Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

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Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

 

Beijing (CHN) - 5 February 2022 - 19 February 2022

 

 

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Biathlon Qualification Standing

 

Blue - 6 Quotas

Green - 5 Quotas

Bold - 4 Quotas

 

after Stage 4 (Hochfilzen II)

Completed Events 7/25

 

 

 

Men

 

Spoiler

1	Norway	3033.0
2	Sweden	2714.0
3	Germany	2629.0
4	France	2563.0
5	Russia (Neutral Athletes under Olympic Flag)	2413.0
6	Austria	2298.0
7	Czech Republic	2229.0
8	Belarus	2052.0
9	Italy	1984.0
10	Slovenia	1961.0
11	Ukraine	1870.0
12	Finland	1866.0
13	Switzerland	1863.0
14	United States	1718.0
15	Canada	1626.0
16	Belgium	1418.0
17	Lithuania	1413.0
18	Bulgaria	1301.0
19	Slovakia	1220.0
20	Estonia	1168.0
21	Latvia	1116.0
22	Poland	1036.0
23	Japan	1031.0
24	Kazakstan	585.0
25	Serbia	264.0
26	Moldova	262.0
27	Romania	209.0
28	Greece	185.0
29	Croatia	45.0

 

 

Women

 

Spoiler

1	Sweden	2871.0
2	Norway	2745.0
3	France	2682.0
4	Germany	2603.0
5	Russia (Neutral Athletes under Olympic Flag)	2351.0
6	Austria	2284.0
7	Belarus	2252.0
8	Ukraine	2227.0
9	Italy	2214.0
10	Switzerland	2022.0
11	Czech Republic	2008.0
12	United States	1868.0
13	Poland	1720.0
14	Canada	1676.0
15	Estonia	1627.0
16	Finland	1495.0
17	Japan	1303.0
18	Bulgaria	1189.0
19	Slovakia	957.0
20	South Korea	923.0
21	Slovenia	895.0
22	Kazakstan	880.0
23	Lithuania	585.0
24	Latvia	407.0
25	Belgium	382.0
26	Great Britain	217.0
27	Romania	166.0
28	Australia	107.0
29	Greenland (Denmark)	84.0
30	Moldova	75.0
31	Croatia	48.0

 

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Biathlon Qualification Standing

 

Blue - 6 Quotas

Green - 5 Quotas

Bold - 4 Quotas

 

after Stage 5 (Oberhof I)

 

*Rumors saying the Qualification process will be extended and will last until the end of next Season, very likely after 1st Trimester. Still has to be confirmed. Also apparently not all races will be counted, some worst results will be scratched. According to our specialized site, our boys are now even on the 22nd current place and girls in 21st rank counting the scratched races.

 

Men

 

Spoiler

1	Norway	3870.0
2	Sweden	3378.0
3	France	3350.0
4	Germany	3309.0
5	Russia (Neutral Athletes under Olympic Flag)	3115.0
6	Austria	2876.0
7	Belarus	2738.0
8	Italy	2622.0
9	Czech Republic	2580.0
10	Slovenia	2411.0
11	Switzerland	2398.0
12	Ukraine	2341.0
13	Finland	2275.0
14	United States	2171.0
15	Canada	2120.0
16	Lithuania	1840.0
17	Belgium	1704.0
18	Bulgaria	1543.0
19	Slovakia	1456.0
20	Estonia	1433.0
21	Latvia	1426.0
22	Poland	1412.0
23	Japan	1254.0
24	Kazakhstan	909.0
25	Romania	458.0
26	Moldova	449.0
27	Serbia	307.0
28	Greece	216.0
29	Croatia	142.0

 

Women

 

Spoiler

1	Sweden	3554.0
2	Norway	3534.0
3	France	3478.0
4	Germany	3284.0
5	Russia (Neutral Athletes under Olympic Flag)	3061.0
6	Belarus	2925.0
7	Austria	2856.0
8	Ukraine	2755.0
9	Italy	2733.0
10	Switzerland	2582.0
11	Czech Republic	2407.0
12	United States	2360.0
13	Poland	2202.0
14	Canada	2166.0
15	Estonia	1997.0
16	Finland	1921.0
17	Japan	1551.0
18	Bulgaria	1471.0
19	Slovakia	1245.0
20	Kazakhstan	1226.0
21	Slovenia	1209.0
22	South Korea	1144.0
23	Lithuania	866.0
24	Latvia	685.0
25	Belgium	545.0
26	Romania	302.0
27	Great Britain	217.0
28	Moldova	212.0
29	Croatia	121.0
30	Australia	107.0
31	Greenland (Denmark)	84.0

 

[hckošice 16,645]

Ok. so our Biathlon site wrote an article about the Olympic qualification, here is the translated one

Link to the article in slovak https://www.slovenskybiatlon.sk/spravodajstvo/slovensko/1420-casto-piseme-o-vybojovani-si-styroch-miesteniek-na-oh-ako-prebieha-kvalifikacia

 

Time to look closely to the new Biathlon Qualification process.

 

 

First let took a closer look at how the qualification actually takes place. If you classify yourself as a PRO level fan (you know almost everything in biathlon), you can skip the first five paragraphs.

 

Qualification for previous Olympic Games was very simple and practically identical to both World Championships qualification and World Cup qualifiers. In each Individual, sprint and relay races, the points of the three best competitors of every nation are counted in the Nations Ranking. The winner gets 160 points, the second 154, the third 148 points ... and from the eleventh place to the eighty it goes down by one single point down, so it stops at 61 points for the eighty ranked bathlete. But then it breaks and every other competitor has two points less than the previous one, so the 110th biathlete has only one point and then everyone who crossed to the finish line gets 1 point as well.

 

In the relays, the winning country gets 420 points and then it gradually decreases. For the tenth place it is, for example, 220 points, for the twentieth 120. Scoring is the same in mixed relays, with the difference that men and women divide those points in half. So, for example, if the Norwegians win the mixed relay, women will get 210 points, and men will get 210 points. There is no difference whether it is a 2 + 2 mixed relay or 1 + 1 mixed singles relay.

 

In the current season, 25 World Cup events are counted for the Nations Ranking for both women and men, including the World Championships in Pokljuka. At the end of the season, the final counts looks like this: The first five countries can enter six competitors in the World Cup for the entire following season, countries from sixth to tenth enter five, from eleventh to seventeen-four, from eighteenth to twenty-third three, and 24th and The 25th country will receive two places. The IBU can still award a wild card to eight other countries, which can fiels one competitor at a time. Thus, a total of 113 biathletes from 33 countries can compete in one WC race, but they also have to fulfilled personal result quotas. This is quite difficult to calculate, we will not explain it here. Briefly, the competitor needs at least one 50-60 place in the IBU Cup to qualify for the WC race.

 

But for the world championships, quotas are stricter for stronger countries and more benevolent for the weakest. In practice, this means that up to the first fifteen countries they are allowed to enter four competitors, then the national teams from 16th to 25th place three, from 26th to 30th place two and the IBU still reserves the right to another ten wild cards for smaller countries. So a total of 110 biathletes from up to 40 countries can compete at a WCh race. At the same time, the performers need to meet the required personal quota, but is also easier to achieve, you only need to place around 80-90. places in the IBU Cup.

 

Every race is different, so it is not possible to determine exactly. It is therefore true that in the 2020/2021 season, Slovakia is fighting hardly for quotas for next year's World Cup races. Based on last year's ranking, we can enter three men and three women, because last year we finished on the 20th, respectively. 18th place. It is therefore logical that we want to reach the Top 17 so that four biathletes can start. Men are currently in 18th place and women in 20th place.

 

 

And now lets move on the

 

Changed qualification to WOG Beijing 2022

 

Usually there would be a parallel fight for quotas like for the world championship, ie as you read above, with exactly the same system, only the amount of quotas deadline are only again with slightly shifted deadlines.

 

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the need for a more up-to-date reflection of the performance of different countries in competitions under the five circles, the IBU decided to make a change and the qualification model for the Beijing Olympics 2022 was modified and approved just before the new season, the 28th of November 2020.

 

Again, the Nations Ranking decides, but not its ranking at the end of the 20/21 season as it was originally planned, but each country counts only the twelve best results from: 6 sprint races 1 individual race 3 relay races 1 mixed relay race 2 + 2 and 1 single mixed relay race 1 + 1; from the whole season 20/21, as well as the first six stages of the World Cup 21/22. The qualification will therefore end after the Ruhpolding stage on 16 January 2022.

 

The breakdown is as follows: The first twenty countries will get four places to start in all races, including relays. And the IBU will award twelve wild cards to the strongest athletes whose countries have not qualified. Maximum two places per country. Thus, a total of 92 women and men should start in each individual race at the Olympics. Interestingly, the document does not say anything about the host country, China, which is not competing at all this season.

 

 

It is therefore absolutely crucial for our biathlon that we somehow manage to finish into the Top 20 in both categories, because not having the relays at the Olympics could be a significant breakthrough in our biathlon, also in terms of its funding (contribution from the governement + sponsors), which would was very difficult to get.

 

The pandemic is currently helping but also harming us at the same time, as the Fialková sisters were left out and we are completely on the edge with women, although the virus has also affected other countries like Bulgarians, Slovenes and Chinese women cannot fully entered some races. In mens the Bulgarians. If we take a closer look at these qualifying criteria, we will find by logical reasoning that about a third of the starts will count, and as has been said, only the best ones. Many average or below-average races will therefore be irrelevant. In practice, this means, for example, that our men have three decent relays behind them, in which they won 16th, 13th and 12th place. Since three are counted, they are only interested in the result of 15th and higher. And with this model, it is better to totally ruin two starts in individual disciplines, but to score massively in one with all three competitors. And we have the biggest problems with that. If we get to a better result, usually with only one competitor, the other two will only help him cosmetically. That is the only way we can lose the relays at the Olympics but at same time we can also be in the 17th or 18th place in the classic nations ranking.

 

 

As the qualification is about one third right now, and it wasn't until Anterselva that the first weaker races began possible to be cut, the standings look almost identical to the classic nation rankings. If this starts to differ, we will inform you and publish the rankings from time to time. It is true that after each race we will continue to publish the traditional nations rankings, whom on the basis all the quotas for WC races are determined.

 

 

MEN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION CURRENT STANDING

 

1.	NOR	NÓRSKO	4714	0
2.	FRA	FRANCÚZSKO	4316	-398
3.	GER	NEMECKO	4060	-654
4.	SWE	ŠVÉDSKO	4021	-693
5.	RUS	RUSKO	3880	-834
6.	AUT	RAKÚSKO	3532	-1182
7.	ITA	TALIANSKO	3468	-1246
8.	BLR	BIELORUSKO	3195	-1519
9.	UKR	UKRAJINA	3096	-1618
10.	SUI	ŠVAJČIARSKO	2962	-1752

11.	SLO	SLOVINSKO	2920	-1794
12.	CZE	ČESKO	2890	-1824
13.	FIN	FÍNSKO	2860	-1854
14.	CAN	KANADA	2700	-2014
15.	USA	SPOJENÉ ŠTÁTY	2649	-2065
16.	LTU	LITVA	2316	-2398
17.	BEL	BELGICKO	2003	-2711
18.	SVK	SLOVENSKO	1955	-2759
19.	EST	ESTÓNSKO	1859	-2855
20.	LAT	LOTYŠSKO	1795	-2919
21.	POL	POĽSKO	1714	-3000
22.	JPN	JAPONSKO	1574	-3140
23.	BUL	BULHARSKO	1543	-3171
24.	KAZ	KAZACHSTAN	1290	-3424
25.	ROU	RUMUNSKO	1023	-3691
26.	MDA	MOLDAVSKO	647	-4067
27.	SRB	SRBSKO	338	-4376
28.	GRE	GRÉCKO	216	-4498
29.	CRO	CHORVÁTSKO	181	-4533

 

WOMEN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION CURRENT STANDING

 

1.	SWE	ŠVÉDSKO	4303	0
2.	FRA	FRANCÚZSKO	4248	-55
3.	NOR	NÓRSKO	4247	-56
4.	GER	NEMECKO	4156	-147
5.	RUS	RUSKO	3961	-342
6.	BLR	BIELORUSKO	3770	-533
7.	AUT	RAKÚSKO	3521	-782
8.	ITA	TALIANSKO	3499	-804
9.	UKR	UKRAJINA	3378	-925
10.	SUI	ŠVAJČIARSKO	3183	-1120

11.	CZE	ČESKO	3046	-1257
12.	USA	SPOJENÉ ŠTÁTY	2817	-1486
13.	POL	POĽSKO	2711	-1592
14.	CAN	KANADA	2706	-1597
15.	EST	ESTÓNSKO	2455	-1848
16.	FIN	FÍNSKO	2371	-1932
17.	JPN	JAPONSKO	1974	-2329
18.	KAZ	KAZACHSTAN	1664	-2639
19.	SVK	SLOVENSKO	1591	-2712
20.	KOR	KÓREA	1586	-2717
21.	BUL	BULHARSKO	1471	-2832
22.	SLO	SLOVINSKO	1370	-2933
23.	LTU	LITVA	995	-3308
24.	LAT	LOTYŠSKO	924	-3379
25.	BEL	BELGICKO	613	-3690
26.	ROU	RUMUNSKO	446	-3857
27.	MDA	MOLDAVSKO	292	-4011
28.	GBR	VEĽKÁ BRITÁNIA	217	-4086
29.	CRO	CHORVÁTSKO	158	-4145
30.	AUS	AUSTRÁLIA	107	-4196
31.	GRL	GRÓNSKO	84	-4219

[Olympian1010 8,322]

I dream of a day when the IBU releases a qualification system that doesn’t take hours and hours of analysis to understand. Oh, and when they make the actual standings that matter public.

 

Also, only 1 Individual counts, but 6 sprints do...At the very least make it 5 sprints and 2 individuals.

[Olympian1010 8,322]

Also, does anyone have an idea as to what the odds are that Belgium accepts a full team quota?

[dcro 10,211]

22 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Also, does anyone have an idea as to what the odds are that Belgium accepts a full team quota?

100,00%

 

They accepted every single quota for Pyeongchang 2018.

[prso1000 747]

Could someone please explain how the qualification in biathlon works for the individual starters outside the top 20 nations. 
 

12 places , are those really wild cards means invitation or based on some criteria. 2018 it was decided by IBU qualifying points. 
thanks in advance. 

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40 minutes ago, prso1000 said:

Could someone please explain how the qualification in biathlon works for the individual starters outside the top 20 nations. 
 

12 places , are those really wild cards means invitation or based on some criteria. 2018 it was decided by IBU qualifying points. 
thanks in advance. 

As far as I understood it correctly. yes, all 12 are wild cards based on criterias (IBU points), for the 12 best biathletes from already non qualified countries, but with a limit of max 2 per country.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,476]

And to add to that: the IBU qualifying points rankings are kept on a secret list, which is only handed out to federations and not made public anywhere. Unless you make the list yourself, but I tried hard for 2018 and that's nearly impossible unless you're a real Excel magician.