Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Biathlon

at the XVI Olympic Winter Games

Venue| Les Saisies
Dates| 11–20 February
No. of events| 6
Competitors| 196 from 28 nations

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Biathlon at the
1992 Winter Olympics

Individual| men| women
Sprint| men| women
Relay| men| women

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Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of six biathlon events. They were held at Les Saisies, about 40 kilometres from the host city of Albertville. The events began on 11 February and ended on 20 February 1992.[1] The 1992 Games were the first in which women competed in biathlon.[2]

Russian biathlete Sergei Tarasov admitted in 2015 that the EUN (former Soviet nations competing in a unified team) biathlon team had carried out illegal blood transfusions at the Games. Something went very wrong with his transfusion, and he was rushed to the hospital where they saved his life.[3]

## Medal summary

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Six nations won medals in biathlon, Germany leading the medal table with seven (3 gold, 4 silver). The Unified Team was the only other team to win more than two medals. Mark Kirchner led the individual medal table with two golds and three medals total, while Antje Misersky-Harvey also won three medals, one gold and two silver.

France's gold medal in the relay was the country's first medal of any type in the sport. Canada's bronze, won by Myriam Bédard, was the first medal won by an athlete from outside Europe or the former Soviet Union.

### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Germany (GER)| 3| 4| 0| 7
2|  Unified Team (EUN)| 2| 2| 2| 6
3|  France (FRA)| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  Sweden (SWE)| 0| 0| 2| 2
5|  Canada (CAN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Finland (FIN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (6 entries)| 6| 6| 6| 18

### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Individual
details | Yevgeniy Redkin
Unified Team | 57:34.4  | Mark Kirchner
Germany | 57:40.8  | Mikael Löfgren
Sweden | 57:59.4
Sprint
details | Mark Kirchner
Germany | 26:02.3  | Ricco Groß
Germany | 26:18.0  | Harri Eloranta
Finland | 26:26.0
Relay
details |  Germany (GER)
Ricco Groß
Jens Steinigen
Mark Kirchner
Fritz Fischer | 1:24:43.5  |  Unified Team (EUN)
Valeriy Medvedtsev
Aleksandr Popov
Valery Kiriyenko
Sergei Tchepikov | 1:25:06.3  |  Sweden (SWE)
Ulf Johansson
Leif Andersson
Tord Wiksten
Mikael Löfgren | 1:25:38.2

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Individual
details | Antje Misersky-Harvey
Germany | 51:47.2  | Svetlana Pechorskaya
Unified Team | 51:58.5  | Myriam Bédard
Canada | 52:15.0
Sprint
details | Anfisa Reztsova
Unified Team | 24:29.2  | Antje Misersky-Harvey
Germany | 24:45.1  | Yelena Belova
Unified Team | 24:50.8
Relay
details |  France (FRA)
Corinne Niogret
Véronique Claudel
Anne Briand-Bouthiaux | 1:15:55.6  |  Germany (GER)
Uschi Disl
Antje Misersky-Harvey
Petra Behle-Schaaf | 1:16:18.4  |  Unified Team (EUN)
Yelena Belova
Anfisa Reztsova
Yelena Melnikova | 1:16:54.6

## Participating nations

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Twenty-eight nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.[1] Three former Soviet republics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), made their biathlon debuts, along with Slovenia and Greece. The Unified Team also made its only appearance.

* Argentina (7)
* Australia (2)
* Austria (5)
* Bulgaria (10)
* Canada (9)
* China (8)
* Estonia (8)
* Unified Team (11)
* Finland (9)
* France (10)
* Great Britain (5)
* Germany (10)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (9)
* Italy (10)
* Japan (3)
* South Korea (4)
* Latvia (4)
* Lithuania (2)
* Norway (12)
* Poland (9)
* Romania (6)
* Slovenia (5)
* Switzerland (1)
* Sweden (10)
* Czechoslovakia (10)
* United States (11)
* Yugoslavia (4)

## See also

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* Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

## References

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1. ^ a b "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
2. ^ "Biathlon at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
3. ^ Сергей Тарасов: как я не умер, sport-express.ru, 13 February 2015

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