Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Individual
Men's biathlon individual at the XII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Seefeld | ||||||||||||
Dates | 6 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 52 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:14:12.3 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics | |
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Individual | men |
Relay | men |
The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics was held on 6 February, at Seefeld. Each miss of the target cost two minutes, while hitting the outer circle cost one minute.[1][2]
Summary
[edit]Defending world champion Heikki Ikola was among the leaders after the first shooting around, but he trailed Soviet Aleksandr Tikhonov, who set a torrid pace. Tikhonov led by thirty seconds at the halfway point, despite missing a shot, and after shooting clear the third time, the Soviet was up by more than a minute on Ikola and Nikolay Kruglov, the worlds silver medalist. However, at the final shot, Tikhonov collapsed, taking six penalty minutes to fall out of medal contention. Ikola took two minutes in penalties as well, meaning Kruglov, who had just one minute penalty, was able to pass him to win the gold medal. Aleksandr Elizarov could have taken silver with a better shooting performance than Ikola, but matched the Finn with two minutes in penalties, and while he cut Ikola's lead in half on the final section, he was left in third place. Tikhonov ended up with the fastest ski time by almost two full minutes, but his late misses meant he ended up in fifth.[1]
Results
[edit]Penalties refer to minutes added, as described above, not (necessarily) number of targets missed. [1]
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Ski Time | Penalties (P+S+P+S) | Result | Deficit |
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![]() | 9 | Nikolay Kruglov | ![]() | 1:12:12.26 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | 1:14:12.26 | – |
![]() | 21 | Heikki Ikola | ![]() | 1:13:54.10 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 1:15:54.10 | +1:41.84 |
![]() | 49 | Aleksandr Elizarov | ![]() | 1:13:05.57 | 3 (1+0+0+2) | 1:16:05.57 | +1:53.31 |
4 | 3 | Willy Bertin | ![]() | 1:13:50.36 | 3 (0+3+0+0) | 1:16:50.36 | +2:38.10 |
5 | 34 | Aleksandr Tikhonov | ![]() | 1:10:18.33 | 7 (0+1+0+6) | 1:17:18.33 | +3:06.07 |
6 | 15 | Esko Saira | ![]() | 1:15:32.84 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 1:17:32.84 | +3:20.58 |
7 | 40 | Lino Jordan | ![]() | 1:15:49.83 | 2 (0+0+2+0) | 1:17:49.83 | +3:37.57 |
8 | 23 | Sune Adolfsson | ![]() | 1:16:00.50 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 1:18:00.50 | +3:48.24 |
9 | 33 | Tor Svendsberget | ![]() | 1:15:10.13 | 3 (0+2+1+0) | 1:18:10.13 | +3:57.87 |
10 | 8 | Lars-Göran Arwidson | ![]() | 1:13:34.37 | 5 (0+1+1+3) | 1:18:34.37 | +4:22.11 |
11 | 31 | Heinrich Mehringer | ![]() | 1:16:49.15 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 1:18:49.15 | +4:36.89 |
12 | 36 | Manfred Geyer | ![]() | 1:13:11.37 | 6 (1+3+2+0) | 1:19:11.37 | +4:59.11 |
13 | 43 | Juhani Suutarinen | ![]() | 1:17:25.89 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | 1:19:25.89 | +5:13.63 |
14 | 29 | Hansruedi Süssli | ![]() | 1:16:53.73 | 3 (0+0+0+3) | 1:19:53.73 | +5:41.47 |
15 | 51 | Karl-Heinz Wolf | ![]() | 1:15:06.89 | 5 (1+2+2+0) | 1:20:06.89 | +5:54.63 |
16 | 7 | Gheorghe Voicu | ![]() | 1:16:01.52 | 5 (1+2+1+1) | 1:21:01.52 | +6:49.26 |
17 | 13 | Antonín Kříž | ![]() | 1:17:11.36 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | 1:21:11.36 | +6:59.10 |
18 | 10 | Kjell Hovda | ![]() | 1:16:24.45 | 5 (0+0+0+5) | 1:21:24.45 | +7:12.19 |
19 | 17 | Jan Szpunar | ![]() | 1:17:27.20 | 4 (0+3+1+0) | 1:21:27.20 | +7:14.94 |
20 | 45 | Svein Engen | ![]() | 1:14:27.24 | 7 (2+4+0+1) | 1:21:27.24 | +7:15.98 |
21 | 35 | Alfred Eder | ![]() | 1:14:42.52 | 8 (2+3+1+2) | 1:22:42.52 | +8:30.26 |
22 | 22 | René Arpin | ![]() | 1:13:50.92 | 9 (3+2+1+3) | 1:22:50.92 | +8:38.66 |
23 | 28 | Pierantonio Clementi | ![]() | 1:16:08.86 | 7 (1+3+1+2) | 1:23:08.86 | +8:56.60 |
24 | 25 | Ladislav Žižka | ![]() | 1:19:09.03 | 4 (0+2+2+0) | 1:23:09.03 | +8:56.77 |
25 | 2 | Albert Mächler | ![]() | 1:17:28.66 | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 1:23:28.66 | +9:16.40 |
26 | 47 | Josef Niedermeier | ![]() | 1:18:33.63 | 5 (0+3+0+2) | 1:23:33.63 | +9:21.37 |
27 | 11 | Manfred Beer | ![]() | 1:18:42.50 | 5 (1+2+0+2) | 1:23:42.50 | +9:30.24 |
28 | 19 | Wojciech Truchan | ![]() | 1:16:09.93 | 8 (1+1+0+5) | 1:24:09.93 | +9:57.67 |
29 | 46 | Graeme Ferguson | ![]() | 1:18:18.09 | 6 (1+2+3+2) | 1:24:18.09 | +10:05.83 |
30 | 48 | Hiroyuki Deguchi | ![]() | 1:18:18.09 | 4 (0+2+0+4) | 1:24:53.84 | +10:41.58 |
31 | 6 | Gheorghe Gârniţă | ![]() | 1:20:53.84 | 4 (0+0+2+2) | 1:25:00.71 | +10:48.45 |
32 | 27 | Khristo Madzharov | ![]() | 1:17:00.71 | 8 (0+1+0+7) | 1:25:02.62 | +10:50.36 |
33 | 50 | Jean-Claude Viry | ![]() | 1:18:09.51 | 7 (0+2+1+4) | 1:25:09.51 | +10:57.25 |
34 | 1 | Alois Kanamüller | ![]() | 1:17:25.26 | 8 (1+2+2+3) | 1:25:25.26 | +11:13.00 |
35 | 5 | Lyle Nelson | ![]() | 1:15:27.50 | 10 (1+4+3+2) | 1:25:27.50 | +11:15.24 |
36 | 24 | Malcolm Hirst | ![]() | 1:16:52.97 | 9 (2+1+1+5) | 1:25:52.97 | +11:40.71 |
37 | 4 | Franz-Josef Weber | ![]() | 1:16:14.92 | 10 (3+0+1+6) | 1:26:14.92 | +12:02.66 |
38 | 26 | Manabu Suzuki | ![]() | 1:19:35.79 | 7 (1+1+1+4) | 1:26:35.79 | +12:23.53 |
39 | 12 | Jeffrey Stevens | ![]() | 1:18:15.87 | 9 (1+1+0+7) | 1:27:15.87 | +13:03.61 |
40 | 38 | Christian Danuser | ![]() | 1:20:16.43 | 7 (0+3+0+4) | 1:27:16.43 | +13:04.17 |
41 | 41 | Kazuo Sasakubo | ![]() | 1:21:35.31 | 6 (0+2+1+3) | 1:27:35.31 | +13:23.05 |
42 | 18 | Aimé Gruet-Masson | ![]() | 1:18:35.81 | 9 (2+2+0+5) | 1:27:35.81 | +13:23.55 |
43 | 14 | Iliya Todorov | ![]() | 1:20:57.60 | 7 (1+2+1+3) | 1:27:57.60 | +13:45.34 |
44 | 39 | Josef Malínský | ![]() | 1:19:09.18 | 9 (1+4+1+3) | 1:28:09.18 | +13:56.92 |
45 | 42 | Nicolae Cristoloveanu | ![]() | 1:20:15.53 | 8 (0+2+1+5) | 1:28:15.53 | +14:03.27 |
46 | 30 | Andrzej Rapacz | ![]() | 1:18:30.82 | 10 (1+4+1+4) | 1:28:30.82 | +14:18.56 |
47 | 37 | Martin Hagen | ![]() | 1:20:49.20 | 8 (2+4+2+0) | 1:28:49.20 | +14:36.94 |
48 | 44 | Torsten Wadman | ![]() | 1:15:20.34 | 15 (2+2+4+7) | 1:30:20.34 | +16:08.08 |
49 | 52 | Klaus Farbmacher | ![]() | 1:20:31.07 | 16 (4+5+3+4) | 1:36:31.07 | +22:18.81 |
50 | 20 | Ueng Ming-yih | ![]() | 1:32:09.37 | 10 (4+2+1+3) | 1:42:09.37 | +27:57.11 |
51 | 16 | Shen Li-chien | ![]() | 1:49:32.91 | 9 (2+3+2+2) | 1:58:32.91 | +44:20.65 |
– | 32 | Peter Dascoulias | ![]() | DNF | – | – | – |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Final Report – XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "Biathlon at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 20 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2019.