Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of three biathlon events. They were held at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. This Olympic featured the debut of the 10 kilometre sprint event. The events began on 16 February and ended on 22 February 1980.^[1]

Medal summary

Three nations won medals in biathlon, the Soviet Union leading the medal table with four medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze). Anatoly Alyabyev led the individual medal table, with two gold medals and a bronze; Frank Ullrich also won three medals, one gold and two silvers.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
2	East Germany (GDR)	1	2	1	4
3	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1

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Events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Anatoly Alyabyev Soviet Union (URS)	1:08:16.3	Frank Ullrich East Germany (GDR)	1:08:27.8	Eberhard Rösch East Germany (GDR)	1:11:11.7
Sprint	Frank Ullrich East Germany (GDR)	32:10.7	Vladimir Alikin Soviet Union (URS)	32:53.1	Anatoly Alyabyev Soviet Union (URS)	33:09.2
Relay	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev	1:38:51.7	East Germany (GDR) Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	1:39:03.9	West Germany (FRG) Franz Bernreiter Hans Estner Peter Angerer Gerd Winkler	1:39:05.1

Participating nations

Eighteen nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors. Argentina, China and Yugoslavia made their Olympic biathlon debuts.^[1]

References

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