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. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was defending World Champion, but was tenth in the overall World Cup, which was led by France's Raphaël Poirée. Tomasz Sikora's silver medal finish was the first biathlon medal ever for Poland, men's or women's.

Results The race was held at 10:00.Final results Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+P+S+S) Deficit 1 Michael Greis 47:20.01 (0+0+1+0) 12 Tomasz Sikora 47:26.31 (0+0+0+1) 4 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 47:32.33 (0+0+1+2) 27 Paavo Puurunen 47:43.70 (0+0+0+0) 11 Sergei Tchepikov 47:59.10 (0+0+0+0) 18 Emil Hegle Svendsen 48:13.82 (0+1+0+1) 5 Halvard Hanevold 48:14.93 (1+0+1+1) 10 Alexander Wolf 48:15.32 (0+0+1+1) 15 Christoph Sumann 48:17.42 (1+0+0+1) 10 8 Michael Rösch 48:19.93 (1+0+1+1) 11 3 Vincent Defrasne 48:20.74 (0+1+1+2) +1:00.7 12 7 Raphaël Poirée 48:24.92 (1+1+0+0) +1:04.9 13 29 Jay Hakkinen 48:29.61 (0+0+1+0) +1:09.6 14 25 Mattias Nilsson 48:37.71 (1+0+0+0) +1:17.7 15 9 Maxim Tchoudov 48:40.24 (1+0+1+2) +1:20.2 16 16 Julien Robert 48:51.82 (0+1+1+0) +1:31.8 17 2 Sven Fischer 48:53.72 (0+1+0+1) +1:33.7 18 17 Björn Ferry 48:56.42 (0+1+1+0) +1:36.4 19 6 Frode Andresen 49:03.66 (0+2+2+2) +1:43.6 20 20 Sergei Rozhkov 49:09.72 (0+0+1+1) +1:49.7 21 14 Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. 49:20.12 (1+0+1+0) +2:00.1 22 24 Zdeněk Vítek 49:21.32 (0+0+1+1) +2:01.3 23 21 Roman Dostál 49:29.94 (0+0+2+2) +2:09.9 24 23 Wilfried Pallhuber 49:41.52 (2+0+0+0) +2:21.5 25 28 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz 49:53.14 (2+0+1+1) +2:33.1 26 22 Christian De Lorenzi 49:59.64 (2+1+0+1) +2:39.6 27 26 Marek Matiaško 50:11.13 (0+0+1+2) +2:51.1 28 13 Ilmārs Bricis 50:27.63 (0+0+1+2) +3:07.6 29 19 Carl Johan Bergman 50:54.44 (2+1+0+1) +3:34.4 30 30 Kyoji Suga 52:01.65 (1+0+3+1) +4:41.6

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