Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Biathlon

at the XIII Olympic Winter Games

Venue| Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center
Dates| 16–22 February
Competitors| 76 from 18 nations

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Biathlon at the
1980 Winter Olympics

Individual| men
Sprint| men
Relay| men

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Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of three biathlon events. They were held at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. This Olympic featured the debut of the 10 kilometre sprint event. The events began on 16 February and ended on 22 February 1980.[1][2]

## Medal summary

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Three nations won medals in biathlon, with the Soviet Union topping the medal table with four medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze). Anatoly Alyabyev led the individual medal table, with two gold medals and a bronze; Frank Ullrich also won three medals, one gold and two silvers.

### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 2| 1| 1| 4
2|  East Germany (GDR)| 1| 2| 1| 4
3|  West Germany (FRG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (3 entries)| 3| 3| 3| 9

### Events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Individual
details | Anatoly Alyabyev
Soviet Union | 1:08:16.31  | Frank Ullrich
East Germany | 1:08:27.79  | Eberhard Rösch
East Germany | 1:11:11.73
Sprint
details | Frank Ullrich
East Germany | 32:10.69  | Vladimir Alikin
Soviet Union | 32:53.10  | Anatoly Alyabyev
Soviet Union | 33:09.16
Relay
details |  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Alikin
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Vladimir Barnashov
Anatoly Alyabyev | 1:34:03.27  |  East Germany (GDR)
Mathias Jung
Klaus Siebert
Frank Ullrich
Eberhard Rösch | 1:34:56.99  |  West Germany (FRG)
Franz Bernreiter
Hans Estner
Peter Angerer
Gerd Winkler | 1:37:30.26

## Participating nations

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Eighteen nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors. Argentina, China and Yugoslavia made their Olympic biathlon debuts.[1]

* Argentina (4)
* Austria (5)
* Bulgaria (2)
* China (5)
* Finland (6)
* France (5)
* West Germany (6)
* Great Britain (4)
* East Germany (4)
* Italy (5)
* Japan (4)
* Norway (5)
* Switzerland (2)
* Sweden (4)
* Czechoslovakia (4)
* Soviet Union (6)
* United States (4)
* Yugoslavia (1)

## References

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1. ^ a b "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
2. ^ "Biathlon at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

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