Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympic Games Biathlon results

Men's events

10 km Sprint

February 18, 1998

Medal	Athlete	Time (missed targets)
Gold	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	27:16.2 (0)
Silver	Frode Andresen (NOR)	28:17.8 (2)
Bronze	Ville Räikkönen (FIN)	28:21.7 (1)
4	Viktor Maigourov (RUS)	28:36.0 (0)
5	Jēkabs Nākums (LAT)	28:36.9 (1)
6	Oļegs Maļuhins (LAT)	28:37.4 (1)
7	Frank Luck (GER)	28:40.3 (1)
8	Halvard Hanevold (NOR)	28:40.8 (2)

20 km Individual

February 11, 1998

Medal	Athlete	Adjusted Time (missed targets)
Gold	Halvard Hanevold Norway (NOR)	56:16.4 (1)
Silver	Pier Alberto Carrara Italy (ITA)	56:21.9 (0)
Bronze	Alexei Aidarov Belarus (BLR)	56:46.5 (1)
4	Ivan Masařík (CZE)	57:30.7 (1)
5	Ilmārs Bricis (LAT)	58:15.1 (3)
6	Ricco Groß (GER)	58:15.4 (1)
7	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR)	58:16.8 (4)
8	Peter Sendel (GER)	58:30.3 (1)

Each missed target equals a one-minute penalty.

4 x 7.5 km Relay

Medal	Athlete	Time (missed targets)
Gold	Germany (Ricco Gross, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer, Frank Luck)	1:21:36.2 (0)
Silver	Norway (Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Dag Bjørndalen, Ole Einar Bjørndalen)	1:21:56.3 (0)
Bronze	Russia (Pavel Mouslimov, Vladimir Dratchev, Sergei Tarasov, Viktor Maigourov)	1:22:19.3 (0)
4th	Belarus (Alexei Aidarov, Oleg Ryzhenkov, Alexander Popov, Vadim Sashurin)	1:23:14.0 (0)
5th	Poland (Wiesław Ziemanin, Tomasz Sikora, Jan Ziemianin, Wojciech Kozub)	1:26:58.0 (0)
6th	Latvia (Oļegs Maļuhins, Ilmārs Bricis, Gundars Upenieks, Jēkabs Nākums)	1:24:24.4 (2)
7th	France (Andreas Heymann, Raphaël Poirée, Thierry Dusserre, Patrice Bailly-Salins)	1:24:53.0 (2)
8th	Finland (Ville Räikkönen, Paavo Puurunen, Harri Eloranta, Olli-Pekka Peltola)	1:25:01.0 (2)

Women's events

7.5 km Sprint

February 15, 1998

Medal	Athlete	Time (missed targets)
Gold	Galina Koukleva (RUS)	23:08.0 (1)
Silver	Uschi Disl (GER)	23:08.7 (1)
Bronze	Katrin Apel (GER)	23:32.4 (1)
4	Sona Mihoková (SVK)	23:42.3 (1)
5	Shumei Yu (CHN)	23:44.0 (0)
6	Anna Stera (POL)	23:53.1 (2)
7	Martina Schwarzbacherová (SVK)	23:54.5 (1)
8	Mari Lampinen (FIN)	23:55.2 (0)

15 km Individual

February 9, 1998

Medal	Athlete	Adjusted Time (penalty minutes)
Gold	Ekaterina Dafovska (BUL)	54:52.0 (1)
Silver	Olena Petrova (UKR)	55:09.8 (1)
Bronze	Uschi Disl (GER)	55:17.9 (1)
4	Pavlina Filipova (BUL)	55:18.1 (1)
5	Andreja Grašič (SLO)	56:01.0 (4)
6	Ryoko Takahashi (JPN)	56:17.4 (3)
7	Albina Akhatova (RUS)	56:21.7 (1)
8	Annette Sikveland (NOR)	56:38.7 (3)

4 x 7.5 km Relay

Medal	Athlete	Time (missed targets)
1 Gold	Germany (Uschi Disl, Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle)	1:40:13.6 (0)
2 Silver	Russia (Olga Melnik, Galina Koukleva, Albina Akhatova, Olga Romasko)	1:40:25.2 (0)
Bronze	Norway (Ann-Elen Skjelbreid, Annette Sikveland, Gunn Margit Andreassen, Liv Grete Skjelbreid)	1:40:37.3 (2)
4th	Slovakia (Martina Schwarzbacherova, Anna Murinová, Tatiana Kutlikova, Soňa Mihokova)	1:41:20.6 (2)
5th	Ukraine (Valentina Tserbe, Olena Petrova, Tetiana Vodopyanova, Olena Zubrilova)	1:42:32.6 (0)
6th	Czech Republic (Kateřina Holubcová, Irena Česneková, Jiřina Pelcová, Eva Haková)	1:43:20.5 (0)
7th	China (Shumei Yu, Ribo Sun, Jinfeng Liu, Xianying Liu)	1:43:32.6 (0)
8th	France (Christelle Gros, Emmanuelle Claret, Florence Baverel-Robert, Corinne Niogret)	1:43:54.6 (0)

See also

• Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Paralympics

References

• Official Olympic Report