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Sprint (10 kilometres), Men

Date	23 February 1994 — 13:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Birkebeineren Skistadion, Lillehammer
Participants	68 from 28 countries
Format	Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.
Details	Course Length: 10,747 m Height Differential: 57 m Maximum Climb: 32 m Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 404 m

Mark Kirchner was the defending champion and had won the last three World Championships at the distance. He had been second in the 1992-93 seasonal World Cup, but had struggled with his shooting during the 1993-94 season. And shooting would be crucial in the short event as, among the leaders, only two biathletes had clean shooting rounds, and they would win the gold and silver medals. Sergey Chepikov had been third (1988) and fourth (1992) in this event at the last two Winter Olympics, but moved up to the gold here. Ricco Groß, the silver medalist, repeated his silver medal from Albertville. Kirchner missed two targets but also did not ski that well and placed 12th overall. For Chepikov this was his fifth Olympic biathlon medal, but only his second gold, and his first in an individual event. In 1998 he would compete at Nagano in cross-country skiing, but he returned to the biathlon, competing for Russia at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, and would add a sixth biathlon medal, a silver in the relay, in 2006.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Misses	Shooting 1 Misses	Shooting 2 Misses
1	25	Sergey Chepikov	RUS	28:07.0	0	0	0	Gold
2	11	Ricco Groß	GER	28:13.0	0	0	0	Silver
3	55	Sergey Tarasov	RUS	28:27.4	1	1	0	Bronze
4	47	Vladimir Drachov	RUS	28:28.9	1	0	1
5	63	Ludwig Gredler	AUT	29:05.4	2	0	2
6	53	Frank Luck	GER	29:09.7	2	1	1
7	37	Sven Fischer	GER	29:16.0	1	1	0
8	60	Hervé Flandin	FRA	29:33.8	1	1	0
9	48	Janez Ožbolt	SLO	29:35.8	0	0	0
10	62	Aliaksandr Papou	BLR	29:38.5	0	0	0
11	27	Patrice Bailly-Salins	FRA	29:43.1	2	1	1
12	32	Mark Kirchner	GER	29:51.7	2	1	1
13	57	Johann Passler	ITA	29:53.1	2	0	2
14	21	Ivar Ulekleiv	NOR	29:56.6	1	0	1
15	49	Harri Eloranta	FIN	30:02.1	4	1	3
16	5	Valery Kiriyenko	RUS	30:06.2	3	1	2
17	45	Aleh Ryzhankou	BLR	30:11.0	3	2	1
18	38	Taras Dolniy	UKR	30:16.6	1	1	0
19	1	Thierry Dusserre	FRA	30:22.6	2	1	1
20	35	Ulf Johansson	SWE	30:24.2	3	2	1
21	56	Petr Garabík	CZE	30:31.2	1	0	1
22	24	Wolfgang Perner	AUT	30:31.5	3	1	2
23	44	Pieralberto Carrara	ITA	30:33.1	3	1	2
24	9	Wilfried Pallhuber	ITA	30:35.2	3	1	2
25	54	Jon Åge Tyldum	NOR	30:36.7	2	1	1
26	64	Steve Cyr	CAN	30:41.2	3	1	2
27	41	Jan Ziemianin	POL	30:44.2	2	1	1
28	2	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	NOR	30:44.6	1	1	0
29	40	Jiří Holubec	CZE	30:45.2	2	0	2
30	46	Franz Schuler	AUT	30:55.2	4	1	3
31	20	Krasimir Videnov	BUL	30:59.3	1	0	1
32	23	Tomasz Sikora	POL	31:02.6	3	2	1
33	28	János Panyik	HUN	31:04.3	2	1	1
34	13	Gheorghe Vasile	ROU	31:05.3	2	1	1
35	39	Stéphane Bouthiaux	FRA	31:07.3	3	1	2
36	31	Uroš Velepec	SLO	31:07.5	2	1	1
37	19	Viktar Maihurau	BLR	31:09.2	3	2	1
38	14	Per Brandt	SWE	31:27.4	1	1	0
39	34	Hillar Zahkna	EST	31:28.7	3	1	2
40	16	Valentyn Dzhima	UKR	31:31.8	3	1	2
41	42	Ilmārs Bricis	LAT	31:36.9	4	2	2
42	43	Misao Kodate	JPN	31:40.2	3	1	2
43	6	Martin Pfurtscheller	AUT	31:47.2	5	2	3
44	15	Andreas Zingerle	ITA	31:50.5	2	1	1
45	10	Ihar Khokhriakou	BLR	31:50.7	4	1	3
46	30	Tomáš Kos	CZE	31:52.0	1	0	1
47	61	Ivan Maksymov	UKR	31:52.7	3	1	2
48	65	Dmitry Pantov	KAZ	31:54.2	5	2	3
49	8	Ian Woods	GBR	31:58.3	2	0	2
50	67	Aivo Udras	EST	32:02.1	4	2	2
51	26	Pavel Kotraba	SVK	32:04.0	4	2	2
52	29	Vesa Hietalahti	FIN	32:06.0	5	2	3
53	51	Sylfest Glimsdal	NOR	32:07.4	3	2	1
54	3	Erkki Latvala	FIN	32:08.4	3	2	1
55	58	Gintaras Jasinskas	LTU	32:15.4	3	2	1
56	70	Thanasis Tsakiris	GRE	32:21.5	3	0	3
57	4	Daniel Krčmář	SVK	32:24.1	4	1	3
58	17	Olaf Mihelson	EST	32:30.7	3	0	3
59	12	Jože Poklukar	SLO	32:31.7	3	2	1
60	59	Jean-Marc Chabloz	SUI	32:35.6	3	2	1
61	68	Krzysztof Topór	POL	32:37.7	3	3	0
62	52	Glenn Rupertus	CAN	32:47.7	5	4	1
63	36	Daniel Hediger	SUI	33:05.6	8	4	4
64	50	Dave Jareckie	USA	33:15.6	4	2	2
65	69	Duncan Douglas	USA	33:29.2	3	1	2
66	33	Aivars Bogdanovs	LAT	33:52.0	6	4	2
67	22	Ken Rudd	GBR	34:19.7	4	3	1
68	18	Vasily Gherghy	MDA	34:48.0	3	2	1
DNS	7	Leif Andersson	SWE	–	–	–	–
DNS	66	Glenn Olsson	SWE	–	–	–	–