Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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Biathlon
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Venue Les Saisies
Dates11–20 February
No. of events6
Competitors196 from 28 nations
  1988
1994  

Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of six biathlon events. They were held at Les Saisies, about 40 kilometres from the host city of Albertville. The events began on 11 February and ended on 20 February 1992. [1] The 1992 Games were the first in which women competed in biathlon. [2]

Russian biathlete Sergei Tarasov admitted in 2015 that the EUN (former Soviet nations competing in a unified team) biathlon team had carried out illegal blood transfusions at the Games. Something went very wrong with his transfusion, and he was rushed to the hospital where they saved his life. [3]

Medal summary

Six nations won medals in biathlon, Germany leading the medal table with seven (3 gold, 4 silver). The Unified Team and Sweden were the only other team to win more than two medals. Mark Kirchner led the individual medal table with two golds and three medals total, while Antje Misersky also won three medals, one gold and two silver.

France's gold medal in the relay was the country's first medal of any type in the sport. Canada's bronze, won by Myriam Bédard, was the first medal won by an athlete from outside Europe or the former Soviet Union.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)3407
2Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team  (EUN)2226
3Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)1001
4Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden  (SWE)0022
5Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)0011
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland  (FIN)0011
Totals (6 entries)66618

Men's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual
details
Yevgeniy Redkin
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
57:34.4 Mark Kirchner
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
57:40.8 Mikael Löfgren
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
57:59.4
Sprint
details
Mark Kirchner
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
26:02.3 Ricco Groß
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
26:18.0 Harri Eloranta
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
26:26.0
Relay
details
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
Ricco Groß
Jens Steinigen
Mark Kirchner
Fritz Fischer
1:24:43.5Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team  (EUN)
Valeriy Medvedtsev
Aleksandr Popov
Valery Kiriyenko
Sergei Tchepikov
1:25:06.3Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden  (SWE)
Ulf Johansson
Leif Andersson
Tord Wiksten
Mikael Löfgren
1:25:38.2

Women's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual
details
Antje Misersky
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
51:47.2 Svetlana Pechorskaya
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
51:58.5 Myriam Bédard
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
52:15.0
Sprint
details
Anfisa Reztsova
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
24:29.2 Antje Misersky
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
24:45.1 Yelena Belova
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
24:50.8
Relay
details
Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
Corinne Niogret
Véronique Claudel
Anne Briand-Bouthiaux
1:15:55.6Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
Uschi Disl
Antje Misersky
Petra Schaaf
1:16:18.4Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team  (EUN)
Yelena Belova
Anfisa Reztsova
Yelena Melnikova
1:16:54.6

Participating nations

Twenty-eight nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors. [1] Three former Soviet republics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), made their biathlon debuts, along with Slovenia and Greece. The Unified Team also made its only appearance.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
  2. "Biathlon at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. Сергей Тарасов: как я не умер, sport-express.ru, 13 February 2015