1976 Winter Olympics / Biathlon

Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Seefeld in Tyrol
Competition venue	Olympiaregion Seefeld
Nations	18th
Athletes	74 (74 )
date	6-13 February 1976
decisions	2
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At the XII. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , two biathlon competitions were held. The venue was Seefeld in Tyrol .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	-	1	3
2	Finland	-	2	-	2
3	GDR	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single 20 km	Nikolai Kruglow	Heikki Ikola	Alexander Yelisarov
Relay 4 × 7.5 km	Alexander Jelisarow , Iwan Bjakow , Nikolai Kruglow , Alexander Tichonow	Henrik Flöjt , Esko Saira , Juhani Suutarinen , Heikki Ikola	Karl-Heinz Menz , Karl-Heinz Menz , Manfred Beer , Manfred Geyer

Results

Single 20 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)	error
1	URS	Nikolai Kruglow	1: 14: 12.26	02
2	FIN	Heikki Ikola	1: 15: 54.10	02
3	URS	Alexander Yelisarov	1: 16: 05.57	03
4th	ITA	Willy Bertin	1: 16: 50.36	03
5	URS	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 17: 18.33	07th
6th	FIN	Esko Saira	1: 17: 32.84	02
7th	ITA	Lino Jordan	1: 17: 49.83	02
8th	SWE	Sune Adolfsson	1: 18: 00.50	02
9	NOR	Svendsberget gate	1: 18: 10.13	03
10	SWE	Lars-Göran Arwidson	1: 18: 34.37	05
11	FRG	Heinrich Mehringer	1: 18: 49.15	02
12	GDR	Manfred Geyer	1: 19: 11.37	06th
14th	SUI	Hansruedi Süssli	1: 19: 53.73	03
15th	GDR	Karl-Heinz Wolf	1: 20: 06.89	05
21st	AUT	Alfred Eder	1: 22: 42.52	08th
25th	SUI	Albert Mächler	1: 23: 28.66	06th
26th	FRG	Josef Niedermeier	1: 23: 33.63	05
27	GDR	Manfred Beer	1: 23: 42.50	05
34	FRG	Alois Kanamüller	1: 25: 25.26	08th
37	AUT	Franz-Josef Weber	1: 26: 14.92	10
40	SUI	Christian Danuser	1: 27: 16.43	07th
49	AUT	Klaus color maker	1: 36: 31.07	16

Date: February 6, 1976

52 participants from 18 countries, including 51 in the rating.

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	Country sportsman	time	error
1	Soviet Union Alexander Jelisarow Ivan Bjakow Nikolai Kruglow Alexander Tikhonow	1: 57: 55.64 h 29: 47.44 min 30: 16.79 min 29: 04.80 min 28: 46.01 min	0 0 0 0 0
2	Finland Henrik Flöjt Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola	2:01 : 45.61 h 32: 00.19 min 29: 12.47 min 30: 52.23 min 29: 40.69 min	2 1 0 1 0
3	GDR Karl-Heinz Menz Frank Ullrich Manfred Beer Manfred Geyer	2:04: 08.61 h 31: 02.18 min 32: 47.28 min 31: 30.01 min 28: 49.14 min	5 0 4 1 0
4th	BR Germany Heinrich Mehringer Gerhard Winkler Josef Keck Claus Gehrke	2:04 : 11.86 h 30: 38.46 min 30: 42.83 min 32: 15.08 min 30: 35.49 min	4 0 1 3 0
5	Norway Kjell Hovda Terje Hanssen Svein Engen Tor Svendsberget	2:05 : 10.28 h 33: 24.66 min 31: 20.50 min 29: 20.67 min 31: 04.45 min	6 2 3 0 1
6th	Italy Lino Jordan Pierantonio Clementi Luigi Weiss Willy Bertin	2:06: 16.55 h 31: 52.53 min 31: 45.82 min 30: 59.51 min 31: 38.69 min	3 1 0 1 1
7th	France René Arpin Yvon Mougel Marius Falguy Jean-Claude Viry	2:07: 34.42 h 32: 17.67 min 29: 58.45 min 31: 40.41 min 33: 37.89 min	5 2 0 1 2
8th	Sweden Mats-Åke Lantz Torsten Wadman Sune Adolfsson Lars-Göran Arwidson	2:08: 46.90 h 32: 44.58 min 32: 45.74 min 31: 59.45 min 31: 17.13 min	8 3 3 2 0
15th	Austria Franz-Josef Weber Alfred Eder Klaus color maker Josef Hones	2:18: 06.78 h 33: 10.35 min 34: 27.12 min 34: 23.90 min 36: 05.41 min	11 2 5 1 3

Date: February 13, 1976

15 relays at the start, all in the ranking.

literature

• Ernst Huberty, Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Innsbruck , Lingen-Verlag Cologne 1976, p. 289

Web links

• Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1976 Winter Olympics (PDF; 31.8 MB)