Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Sprint

The Men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February, at Igman - Veliko Polke. 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.[1][2]

Men's biathlon sprint at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Igman - Veliko Polke
Dates	February 14
Competitors	64 from 25 nations
Winning time	30:53.8
Medalists
Eirik Kvalfoss  Norway Peter Angerer  West Germany Matthias Jacob  East Germany

Results

Eirik Kvalfoss, the two-time defending world champion in the sprint, had had the fastest ski time in the individual race, but struggled with his shooting, ending up with bronze. He had no such problems in the sprint, as he missed two shots, but was able to make up for it with his ski speed, being the only man to get below 31 minutes. Peter Angerer, the individual champion, missed just once to win silver, as he did in the 1983 worlds, while Matthias Jacob shot clear to win bronze.[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Penalties	Deficit
	Eirik Kvalfoss	Norway	30:53.8	2	-
	Peter Angerer	West Germany	31:02.4	1	+0:08.6
	Matthias Jacob	East Germany	31:10.5	0	+0:16.7
4	Kjell Søbak	Norway	31:19.7	1	+0:25.9
5	Algimantas Šalna	Soviet Union	31:20.8	2	+0:27.0
6	Yvon Mougel	France	31:32.9	2	+0:39.1
7	Frank-Peter Roetsch	East Germany	31:49.8	2	+0:56.0
8	Fritz Fischer	West Germany	32:04.7	2	+1:10.9
9	Jan Matouš	Czechoslovakia	32:10.5	3	+1:16.7
10	Juri Kashkarov	Soviet Union	32:15.2	2	+1:21.4
11	Sergei Bulygin	Soviet Union	32:19.1	1	+1:25.3
12	Toivo Mäkikyrö	Finland	32:22.5	2	+1:28.7
13	Vítězslav Jureček	Czechoslovakia	32:26.5	0	+1:32.7
14	Vladimir Velichkov	Bulgaria	32:27.6	0	+1:33.8
15	Tapio Piipponen	Finland	32:28.7	1	+1:34.9
16	Walter Pichler	West Germany	32:30.2	1	+1:36.4
17	Frank Ullrich	East Germany	32:40.2	3	+1:46.4
18	Terje Krokstad	Norway	33:00.9	4	+2:07.1
19	Gottlieb Taschler	Italy	33:04.9	1	+2:11.1
20	Bill Carow	United States	33:05.8	0	+2:12.0
21	Sven Fahlén	Sweden	33:12.9	2	+2:19.1
22	Alfred Eder	Austria	33:17.9	2	+2:24.1
23	Zdeněk Hák	Czechoslovakia	33:19.3	3	+2:25.5
24	Leif Andersson	Sweden	33:21.9	3	+2:28.1
25	Ronnie Adolfsson	Sweden	33:27.0	4	+2:33.2
26	Jim Wood	Great Britain	33:40.2	2	+2:46.4
27	Francis Mougel	France	33:50.4	4	+2:56.6
28	Éric Claudon	France	34:05.1	2	+3:11.3
29	Andreas Zingerle	Italy	34:07.5	5	+3:13.7
30	Shoichi Kinoshita	Japan	34:12.2	1	+3:18.4
31	Yuri Mitev	Bulgaria	34:17.4	1	+3:23.6
32	Beat Meier	Switzerland	34:22.1	4	+3:28.3
33	Zsolt Kovács	Hungary	34:23.9	1	+3:30.1
34	Risto Punkka	Finland	34:28.5	4	+3:34.7
35	Johann Passler	Italy	34:31.4	4	+3:37.6
36	Rudolf Horn	Austria	34:46.0	4	+3:52.2
37	Gábor Mayer	Hungary	34:46.3	3	+3:52.5
38	Spas Zlatev	Bulgaria	34:51.2	2	+3:57.4
39	Walter Hörl	Austria	35:02.6	5	+4:08.8
40	Josh Thompson	United States	35:10.5	4	+4:16.7
41	Gheorghe Berdar	Romania	35:20.2	3	+4:26.4
42	Donald Nielsen, Jr.	United States	35:23.3	3	+4:29.5
43	Yoshinobu Murase	Japan	35:35.9	3	+4:42.1
44	Graeme Ferguson	Great Britain	35:37.3	4	+4:43.5
45	Song Yongjun	China	35:49.4	2	+4:55.6
46	Liu Hongwang	China	35:56.3	3	+5:02.5
47	Isao Yamase	Japan	35:57.0	4	+5:03.2
48	Francisc Forika	Romania	35:59.8	4	+5:06.0
49	Andrej Lanišek	Yugoslavia	36:16.0	5	+5:22.2
50	Andrew Paul	Australia	36:32.4	3	+5:38.6
51	Trevor King	Great Britain	36:34.4	5	+5:40.6
52	Imre Lestyan	Romania	36:42.8	4	+5:49.0
53	Song Wenbin	China	36:53.4	3	+5:59.6
54	Marjan Vidmar	Yugoslavia	37:08.1	3	+6:14.3
55	Cecilio Fernández	Spain	39:27.5	2	+8:33.7
56	Manuel García	Spain	40:16.6	6	+9:22.8
57	Tomislav Lopatić	Yugoslavia	40:18.2	9	+9:24.4
58	József Lihi	Hungary	40:21.0	6	+9:27.2
59	Oscar di Lovera	Argentina	40:25.7	3	+9:31.9
60	Luis Ríos	Argentina	40:36.5	4	+9:42.7
61	Víctor Figueroa	Argentina	41:04.2	5	+10:10.4
62	Hwang Byung-Dae	South Korea	44:43.2	6	+13:49.4
63	Ueng Ming-Yih	Chinese Taipei	45:38.1	4	+14:44.3
-	Hernán Carazo	Costa Rica	DNF	-	-

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References

1. "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
2. "Biathlon at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's 10 kilometres Sprint". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2019.