Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	BLR
Nocname:	Belarus Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	59 (44 men, 15 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Alexandr Popov, Biathlon
Rank:	20
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1994
See also:	(1900–1912) (1924–1936) (1952–1988) (1992)

Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

See main article: 1998 Winter Olympics medal table.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				11 February
				18 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	1	0	1
Biathlon	4	5	9
Cross-country skiing	5	5	10
Figure skating	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	5	1	6
Ice hockey	23	0	23
Nordic combined	2	–	2
Ski jumping	2	–	2
Speed skating	1	3	4
Total	44	15	59

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Aleksandr Popov	2	30:53.0	55
	Vadim Sashurin	1	30:34.0	46
	Alexei Aidarov	2	30:12.3	37
	Oleg Ryzhenkov	2	29:38.2	27

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Aleksandr Popov	57:39.6	3	1'00:39.6	29
	Vadim Sashurin	57:08.6	2	59:08.6	13
	Oleg Ryzhenkov	56:31.3	2	58:31.3	9
	Alexei Aidarov	55:46.5	1	56:46.5

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Nataliya Ryzhenkova	4	26:10.5	52
	Nataliya Moroz	0	25:04.7	28
	Svetlana Paramygina	2	24:50.0	24
	Irina Tananayko	0	24:42.5	22

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Nataliya Permyakova	58:33.5	3	1'01:33.5	41
	Irina Tananayko	57:25.4	1	58:25.4	22
	Nataliya Ryzhenkova	55:03.5	3	58:03.5	19
	Svetlana Paramygina	54:53.4	2	56:53.4	12

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Sergey Dolidovich	DNF	-
	Nikolay Semenyako	31:54.5	73
	Aleksey Tregubov	31:43.9	70
	Aleksandr Sannikov	29:54.7	39
15 km pursuit^1 F	Aleksey Tregubov	DNF	-
	Nikolay Semenyako	49:31.3	60
	Aleksandr Sannikov	43:16.9	26
30 km C	Nikolay Semenyako	1'47:32.5	54
	Aleksandr Sannikov	1'42:48.0	40
	Sergey Dolidovich	1'42:18.7	36
	Aleksey Tregubov	1'40:05.9	18
50 km F	Vyacheslav Plaksunov	DNF	-
	Nikolay Semenyako	DNF	-
	Sergey Dolidovich	2'17:07.5	31
	Aleksandr Sannikov	2'16:34.4	27

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Lyudmila Korolik	20:17.9	63
	Irina Skripnik	19:44.2	55
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	19:32.7	48
	Yelena Sinkevich	18:50.2	23
10 km pursuit^2 F	Lyudmila Korolik	34:55.4	58
	Irina Skripnik	34:15.8	55
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	33:11.2	47
	Yelena Sinkevich	30:42.5	21
15 km C	Irina Skripnik	52:26.2	43
	Yekaterina Antonyuk	52:24.5	42
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	51:59.0	39
	Yelena Sinkevich	49:20.8	15
30 km F	Irina Skripnik	1'34:38.4	47
	Lyudmila Korolik	1'34:07.5	44
	Svetlana Kamotskaya	1'33:51.6	42
	Yelena Sinkevich	1'27:15.3	12

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Ice Dancing

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Oleg Kuleshov	Moguls	34.37	11.13	29	did not advance
Aleksandr Tkachenko	Aerials		178.46	18	did not advance
Vasily Vorobyov			199.29	13	did not advance
Aleksey Grishin			217.84	9 Q		220.99	8
Dmitry Dashchinsky			249.04	1 Q		240.79

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

The Belarusian hockey team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics. They won their group that featured Germany, France and Japan by beating France 4–0, Germany 8-2 and by drawing Japan 2-2. Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament. They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5–0 to Canada and identical scores of 5–2 to Sweden and the United States. They finished last of group A and had to face the top spot in group B which was Russia. They lost 4-1 and got eliminated in the process from the tournament. They ended the tournament in 7th place.

Preliminary round – group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

width=165	Team	width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40
	3	2	0	1	14	4	+10	5
	3	2	1	0	7	9	-2	4
	3	1	2	0	5	8	-3	2
	3	0	2	1	5	10	-5	1

First Round – group C

width=165	Team	width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40
	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	6
	3	2	1	0	11	7	+4	4
	3	1	2	0	8	10	-2	2
	3	0	3	0	4	15	-11	0

Quarter-final

Contestants Aleksandr Alekseyev Aleksandr Andriyevsky Vadim Bekbulatov Sergey Yerkovich Aleksandr Galchenyuk Aleksey Kalyuzhny Viktor Karachun Oleg Khmyl Andrey Kovalyov Aleksey Lozhkin Igor Matushkin Andrey Mezin Vasily Pankov Oleg Romanov Oleg Antonenko Yevgeny Roshchin Ruslan Salei Aleksandr Shumidub Andrey Skabelka Sergey Stas Vladimir Tsyplakov Eduard Zankovets Aleksandr Zhurik

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
		Points	Rank
Sergey Zakharenko	Individual	158.0	48	51:12.2	43
Konstantin Kalinovsky		181.0	45	49:38.2	42

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Aleksandr Sinyavsky	Normal hill	70.0	71.5	50	did not advance
Aleksey Shibko		74.0	80.0	40	did not advance
Aleksey Shibko	Large hill	94.5	65.1	55	did not advance
Aleksandr Sinyavsky		109.0	94.2	32	did not advance

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Lyudmila Kostyukevich	41.00	32	41.43	34	82.43	31
	Anzhelika Kotyuga	39.76	17	39.85	18	79.61	16
1000 m	Lyudmila Kostyukevich					1:22.58	34
	Anzhelika Kotyuga					1:21.35	25
3000 m	Svetlana Chepelnikova					4:36.97	29

Trivia

• In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia flag and with the national anthem of the former Soviet Union.

External links

• Medal winners
• Hockey tournament

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/BLR/editions/46 Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics