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10 kilometres Sprint, Men

Date14 February 1984 — 8:45
StatusOlympic
LocationVeliko Polje, Igman
Participants64 from 25 countries
FormatPenalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.
DetailsCourse Length: ?
Height Differential: 69 m
Maximum Climb: 23 m
Shooting 1: Prone at 3.7 km, 50 m range
Shooting 2: Standing at 7.5 km, 50 m range
Total Climbing: 300 m

This event was expected to be a close duel between defending Champion Frank Ullrich and Erik Kvalfoss, World Champion in the event in 1982 and 1983. But the 20 km race three days earlier had shown that Ullrich was far from his former self regarding speed on the cross-country track.

After the first shooting round, 16 out of 64 competitors had perfect shooting scores, and the Soviet Union’s Algimantas Šalna, a 24-year-old Lithuanian, had taken the lead, five seconds ahead of Yvon Mougel from France. Two of the earliest starters, 20-year-old Yury Kashkarov from the USSR, and Norway’s Kjell Søbak followed as third and fourth. Two of the main favorites, Kvalfoss and the Olympic 20 km champion from three days earlier, Peter Angerer, followed in the next places, Kvalfoss being the only one who had to ski a penalty lap. At the final shooting round, Kashkarov missed twice and seemed out of the medal contention. Søbak, with one missed target, took over the lead until East Germany’s Matthias Jacob, lying ninth after the first shooting, had a perfect series of shots and bettered Søbak’s time by seven seconds. Both the leader Šalna, and Mougel, missed twice and were behind Jacob and Søbak. Next of the favorites to the final set of targets was Kvalfoss. He missed one target and had to ski one penalty lap, but due to his skiing speed he took over the lead, four seconds ahead of Jacob. The last of the favorites to arrive was Angerer. With a perfect shooting round he could challenge Kvalfoss’ leading time, but he missed one target and left as third, only one second behind Jacob. Over the last 2.5 km Kvalfoss extended his lead to nine seconds and won Norway’s first Olympic biathlon gold in twelve years. Angerer was faster than Jacob in the final ski segment and won his second individual Olympic medal, and Jacob, having won two World Championships relay gold medals in 1981 and 1982, won his first individual Olympic medal by securing the bronze. Søbak and Šalna were nine and ten seconds too late, respectively, for a medal. Ullrich had to ski three penalty laps and was once again skiing far slower than normal, finishing a distant 17th, 1:47 behind the winner Kvalfoss.

PosCompetitorNOCTimeMissesShooting 1 MissesShooting 1Shooting 2 MissesShooting 2
1Eirik KvalfossNOR30:53.82111:23.6 (5)123:36.7 (1)Gold
2Peter AngererFRG31:02.41011:28.2 (6)123:41.6 (3)Silver
3Matthias JacobGDR31:10.50011:35.3 (9)023:40.7 (2)Bronze
4Kjell SøbakNOR31:19.71011:20.5 (4)123:47.7 (4)1
5Algimantas ŠalnaURS31:20.82011:08.1 (1)223:52.6 (5)
6Yvon MougelFRA31:32.92011:13.3 (2)224:07.7 (6)
7Frank-Peter RoetschGDR31:49.82212:10.0 (=21)024:19.6 (8)
8Fritz FischerFRG32:04.72111:43.2 (10)124:24.5 (9)
9Jan MatoušTCH32:10.53111:49.0 (12)224:41.1 (15)
10Yury KashkarovURS32:15.22011:19.8 (3)224:39.4 (13)
11Sergey BulyginURS32:19.11011:31.1 (7)124:52.4 (16)2
12Toivo MäkikyröFIN32:22.52011:32.8 (8)224:16.3 (7)3
13Vítězslav JurečekTCH32:26.50011:45.7 (11)024:31.2 (10)
14Vladimir VelichkovBUL32:27.60012:10.0 (=21)024:37.6 (11)
15Tapio PiipponenFIN32:28.71112:13.1 (25)024:38.0 (12)
16Walter PichlerFRG32:30.21112:37.5 (30)024:41.5 (14)
17Frank UllrichGDR32:40.23111:57.7 (16)224:59.8 (18)
18Terje KrokstadNOR33:00.94112:01.7 (17)325:32.5 (21)
19Gottlieb TaschlerITA33:04.91011:49.2 (13)124:58.9 (17)
20Bill CarowUSA33:05.80012:05.3 (19)025:01.6 (19)
21Sven FahlénSWE33:12.92011:52.1 (14)225:13.4 (20)
22Alfred EderAUT33:17.92011:57.9 (15)225:33.9 (22)
23Zdeněk HákTCH33:19.33112:10.8 (20)225:35.8 (23)
24Leif AnderssonSWE33:21.93112:12.8 (23)225:36.4 (24)
25Ronnie AdolfssonSWE33:27.04212:39.7 (32)225:54.6 (27)
26Jim WoodGBR33:40.22112:24.9 (27)125:46.0 (25)
27Francis MougelFRA33:50.44313:19.8 (=43)126:00.0 (28)
28Éric ClaudonFRA34:05.12112:29.5 (28)125:49.5 (26)
29Andreas ZingerleITA34:07.55413:25.9 (47)126:25.7 (33)
30Shoichi KinoshitaJPN34:12.21112:53.5 (39)026:04.0 (29)
31Yuri MitevBUL34:17.41112:48.7 (35)026:07.1 (31)
32Beat MeierSUI34:22.14112:23.9 (26)326:25.9 (34)
33Zsolt KovácsHUN34:23.91112:38.5 (31)026:06.3 (30)
34Risto PunkkaFIN34:28.54112:12.6 (24)326:25.3 (32)
35Johann PasslerITA34:31.44414:15.0 (54)026:53.3 (38)
36Rudi HornAUT34:46.04313:23.6 (45)126:45.8 (37)
37Gábor MayerHUN34:46.33012:04.8 (18)326:44.4 (36)
38Spas ZlatevBUL34:51.22112:48.4 (36)126:39.3 (35)
39Walter HörlAUT35:02.65212:34.5 (29)327:07.9 (=41)
40Josh ThompsonUSA35:10.54213:24.6 (46)227:07.9 (=41)
41Gheorghe BerdarROU35:20.23112:49.0 (37)226:59.9 (39)
42Don Nielsen, Jr.USA35:23.33213:19.8 (=43)127:02.8 (40)
43Yoshinobu MuraseJPN35:35.93112:46.8 (33)227:16.6 (43)
44Graeme FergusonGBR35:37.34213:03.8 (41)227:17.3 (44)
45Song YongjunCHN35:49.42214:04.0 (53)027:46.7 (47)
46Liu HongwangCHN35:56.33112:55.1 (40)227:44.3 (46)
47Isao YamaseJPN35:57.04213:28.1 (48)227:44.0 (45)
48Francisc ForikaROU35:59.84313:53.8 (51)127:55.6 (48)
49Andrej LanišekYUG36:16.05112:46.7 (34)428:06.9 (50)
50Andrew PaulAUS36:32.43113:05.6 (42)228:02.0 (49)
51Trevor KingGBR36:34.45213:30.0 (49)328:23.7 (52)
52Imre LestyanROU36:42.84213:34.0 (50)228:21.6 (51)
53Song WenbinCHN36:53.43012:52.1 (38)328:28.7 (54)
54Marjan VidmarYUG37:08.13214:00.2 (52)128:27.8 (53)
55Cecilio FernándezESP39:27.52114:18.3 (55)130:22.3 (55)
56Manuel GarcíaESP40:16.66315:19.2 (59)331:21.6 (57)
57Tomislav LopatićYUG40:18.29515:47.7 (60)431:31.7 (60)
58József LihiHUN40:21.06214:29.1 (56)431:25.9 (59)
59Óscar di LoveraARG40:25.73215:08.8 (57)131:07.0 (56)
60Luis RíosARG40:36.54215:19.4 (58)231:23.4 (58)
61Víctor FigueroaARG41:04.25416:30.0 (61)132:00.7 (61)
62Hwang Byung-DaeKOR44:43.26316:44.7 (62)334:54.6 (62)
63Ueng Ming-YihTPE45:38.14217:25.6 (63)235:37.2 (63)
DNFHernán CarazoCRC– (–)– (–)