Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Biathlon at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center
Dates	16–22 February
Competitors	76 from 18 nations

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][2]

Medal summary

Three nations won medals in biathlon, with the Soviet Union topping 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
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Anatoly Alyabyev  Soviet Union	1:08:16.31	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	1:08:27.79	Eberhard Rösch  East Germany	1:11:11.73
Sprint details	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	32:10.69	Vladimir Alikin  Soviet Union	32:53.10	Anatoly Alyabyev  Soviet Union	33:09.16
Relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev	1:34:03.27	East Germany (GDR) Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	1:34:56.99	West Germany (FRG) Franz Bernreiter Hans Estner Peter Angerer Gerd Winkler	1:37:30.26

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]

•  Argentina (4)
•  Austria (5)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  China (5)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (5)
•  West Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  East Germany (4)
•  Italy (5)
•  Japan (4)
•  Norway (5)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Soviet Union (6)
•  United States (4)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
2. "Biathlon at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2019.