Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Individual

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Men's biathlon individual
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
VenueSeefeld
Dates6 February
Competitors52 from 18 nations
Winning time1:14:12.3
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nikolay Kruglov  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Heikki Ikola  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aleksandr Elizarov  Soviet Union
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Biathlon at the
1976 Winter Olympics
Individualmen
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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 9 Nikolay Kruglov  Soviet Union 1:12:12.26 2 (1+0+0+1) 1:14:12.26 –
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 21 Heikki Ikola  Finland 1:13:54.10 2 (0+0+0+2) 1:15:54.10 +1:41.84
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 49 Aleksandr Elizarov  Soviet Union 1:13:05.57 3 (1+0+0+2) 1:16:05.57 +1:53.31
4 3 Willy Bertin  Italy 1:13:50.36 3 (0+3+0+0) 1:16:50.36 +2:38.10
5 34 Aleksandr Tikhonov  Soviet Union 1:10:18.33 7 (0+1+0+6) 1:17:18.33 +3:06.07
6 15 Esko Saira  Finland 1:15:32.84 2 (0+0+0+2) 1:17:32.84 +3:20.58
7 40 Lino Jordan  Italy 1:15:49.83 2 (0+0+2+0) 1:17:49.83 +3:37.57
8 23 Sune Adolfsson  Sweden 1:16:00.50 2 (0+0+0+2) 1:18:00.50 +3:48.24
9 33 Tor Svendsberget  Norway 1:15:10.13 3 (0+2+1+0) 1:18:10.13 +3:57.87
10 8 Lars-Göran Arwidson  Sweden 1:13:34.37 5 (0+1+1+3) 1:18:34.37 +4:22.11
11 31 Heinrich Mehringer  West Germany 1:16:49.15 2 (1+1+0+0) 1:18:49.15 +4:36.89
12 36 Manfred Geyer  East Germany 1:13:11.37 6 (1+3+2+0) 1:19:11.37 +4:59.11
13 43 Juhani Suutarinen  Finland 1:17:25.89 2 (1+0+1+0) 1:19:25.89 +5:13.63
14 29 Hansruedi Süssli  Switzerland 1:16:53.73 3 (0+0+0+3) 1:19:53.73 +5:41.47
15 51 Karl-Heinz Wolf  East Germany 1:15:06.89 5 (1+2+2+0) 1:20:06.89 +5:54.63
16 7 Gheorghe Voicu  Romania 1:16:01.52 5 (1+2+1+1) 1:21:01.52 +6:49.26
17 13 Antonín Kříž  Czechoslovakia 1:17:11.36 4 (1+1+1+1) 1:21:11.36 +6:59.10
18 10 Kjell Hovda  Norway 1:16:24.45 5 (0+0+0+5) 1:21:24.45 +7:12.19
19 17 Jan Szpunar  Poland 1:17:27.20 4 (0+3+1+0) 1:21:27.20 +7:14.94
20 45 Svein Engen  Norway 1:14:27.24 7 (2+4+0+1) 1:21:27.24 +7:15.98
21 35 Alfred Eder  Austria 1:14:42.52 8 (2+3+1+2) 1:22:42.52 +8:30.26
22 22 René Arpin  France 1:13:50.92 9 (3+2+1+3) 1:22:50.92 +8:38.66
23 28 Pierantonio Clementi  Italy 1:16:08.86 7 (1+3+1+2) 1:23:08.86 +8:56.60
24 25 Ladislav Žižka  Czechoslovakia 1:19:09.03 4 (0+2+2+0) 1:23:09.03 +8:56.77
25 2 Albert Mächler  Switzerland 1:17:28.66 6 (2+1+1+2) 1:23:28.66 +9:16.40
26 47 Josef Niedermeier  West Germany 1:18:33.63 5 (0+3+0+2) 1:23:33.63 +9:21.37
27 11 Manfred Beer  East Germany 1:18:42.50 5 (1+2+0+2) 1:23:42.50 +9:30.24
28 19 Wojciech Truchan  Poland 1:16:09.93 8 (1+1+0+5) 1:24:09.93 +9:57.67
29 46 Graeme Ferguson  Great Britain 1:18:18.09 6 (1+2+3+2) 1:24:18.09 +10:05.83
30 48 Hiroyuki Deguchi  Japan 1:18:18.09 4 (0+2+0+4) 1:24:53.84 +10:41.58
31 6 Gheorghe Gârniţă  Romania 1:20:53.84 4 (0+0+2+2) 1:25:00.71 +10:48.45
32 27 Khristo Madzharov  Bulgaria 1:17:00.71 8 (0+1+0+7) 1:25:02.62 +10:50.36
33 50 Jean-Claude Viry  France 1:18:09.51 7 (0+2+1+4) 1:25:09.51 +10:57.25
34 1 Alois Kanamüller  West Germany 1:17:25.26 8 (1+2+2+3) 1:25:25.26 +11:13.00
35 5 Lyle Nelson  United States 1:15:27.50 10 (1+4+3+2) 1:25:27.50 +11:15.24
36 24 Malcolm Hirst  Great Britain 1:16:52.97 9 (2+1+1+5) 1:25:52.97 +11:40.71
37 4 Franz-Josef Weber  Austria 1:16:14.92 10 (3+0+1+6) 1:26:14.92 +12:02.66
38 26 Manabu Suzuki  Japan 1:19:35.79 7 (1+1+1+4) 1:26:35.79 +12:23.53
39 12 Jeffrey Stevens  Great Britain 1:18:15.87 9 (1+1+0+7) 1:27:15.87 +13:03.61
40 38 Christian Danuser  Switzerland 1:20:16.43 7 (0+3+0+4) 1:27:16.43 +13:04.17
41 41 Kazuo Sasakubo  Japan 1:21:35.31 6 (0+2+1+3) 1:27:35.31 +13:23.05
42 18 Aimé Gruet-Masson  France 1:18:35.81 9 (2+2+0+5) 1:27:35.81 +13:23.55
43 14 Iliya Todorov  Bulgaria 1:20:57.60 7 (1+2+1+3) 1:27:57.60 +13:45.34
44 39 Josef Malínský  Czechoslovakia 1:19:09.18 9 (1+4+1+3) 1:28:09.18 +13:56.92
45 42 Nicolae Cristoloveanu  Romania 1:20:15.53 8 (0+2+1+5) 1:28:15.53 +14:03.27
46 30 Andrzej Rapacz  Poland 1:18:30.82 10 (1+4+1+4) 1:28:30.82 +14:18.56
47 37 Martin Hagen  United States 1:20:49.20 8 (2+4+2+0) 1:28:49.20 +14:36.94
48 44 Torsten Wadman  Sweden 1:15:20.34 15 (2+2+4+7) 1:30:20.34 +16:08.08
49 52 Klaus Farbmacher  Austria 1:20:31.07 16 (4+5+3+4) 1:36:31.07 +22:18.81
50 20 Ueng Ming-yih  Chinese Taipei 1:32:09.37 10 (4+2+1+3) 1:42:09.37 +27:57.11
51 16 Shen Li-chien  Chinese Taipei 1:49:32.91 9 (2+3+2+2) 1:58:32.91 +44:20.65
– 32 Peter Dascoulias  United States DNF – – –

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
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