1980 Winter Olympics / Biathlon

Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics
information
venue	North Elba
Competition venue	Mt. Van Hoevenberg Cross Country & Biathlon Center
Nations	18th
Athletes	76 (76 )
date	16.-22. February 1980
decisions	3
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With the XIII. During the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , three biathlon competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic Sports Complex on Mount Van Hoevenberg. In addition to the individual race over 20 km and the relay, a sprint race over 10 km was on the program for the first time.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	1	4th
2	GDR	1	2	1	4th
3	BR Germany	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Sprint 10 km	Frank Ullrich	Vladimir Alikin	Anatoly Alyabev
Single 20 km	Anatoly Alyabev	Frank Ullrich	Eberhard Rösch
Relay 4 × 7.5 km	Vladimir Alikin , Alexander Tikhonov , Vladimir Barnaschow , Anatoly Aljabjew	Mathias Jung , Klaus Siebert , Frank Ullrich , Eberhard Rösch	Franz Bernreiter , Hans Estner , Peter Angerer , Gerhard Winkler

Results

Sprint 10 km

space	country	athlete	Time (min)	error
1	GDR	Frank Ullrich	32: 10.69	2
2	URS	Vladimir Alikin	32: 53.10	0
3	URS	Anatoly Alyabev	33: 09.16	1
4th	GDR	Klaus Siebert	33: 32.67	2
5	NOR	Kjell Søbak	33: 34.64	1
6th	TCH	Petr Zelinka	33: 45.20	1
7th	NOR	Odd Lirhus	34: 10.39	2
8th	FRG	Peter Angerer	34: 13.43	4th
9	URS	Alexander Tikhonov	34: 14.88	2
10	FRG	Gerhard Winkler	34: 24.16	1
11	AUT	Franz-Josef Weber	34: 25.28	1
21st	GDR	Mathias Jung	35: 50.36	4th
23	AUT	Alfred Eder	35: 58.27	4th
27	FRG	Fritz Fischer	36: 29.87	4th
28	AUT	Rudolf Horn	36: 31.25	5
30th	SUI	Urs Brechbühl	36: 32.66	4th
32	SUI	Roland Burn	36: 52.35	5

Date: February 19, 1980, 9:00 a.m.

50 participants from 18 countries, 49 of them in the rating.

Ullrich showed the strongest mileage. While Franz Weber, who was called up to replace Rudolf Dockner, ranked among the best in the world among the Austrians, Eder and Horn could not cope with the unfavorable wind conditions.

Single 20 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)	error
1	URS	Anatoly Alyabev	1: 08: 16.31	00
2	GDR	Frank Ullrich	1: 08: 27.79	03
3	GDR	Eberhard Rösch	1: 11: 11.73	02
4th	NOR	Svein Engen	1: 11: 30.25	03
5	FIN	Erkki Antila	1: 11: 33.32	04th
6th	FRA	Yvon Mougel	1: 11: 33.60	03
7th	URS	Vladimir Barnashov	1: 11: 49.49	04th
8th	URS	Vladimir Alikin	1: 12: 05.30	06th
9	FRA	André Geourjon	1: 12: 53.37	02
10	ITA	Arduino Tiraboschi	1: 13: 06.05	02
15th	GDR	Klaus Siebert	1: 13: 48.71	06th
17th	AUT	Siegfried Dockner	1: 14: 35.28	04th
24	AUT	Alfred Eder	1: 15: 44.28	04th
26th	AUT	Rudolf Horn	1: 16: 03.83	06th
27	FRG	Peter Angerer	1: 16: 07.60	08th
29	FRG	Alois Kanamüller	1: 17: 34.80	06th
30th	FRG	Gerhard Winkler	1: 17: 48.57	07th
34	SUI	Urs Brechbühl	1: 19: 59.13	08th
37	SUI	Roland Burn	1: 21: 12.97	11

Date: February 16, 1980, 9:00 a.m.

49 participants from 18 countries, 47 of them in the rating.

The shooting was affected by a violent cross wind; The reigning world champion Klaus Siebert (GDR) and the ex-world champions Odd Lirhus (NOR) and Heikki Ikola (FIN) were victims . Anatoly Aljabjew was able to catch the two GDR athletes in the last shooting. Silver medalist Ullrich protested because, in his opinion, he only made 2 and not 3 shooting errors.

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	Country sportsman	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin Alexander Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Aljabjew	1: 34: 03.27 h 22: 40.71 min 23: 44.60 min 23: 48.36 min 23: 49.60 min	0 + 4/0 + 8 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 0/0 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 3 0 + 3/0 + 1
2	GDR Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	1: 34: 56.99 h 23: 03.85 min 24: 47.64 min 23: 01.26 min 24: 04.24 min	1 + 6/2 + 12 0 + 0/0 + 3 1 + 3/1 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 3 0 + 2/1 + 3
3	Federal Republic of Germany Franz Bernreiter Hans Estner Peter Angerer Gerhard Winkler	1: 37: 30.26 h 24: 53.58 min 24: 31.97 min 23: 31.20 min 24: 33.51 min	0 + 4/2 + 11 0 + 0/2 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 2 0 + 1/0 + 3
4th	Norway Svein Engen Kjell Søbak Odd Lirhus Sigleif Johansen	1: 38: 11.76 h 24: 52.10 min 24: 03.15 min 24: 08.66 min 25: 07.85 min	0 + 7/3 + 10 0 + 2/1 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 3 0 + 0/2 + 3 0 + 3/0 + 1
5	France Yvon Mougel Denis Sandona André Geourjon Christian Poirot	1: 38: 23.36 h 23: 30.07 min 25: 14.71 min 24: 44.46 min 24: 54.12 min	0 + 5/0 + 10 0 + 0/0 + 2 0 + 2/0 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 2 0 + 1/0 + 3
6th	Austria Rudolf Horn Franz-Josef Weber Josef Koll Alfred Eder	1: 38: 32.02 h 23: 59.95 min 25: 56.99 min 24: 37.12 min 23: 57.96 min	0 + 3/4 + 8 0 + 2/0 + 3 0 + 0/4 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 0/0 + 1
7th	Finland Keijo Kuntola Erkki Antila Kari Saarela Raimo Seppänen	1: 38: 50.84 h 24: 18.98 min 25: 04.17 min 24: 14.45 min 25: 13.24 min	0 + 5/6 + 10 0 + 1/1 + 3 0 + 2/3 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 1 0 + 0/2 + 3
8th	United States Martin Hagen Lyle Nelson Donald Nielsen jr. Peter Hoag Jr.	1: 39: 24.29 h 24: 25.46 min 24: 43.61 min 24: 31.29 min 25: 43.93 min	0 + 5/0 + 8 0 + 1/0 + 2 0 + 2/0 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 1/0 + 2

Date: February 22, 1980, 9:00 a.m.

15 relays at the start, 14 of them in the ranking.

Austria was in fourth place after the first handover, but four missed shots by Franz-Josef Weber brought a relapse to 9th place, which only the other runners were able to straighten out in a conciliatory way, thus achieving the initially set goal. The URS was outstanding thanks to its shooting performance (not a miss). Third place for the FRG came as a surprise, because Bernreiter had not started well, but his comrades made up for it. France crossed the finish line behind Austria, but received a time credit for mistaken misses.

Web links

• Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1980 Winter Olympics (PDF; 3.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Middle: “Ullrich went biathlon gold. 12th place for Austria's weaver » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1980, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Columns 2 and 3, middle: "Biathlon over 20 kilometers: Shooting more important than running" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ Columns two and three below: "Weber awarded the bronze medal" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1980, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).