Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Relay

Men's biathlon relay
at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Men's biathlon relay; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center
Dates	22 February
Competitors	60 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:34:03.27
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Last updated June 19, 2023

The Men's 4 x 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]

Rank	Bib	Team	Penalties	Result	Deficit
	13	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	–
	11	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
	14	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
4	8	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
5	1	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
6	10	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
7	7	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
8	4	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
9	9	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
10	6	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
11	3	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
12	5	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
13	2	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
14	15	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
	12	Argentina Luis Ríos Jorge Salas Raúl Abella Demetrio Velázquez	DNF

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References

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.
↑ "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.
↑ Wallechinsky, David (1980). The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: The Overlook Press. p. 320. ISBN 1-58567-185-1.

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[Biathlon-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.

[SR-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.

[Raceformat-3] Wallechinsky, David (1980). The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: The Overlook Press. p. 320. ISBN 1-58567-185-1.

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