Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint

Men's sprint at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
The Medalists
Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Date	8 February
Competitors	87 from 31 nations
Winning time	24:33.5
Medalists
01 ! Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway 02 ! Dominik Landertinger  Austria 03 ! Jaroslav Soukup  Czech Republic
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01 !		Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway
02 !		Dominik Landertinger	Austria
03 !		Jaroslav Soukup	Czech Republic

The men's sprint competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 8 February 2014. It was 10 kilometres in length (6.2 miles).

The defending Olympic Champion is Vincent Jay of France, who has since retired. The defending World Champion is Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway.

Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the Nation Cup scores of their top 3 athletes in the individual, sprint, and relay competitions at the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany, and the 2013 World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. The top 20 nations would be able to start four athletes in the sprint, while nations 21 through 28 could start one each. Nations below 28 could only start if any nation decided to vacate a quota spot.

During the 2012–13 or 2013–14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes. Or, two placings in the top half at the Junior World Championships. They also can have a combination of both criteria (one of each).

All dates and times are (UTC+4).

The race was started at 18:30.

Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the event with a time of 24:33.5, 1.3 seconds ahead of silver medalist Dominik Landertinger. Bjørndalen missed one of the targets but was able to use his speed to make up the lost time.Jaroslav Soukup finished third for the bronze medal.