Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

Men's biathlon individual
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Men's biathlon individual; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Nozawa Onsen
Dates	February 11
Competitors	72 from 29 nations
Winning time	56:16.4
Medalists
	← 1994 2002 →

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Nozawa Onsen. Competitors raced over five loops of a 4.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.^[1]^[2]

Results edit

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Result	Penalties (P+S+P+S)	Deficit
	69	Halvard Hanevold	Norway	56:16.4	1 (0+0+0+1)	–
	3	Pieralberto Carrara	Italy	56:21.9	0 (0+0+0+0)	+5.5
	70	Alexei Aidarov	Belarus	56:46.5	1 (0+0+0+1)	+30.1
4	68	Ivan Masařík	Czech Republic	57:30.7	1 (0+0+0+1)	+1:14.3
5	45	Ilmārs Bricis	Latvia	58:15.1	3 (0+1+2+0)	+1:58.7
6	28	Ricco Groß	Germany	58:15.4	1 (0+0+1+0)	+1:59.0
7	32	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	58:16.8	4 (1+0+2+1)	+2:00.4
8	57	Peter Sendel	Germany	58:30.3	1 (1+0+0+0)	+2:13.9
9	8	Oleg Ryzhenkov	Belarus	58:31.3	2 (0+1+0+1)	+2:14.9
10	14	Dag Bjørndalen	Norway	58:34.7	1 (0+0+0+1)	+2:18.3
11	6	Tomas Globočnik	Slovenia	58:55.5	2 (1+1+0+0)	+2:39.1
12	40	Ludwig Gredler	Austria	58:56.5	3 (1+0+0+2)	+2:40.1
13	22	Vadim Sashurin	Belarus	59:08.6	2 (1+0+1+0)	+2:52.2
14	37	Kyoji Suga	Japan	59:15.6	2 (1+0+0+1)	+2:59.2
15	39	Sergei Tarasov	Russia	59:24.3	4 (1+0+2+1)	+3:07.9
16	52	Sven Fischer	Germany	59:26.1	3 (1+0+1+1)	+3:09.7
17	60	Pavel Muslimov	Russia	59:26.5	3 (0+1+1+1)	+3:10.1
18	16	Janno Prants	Estonia	59:38.3	2 (1+0+1+0)	+3:21.9
19	1	Frode Andresen	Norway	59:51.0	5 (1+1+1+2)	+3:34.6
20	72	Mikael Löfgren	Sweden	1:00:00.3	2 (0+2+0+0)	+3:43.9
21	73	René Cattarinussi	Italy	1:00:00.5	3 (2+1+0+0)	+3:44.1
22	34	Raphaël Poirée	France	1:00:08.4	2 (0+0+2+0)	+3:52.0
23	65	Paavo Puurunen	Finland	1:00:11.7	3 (1+1+1+0)	+3:55.3
24	66	Wolfgang Perner	Austria	1:00:14.1	4 (0+1+1+2)	+3:57.7
25	21	Sašo Grajf	Slovenia	1:00:18.2	2 (1+1+0+0)	+4:01.8
26	12	Wolfgang Rottmann	Austria	1:00:23.5	2 (0+1+0+1)	+4:07.1
27	46	Ville Räikkönen	Finland	1:00:25.3	3 (0+0+1+2)	+4:08.9
28	10	Hironao Meguro	Japan	1:00:38.2	2 (1+0+1+0)	+4:21.8
29	49	Alexandr Popov	Belarus	1:00:39.6	3 (0+2+0+1)	+4:23.2
23	23	Wojciech Kozub	Poland	1:00:41.1	4 (1+1+1+1)	+4:24.7
31	47	Dimitri Borovik	Estonia	1:01:07.7	3 (1+0+1+1)	+4:51.3
32	5	Jan Wüstenfeld	Germany	1:01:07.9	4 (0+0+2+2)	+4:51.5
33	48	Mike Dixon	Great Britain	1:01:08.0	1 (0+1+0+0)	+4:51.6
34	20	Jiří Holubec	Czech Republic	1:01:08.8	2 (1+1+0+0)	+4:52.4
35	19	Vladimir Drachev	Russia	1:01:13.9	6 (1+2+1+2)	+4:57.5
35	24	Aleksandr Tropnikov	Kyrgyzstan	1:01:17.7	2 (0+1+1+0)	+5:01.3
37	15	Jēkabs Nākums	Latvia	1:01:40.1	5 (4+0+1+0)	+5:23.7
38	17	Ľubomír Machyniak	Slovakia	1:01:43.7	4 (1+0+1+2)	+5:27.3
39	31	Fredrik Kuoppa	Sweden	1:01:59.2	2 (0+0+1+1)	+5:42.8
40	7	Julien Robert	France	1:02:01.6	1 (0+1+0+0)	+5:45.2
41	26	Wilfried Pallhuber	Italy	1:02:07.7	5 (2+1+2+0)	+5:51.3
42	55	Jay Hakkinen	United States	1:02:10.3	4 (1+1+0+2)	+5:53.9
43	38	Liutauras Barila	Lithuania	1:02:12.2	5 (1+0+3+1)	+5:55.8
44	63	Kalju Ojaste	Estonia	1:02:15.7	4 (2+0+2+0)	+5:59.3
45	71	Atsushi Kazama	Japan	1:02:23.5	4 (1+1+1+1)	+6:07.1
46	13	Thierry Dusserre	France	1:02:26.6	1 (0+1+0+0)	+6:10.2
47	50	Tomasz Sikora	Poland	1:02:39.9	5 (1+0+1+3)	+6:23.5
48	59	Wiesław Ziemianin	Poland	1:02:39.9	4 (2+1+1+0)	+6:23.5
49	53	Dmitry Pantov	Kazakhstan	1:03:10.5	5 (1+2+0+2)	+6:54.1
50	30	Vyacheslav Derkach	Ukraine	1:03:14.6	4 (3+1+0+0)	+6:58.2
51	54	Jean-Marc Chabloz	Switzerland	1:03:41.0	4 (1+1+1+1)	+7:24.6
52	64	Valery Ivanov	Kazakhstan	1:03:55.9	7 (3+2+0+2)	+7:39.5
53	9	Pavel Vavilov	Russia	1:03:59.4	7 (1+2+3+1)	+7:43.0
54	42	Patrick Favre	Italy	1:04:10.5	7 (1+3+3+0)	+7:54.1
55	44	Steve Cyr	Canada	1:04:12.9	6 (0+3+1+2)	+7:56.5
56	51	Petr Garabík	Czech Republic	1:04:28.8	6 (2+2+0+2)	+8:12.4
57	62	Andreas Heymann	France	1:04:42.7	6 (1+1+2+2)	+8:26.3
58	41	Janez Ožbolt	Slovenia	1:05:18.9	5 (2+1+1+1)	+9:02.5
59	18	Dmitry Pozdnyakov	Kazakhstan	1:05:22.9	6 (0+1+4+1)	+9:06.5
60	29	Marius Ene	Romania	1:05:23.9	5 (1+1+2+1)	+9:07.5
61	56	Tomaž Žemva	Slovenia	1:05:27.0	8 (3+2+1+2)	+9:10.6
62	2	Günther Dengg	Austria	1:05:33.9	5 (0+2+2+1)	+9:17.5
63	43	Mykola Krupnyk	Ukraine	1:05:36.3	6 (2+1+2+1)	+9:19.9
64	27	Kevin Quintilio	Canada	1:05:37.2	4 (2+0+1+1)	+9:20.8
65	36	Thanasis Tsakiris	Greece	1:06:38.8	5 (2+1+1+1)	+10:22.4
66	61	Gundars Upenieks	Latvia	1:06:42.6	8 (3+1+2+2)	+10:26.2
67	33	Georgi Kasabov	Bulgaria	1:06:59.5	5 (0+2+1+2)	+10:43.1
68	58	Mark Gee	Great Britain	1:07:46.8	7 (2+2+0+3)	+11:30.4
69	67	Robert Rosser	United States	1:08:35.7	7 (1+4+1+1)	+12:19.3
70	4	Ion Bucsa	Moldova	1:11:27.5	6 (0+2+3+1)	+15:11.1
71	11	Jeon Jae-won	South Korea	1:15:17.8	13 (4+2+3+4)	+19:01.4
	25	Vesa Hietalahti	Finland	DNF
	35	János Panyik	Hungary	DNS

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References edit

^ ^a ^b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
^ "Biathlon at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's 20 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2019.

[Biathlon-1] "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2013.

[SR-2] "Biathlon at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's 20 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2019.

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