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Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Individual

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]

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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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
  9 Nikolay Kruglov   Soviet Union 1:12:12.26 2 (1+0+0+1) 1:14:12.26 –
  21 Heikki Ikola   Finland 1:13:54.10 2 (0+0+0+2) 1:15:54.10 +1:41.84
  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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