February 11, 2006 – Germany’s Michael Greis won the men’s 20K Biathlon Individual at the Torino Olympics today. Norwegian star Ole Einar Bjoerndalen took the silver while Norway’s Halvard Hanevold won bronze.

Top North American was USA’s Jay Hakkinen in 10th with the best ever US performance in biathlon. American Lowell Bailey followed in 27th while Canadian veteran Robin Clegg was 36th.

Results

1 GREIS Michael GER 54:23.0
2 BJOERNDALEN Ole Einar NOR 54:39.0
3 HANEVOLD Halvard NOR 55:31.9
4 TCHEPIKOV Sergei RUS 55:32.7
5 MATIASKO Marek SVK 55:48.6
6 ROBERT Julien FRA 55:59.4
7 DE LORENZI Christian ITA 56:04.0
8 TCHEREZOV Ivan RUS 56:05.7
9 PALLHUBER Wilfried ITA 56:08.4
10 HAKKINEN Jay USA 56:10.9

27 BAILEY Lowell USA 58:45.1
36 CLEGG Robin CAN 59:21.5
48 LEGUELLEC Jean Philippe CAN 1:00:28.0
51 TEELA Jeremy USA 1:01:03.3
58 BURKE Tim USA 1:01:55.0
65 LEONI David CAN 1:02:37.8