Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The Men’s 15 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy was held on 25 February at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course shooting twenty times ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.Only thirty athletes competed in the mass start which was making its Olympic debut.