Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Belarus at the
1998 Winter Olympics
Belarus at the; 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	BLR
NOC	Belarus Olympic Committee
Website	www.noc.by (in Russian and English)
in Nagano
Competitors	59 (44 men, 15 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearers	Alexandr Popov, Biathlon
Medals ; Ranked 20th	Gold0Silver0Bronze2Total2
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1994 ; 1998 ; 2002 ; 2006 ; 2010 ; 2014 ; 2018 ; 2022 ; 2026;
Other related appearances
	Poland (1924–1936); Soviet Union (1952–1988); Unified Team (1992); Individual Neutral Athletes (2026)

Last updated August 11, 2025

Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Alexei Aidarov	Biathlon	Men's individual	11 February
Bronze	Dmitri Dashinski	Freestyle skiing	Men's aerials	18 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	1	0	1
Biathlon	4	5	9
Cross-country skiing	5	5	10
Figure skating	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	5	1	6
Ice hockey	23	0	23
Nordic combined	2	–	2
Ski jumping	2	–	2
Speed skating	1	3	4
Total	44	15	59

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Igor Yudin	Super-G			1:45.92	36

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Aleksandr Popov	2	30:53.0	55
	Vadim Sashurin	1	30:34.0	46
	Alexei Aidarov	2	30:12.3	37
	Oleg Ryzhenkov	2	29:38.2	27

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Aleksandr Popov	57:39.6	3	1'00:39.6	29
	Vadim Sashurin	57:08.6	2	59:08.6	13
	Oleg Ryzhenkov	56:31.3	2	58:31.3	9
	Alexei Aidarov	55:46.5	1	56:46.5

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Aleksandr Popov Vadim Sashurin	0	1'23:14.0	4

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Nataliya Ryzhenkova	4	26:10.5	52
	Nataliya Moroz	0	25:04.7	28
	Svetlana Paramygina	2	24:50.0	24
	Irina Tananayko	0	24:42.5	22

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
15 km	Nataliya Permyakova	58:33.5	3	1'01:33.5	41
	Irina Tananayko	57:25.4	1	58:25.4	22
	Nataliya Ryzhenkova	55:03.5	3	58:03.5	19
	Svetlana Paramygina	54:53.4	2	56:53.4	12

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina	0	1'45:24.0	12

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km C	Sergey Dolidovich	DNF	–
	Nikolay Semenyako	31:54.5	73
	Aleksey Tregubov	31:43.9	70
	Aleksandr Sannikov	29:54.7	39
15 km pursuit¹ F	Aleksey Tregubov	DNF	–
	Nikolay Semenyako	49:31.3	60
	Aleksandr Sannikov	43:16.9	26
30 km C	Nikolay Semenyako	1'47:32.5	54
	Aleksandr Sannikov	1'42:48.0	40
	Sergey Dolidovich	1'42:18.7	36
	Aleksey Tregubov	1'40:05.9	18
50 km F	Vyacheslav Plaksunov	DNF	–
	Nikolay Semenyako	DNF	–
	Sergey Dolidovich	2'17:07.5	31
	Aleksandr Sannikov	2'16:34.4	27

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Sergey Dolidovich Aleksey Tregubov Aleksandr Sannikov Vyacheslav Plaksunov	1'45:15.3	14

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km C	Lyudmila Korolik	20:17.9	63
	Irina Skripnik	19:44.2	55
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	19:32.7	48
	Yelena Sinkevich	18:50.2	23
10 km pursuit² F	Lyudmila Korolik	34:55.4	58
	Irina Skripnik	34:15.8	55
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	33:11.2	47
	Yelena Sinkevich	30:42.5	21
15 km C	Irina Skripnik	52:26.2	43
	Yekaterina Antonyuk	52:24.5	42
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	51:59.0	39
	Yelena Sinkevich	49:20.8	15
30 km F	Irina Skripnik	1'34:38.4	47
	Lyudmila Korolik	1'34:07.5	44
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	1'33:51.6	42
	Yelena Sinkevich	1'27:15.3	12

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Svetlana Kamotskaya Yekaterina Antonyuk Yelena Sinkevich Lyudmila Korolik	59:56.9	14

Figure skating

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Tatjana Navka Nikolai Morozov	14	15	17	16	32.0	16

Freestyle skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Oleg Kuleshov	Moguls	34.37	11.13	29	did not advance
Aleksandr Tkachenko	Aerials		178.46	18	did not advance
Vasily Vorobyov			199.29	13	did not advance
Aleksey Grishin			217.84	9 Q		220.99	8
Dmitry Dashchinsky			249.04	1 Q		240.79

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Yuliya Milko-Chernemorets	Moguls	35.91	20.20	19	did not advance

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

The Belarusian hockey team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics. They won their group that featured Germany, France and Japan by beating France 4–0, Germany 8-2 and by drawing Japan 2-2. Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament. They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5–0 to Canada and identical scores of 5–2 to Sweden and the United States. They finished last of group A and had to face the top spot in group B which was Russia. They lost 4-1 and got eliminated in the process from the tournament. They ended the tournament in 7th place.

Preliminary round – group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	3	2	0	1	14	4	+10	5
Germany	3	2	1	0	7	9	-2	4
France	3	1	2	0	5	8	-3	2
Japan	3	0	2	1	5	10	-5	1

All times are local (UTC-7).

7 February 1998

France

0 – 4
(0-1, 0-1, 0-2)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 3,419

9 February 1998

Germany

2 – 8
(0-2, 2-3, 0-3)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 8,063

10 February 1998

Japan

2 – 2
(1-1, 1-1, 0-0)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 3,659

First Round – group C

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	12	3	+9	6
Sweden	3	2	1	11	7	+4	4
United States	3	1	2	8	10	-2	2
Belarus	3	0	3	4	15	-11	0

All times are local (UTC-7).

13 February 1998

Canada

5 – 0
(0-2, 0-2, 0-1)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,960

14 February 1998

United States

5 – 2
(2-1, 1-0, 2-1)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,975

16 February 1998

Sweden

5 – 2
(0-2, 1-1, 1-2)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 4,235

Quarter-final

All times are local (UTC-7).

18 February 1998

Russia

4 – 1
(1-0, 1-0, 2-0)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 4,628

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Cross-country time	Total rank
Sergey Zakharenko	Individual	158.0	48	51:12.2	43
Konstantin Kalinovsky	Individual	181.0	45	49:38.2	42

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Aleksandr Sinyavsky	Normal hill	70.0	71.5	50	did not advance
Aleksey Shibko	Normal hill	74.0	80.0	40	did not advance
Aleksey Shibko	Large hill	94.5	65.1	55	did not advance
Aleksandr Sinyavsky	Large hill	109.0	94.2	32	did not advance

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5000 m	Vitaly Novichenko	7:19.76	32

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Lyudmila Kostyukevich	41.00	32	41.43	34	82.43	31
500 m	Anzhelika Kotyuga	39.76	17	39.85	18	79.61	16
1000 m	Lyudmila Kostyukevich					1:22.58	34
1000 m	Anzhelika Kotyuga					1:21.35	25
3000 m	Svetlana Chepelnikova					4:36.97	29

Trivia

In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia flag and with the national anthem of the former Soviet Union.

External links

References

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Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Contents

Medalists

Competitors

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Freestyle skiing

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

Preliminary round – group B

First Round – group C

Quarter-final

Nordic combined

Ski jumping

Speed skating

Trivia

External links

References