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Biathlon at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games:

Men's 10 kilometres Sprint

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Host City: Lillehammer, Norway
Venue(s): Birkebeineren Ski Stadium, Lillehammer
Date Started: February 23, 1994
Date Finished: February 23, 1994
Format: Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.

Gold: RUS Sergey Chepikov
Silver: GER Ricco Groß
Bronze: RUS Sergey Tarasov

Summary

Mark Kirchner was the defending champion and had won the last three World Championships at the distance. He had been second in the 1992-93 seasonal World Cup, but had struggled with his shooting during the 1993-94 season. And shooting would be crucial in the short event as, among the leaders, only two biathletes had clean shooting rounds, and they would win the gold and silver medals. Sergey Chepikov had been third (1988) and fourth (1992) in this event at the last two Winter Olympics, but moved up to the gold here. Ricco Groß, the silver medalist, repeated his silver medal from Albertville. Kirchner missed two targets but also did not ski that well and placed 12th overall. For Chepikov this was his fifth Olympic biathlon medal, but only his second gold, and his first in an individual event. In 1998 he would compete at Nagano in cross-country skiing, but he returned to the biathlon, competing for Russia at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, and would add a sixth biathlon medal, a silver in the relay, in 2006.

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal T M S1M S2M
1 Sergey Chepikov 27 Russia RUS Gold 28:07.0 0 0 0
2 Ricco Groß 23 Germany GER Silver 28:13.0 0 0 0
3 Sergey Tarasov 28 Russia RUS Bronze 28:27.4 1 1 0
4 Vladimir Drachov 27 Russia RUS 28:28.9 1 0 1
5 Ludwig Gredler 26 Austria AUT 29:05.4 2 0 2
6 Frank Luck 26 Germany GER 29:09.7 2 1 1
7 Sven Fischer 22 Germany GER 29:16.0 1 1 0
8 Hervé Flandin 28 France FRA 29:33.8 1 1 0
9 Janez Ožbolt 23 Slovenia SLO 29:35.8 0 0 0
10 Aleksandr Popov 28 Belarus BLR 29:38.5 0 0 0
11 Patrice Bailly-Salins 29 France FRA 29:43.1 2 1 1
12 Mark Kirchner 23 Germany GER 29:51.7 2 1 1
13 Johann Passler 32 Italy ITA 29:53.1 2 0 2
14 Ivar Ulekleiv 27 Norway NOR 29:56.6 1 0 1
15 Harri Eloranta 30 Finland FIN 30:02.1 4 1 3
16 Valery Kiriyenko 28 Russia RUS 30:06.2 3 1 2
17 Oleg Ryzhenkov 26 Belarus BLR 30:11.0 3 2 1
18 Toras Dolniy 34 Ukraine UKR 30:16.6 1 1 0
19 Thierry Dusserre 26 France FRA 30:22.6 2 1 1
20 Ulf Johansson 26 Sweden SWE 30:24.2 3 2 1
21 Petr Garabík 24 Czech Republic CZE 30:31.2 1 0 1
22 Wolfgang Perner 26 Austria AUT 30:31.5 3 1 2
23 Pieralberto Carrara 27 Italy ITA 30:33.1 3 1 2
24 Wilfried Pallhuber 26 Italy ITA 30:35.2 3 1 2
25 Jon Åge Tyldum 25 Norway NOR 30:36.7 2 1 1
26 Steve Cyr 26 Canada CAN 30:41.2 3 1 2
27 Jan Ziemianin 31 Poland POL 30:44.2 2 1 1
28 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 20 Norway NOR 30:44.6 1 1 0
29 Jiří Holubec 27 Czech Republic CZE 30:45.2 2 0 2
30 Franz Schuler 31 Austria AUT 30:55.2 4 1 3
31 Krasimir Videnov 25 Bulgaria BUL 30:59.3 1 0 1
32 Tomasz Sikora 20 Poland POL 31:02.6 3 2 1
33 János Panyik 23 Hungary HUN 31:04.3 2 1 1
34 Gheorghe Vasile 26 Romania ROU 31:05.3 2 1 1
35 Stéphane Bouthiaux 27 France FRA 31:07.3 3 1 2
36 Uroš Velepec 26 Slovenia SLO 31:07.5 2 1 1
37 Viktor Maygurov 25 Belarus BLR 31:09.2 3 2 1
38 Per Brandt 21 Sweden SWE 31:27.4 1 1 0
39 Hillar Zahkna 26 Estonia EST 31:28.7 3 1 2
40 Valentyn Dzhima 28 Ukraine UKR 31:31.8 3 1 2
41 Ilmārs Bricis 23 Latvia LAT 31:36.9 4 2 2
42 Misao Kodate 32 Japan JPN 31:40.2 3 1 2
43 Martin Pfurtscheller 25 Austria AUT 31:47.2 5 2 3
44 Andreas Zingerle 32 Italy ITA 31:50.5 2 1 1
45 Igor Khokhryakov 29 Belarus BLR 31:50.7 4 1 3
46 Tomáš Kos 26 Czech Republic CZE 31:52.0 1 0 1
47 Ivan Maksymov 31 Ukraine UKR 31:52.7 3 1 2
48 Dmitry Pantov 24 Kazakhstan KAZ 31:54.2 5 2 3
49 Ian Woods 27 Great Britain GBR 31:58.3 2 0 2
50 Aivo Udras 23 Estonia EST 32:02.1 4 2 2
51 Pavel Kotraba 23 Slovakia SVK 32:04.0 4 2 2
52 Vesa Hietalahti 24 Finland FIN 32:06.0 5 2 3
53 Sylfest Glimsdal 27 Norway NOR 32:07.4 3 2 1
54 Erkki Latvala 28 Finland FIN 32:08.4 3 2 1
55 Gintaras Jasinskas 26 Lithuania LTU 32:15.4 3 2 1
56 Thanasis Tsakiris 29 Greece GRE 32:21.5 3 0 3
57 Daniel Krčmář 23 Slovakia SVK 32:24.1 4 1 3
58 Olaf Mihelson 25 Estonia EST 32:30.7 3 0 3
59 Jože Poklukar 21 Slovenia SLO 32:31.7 3 2 1
60 Jean-Marc Chabloz 26 Switzerland SUI 32:35.6 3 2 1
61 Krzysztof Topór 22 Poland POL 32:37.7 3 3 0
62 Glenn Rupertus 29 Canada CAN 32:47.7 5 4 1
63 Daniel Hediger 35 Switzerland SUI 33:05.6 8 4 4
64 Dave Jareckie 26 United States USA 33:15.6 4 2 2
65 Duncan Douglas 28 United States USA 33:29.2 3 1 2
66 Aivars Bogdanovs 28 Latvia LAT 33:52.0 6 4 2
67 Ken Rudd 25 Great Britain GBR 34:19.7 4 3 1
68 Vasily Gherghy 20 Moldova MDA 34:48.0 3 2 1