Kazakhstan at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Sporting event delegation

Kazakhstan at the
1998 Winter Olympics

IOC code| KAZ
NOC| National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Website| www.olympic.kz (in Kazakh, Russian, and English)
in Nagano
Competitors| 60 (45 men, 15 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer | Vladimir Smirnov (cross-country skiing)
Medals
Ranked 20th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

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Other related appearances
Soviet Union (1956–1988)
Unified Team (1992)

Kazakhstan competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event  | Date

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Bronze | Vladimir Smirnov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit | 14 February
Bronze | Lyudmila Prokasheva | Speed skating | Women's 5000 metres | 20 February

## Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]

Sport  | Men  | Women  | Total

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Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 2
Biathlon | 4 | 4 | 8
Cross-country skiing | 5 | 5 | 10
Figure skating | 3 | 2 | 5
Freestyle skiing | 1 | 1 | 2
Ice hockey | 22 | 0 | 22
Ski jumping | 4 | – | 4
Speed skating | 5 | 2 | 7
Total | 45 | 15 | 60

## Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Time  | Time  | Rank
Dmitry Kvach | Giant Slalom  | 1:29.95  | DNF  | DNF  | -

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Total

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Time  | Rank
Yuliya Krygina | Super-G  | DNF  | -

## Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Misses 1 | Time  | Rank

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10 km Sprint  | Dmitry Pantov | 3  | 30:51.8  | 54
Valery Ivanov | 5  | 59:58.8  | 31
Dmitry Pozdnyakov | 0  | 29:30.1  | 24
Event  | Athlete  | Time  | Misses  | Adjusted time 2 | Rank

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20 km  | Dmitry Pozdnyakov | 59:22.9  | 6  | 1'05:22.9  | 59
Valery Ivanov | 56:55.9  | 7  | 1'03:55.9  | 52
Dmitry Pantov | 58:10.5  | 5  | 1'03:10.5  | 49

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Misses 1 | Time  | Rank
Dmitry Pantov
Dmitry Pozdnyakov
Aleksandr Menshchikov
Valery Ivanov | 1  | 1'27:56.0  | 16

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Misses 1 | Time  | Rank

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7.5 km Sprint  | Inna Sheshkil | 1  | 24:32.9  | 20
Margarita Dulova | 1  | 24:21.7  | 18
Event  | Athlete  | Time  | Misses  | Adjusted time 2 | Rank

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15 km  | Inna Sheshkil | 56:27.7  | 7  | 1'03:27.7  | 54
Lyudmila Guryeva | 54:42.8  | 4  | 58:42.8  | 23

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Misses 1 | Time  | Rank
Inna Sheshkil
Margarita Dulova
Yelena Dubok
Lyudmila Guryeva | 2  | 1'45:22.9  | 11

1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

## Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
10 km
C  | Vitaly Lilichenko | 32:54.5  | 80
Andrey Nevzorov | 31:30.4  | 68
Pavel Ryabinin | 30:37.0  | 50
Vladimir Smirnov | 27:45.1  | 4
15 km
pursuit1
F  | Vitaly Lilichenko | 48:58.1  | 59
Andrey Nevzorov | 45:30.7  | 48
Pavel Ryabinin | 44:41.7  | 36
Vladimir Smirnov | 40:07.5  |
30 km
C  | Vladimir Bortsov | 1'45:12.8  | 50
Andrey Nevzorov | 1'42:48.8  | 41
Pavel Ryabinin | 1'39:31.6  | 13
Vladimir Smirnov | 1'38:59.1  | 12
50 km
F  | Vitaly Lilichenko | 2'25:58.0  | 55
Vladimir Bortsov | 2'20:39.3  | 45
Andrey Nevzorov | 2'15:14.7  | 23
Vladimir Smirnov | 2'07:26.4  | 8

1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Pavel Ryabinin
Vladimir Bortsov
Andrey Nevzorov
Vitaly Lilichenko | 1'46:12.9  | 16

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
5 km
C  | Olga Seleznyova | 20:27.7  | 66
Svetlana Deshevykh | 19:25.3  | 44
Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova | 19:10.7  | 35
Oksana Yatskaya | 18:57.3  | 27
10 km
pursuit2
F  | Olga Seleznyova | 36:00.6  | 63
Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova | 32:39.4  | 42
Oksana Yatskaya | 32:20.5  | 39
Svetlana Deshevykh | 32:20.2  | 38
15 km
C  | Yelena Volodina-Antonova | 55:34.0  | 57
Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova | 53:13.7  | 49
Oksana Yatskaya | 51:39.7  | 32
Svetlana Deshevykh | 50:28.0  | 20
30 km
F  | Olga Seleznyova | 1'36:30.6  | 52
Oksana Yatskaya | 1'33:23.4  | 40
Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova | 1'31:39.7  | 30
Svetlana Deshevykh | 1'29:48.1  | 21

2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Svetlana Deshevykh
Oksana Yatskaya
Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova
Olga Seleznyova | 59:11.3  | 12

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | SP  | FS  | TFP  | Rank

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Yourii Litvinov | 28  | DNF  | DNF  | -

Pairs
Athletes  | SP  | FS  | TFP  | Rank

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Marina Khalturina
Andrei Kroukov | 16  | 14  | 22.0  | 14

Ice dancing
Athletes  | CD1  | CD2  | OD  | FD  | TFP  | Rank

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Elizaveta Stekolnikova
Dmitrii Kazarlyga | 23  | 22  | 22  | 22  | 44.2  | 22

## Freestyle skiing

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Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Qualification  | Final

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Time  | Points  | Rank  | Time  | Points  | Rank
Aleksey Bannikov | Moguls  | 29.06  | 20.18  | 26  | did not advance

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Qualification  | Final

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Time  | Points  | Rank  | Time  | Points  | Rank
Irina Kormysheva | Moguls  | DNF  | - | - | - | DNF  | -

## Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Summary Key:

* OT – Overtime
* GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team  | Event  | Group stage  | Qualification
playoff  | Quarterfinal  | Semifinal  | Final / BM

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Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Opposition
Score  | Rank
Kazakhstan men's | Men's tournament |  Russia
L 2–9  |  Switzerland
L 2–8  |  Finland
L 2–8  | —  |  Canada
L 1–4  | Did not advance  | 8

### Men's tournament

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#### Preliminary round - Group A

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Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

Team  | GP  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | GD  | Pts

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Kazakhstan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 5
Slovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 3
Italy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2
Austria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 2

All times are local (UTC-7).

7 February 1998| Kazakhstan | 5 – 3
(1-3, 1-0, 3-0)|  Italy| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 8,634

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8 February 1998| Austria | 5 – 5
(2-2, 2-1, 1-2)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,410

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10 February 1998| Slovakia | 3 – 4
(1-1, 1-0, 1-3)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 3,659

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#### First round - Group D

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Team  | GP  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | GD  | Pts

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Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 6
Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 4
Finland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 2
Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 25 | -19 | 0

All times are local (UTC-7).

13 February 1998| Russia | 9 – 2
(2-1, 5-0, 2-1)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 3,752

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15 February 1998| Czech Republic | 8 – 2
(0-1, 2-3, 0-4)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,975

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16 February 1998| Finland | 8 – 2
(1-3, 0-1, 1-4)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat / Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 5,544

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#### Quarterfinal

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All times are local (UTC-7).

18 February 1998| Canada | 4 – 1
(2-1, 2-0, 0-0)|  Kazakhstan| The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,602

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#### Leading scorers

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Rank  | Player  | GP  | G  | A  | Pts  | PIM

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4th  | Aleksandr Koreshkov | 7 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2
6th  | Konstantin Shafranov | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6

* Team roster

* Aleksandr Koreshkov
* Konstantin Shafranov
* Mikhail Borodulin
* Yevgeniy Koreshkov
* Vladimir Zavyalov
* Igor Zemlyanov
* Dmitriy Dudarev
* Andrey Pchelyakov
* Andrey Sokolov
* Pavel Kamentsev
* Vitaly Tregubov
* Vadim Glovatsky
* Andrey Savenkov
* Vladimir Antipin
* Piotr Deviatkin
* Igor Dorohkin
* Alexander Shimin
* Alexey Trochshinsky
* Vitaliy Yeremeyev

## Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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Distance  | Points  | Rank  | Distance  | Points  | Points  | Rank
Aleksandr Kolmakov | Normal hill  | 67.5  | 63.0  | 58  | did not advance
Pavel Gayduk | 72.0  | 76.5  | 48  | did not advance
Stanislav Filimonov | 75.5  | 85.0  | 32  | did not advance
Dmitry Chvykov | 79.0  | 93.5  | 25 Q | 75.0  | 83.5  | 177.0  | 30
Dmitry Chvykov | Large hill  | 101.5  | 76.2  | 49  | did not advance
Aleksandr Kolmakov | 101.5  | 80.7  | 46  | did not advance
Pavel Gayduk | 104.5  | 87.1  | 42  | did not advance
Stanislav Filimonov | 111.0  | 98.3  | 27 Q | 116.0  | 108.3  | 206.6  | 25

Men's team large hill
Athletes  | Result

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Points 1 | Rank
Pavel Gayduk
Aleksandr Kolmakov
Dmitry Chvykov
Stanislav Filimonov | 602.0  | 11

1 Four teams members performed two jumps each.

## Speed skating

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
500 m  | Vladimir Klepinin | 37.22  | 36  | 36.92  | 31  | 74.14  | 32
Vadim Shakshakbayev | 36.87  | 29  | 36.57  | 23  | 73.44  | 24
1000 m  | Vladimir Klepinin |  | 1:14.38  | 37
Sergey Tsybenko |  | 1:12.40  | 17
1500 m  | Sergey Kaznacheyev |  | 1:55.22  | 41
Radik Bikchentayev |  | 1:52.87  | 27
Sergey Tsybenko |  | 1:52.03  | 19
5000 m  | Radik Bikchentayev |  | 6:52.65  | 27
Sergey Kaznacheyev |  | 6:51.50  | 26

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
1500 m  | Lyudmila Prokasheva | 2:01.65  | 11
3000 m  | Kenzhesh Sarsekenova-Orynbayeva | 4:42.07  | 31
Lyudmila Prokasheva | 4:14.23  | 7
5000 m  | Lyudmila Prokasheva | 7:11.14  |

## References

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1. ^ Kazakhstan at the 1998 Winter Olympics

* Official Olympic Reports
* International Olympic Committee results database
* Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com

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