Biathlon — 20 kilometres, Men

Times held	17
Total participants	738
Total countries	53

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1960	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	30	9
1964	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	51	14
1968	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	60	16
1972	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	54	14
1976	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	52	18
1980	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	49	18
1984	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	63	25
1988	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	71	21
1992	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	94	27
1994	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	70	28
1998	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	72	29
2002	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	87	34
2006	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	88	34
2010	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	88	32
2014	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	89	31
2018	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	86	26
2022	20 kilometres, Men	Olympic	92	28

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1960	Klas Lestander	SWE	Antti Tyrväinen	FIN	Aleksandr Privalov	URS
1964	Vladimir Melanin	URS	Aleksandr Privalov	URS	Olav Jordet	NOR
1968	Magnar Solberg	NOR	Aleksandr Tikhonov	URS	Vladimir Gundartsev	URS
1972	Magnar Solberg	NOR	Hansjörg Knauthe	GDR	Lars-Göran Arwidson	SWE
1976	Nikolay Kruglov	URS	Heikki Ikola	FIN	Aleksandr Yelizarov	URS
1980	Anatoly Alyabyev	URS	Frank Ullrich	GDR	Eberhard Rösch	GDR
1984	Peter Angerer	FRG	Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR	Eirik Kvalfoss	NOR
1988	Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR	Valery Medvedtsev	URS	Johann Passler	ITA
1992	Yauhen Redzkin	EUN	Mark Kirchner	GER	Mikael Löfgren	SWE
1994	Sergey Tarasov	RUS	Frank Luck	GER	Sven Fischer	GER
1998	Halvard Hanevold	NOR	Pieralberto Carrara	ITA	Aliaksei Aydarau	BLR
2002	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	Frank Luck	GER	Viktor Maygurov	RUS
2006	Michael Greis	GER	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	Halvard Hanevold	NOR
2010	Emil Hegle Svendsen	NOR	Siarhei Novikau Ole Einar Bjørndalen	BLR NOR	—	—
2014	Martin Fourcade	FRA	Erik Lesser	GER	Yevgeny Garanichev	RUS
2018	Johannes Thingnes Bø	NOR	Jakov Fak	SLO	Dominik Landertinger	AUT
2022	Quentin Fillon Maillet	FRA	Anton Smolski	BLR	Johannes Thingnes Bø	NOR

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Norway	NOR	6	2	4	12
Soviet Union	URS	3	3	3	9
France	FRA	2	0	0	2
Germany	GER	1	4	1	6
East Germany	GDR	1	3	1	5
Russian Federation	RUS	1	0	2	3
Sweden	SWE	1	0	2	3
Unified Team	EUN	1	0	0	1
West Germany	FRG	1	0	0	1
Belarus	BLR	0	2	1	3
Finland	FIN	0	2	0	2
Italy	ITA	0	1	1	2
Slovenia	SLO	0	1	0	1
Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Magnar Solberg	NOR	2	0	0	2
Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	1	2	0	3
Frank-Peter Roetsch	GDR GER	1	1	0	2
Halvard Hanevold	NOR	1	0	1	2
Johannes Thingnes Bø	NOR	1	0	1	2