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Sprint (10 kilometres), Men

Date	12 February 1992 — 9:45
Status	Olympic
Location	Les Saisies
Participants	94 from 27 countries
Format	Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.
Details	Course Length: 9,915 m Height Differential: 75 m Maximum Climb: 60 m Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 367 m

Germany’s Mark Kirchner had won this event at the 1990 and 1991 World Championships. He had been second in the 1990-91 World Cup season behind Soviet Sergey Chepikov. He would win this gold medal as well, defeating his teammate, Ricco Groß, by 15.7 seconds. Groß was the only one of the top four finishers to have missed a target in shooting, which gave Kirchner the margin of victory. The perfect shooting rounds for Kirchner were somewhat surprising has he had been having difficulty with the rifle during the early World Cup events. Chepikov placed fourth behind Finland’s surprising Harri Eloranta, who had never been on the podium before in a major international and never would again after Albertville.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Misses	Shooting 1 Misses	Shooting 2 Misses
1	68	Mark Kirchner	GER	26:02.3	0	0	0	Gold
2	19	Ricco Groß	GER	26:18.0	1	0	1	Silver
3	5	Harri Eloranta	FIN	26:26.6	0	0	0	Bronze
4	48	Sergey Chepikov	EUN	26:27.5	0	0	0
5	14	Valery Kiriyenko	EUN	26:31.8	3	1	2
6	82	Jens Steinigen	GER	26:34.8	0	0	0
7	50	Andreas Zingerle	ITA	26:38.6	1	0	1
8	11	Steve Cyr	CAN	26:46.4	0	0	0
9	34	Frank-Peter Roetsch	GER	26:54.1	2	0	2
10	10	Hervé Flandin	FRA	26:56.6	1	0	1
11	80	Ludwig Gredler	AUT	27:14.8	2	2	0
12	15	Ivan Masařík	TCH	27:16.8	2	0	2
13	56	Oļegs Maļuhins	LAT	27:17.7	0	0	0
14	9	Ulf Johansson	SWE	27:19.0	0	0	0
15	79	Johann Passler	ITA	27:20.4	3	1	2
16	1	Zbigniew Filip	POL	27:23.7	1	0	1
17	26	Vesa Hietalahti	FIN	27:25.1	2	1	1
18	88	Aliaksandr Papou	EUN	27:31.3	1	1	0
19	13	Egon Leitner	AUT	27:31.8	2	1	1
20	58	Mikael Löfgren	SWE	27:33.3	0	0	0
21	52	Franz Schuler	AUT	27:34.3	1	0	1
22	46	Tomáš Kos	TCH	27:37.4	1	0	1
23	51	Jiří Holubec	TCH	27:37.8	0	0	0
24	4	Sylfest Glimsdal	NOR	27:38.9	4	2	2
25	31	Valery Medvedtsev	EUN	27:39.5	2	1	1
26	3	Hubert Leitgeb	ITA	27:40.3	2	1	1
=27	7	Hillar Zahkna	EST	27:46.5	2	1	1
=27	54	Kari Kataja	FIN	27:46.5	1	0	1
29	32	Jan Ziemianin	POL	27:47.2	1	0	1
30	92	Patrice Bailly-Salins	FRA	27:49.7	3	0	3
31	62	Urmas Kaldvee	EST	27:52.9	1	1	0
32	71	Josh Thompson	USA	27:53.2	1	0	1
33	35	Sašo Grajf	SLO	27:58.8	0	0	0
34	37	Jon Åge Tyldum	NOR	28:01.4	0	0	0
35	25	Krasimir Videnov	BUL	28:04.0	1	0	1
36	40	Misao Kodate	JPN	28:07.0	3	2	1
37	28	Curt Schreiner	USA	28:08.4	0	0	0
38	24	Tibor Géczi	HUN	28:15.5	1	0	1
39	41	Ilmārs Bricis	LAT	28:23.3	1	0	1
40	6	Aivars Bogdanovs	LAT	28:24.2	1	0	1
41	39	Pieralberto Carrara	ITA	28:30.1	3	2	1
42	45	Christian Dumont	FRA	28:30.7	4	3	1
43	86	Janez Ožbolt	SLO	28:31.1	0	0	0
44	77	Gundars Upenieks	LAT	28:32.7	1	0	1
45	61	Xavier Blond	FRA	28:32.8	3	1	2
46	74	Krzysztof Sosna	POL	28:37.4	3	0	3
47	65	Eirik Kvalfoss	NOR	28:38.2	2	0	2
48	29	Tord Wiksten	SWE	28:40.5	1	1	0
49	20	Erich Wilbrecht	USA	28:41.1	2	1	1
50	94	Martin Rypl	TCH	28:41.8	1	1	0
51	8	Boštjan Lekan	SLO	28:42.4	1	0	1
52	64	Glenn Rupertus	CAN	28:43.3	3	1	2
53	33	Alfred Eder	AUT	28:44.8	2	0	2
54	67	Spas Zlatev	BUL	28:45.9	1	0	1
55	90	Duncan Douglas	USA	28:49.2	2	0	2
56	63	Jan Wojtas	POL	28:56.5	2	0	2
57	81	Jaakko Niemi	FIN	29:04.0	2	0	2
58	21	Ken Rudd	GBR	29:11.1	1	0	1
59	85	Kalju Ojaste	EST	29:13.2	1	0	1
60	57	Mike Dixon	GBR	29:19.4	2	2	0
61	44	Aivo Udras	EST	29:28.4	2	1	1
62	30	Tony Fiala	CAN	29:35.0	2	1	1
63	22	Song Wenbin	CHN	29:39.3	1	0	1
64	42	Gintaras Jasinskas	LTU	29:44.3	2	0	2
65	17	Boycho Popov	BUL	29:44.6	1	0	1
66	83	Geir Einang	NOR	29:45.0	2	1	1
67	89	Anders Mannelqvist	SWE	29:52.0	3	2	1
68	59	Uroš Velepec	SLO	29:54.3	2	1	1
69	12	Gábor Mayer	HUN	29:55.6	0	0	0
70	36	Tan Hongbin	CHN	29:55.9	2	0	2
71	76	Wang Weiyi	CHN	30:06.0	1	0	1
72	27	Ian Woods	GBR	30:11.8	5	1	4
73	66	János Panyik	HUN	30:13.0	3	1	2
74	73	Spas Gulev	BUL	30:16.6	2	0	2
75	53	Tang Guoliang	CHN	30:22.6	1	1	0
76	47	Mladen Grujić	YUG	30:27.6	3	2	1
77	60	Jean-Marc Chabloz	SUI	30:32.9	3	2	1
78	72	Atsushi Kazama	JPN	30:34.7	6	3	3
79	49	Thanasis Tsakiris	GRE	30:39.3	3	1	2
80	78	Jason Sklenar	GBR	30:52.8	2	0	2
81	18	Nicolae Șerban	ROU	31:29.6	4	3	1
82	91	László Farkas	HUN	31:43.6	2	1	1
83	84	Tom Hansen	CAN	32:03.1	2	1	1
84	16	Hong Byeong-Sik	KOR	32:59.2	3	1	2
85	93	Admir Jamak	YUG	33:08.8	2	0	2
86	69	Zoran Ćosić	YUG	33:14.6	2	0	2
87	23	Tomislav Lopatić	YUG	34:30.1	3	0	3
88	75	Jang Dong-In	KOR	34:44.2	4	2	2
89	43	Kim Eun-Gi	KOR	35:05.8	2	0	2
90	55	Han Myeong-Hui	KOR	35:48.9	5	2	3
91	38	Luis Ríos	ARG	36:07.5	3	1	2
92	2	Alejandro Guerra	ARG	40:16.8	2	2	0
93	70	Juan Fernández	ARG	40:32.0	2	1	1
94	87	Roberto Lucero	ARG	41:38.5	8	4	4