Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Individual

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Men's biathlon individual
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Seefeld
Dates6 February
Competitors52 from 18 nations
Winning time1:14:12.3
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Nikolay Kruglov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Silver medal icon.svg Heikki Ikola Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Bronze medal icon.svg Aleksandr Elizarov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
  1972
1980  

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics was held on 6 February, at Seefeld. Each miss of the target cost two minutes, while hitting the outer circle cost one minute. [1] [2]

Summary

Defending world champion Heikki Ikola was among the leaders after the first shooting around, but he trailed Soviet Aleksandr Tikhonov, who set a torrid pace. Tikhonov led by thirty seconds at the halfway point, despite missing a shot, and after shooting clear the third time, the Soviet was up by more than a minute on Ikola and Nikolay Kruglov, the worlds silver medalist. However, at the final shot, Tikhonov collapsed, taking six penalty minutes to fall out of medal contention. Ikola took two minutes in penalties as well, meaning Kruglov, who had just one minute penalty, was able to pass him to win the gold medal. Aleksandr Elizarov could have taken silver with a better shooting performance than Ikola, but matched the Finn with two minutes in penalties, and while he cut Ikola's lead in half on the final section, he was left in third place. Tikhonov ended up with the fastest ski time by almost two full minutes, but his late misses meant he ended up in fifth. [1]

Results

Penalties refer to minutes added, as described above, not (necessarily) number of targets missed. [1]

RankBibNameCountrySki TimePenalties (P+S+P+S)ResultDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg9 Nikolay Kruglov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:12:12.262 (1+0+0+1)1:14:12.26
Silver medal icon.svg21 Heikki Ikola Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:13:54.102 (0+0+0+2)1:15:54.10+1:41.84
Bronze medal icon.svg49 Aleksandr Elizarov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:13:05.573 (1+0+0+2)1:16:05.57+1:53.31
43 Willy Bertin Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:13:50.363 (0+3+0+0)1:16:50.36+2:38.10
534 Aleksandr Tikhonov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:10:18.337 (0+1+0+6)1:17:18.33+3:06.07
615 Esko Saira Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:15:32.842 (0+0+0+2)1:17:32.84+3:20.58
740 Lino Jordan Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:15:49.832 (0+0+2+0)1:17:49.83+3:37.57
823 Sune Adolfsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:16:00.502 (0+0+0+2)1:18:00.50+3:48.24
933 Tor Svendsberget Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:15:10.133 (0+2+1+0)1:18:10.13+3:57.87
108 Lars-Göran Arwidson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:13:34.375 (0+1+1+3)1:18:34.37+4:22.11
1131 Heinrich Mehringer Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:16:49.152 (1+1+0+0)1:18:49.15+4:36.89
1236 Manfred Geyer Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 1:13:11.376 (1+3+2+0)1:19:11.37+4:59.11
1343 Juhani Suutarinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:17:25.892 (1+0+1+0)1:19:25.89+5:13.63
1429 Hansruedi Süssli Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:16:53.733 (0+0+0+3)1:19:53.73+5:41.47
1551 Karl-Heinz Wolf Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 1:15:06.895 (1+2+2+0)1:20:06.89+5:54.63
167 Gheorghe Voicu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 1:16:01.525 (1+2+1+1)1:21:01.52+6:49.26
1713 Antonín Kříž Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:17:11.364 (1+1+1+1)1:21:11.36+6:59.10
1810 Kjell Hovda Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:16:24.455 (0+0+0+5)1:21:24.45+7:12.19
1917 Jan Szpunar Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 1:17:27.204 (0+3+1+0)1:21:27.20+7:14.94
2045 Svein Engen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:14:27.247 (2+4+0+1)1:21:27.24+7:15.98
2135 Alfred Eder Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:14:42.528 (2+3+1+2)1:22:42.52+8:30.26
2222 René Arpin Flag of France.svg  France 1:13:50.929 (3+2+1+3)1:22:50.92+8:38.66
2328 Pierantonio Clementi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:16:08.867 (1+3+1+2)1:23:08.86+8:56.60
2425 Ladislav Žižka Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:19:09.034 (0+2+2+0)1:23:09.03+8:56.77
252 Albert Mächler Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:17:28.666 (2+1+1+2)1:23:28.66+9:16.40
2647 Josef Niedermeier Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:18:33.635 (0+3+0+2)1:23:33.63+9:21.37
2711 Manfred Beer Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 1:18:42.505 (1+2+0+2)1:23:42.50+9:30.24
2819 Wojciech Truchan Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 1:16:09.938 (1+1+0+5)1:24:09.93+9:57.67
2946 Graeme Ferguson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:18:18.096 (1+2+3+2)1:24:18.09+10:05.83
3048 Hiroyuki Deguchi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 1:18:18.094 (0+2+0+4)1:24:53.84+10:41.58
316 Gheorghe Gârniţă Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 1:20:53.844 (0+0+2+2)1:25:00.71+10:48.45
3227 Khristo Madzharov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 1:17:00.718 (0+1+0+7)1:25:02.62+10:50.36
3350 Jean-Claude Viry Flag of France.svg  France 1:18:09.517 (0+2+1+4)1:25:09.51+10:57.25
341 Alois Kanamüller Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:17:25.268 (1+2+2+3)1:25:25.26+11:13.00
355 Lyle Nelson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:15:27.5010 (1+4+3+2)1:25:27.50+11:15.24
3624 Malcolm Hirst Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:16:52.979 (2+1+1+5)1:25:52.97+11:40.71
374 Franz-Josef Weber Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:16:14.9210 (3+0+1+6)1:26:14.92+12:02.66
3826 Manabu Suzuki Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 1:19:35.797 (1+1+1+4)1:26:35.79+12:23.53
3912 Jeffrey Stevens Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:18:15.879 (1+1+0+7)1:27:15.87+13:03.61
4038 Christian Danuser Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:20:16.437 (0+3+0+4)1:27:16.43+13:04.17
4141 Kazuo Sasakubo Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 1:21:35.316 (0+2+1+3)1:27:35.31+13:23.05
4218 Aimé Gruet-Masson Flag of France.svg  France 1:18:35.819 (2+2+0+5)1:27:35.81+13:23.55
4314 Iliya Todorov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 1:20:57.607 (1+2+1+3)1:27:57.60+13:45.34
4439 Josef Malínský Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:19:09.189 (1+4+1+3)1:28:09.18+13:56.92
4542 Nicolae Cristoloveanu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 1:20:15.538 (0+2+1+5)1:28:15.53+14:03.27
4630 Andrzej Rapacz Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 1:18:30.8210 (1+4+1+4)1:28:30.82+14:18.56
4737 Martin Hagen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:20:49.208 (2+4+2+0)1:28:49.20+14:36.94
4844 Torsten Wadman Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:15:20.3415 (2+2+4+7)1:30:20.34+16:08.08
4952 Klaus Farbmacher Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:20:31.0716 (4+5+3+4)1:36:31.07+22:18.81
5020 Ueng Ming-yih Flag of the Republic of China.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:32:09.3710 (4+2+1+3)1:42:09.37+27:57.11
5116Shen Li-chienFlag of the Republic of China.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:49:32.919 (2+3+2+2)1:58:32.91+44:20.65
32 Peter Dascoulias Flag of the United States.svg  United States DNF

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