Biathlon Medal Results and Times from Olympic 2014 Men's 20km Individual

Martin Fourcade has done it again.

For the second time in these 2014 Winter Olympics the French biathlon skier has won gold, topping the podium in the 20-kilometer race on Thursday, as BBC Sport shares:

Fourcade came in with a time of 49:31.7, taking just one penalty in the shooting portion. Erik Lesser of Germany earned the silver, while Evgeniy Garanichev of Russia took home the bronze.     

Lowell Bailey was the United States' top finisher, coming in eighth, while Tim Burke finished 44th, Russell Currier crossed the line in 50th and Leif Nordgren came in 83rd.

Here are the full results:

Place	Country	Athlete	Time
GOLD	FRA	Martin Fourcade	49:31.7
SILVER	GER	Erik Lesser	49:43.9
BRONZE	RUS	Evgeniy Garanichev	50:06.2
4	AUT	Simon Eder	50:09.5
5	AUT	Dominik Landertinger	50:14.2
6	FRA	Jean-Guillaume Beatrix	50:15.5
7	NOR	Emil Hegle Svendsen	50:30.3
8	USA	Lowell Bailey	50:57.4
9	UKR	Serhiy Semenov	51:07.9
10	GER	Daniel Böhm	51:09.4
11	NOR	Johannes Bø	51:16.5
12	SWE	Bjorn Ferry	51:18.3
13	FRA	Simon Fourcade	51:29.9
14	ITA	Lukas Hofer	51:34.6
15	SWE	Fredrik Lindstrom	51:50.2
16	GER	Simon Schempp	51:50.3
17	CZE	Jaroslav Soukup	51:55.1
18	CZE	Ondrej Moravec	51:55.8
19	SVK	Matej Kazar	51:56.9
20	KAZ	Yan Savitskiy	52:00.0
21	CAN	Brendan Green	52:05.3
22	GER	Andreas Birnbacher	52:17.9
23	LTU	Tomas Kaukenas	52:38.9
24	AUT	Christoph Sumann	52:39.1
25	CAN	Nathan Smith	52:41.3
26	NOR	Tarjei Bo	52:41.5
27	KAZ	Anton Pantov	52:51.5
28	SVK	Pavol Hurajt	52:53.3
29	EST	Indrek Tobreluts	53:02.5
30	RUS	Alexandr Loginov	53:04.3
31	ITA	Christian de Lorenzi	53:13.1
32	SLO	Jakov Fak	53:17.6
33	LAT	Andrejs Rastorgujevs	53:18.9
34	NOR	Ole Einar Bjoerndalen	53:21.9
35	CAN	Jean Philippe Leguellec	53:25.5
36	BUL	Krasimir Anev	53:30.3
37	SWE	Carl Johan Bergman	53:37.5
38	RUS	Evgeny Ustyugov	53:47.8
39	BUL	Vladimir Iliev	53:52.6
40	AUT	Daniel Mesotitsch	53:53.3
41	SWE	Tobias Arwidson	54:03.0
42	GBR	Lee-Steve Jackson	54:11.3
43	SVK	Tomás Hasilla	54:16.9
44	USA	Tim Burke	54:21.2
45	AUS	Alexei Almoukov	54:35.4
46	UKR	Andriy Deryzemlya	54:40.0
47	SUI	Simon Hallenbarter	54:52.2
48	SUI	Benjamin Weger	54:54.5
49	BLR	Vladimir Chepelin	54:59.2
50	USA	Russell Currier	55:07.5
51	POL	Lukasz Szczurek	55:18.6
52	SLO	Klemen Bauer	55:29.1
53	BLR	Evgeny Abramenko	55:38.8
54	BLR	Sergei Novikov	55:41.7
55	UKR	Dmytro Pidruchnyi	55:53.4
56	FIN	Ahti Toivanen	55:55.4
57	CZE	Michal Slesingr	55:57.9
58	SVK	Miroslav Matiasko	55:58.7
59	CAN	Scott Perras	56:04.3
60	ROU	Cornel Puchianu	56:10.4
61	CZE	Michal Krcmar	56:14.1
62	EST	Danil Steptsenko	56:14.4
63	SLO	Janez Maric	56:22.4
64	RUS	Alexander Volkov	56:30.3
65	ITA	Dominik Windisch	56:31.4
66	CHN	Long Ren	56:35.8
67	SUI	Ivan Joller	56:40.6
68	BUL	Michail Kletcherov	56:41.8
69	SRB	Milanko Petrovic	56:45.4
70	EST	Kalev Ermits	57:04.5
71	ITA	Markus Windisch	57:18.5
72	ESP	Víctor Lobo	57:22.8
73	KOR	Lee In-Bok	57:29.0
74	SLO	Peter Dokl	57:51.5
75	BUL	Miroslav Kenanov	58:01.1
76	KAZ	Sergey Naumik	58:03.2
77	POL	Krzysztof Plywaczyk	58:12.5
78	EST	Kauri Koiv	58:17.3
79	SUI	Claudio Bockli	58:19.2
80	BLR	Aliaksandr Darozhka	58:27.7
81	UKR	Artem Pryma	58:35.2
82	FRA	Alexis Boeuf	58:39.0
83	USA	Leif Nordgren	58:47.6
84	JPN	Hidenori Isa	58:56.1
85	KAZ	Alexandr Trifonov	1:00:08.9
86	POL	Grzegorz Guzik	1:00:20.7
87	POL	Lukasz Slonina	1:00:29.5
88	HUN	Károly Gombos	1:05:16.7
N/A	FIN	Jarkko Kauppinen	DNF

Fourcade also won gold in the 12.5-kilometer biathlon, making his Sochi Games a resounding success thus far. He also won silver in the mass start event in the 2010 Vancouver Games.

After winning the 12.5-kilometer, Fourcade talked about the pressure he put on himself to win a medal, saying in a press conference (via Julien Pretot of Reuters), "I had the responsibility (to claim a medal) even if nobody had asked me anything. I did not want the other French athletes to support talks of France not winning a medal. I thought about it this morning."

Lee Jin-man/Associated Press

Meanwhile, Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen—who made history by winning his 12th Olympic medal after taking the gold in the 10-kilometer sprint, tying him for the most biathlon medals ever—finished a distant 34th in this race.

Bjorn Daehlie of Norway previously held the record of 12 medals in cross-country skiing all to himself. And he may yet be pushed off his perch atop the biathlon world if Bjoerndalen can take a medal in one of the three remaining events he'll compete in.

Of course, when asked by Chris Strauss of USA Today if he was feeling any pressure with the record in his sight after winning the 10-kilometer race, he said simply, "Absolutely not."

Coming into the Sochi Games, the big story on the men's side was whether Fourcade could steal the spotlight from Bjoerndalen. It seems safe to say that the pair have shared it thus far.

For the men, the remaining events include the 15-kilometer mass start, the mixed relay and the men's 4x7.5-kilometer relay.

Given his excellent start to the Sochi Games and his silver medal in the mass start in Vancouver, Fourcade will be heavily favored to earn his third gold medal in the event.