | Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Vasyl Potapenko | Ukraine | 4 (1+1+2+0) | 45:15.5 | 44:48.3 | 48:48.3 | +3:35.4 |
  | 7 | 122 | Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide: Yuryi Liadau | Belarus | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 46:17.6 | 45:49.8 | 49:49.8 | +4:36.9 |
  | 8 | 115 | Oleksandr Makhotkin Guide: Denys Nikulin | Ukraine | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 48:39.1 | 48:39.1 | 50:39.1 | +5:26.2 |
  | 9 | 116 | Thomas Dubois Guide: Bastien Sauvage | France | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 55:58.0 | 49:15.0 | 51:15.0 | +6:02.1 |
  | 10 | 117 | Nico Messinger Guide: Lutz Peter Klausmann | Germany | 4 (0+1+1+2) | 48:49.5 | 48:20.2 | 52:20.2 | +7:07.3 |
  | 11 | 121 | Iaroslav Reshetynskiy Guide: Nazar Stefurak | Ukraine | 8 (2+4+2+0) | 45:30.7 | 45:03.4 | 53:03.4 | +7:50.5 |
  | 12 | 112 | Choi Bo-gue Guide: Kim Hyun-woo | South Korea | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 53:59.8 | 53:59.8 | 55:59.8 | +10:46.9 |
  | 13 | 113 | Kazuto Takamura Guide: Yuhei Fujita | Japan | 4 (0+2+0+2) | 1:00:46.9 | 53:29.3 | 57:29.3 | +12:16.4 |
  | 14 | 111 | Kairat Kanafin Guide: Anton Zhdanovich | Kazakhstan | 8 (2+3+2+1) | 52:45.8 | 52:14.1 | 1:00:14.1 | +15:01.2 |
  | | 114 | Piotr Garbowski Guide: Jakub Twardowski | Poland | (3+3+ + ) | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF |
  
  ## Standing
  
  The race was started at 13:00.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Result | Diff |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 73 | Mark Arendz | Canada | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 45:07.6 | 42:52.2 | 42:52.2 | – |
  | | 75 | Benjamin Daviet | France | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 47:04.7 | 42:50.5 | 43:50.5 | +58.3 |
  | | 72 | Nils-Erik Ulset | Norway | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 49:33.8 | 44:06.7 | 44:06.7 | +1:14.5 |
  | 4 | 71 | Grygorii Vovchynskyi | Ukraine | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 45:37.3 | 43:47.8 | 44:47.8 | +1:55.6 |
  | 5 | 74 | Ihor Reptyukh | Ukraine | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 43:47.3 | 42:02.2 | 45:02.2 | +2:10.0 |
  | 6 | 69 | Vitalii Sytnyk | Ukraine | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 50:31.8 | 48:00.2 | 48:00.2 | +5:08.0 |
  | 7 | 64 | Alexandr Gerlits | Kazakhstan | 4 (0+3+0+1) | 47:26.5 | 45:04.2 | 49:04.2 | +6:12.0 |
  | 8 | 70 | Keiichi Sato | Japan | 3 (2+0+1+0) | 48:35.8 | 46:39.2 | 49:39.2 | +6:47.0 |
  | 9 | 66 | Kwon Sang-hyeon | South Korea | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 50:51.8 | 48:49.7 | 50:49.7 | +7:57.5 |
  | 10 | 62 | Wu Junbao | China | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 55:50.9 | 49:08.8 | 51:08.8 | +8:16.6 |
  | 11 | 68 | Steffen Lehmker | Germany | 6 (0+4+0+2) | 47:09.6 | 45:16.4 | 51:16.4 | +8:24.2 |
  | 12 | 67 | Serhii Romaniuk | Ukraine | 6 (2+2+1+1) | 47:49.5 | 45:54.7 | 51:54.7 | +9:02.5 |
  | 13 | 63 | Masaru Hoshizawa | Japan | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 52:11.5 | 50:06.2 | 54:06.2 | +11:14.0 |
  | 14 | 65 | Juha Harkonen | Finland | 4 (1+1+0+2) | 53:01.0 | 51:25.6 | 55:25.6 | +12:33.4 |
  | 15 | 61 | Ruslan Reiter | United States | 9 (2+3+1+3) | 52:12.1 | 50:06.8 | 59:06.8 | +16:14.6 |
  
  ## Sitting
  
  The race was started at 10:20.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Misses | Real time | Calculated time | Result | Diff |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 37 | Martin Fleig | Germany | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 52:02.1 | 49:57.2 | 49:57.2 | – |
  | | 30 | Daniel Cnossen | United States | 1 (0+0+0+1) | 49:42.7 | 49:42.7 | 50:42.7 | +45.5 |
  | | 26 | Collin Cameron | Canada | 1 (0+1+0+0) | 52:04.1 | 49:59.1 | 50:59.1 | +1:01.9 |
  | 4 | 36 | Taras Rad | Ukraine | 2 (0+0+1+1) | 49:03.6 | 49:03.6 | 51:03.6 | +1:06.4 |
  | 5 | 35 | Sin Eui-hyun | South Korea | 3 (0+2+0+1) | 49:20.7 | 49:20.7 | 52:20.7 | +2:23.5 |
  | 6 | 29 | Aaron Pike | United States | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 54:41.4 | 52:30.1 | 52:30.1 | +2:32.9 |
  | 7 | 27 | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 3 (1+1+1+0) | 51:07.1 | 51:07.1 | 54:07.1 | +4:09.9 |
  | 8 | 28 | Yauheni Lukyanenka | Belarus | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 52:21.8 | 52:21.8 | 54:21.8 | +4:24.6 |
  | 9 | 31 | Andrew Soule | United States | 4 (0+0+4+0) | 50:51.2 | 50:51.2 | 54:51.2 | +4:54.0 |
  | 10 | 34 | Dzmitry Loban | Belarus | 4 (0+0+4+0) | 52:10.1 | 52:10.1 | 56:10.1 | +6:12.9 |
  | 11 | 33 | Trygve Steinar Larsen | Norway | 4 (1+0+2+1) | 52:20.9 | 52:20.9 | 56:20.9 | +6:23.7 |
  | 12 | 25 | Kamil Rosiek | Poland | 1 (0+0+1+0) | 55:35.1 | 55:35.1 | 56:35.1 | +6:37.9 |
  | 13 | 21 | Sergey Ussoltsev | Kazakhstan | 3 (2+0+0+1) | 55:34.8 | 55:34.8 | 58:34.8 | +8:37.6 |
  | 14 | 23 | Scott Meenagh | Great Britain | 5 (0+0+3+2) | 53:58.1 | 53:58.1 | 58:58.1 | +9:00.9 |
  | 15 | 32 | Maksym Yarovyi | Ukraine | 9 (3+1+2+3) | 59:02.5 | 50:46.6 | 59:46.6 | +9:49.4 |
  | 16 | 22 | Gao Xiaoming | China | 7 (3+0+1+3) | 53:41.4 | 53:41.4 | 1:00:41.4 | +10:44.2 |
  | 17 | 24 | Du Mingyuan | China | 13 (4+3+4+2) | 53:07.9 | 53:07.9 | 1:06:07.9 | +16:10.7 |
  