Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of six biathlon events. They were held at Les Saisies, about 40 kilometres from the host city of Albertville. The events began on 11 February and ended on 20 February 1992.^[1]

The 1992 Games were the first in which women competed in biathlon, with the first women's race, the sprint, won by Anfisa Reztsova.

Medal summary

Six nations won medals in biathlon, Germany leading the medal table with seven (3 gold, 4 silver). The Unified Team was the only other team to win more than two medals. Mark Kirchner led the individual medal table with two golds and three medals total, while Antje Misersky-Harvey also won three medals, one gold and two silver.

France's gold medal in the relay was the country's first medal of any type in the sport. Canada's bronze, won by Myriam Bédard, was the first medal won by an athlete from outside Europe or the former Soviet Union.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	4	0	7
2	Unified Team (EUN)	2	2	2	6
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
4	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
5	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
5	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1

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Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Yevgeniy Redkin Unified Team (EUN)	57:25.3	Mark Kirchner Germany (GER)	57:28.7	Mikael Löfgren Sweden (SWE)	57:41.9
Sprint	Mark Kirchner Germany (GER)	26:02.3	Ricco Groß Germany (GER)	26:18.0	Harri Eloranta Finland (FIN)	26:26.0
Relay	Germany (GER) Ricco Groß Jens Steinigen Mark Kirchner Fritz Fischer	1:24:43.5	Unified Team (EUN) Valery Medvedtsev Aleksandr Popov Valery Kiriyenko Sergey Chepikov	1:25:06.3	Sweden (SWE) Ulf Johansson Leif Andersson Tord Wiksten Mikael Löfgren	1:25:38.2

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Antje Misersky-Harvey Germany (GER)	51:47.2	Svetlana Pechorskaya Unified Team (EUN)	51:58.5	Myriam Bédard Canada (CAN)	52:15.0
Sprint	Anfisa Reztsova Unified Team (EUN)	24:29.2	Antje Misersky-Harvey Germany (GER)	24:45.1	Yelena Belova Unified Team (EUN)	24:51.0
Relay	France (FRA) Corinne Niogret Véronique Claudel Anne Briand-Bouthiaux	1:15:55.6	Germany (GER) Uschi Disl Antje Misersky-Harvey Petra Behle-Schaaf	1:16:18.4	Unified Team (EUN) Yelena Belova Anfisa Reztsova Yelena Melnikova	1:16:54.6

Participating nations

Twenty-eight nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.^[1] Three former Soviet republics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), made their biathlon debuts, along with Slovenia and Greece. The Unified Team also made its only appearance.

See also

• Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

References

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