1983–84 Biathlon World Cup

1983–84 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Frank-Peter Roetsch
Competition
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The 1983–84 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 6 January 1984 in Falun, Sweden, and ended on 11 March 1984 in Lygna, Norway. It was the seventh season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1983–84 season.^[1][2][3]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Falun	6–8 January	●	●	●
Pontresina	12–15 January	●	●	●
Ruhpolding	19–22 January	●	●	●
Sarajevo	11–17 February	●	●	●
Oberhof	1–4 March	●	●	●
Holmenkollen	7–10 March	●	●	●
Total		6	6	6

• 1984 Winter Olympics races were not included in the 1983–84 World Cup scoring system.

*The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Falun	6–8 January	●	●	●
Ruhpolding	19–22 February	●	●	●
Chamonix	29 February – 4 March	●	●	●
Lygna	10–12 March	●	●	●
Total		4	4	4

*The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	6 January 1984	Falun	20 km Individual	Odd Lirhus	Yvon Mougel	Tapio Piipponen	Odd Lirhus	[1][2][3]
1	7 January 1984	Falun	10 km Sprint	Algimantas Šalna	Risto Punkka	Eirik Kvalfoss	Eirik Kvalfoss	[1][2][3]
2	12 January 1984	Pontresina	20 km Individual	Fritz Fischer	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Holger Wick		[1][2][3]
2	14 January 1984	Pontresina	10 km Sprint	Eirik Kvalfoss	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Ralf Göthel		[1][2][3]
3	19 January 1984	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Peter Angerer	Tapio Piipponen	Rolf Storsveen		[1][2][3]
3	21 January 1984	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Peter Angerer	Terje Krokstad	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Frank-Peter Roetsch	[1][2][3]
4	1 March 1984	Oberhof	20 km Individual	Juri Kashkarov	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Dmitry Vasilyev		[1][2][3]
4	3 March 1984	Oberhof	10 km Sprint	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Algimantas Šalna	Peter Angerer		[1][2][3]
5	7 March 1984	Oslo Holmenkollen	20 km Individual	Peter Angerer	Fritz Fischer	Alfred Eder		[1][2][3]
5	8 March 1984	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Eirik Kvalfoss	Peter Angerer	Frank-Peter Roetsch		[1][2][3]

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	6 January 1984	Falun	10 km Individual	Gry Østvik	Siv Bråten	Aino Kallunki	Gry Østvik	Detail
1	7 January 1984	Falun	5 km Sprint	Aino Kallunki	Annette Bouvin	Sanna Grønlid		Detail
2	19 January 1984	Ruhpolding	10 km Individual	Mette Mestad	Siv Bråten	Sanna Grønlid	Mette Mestad	Detail
2	21 January 1984	Ruhpolding	5 km Sprint	Gry Østvik	Mette Mestad	Siv Bråten		Detail
WC	29 February 1984	Chamonix	10 km Individual	Venera Chernyshova	Lyudmila Zabolotnaia	Tatiana Brylina		Detail
WC	3 March 1984	Chamonix	5 km Sprint	Venera Chernyshova	Sanna Grønlid	Andrea Grossegger		Detail
3	7 March 1984	Lygna	10 km Individual	Sanna Grønlid	Siv Bråten	Gry Østvik		Detail
3	8 March 1984	Lygna	5 km Sprint	Annette Bouvin	Eva Korpela	Mette Mestad		Detail

Pos.		Points
1.	Frank-Peter Roetsch	139
2.	Peter Angerer	138
3.	Eirik Kvalfoss	134
4.	Fritz Fischer	130
5.	Ralf Göthel	122

• Final standings after 10 races.

^[1][2][3]

Pos.		Points
1.	Mette Mestad	93
2.	Sanna Grønlid	86
3.	Gry Østvik	85
4.	Venera Chernyshova	83
5.	Siv Bråten	82

• Final standings after 8 races.

First World/European Cup career victory

•  Mette Mestad (NOR), 25, in her 2nd season — the WC 2 Individual in Ruhpolding; it also was her first podium
•  Juri Kashkarov (URS), 20, in his 2nd season — the WC 4 Individual in Oberhof; it also was his first podium
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 24, in her 2nd season — the EC 3 Individual in Lygna; first podium was 1983–84 Sprint in Falun
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 23, — the EC 3 Sprint in Lygna; first podium was 1983–84 Sprint in Falun

First World/European Cup podium

•  Risto Punkka (FIN), 26, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 23, — no. 2 in the EC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 24, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the EC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Holger Wick (GDR), 21, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Individual in Pontresina
•  Ralf Göthel (GDR), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Pontresina
•  Rolf Storsveen (NOR), 24, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Ruhpolding
•  Eva Lundgren (SWE), 25, — no. 2 in the EC 3 Sprint in Lygna

Victory in this World/European Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

•  Peter Angerer (FRG), 3 (4) first places
•  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR), 2 (7) first places
•  Gry Østvik (NOR), 2 (3) first places
•  Algimantas Šalna (URS), 1 (4) first place
•  Odd Lirhus (NOR), 1 (2) first place
•  Aino Kallunki (FIN), 1 (2) first place
•  Fritz Fischer (FRG), 1 (2) first place
•  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR), 1 (2) first place
•  Mette Mestad (NOR), 1 (1) first place
•  Juri Kashkarov (URS), 1 (1) first place
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 1 (1) first place
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 1 (1) first place

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1983–84 season:

•  Risto Punkka (FIN)
•  Yvon Mougel (FRA)
•  Frank Ullrich (GDR)
•  Mathias Jung (GDR)
•  Odd Lirhus (NOR)^[4]
•  Svein Engen (NOR)^[5]
•  Terje Krokstad (NOR)

1. ^{1 2 3 4} In the individual races in Falun some non-World Cup racers participated. In the 20 km individual Andrei Zenkov and Øivind Nerhagen, among others, were non-World Cup racers, and so for World Cup purposes Arto Jääskeläinen came 7th, and Rolf Storsveen and Kjell Søbak finished 9th and 10th respectively and received the appropriate World Cup points.^[6] In the 10 km sprint, one of the non-World Cup racers was Sergei Bulygin, and so he did not receive any World Cup points, and for World Cup purposes Algimantas Šalna won that race and received the appropriate World Cup points. Also in the European Cup races there were some non-European Cup racers participating, among those were Anita Nygård who finished 10th in the 5 km sprint. For European Cup purposes though, Siv Bråten finished 10th and received the appropriate points.

2. ⁵ The Aftenposten source says that the relay teams received a very unusual amount of penalty loops, with 12, 13, 21, 20, 25 and 25 penalty loops respectively for the first six teams.^[7] However, in the same paper, it says that the two Norwegian teams got 14 penalty loops combined,^[8] which does not add up with it saying that the "Norway I" team got 25 penalties. So those high numbers probably refers to the number of missed shots.

3. ⁶ In the individual races here some non-World Cup racers participated. Among those was Gisle Fenne, he was not a World Cup racer and so did not receive any World Cup points, and for World Cup purposes Risto Punkka came fifth and received the appropriate World Cup points.^[9]

4. The Sports Book does originally have different order of the finishers in this 10 km race with B. Mestad, Mikkola and Schill coming 8th, 9th and 10th, respectively. However it later contradicts itself by giving the points of those positions to Grønlid, B. Mestad and Anne-L. Engstrøm instead. Because that table shows how each racers score adds up, that has been given precedent.^[1]

5. ^{8 9} In the individual races here some non-European Cup racers participated. Among those was Ingeborg Nordmo Krokstad in the 10 km individual, she was not a European Cup racer and so did not receive any points, and for European Cup purposes Doris Niva came 9th and received the appropriate points, with Anne L. Engstrøm finishing 10th. And in 5 km sprint Liv Høgli was also a non-European Cup racer and thus for European Cup purposes those who finished behind her moves up a spot with Doris Niva finishing 4th and Anne L. Engstrøm finishing 10th.^[1]