Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Individual


The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Igman - Veliko Polke. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.

Results

was the two-time defending World champion, and defending Olympic silver medalist, but his ski pace in Sarajevo was a couple of minutes behind the top competitors, and he ended up 5th. The world champion in the 10 km sprint, Eirik Kvalfoss, had the fastest ski time, but missed five shots, ending up with bronze. The gold went to West Germany's Peter Angerer, who had the best shooting record in the competition, and also the second-fastest ski time, leaving him almost a minute-and-a-half clear of his closest pursuer, East German Frank-Peter Roetsch.
RankNameCountrySki TimePenaltiesResultDeficit
Peter Angerer1:09:52.721:11:52.7-
Frank-Peter Roetsch1:10:21.431:13:21.4+1:28.7
Eirik Kvalfoss1:09:02.451:14:02.4+2:09.7
4Yvon Mougel1:10:53.141:14:53.1+3:00.4
5Frank Ullrich1:11:53.731:14:53.7+3:01.0
6Rolf Storsveen1:11:23.941:15:23.9+3:31.2
7Fritz Fischer1:11:49.741:15:49.7+3:57.0
8Leif Andersson1:13:19.331:16:19.3+4:26.6
9Andreas Zingerle1:12:21.741:16:21.7+4:29.0
10Jan Matouš1:11:39.051:16:39.0+4:46.3
11Sven Fahlén1:12:10.861:18:10.8+6:18.1
12Tapio Piipponen1:12:38.461:18:38.4+6:45.7
13Vladimir Velichkov1:13:47.151:18:47.1+6:54.4
14Jim Wood1:14:55.841:18:55.8+7:03.1
15Zdeněk Hák1:13:05.561:19:05.5+7:12.8
16Arto Jääskeläinen1:14:23.351:19:23.3+7:30.6
17Sergei Bulygin1:12:28.071:19:28.0+7:35.3
18Keijo Tiitola1:14:32.851:19:32.8+7:40.1
19Marco Zanon1:15:59.941:19:59.9+8:07.2
20Ronnie Adolfsson1:12:12.281:20:12.2+8:19.5
21Francis Mougel1:13:20.571:20:20.5+8:27.8
22Ernst Reiter1:15:37.451:20:37.4+8:44.7
23Christian Poirot1:14:54.261:20:54.2+9:01.5
24Odd Lirhus1:11:55.091:20:55.0+9:02.3
25Jaromír Šimůnek1:15:04.361:21:04.3+9:11.6
26Lyle Nelson1:14:05.471:21:05.4+9:12.7
27Spas Zlatev1:16:10.951:21:10.9+9:18.2
28Adriano Darioli1:13:14.081:21:14.0+9:21.3
29Holger Wick1:12:19.191:21:19.1+9:26.4
30Franz Schuler1:16:23.051:21:23.0+9:30.3
31Beat Meier1:14:24.471:21:24.4+9:31.7
32Dmitry Vasilyev1:14:09.281:22:09.2+10:16.5
33Glen Eberle1:18:15.041:22:15.0+10:22.3
34Alfred Eder1:16:52.661:22:52.6+10:59.9
35Juri Kashkarov1:11:53.8111:22:53.8+11:01.1
36Rudolf Horn1:15:10.881:23:10.8+11:18.1
37Charles MacIvor1:16:37.571:23:37.5+11:44.8
38Yoshinobu Murase1:17:39.161:23:39.1+11:46.4
39Shoichi Kinoshita1:16:49.871:23:49.8+11:57.1
40Yuri Mitev1:16:05.481:24:05.4+12:12.7
41Andrej Lanišek1:18:23.161:24:23.1+12:30.4
42Isao Yamase1:18:09.671:25:09.6+13:16.9
43Imre Lestyan1:19:26.661:25:26.6+13:33.9
44Tony McLeod1:17:34.581:25:34.5+13:41.8
45Zsolt Kovács1:19:18.771:26:18.7+14:26.0
46Marjan Vidmar1:18:32.181:26:32.1+14:39.4
47Andrew Paul1:21:38.751:26:38.7+14:46.0
48Jure Velepec1:21:05.861:27:05.8+15:13.1
49Mihai Rădulescu1:19:18.181:27:18.1+15:25.4
50Vladimir Todaşcă1:20:00.981:28:00.9+16:08.2
51János Spisák1:20:06.981:28:06.9+16:14.2
52Sun Xiaoping1:20:07.181:28:07.1+16:14.4
53Martin Hagen1:18:19.8121:30:19.8+18:27.1
54Liu Hongwang1:19:47.5121:31:47.5+19:54.8
55Víctor Figueroa1:27:02.371:34:02.3+22:09.6
56Manuel García1:24:12.4101:34:12.4+22:19.7
57Cecilio Fernández1:25:42.091:34:42.0+22:49.3
58Luis Ríos1:32:17.9101:42:17.9+30:25.2
59Ueng Ming-Yih1:37:07.081:45:07.0+33:14.3
60Hwang Byung-dae1:34:49.9151:49:49.9+37:57.2
61Hernán Carazo2:13:54.9112:24:54.9+73:02.2
-Long YunzhouDNF---
-László PalácsikDNF---