1972 Winter Olympics / Biathlon

Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sapporo
Competition venue	Makomanai biathlon area
Nations	14th
Athletes	62 (62 )
date	8-11 February 1972
decisions	2
← Grenoble 1968 Innsbruck 1976 →

At the XI. The 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo hosted two biathlon competitions. The venue was the Makomanai biathlon area in what is now the Minami-ku district . The sport still struggled with its low popularity. In the Bertelsmann edition of the work on the 1972 Olympic Games it reads like this: "It has remained one of the most unpopular competitions to this day."

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	1	-	-	1
	Soviet Union	1	-	-	1
3	GDR	-	1	1	2
4th	Finland	-	1	-	1
5	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single 20 km	Magnar Solberg	Hansjörg Knauthe	Lars-Göran Arwidson
Relay 4 × 7.5 km	Alexander Tichonow , Rinnat Safin , Iwan Bjakow , Wiktor Mamatow	Esko Saira , Juhani Suutarinen , Heikki Ikola , Mauri Röppänen	Hansjörg Knauthe , Joachim Meischner , Dieter Speer , Horst Koschka

Results

Single 20 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)	error
1	NOR	Magnar Solberg	1: 15: 55.5	02
2	GDR	Hansjörg Knauthe	1: 16: 07.6	01
3	SWE	Lars-Göran Arwidson	1: 16: 27.0	02
4th	URS	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 16: 48.6	04th
5	FIN	Yrjö Salpakari	1: 16: 51.4	02
6th	FIN	Esko Saira	1: 17: 34.8	05
7th	URS	Viktor Mamatov	1: 18: 16.3	02
8th	NOR	Svendsberget gate	1: 18: 26.5	03
9	POLE	Aleksander climate	1: 19: 00.9	02
10	FRA	Daniel Claudon	1: 19: 14.7	01
13	GDR	Dieter Speer	1: 20: 43.6	07th
15th	GDR	Günter Bartnik	1: 21: 01.7	05
20th	GDR	Horst Koschka	1: 22: 24.6	05
46	FRG	Josef Niedermeier	1: 29: 26.4	08th
50	FRG	Theo Merkel	1: 30: 58.2	11

The 20-kilometer run started as planned on February 8, 1972 at 9:00 a.m., but had to be stopped after a quarter of an hour because visibility was no more than 50 meters due to heavy snowfall. It then had to be postponed by 24 hours, so that the competition started again on February 9, 1972 at 9:01 a.m. 54 athletes from 14 countries took part, 53 of whom reached the finish line.

A total of four shooting tests had to be completed, two standing and two lying down. At each stand, five shots had to be fired at the targets 150 meters away with a biathlon rifle. Every outside hit was punished with a one-minute serve, every hit outside the evaluation circle with two minutes.

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	Country sportsman	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Iwan Bjakow Viktor Mamatow	1: 51: 44.92 h 28: 54.48 min 26: 48.52 min 28: 15.90 min 27: 46.02 min	1 + 5/2 + 9 0 + 0/1 + 3 1 + 3/1 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 0
2	Finland Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola Mauri Röppänen	1: 54: 37.25 h 28: 52.04 min 29: 37.33 min 28: 45.79 min 27: 22.09 min	1 + 6/2 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 0 0 + 1/2 + 3 1 + 3/0 + 0 0 + 1/0 + 0
3	GDR Hansjörg Knauthe Joachim Meischner Dieter Speer Horst Koschka	1: 54: 57.67 h 28: 11.72 min 28: 35.86 min 28: 50.72 min 29: 19.37 min	0 + 4/4 + 8 0 + 1/0 + 0 0 + 1/0 + 2 0 + 2/2 + 3 0 + 0/2 + 3
4th	Norway gate Svendsberget Kåre Hovda Ivar Nordkild Magnar Solberg	1: 56: 24.41 h 28: 23.26 min 29: 43.80 min 29: 41.97 min 28: 34.78 min	0 + 9/7 + 12 0 + 3/1 + 3 0 + 1/3 + 3 0 + 2/2 + 3 0 + 3/1 + 3
5	Sweden Lars-Göran Arwidson Olle Petrusson Torsten Wadman Holmfrid Olsson	1: 56: 57.40 h 28: 23.09 min 29: 32.78 min 27: 52.03 min 31: 09.50 min	4 + 10/2 + 8 1 + 3/0 + 3 3 + 3/0 + 1 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 3/2 + 3
6th	USA Peter Karns Terry Morse Dennis Donahue Jay Bowerman	1: 57: 24.32 h 28: 50.37 min 28: 43.56 min 29: 01.97 min 30: 48.42 min	0 + 7/1 + 7 0 + 1/0 + 2 0 + 3/0 + 1 0 + 2/0 + 1 0 + 1/1 + 3
7th	Poland Józef Różak Józef Stopka Andrzej Rapacz Aleksander Klima	1: 58: 09.92 h 29: 36.15 min 29: 21.63 min 29: 05.75 min 30: 06.39 min	1 + 7/3 + 11 0 + 1/2 + 3 0 + 0/1 + 3 0 + 3/0 + 3 1 + 3/0 + 2
8th	Japan Isao Ono Shozo Sasaki Miki Shibuya Kazuo Sasakubo	1: 59: 09.48 h 27: 35.73 min 33: 46.08 min 27: 59.80 min 29: 47.87 min	2 + 9/3 + 9 0 + 3/0 + 2 2 + 3/3 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 2/0 + 3
9	Romania Nicolae Veştea Victor Fontana Ion Ţeposu Vilmoş Gheorghe	1: 59: 30.61 h 28: 47.96 min 32: 19.63 min 28: 47.13 min 29: 35.89 min	1 + 6/4 + 11 0 + 0/0 + 3 1 + 3/3 + 3 0 + 3/0 + 2 0 + 0/1 + 3
10	Italy Willy Bertin Giovanni Astegiano Corrado Varesco Lino Jordan	1: 59: 47.62 h 29: 06.56 min 28: 43.42 min 30: 58.59 min 30: 59.05 min	2 + 11/4 + 9 2 + 3/0 + 1 0 + 3/0 + 2 0 + 3/1 + 3 0 + 2/3 + 3
11	Great Britain Malcolm Hirst Keith Oliver Jeffrey Stevens Alan Notley	2:01: 38.84 h 28: 19.40 min 31: 58.85 min 30: 53.97 min 30: 26.62 min	2 + 7/3 + 9 0 + 2/0 + 0 2 + 3/1 + 3 0 + 1/2 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 3
12	Czechoslovakia Ladislav Žižka Pavel Ploc Ján Húska Arnošt Hájek	2: 03: 08.17 h 28: 59.51 min 30: 38.69 min 31: 29.79 min 32: 00.18 min	3 + 12/0 + 8 0 + 3/0 + 2 1 + 3/0 + 2 0 + 3/0 + 1 2 + 3/0 + 3
13	France René Arpin Noël Turrell Daniel Claudon Aimé Gruet-Masson	2:03 : 08.90 h 30: 04.71 min 29: 34.23 min 32: 05.94 min 31: 24.02 min	3 + 10/1 + 9 0 + 2/1 + 3 0 + 2/0 + 1 2 + 3/0 + 2 1 + 3/0 + 3

The 4 × 7.5 km relay race began on February 11, 1972 at 9:00 a.m. 13 teams with 52 athletes took part in this competition. Each athlete had to complete two shooting tests, lying after 2.5 km and standing after 5 km. The fragile discs had a diameter of 15 cm when shooting prone and 35 cm when shooting standing. Eight shots had to be fired at the targets 150 meters away per stand. A 150 meter penalty loop had to be run for each target not hit.

literature

• The Olympic Games 1972 Munich Kiel Sapporo , joint production by Werner Schneider, Sport-Informations-Dienst (sid) and Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, p. 184 f / p. 251 f

Web links

• Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1972 Winter Olympics (PDF; 43.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Olympic Games 1972 Munich Kiel Sapporo , joint production by Werner Schneider, Sport-Informations-Dienst (sid) and Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, p. 185.