Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Relay

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Men's biathlon relay
at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center
Dates22 February 1980
Competitors60 from 15 nations
Winning time1:34:03.27
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Vladimir Alikin
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Vladimir Barnashov
Anatoly Alyabyev
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Mathias Jung
Klaus Siebert
Frank Ullrich
Eberhard Rösch
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Franz Bernreiter
Hans Estner
Peter Angerer
Gerd Winkler
  1976
1984  

The Men's 4 × 7.5 kilometre biathlon relay competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 22 February, at Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. Each national team consisted of four members, with each skiing 7.5 kilometres and shooting twice, once prone and once standing. [1] [2]

At each shooting station, a competitor has eight shots to hit five targets; however, only five bullets are loaded in a magazine at one time - if additional shots are required, the spare bullets must be loaded one at a time. If after the eight shots are taken, there are still targets not yet hit, the competitor must ski a 150-metre penalty loop. [3]

Results

The East Germans were the two-time defending world champions, while the defending Olympic champions from the Soviet Union had just one bronze medal to show from those two championships. Vladimir Alikin set the tone for the Soviets in the first leg, putting together the single fastest lap of the relay race, and giving his side a twenty second lead over the East Germans. The lead then expanded when Klaus Siebert struggled, needing a penalty loop on each of his two shooting rounds. At the halfway point, the Soviets were more than a minute ahead, and while the Germans cut down the lead over the last two legs, they were not able to get close. [1] West Germany struggled early, Franz Bernreiter taking two penalty loops on the first leg, but strong legs from Hans Estner and Peter Angerer got them up to third, and with Norway's Odd Lirhus taking two penalties on the third leg, the West Germans were able to take the bronze. [1]

RankBibTeamPenaltiesResultDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg13Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Vladimir Alikin
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Vladimir Barnashov
Anatoly Alyabyev
0+4 0+8
0+1 0+1
0+0 0+3
0+0 0+3
0+3 0+1
1:34:03.27
22:40.71
23:44.60
23:48.36
23:49.60
Silver medal icon.svg11Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Mathias Jung
Klaus Siebert
Frank Ullrich
Eberhard Rösch
1+6 2+12
0+0 0+3
1+3 1+3
0+1 0+3
0+2 1+3
1:34:56.99
23:03.85
24:47.64
23:01.26
24:04.24
+53.72
Bronze medal icon.svg14Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Franz Bernreiter
Hans Estner
Peter Angerer
Gerd Winkler
0+4 2+11
0+0 2+3
0+1 0+3
0+2 0+2
0+1 0+3
1:37:30.26
24:53.58
24:31.97
23:31.20
24:33.51
+3:26.99
48Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Svein Engen
Kjell Søbak
Odd Lirhus
Sigleif Johansen
0+7 3+10
0+2 1+3
0+2 0+3
0+0 2+3
0+3 0+1
1:38:11.76
24:52.10
24:03.15
24:08.66
25:07.85
+4:08.49
51Flag of France.svg  France
Yvon Mougel
Denis Sandona
André Geourjon
Christian Poirot
0+5 0+10
0+0 0+2
0+2 0+3
0+2 0+2
0+1 0+3
1:38:23.36
23:30.07
25:14.71
24:44.46
24:54.12
+4:20.09
610Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Rudolf Horn
Franz-Josef Weber
Josef Koll
Alfred Eder
0+3 4+8
0+2 0+3
0+0 4+3
0+1 0+1
0+0 0+1
1:38:32.02
23:59.95
25:56.99
24:37.12
23:57.96
+4:28.75
77Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Keijo Kuntola
Erkki Antila
Kari Saarela
Raimo Seppänen
0+5 6+10
0+1 1+3
0+2 3+3
0+2 0+1
0+0 2+3
1:38:50.84
24:18.98
25:04.17
24:14.45
25:13.24
+4:47.57
84Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Martin Hagen
Lyle Nelson
Donald Nielsen, Jr.
Peter Hoag, Jr.
0+5 0+8
0+1 0+2
0+2 0+3
0+1 0+1
0+1 0+2
1:39:24.29
24:25.46
24:43.61
24:31.29
25:43.93
+5:21.02
99Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Arduino Tiraboschi
Adriano Darioli
Celestino Midali
Luigi Weiss
2+8 0+7
0+1 0+2
0+1 0+2
1+3 0+1
1+3 0+2
1:40:20.79
24:15.71
24:27.55
25:45.94
25:51.59
+6:17.52
106Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Sven Fahlén
Per Andersson
Sören Wikström
Ronnie Adolfsson
0+7 6+9
0+3 3+3
0+0 1+3
0+2 0+0
0+2 2+3
1:40:44.62
25:46.60
25:06.56
24:11.80
25:39.66
+6:41.35
113Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia
Josef Skalník
Jaromír Šimůnek
Peter Zelinka
Zdeněk Hák
1+5 3+5
1+3 0+2
0+0 3+2
0+2 0+1
0+0 0+0
1:41:48.62
24:31.88
29:37.41
23:55.70
23:43.63
+7:45.35
125Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Graeme Ferguson
Keith Oliver
Jim Wood
Paul Gibbins
0+6 2+8
0+2 0+0
0+2 0+3
0+1 2+3
0+1 0+2
1:42:10.59
24:43.63
25:39.61
26:47.14
25:00.21
+8:07.32
132Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan
Hiroyuki Deguchi
Masaichi Kinoshita
Takashi Shibata
Tsusumisa Kikuchi
1+7 6+9
1+3 0+2
0+2 0+1
0+2 5+3
0+0 1+3
1:45:53.98
25:22.57
25:22.90
28:07.32
27:01.19
+11:50.71
1415Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Song Yongjun
Ying Zhenshan
Li Xiaoming
Wang Yumjie
10+10 8+12
0+1 0+3
3+3 3+3
2+3 2+3
5+3 3+3
2:01:33.36
27:06.27
29:22.07
30:39.59
34:25.43
+27:30.09
12Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina
Luis Ríos
Jorge Salas
Raúl Abella
Demetrio Velázquez
DNF

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  2. "Biathlon at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's 4 x 7.5 kilometres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. Wallechinsky, David (1980). The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: The Overlook Press. p. 320. ISBN   1-58567-185-1.