At the Olympics beginning in 2012, individual pursuit is competed only as part of the omnium event.
[2][3] The modern pentathlon is formatted such that the final event, a cross-country run with target shooting, is essentially a pursuit race.
[4] The idea is that the first athlete to cross the finish line wins the entire event.
The final stage of a ski tour event (i.e. Nordic Opening, Tour de Ski and World Cup Finals) is usually a pursuit where the overall leader starts first and is followed by the others starting behind according to their cumulative time from the stages raced before the pursuit.
In Nordic combined, the pursuit is determined by how well the competitors or team do in the ski jumping part of the competition.
For the 4 x 5 km team event prior to 2005, the computation was a 1-point advantage at the ski jump equals a 1.5 second advantage in the cross-country skiing part of the competition; since 2005, that computation is 1 point equals 1 second.