Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Sprint


The Men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics was held on 23 February, at Canmore Nordic Centre. Competitors raced over three loops of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.

Results

had led an East German sweep of the sprint podium at the 1987 Biathlon World Championships, and despite a penalty loop, won by more than 15 seconds over two clean shooting Soviet racers, 1986 sprint world champion Valeriy Medvedtsev and 21-year-old Sergei Tchepikov. Roetsch had also won the 20 kilometre event earlier in the week, ending up with both individual gold medals in Calgary.
RankBibNameCountryTimePenaltiesDeficit
63Frank-Peter Roetsch25:08.11
50Valeriy Medvedtsev25:23.70
31Sergei Tchepikov25:29.40
10Birk Anders25:51.82
42André Sehmisch25:52.32
36Frank Luck25:57.61
37Tapio Piipponen26:02.21
49Johann Passler26:07.72
69Dmitry Vasilyev26:09.71 +1:01.6
1052Peter Angerer26:13.22 +1:05.1
1128Geir Einang26:13.30 +1:05.2
1267Fritz Fischer26:25.91 +1:17.8
1357Pieralberto Carrara26:32.72 +1:24.6
1464Frode Løberg26:32.91 +1:24.8
1524Andreas Zingerle26:33.02 +1:24.9
1656Jan Matouš26:33.31 +1:25.2
1753Franz Schuler26:45.01 +1:36.9
1811Juri Kashkarov26:49.13 +1:41.0
1934Ernst Reiter26:50.22 +1:42.1
2045Eirik Kvalfoss26:51.94 +1:43.8
2138Mike Dixon26:53.30 +1:45.2
229Mikael Löfgren27:01.01 +1:52.9
2368Bruno Hofstätter27:02.81 +1:54.7
2423Tomáš Kos27:13.51 +2:05.4
2541Harri Eloranta27:15.23 +2:07.1
2618Stefan Höck27:26.23 +2:18.1
2733Josh Thompson27:27.74 +2:19.6
2862Jiří Holubec27:29.83 +2:21.7
2965Krasimir Videnov27:31.11 +2:23.0
3017Sverre Istad27:34.35 +2:26.2
3047Lyle Nelson27:34.31 +2:26.2
3232Francis Mougel27:34.93 +2:26.8
3313Roberto Marchesi27:36.72 +2:28.6
347Jaromír Šimůnek27:38.61 +2:30.5
3432Glenn Rupertus27:38.62 +2:30.5
3616Khristo Vodenicharov27:40.51 +2:32.4
3712Egon Leitner27:42.42 +2:34.3
3830Vladimir Velichkov27:48.82 +2:40.7
3926Misao Kodate27:52.62 +2:44.5
4021Alfred Eder27:57.32 +2:49.2
416Juha Tella27:58.33 +2:50.2
4260Antero Lähde27:59.93 +2:51.8
4355Vasil Bozhilov28:06.52 +2:58.4
4451Tadashi Nakamura28:11.42 +3:03.3
4548Carl Davies28:12.12 +3:04.0
4661Ken Karpoff28:12.91 +3:04.8
4743Peter Sjödén28:13.32 +3:05.2
4825Zsolt Kovács28:13.90 +3:05.8
4971Bill Carow28:19.64 +3:11.5
502Curt Schreiner28:19.93 +3:11.8
511Christian Dumont28:20.32 +3:12.2
5229Hervé Flandin28:21.44 +3:13.3
5327Jure Velepec28:21.92 +3:13.8
5422Roger Westling28:24.84 +3:16.7
5544Charles Plamondon28:30.53 +3:22.4
5654Xavier Blond28:36.63 +3:28.5
5772Leif Andersson28:48.94 +3:40.8
588Paget Stewart29:06.94 +3:58.8
5914Koichi Sato29:43.13 +4:35.0
605Mark Langin29:52.15 +4:44.0
6159Trevor King30:00.55 +4:52.4
6235Andrew Paul30:36.61 +5:28.5
6370Akihiro Takizawa31:38.75 +6:30.6
6419Shin Young-sun33:05.44 +7:57.3
6520Alejandro Giró33:55.43 +8:47.3
6658Joo Young-dai34:50.48 +9:42.3
6739Kim Yong-woon35:18.67
6840Luis Argel35:25.18
6946Joung Young-suk35:31.36
704Gustavo Giró36:38.86
713Judd Bankert45:37.18
7215Elliot Archilla47:47.46