1984 Winter Olympics / Biathlon

Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Hadžići
Competition venue	Igman, Veliko Polje
Nations	25th
Athletes	95 (95 )
date	11-17 February 1984
decisions	3
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At the XIV Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 , three biathlon competitions were held. The venue was Veliko Polje on Mount Igman . The audience interest in biathlon had grown significantly in the meantime. Also in the media, v. a. In television coverage, the competitions were given a significantly higher priority than in previous years. The great success of Peter Angerer , who was able to take home a complete set of medals, also contributed to this in West Germany .

Balance sheet

Medal table

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

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Sprint 10 km	Eirik Kvalfoss	Peter Angerer	Matthias Jacob
Single 20 km	Peter Angerer	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Eirik Kvalfoss
Relay 4 × 7.5 km	Dmitri Wassiljew , Juri Kaschkarow , Algimantas Šalna , Sergei Bulygin	Odd Lirhus , Eirik Kvalfoss , Rolf Storsveen , Kjell Søbak	Ernst Reiter , Walter Pichler , Peter Angerer , Fritz Fischer

Results

Sprint 10 km

space	country	athlete	Time (min)	error
1	NOR	Eirik Kvalfoss	30: 53.8	2
2	GER	Peter Angerer	31: 02.4	1
3	GDR	Matthias Jacob	31: 10.5	2
4th	NOR	Kjell Søbak	31: 19.7	1
5	URS	Algimantas Salna	31: 20.8	2
6th	FRA	Yvon Mougel	31: 32.9	2
7th	GDR	Frank-Peter Roetsch	31: 49.8	2
8th	FRG	Fritz Fischer	32: 04.7	2
9	TCH	Jan Matouš	32: 10.5	3
10	URS	Yuri Kashkarov	32: 15.2	2
16	FRG	Walter Pichler	32: 30.2	1
17th	GDR	Frank Ullrich	32: 40.2	3
19th	ITA	Gottlieb Taschler	33: 04.9	1
22nd	AUT	Alfred Eder	33: 17.9	2
29	ITA	Andreas Zingerle	34: 07.5	5
32	SUI	Beat Meier	34: 22.1	4th
35	ITA	Johann Passler	34: 31.4	4th
36	AUT	Rudolf Horn	34: 46.0	4th
39	AUT	Walter Hörl	35: 02.6	5

Date: February 14, 1984, 9:00 a.m.

64 participants from 25 countries, 63 of them in the evaluation.

Single 20 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)	error
1	FRG	Peter Angerer	1: 11: 52.7	2
2	GDR	Frank-Peter Roetsch	1: 13: 21.4	3
3	NOR	Eirik Kvalfoss	1: 14: 02.4	5
4th	FRA	Yvon Mougel	1: 14: 53.1	4th
5	GDR	Frank Ullrich	1: 14: 53.7	3
6th	NOR	Rolf Storsveen	1: 15: 23.9	4th
7th	FRG	Fritz Fischer	1: 15: 49.4	4th
8th	SWE	Leif Andersson	1: 16: 19.3	3
9	ITA	Andreas Zingerle	1: 16: 21.7	4th
10	TCH	Jan Matouš	1: 16: 39.0	5
22nd	FRG	Ernst Reiter	1: 20: 37.4	5
29	GDR	Holger Wick	1: 21: 19.1	9
30th	AUT	Franz Schuler	1: 21: 23.0	5
31	SUI	Beat Meier	1: 21: 24.4	7th
34	AUT	Alfred Eder	1: 22: 52.6	6th
36	AUT	Rudolf Horn	1: 23: 10.8	8th

Date: February 11, 1984, 9:00 a.m.

63 participants from 25 countries, including 61 in the rating.

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	Country sportsman	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Soviet Union Dmitri Wassilijew Yuri Kashkarow Algimantas Schalna Sergei Bulygin	1: 38: 51.7 h 24: 52.4 min 24: 34.8 min 25: 17.8 min 24: 06.7 min	0 + 5/2 + 4 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 3/0 + 0 0 + 1/2 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 0
2	Norway Odd Lirhus Eirik Kvalfoss Rolf Storsveen Kjell Søbak	1: 39: 03.1 h 26: 56.2 min 23: 27.6 min 24: 46.5 min 23: 53.6 min	0 + 2/2 + 8 0 + 1/2 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 2 0 + 1/0 + 1 0 + 0/0 + 2
3	Federal Republic of Germany Ernst Reiter Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer	1: 39: 05.1 h 26: 01.9 min 25: 13.5 min 23: 39.3 min 24: 10.4 min	0 + 4/1 + 5 0 + 0/0 + 0 0 + 2/1 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 0 0 + 2/0 + 2
4th	GDR Holger Wick Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob Frank Ullrich	1: 40: 04.7 h 26: 01.2 min 23: 52.6 min 24: 32.8 min 25: 38.1 min	0 + 1/1 + 8 0 + 0/1 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 0 0 + 0/0 + 3 0 + 1/0 + 2
5	Italy Adriano Darioli Gottlieb Taschler Johann Passler Andreas Zingerle	1:42: 32.8 h 26: 14.3 min 25: 43.5 min 25: 50.4 min 24: 44.6 min	0 + 1/0 + 8 0 + 0/0 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 1 0 + 1/0 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 1
6th	Czechoslovakia Jaromír Šimůnek Zdenek Hák Petr Zelinka Jan Matouš	1: 42: 40.5 h 25: 59.5 min 25: 06.4 min 26: 16.2 min 25: 18.4 min	0 + 4/4 + 7 0 + 2/0 + 0 0 + 2/0 + 1 0 + 0/1 + 3 0 + 0/3 + 3
7th	Finland Keijo Tiitola Toivo Mäkikyrö Arto Jääskeläinen Tapio Piipponen	1: 43: 16.0 h 25: 58.9 min 26: 08.4 min 26: 29.9 min 24: 38.8 min	0 + 4/2 + 6 0 + 2/0 + 0 0 + 1/1 + 3 0 + 1/1 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 0
8th	Austria Rudolf Horn Walter Hörl Franz Schuler Alfred Eder	1: 43: 28.1 h 26: 17.2 min 25: 48.6 min 26: 18.7 min 25: 03.6 min	1 + 5/0 + 6 0 + 1/0 + 1 1 + 3/0 + 0 0 + 1/0 + 3 0 + 0/0 + 2

Date: February 17, 1984, 9:00 a.m.

17 relays at the start, all in the ranking.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo , ed. Manfred Vorderwülbecke with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein Bertelsmann-Verlag Munich 1984, DNB 211222038 , pp. 200–203, p. 251.

Web links

• Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1984 Winter Olympics (PDF; 11.3 MB)