Visualizing Biathlon results

2022 Winter Olympics

Biathlon is a super interesting winter sport to watch. A biathlon race combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. If an athlete misses a shot they need to ski a penalty loop (or in some formats extra time gets added to their total time).

This makes biathlon an intense, unpredictable sport where positions in rankings may change any second. If an athlete is a fast skier but can’t concentrate on the shooting, they can move back even 10-40 positions after a few misses.

In this project I visualized this ebb and flow.

Sometimes an athlete is in the lead for a long time, but a few shooting mistakes and they won’t even end the race in the top 10.