2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Biathlon Men’s 12.5KM Pursuit Odds

Last Updated on January 28, 2010 5:01 pm by drew

Biathlon Men’s Pursuit

In just its third appearance in Olympic history, the Biathlon Men’s 12.5 Kilometer Pursuit is a sports that combines skiing and shooting in a pursuit-style race.

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In this event, the top 60 finishers in the 10 kilometer sprint can compete in the pursuit. The sprint winner starts the race and the racer’s final deficit behind sprint winner corresponds to their starting deficit in the pursuit. Competitors race over five loops of a 2.5 kilometer skiing course, shooting twenty times after each loop. 10 shots are prone and 10 shots are standing. Each miss requires a competitor to ski a 150-meter penalty loop.

One of the young stars of the sports, Emil Hegle Svendsen, is favored to win the gold in this event.

Svendsen enters the Olympics with odds of 5/2 according to online sports book Brobury Sports. Other short odds to win are Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (3/1), The Field (5/1), and Dominik Landertinger (12/1).

Svendsen represents

Norway, and he holds three world championships, but non are in the pursuit. He was part of the 2009 world championship relay team, and his last pursuit title came in the 2004 Youth & Junior World Championships.

Bjoerndalen is also a biathlete out of

Norway. He won the inaugural gold medal in this event and three other events in the 2002 Olympics. He came up with silver in the 2006 Olympics. He is also the three-time defending world champion for the pursuit.

Landertinger hails from

Austria, and he is the 2009 world champion in the 15km mass start. He has yet to win a gold medal on the world stage for the pursuit.

The 2010 Winter Olympics take place from

Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada beginning Friday, Feb. 12. and concluding Sunday, Feb. 28. For complete odds on the biathlon men’s 12.5km pursuit, see below.

Odds to win the gold medal in the Biathlon Men’s 12.5KM Pursuit event at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Emil Hegle Svendsen 5/2    

Ole Einar Bjoerndalen 3/1    

Field (Any Other Player) 5/1    

Dominik Landertinger 12/1    

Simon Eder 15/1    

Christoph Sumann 15/1    

Ivan Tcherezov 15/1    

Michael Greis 18/1    

Maxim Tchoudov 20/1    

Björn Ferry 20/1    

Arnd Peiffer 20/1    

Tim Burke 20/1    

Evgeny Ustyugov 20/1    

Simon Fourcade 20/1    

Lars Berger 25/1    

Martin Fourcade 25/1    

Alexander Os 30/1    

Tomasz Sikora 35/1    

Friedrich Pinter 50/1    

Carl-Johan Bergmann 50/1    

Michael Rosch 50/1    

Michal Slesingr 75/1    

Andriy Deryzemlya 75/1    

Paavo Puurunen 100/1    

Daniel Mesotitsch 100/1

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Posted: 1/28/10 5:01PM ET