Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Sprint explained

Event:	Men's biathlon sprint
Games:	1980 Winter
Venue:	Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center
Dates:	19 February
Competitors:	50
Nations:	18
Win Value:	32:10.69
Gold:	Frank Ullrich
Goldnoc:	GDR
Silver:	Vladimir Alikin
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Anatoly Alyabyev
Bronzenoc:	URS
Next:	1984

The men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February, at Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. In sprint, competitors race over three loops of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing, with each miss being penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.^[1] ^[2]

Results

The sprint was added to the world championships in 1974, and made its Olympic debut in Lake Placid. Two-time defending world champion Frank Ullrich was more than 10 seconds clear after the first shoot, and despite two misses at the second shoot, he actually saw his lead increase, allowing him to pull away in the final section and win by more than 40 seconds. Vladimir Alikin, Kjell Søbak, Erkki Antila and Anatoly Alyabyev were closely matched after the first shoot, but Alikin, who shot clear, and Alyabyev, who missed once, pulled clear for silver and bronze, while Antila missed two shots and Søbak fell off the skiing pace.

Rank	Bib	Time	Penalties	Deficit
	29	32:10.69	2 (0+2)
	7	32:53.10	0 (0+0)
	42	33:09.16	1 (0+1)
	11	33:32.76	2 (1+1)	+1:22.07
	3	33:34.64	1 (0+1)	+1:23.95
	40	33:45.20	1 (0+1)	+1:34.51
	36	34:10.39	2 (1+1)	+1:59.70
	41	34:13.43	4 (2+2)	+2:02.74
	28	34:14.88	2 (0+2)	+2:04.19
10	20	34:24.16	1 (1+0)	+2:13.47
11	15	34:25.28	1 (0+1)	+2:14.59
12	46	34:32.97	2 (0+2)	+2:22.28
13	24	34:38.60	1 (0+1)	+2:27.91
14	8	34:57.01	2 (1+1)	+2:46.32
15	27	35:14.87	3 (0+3)	+3:04.18
16	1	35:15.12	2 (0+2)	+3:04.43
17	33	35:15.40	4 (1+3)	+3:04.71
18	37	35:37.72	3 (0+3)	+3:27.03
19	31	35:40.56	2 (1+1)	+3:29.87
20	2	35:45.89	2 (1+1)	+3:35.20
21	49	35:50.36	4 (1+3)	+3:39.67
22	43	35:55.57	2 (1+1)	+3:44.88
23	34	35:58.27	4 (0+4)	+3:47.58
24	9	36:01.06	3 (2+1)	+3:50.37
25	16	36:14.17	5 (1+4)	+4:03.48
26	30	36:14.61	2 (1+1)	+4:03.92
27	5	36:29.87	4 (2+2)	+4:19.18
28	32	36:31.25	5 (1+4)	+4:20.56
29	18	36:32.59	6 (3+3)	+4:21.90
30	25	36:32.66	4 (2+2)	+4:21.97
31	13	36:39.98	3 (1+2)	+4:29.29
32	44	36:52.35	5 (1+4)	+4:41.66
33	35	36:57.43	6 (2+4)	+4:46.74
34	45	37:10.71	5 (1+4)	+5:00.02
35	22	37:15.28	5 (3+2)	+5:04.59
36	19	37:23.95	4 (2+2)	+5:13.26
37	14	37:26.91	6 (3+3)	+5:16.22
38	21	37:37.74	4 (1+3)	+5:27.05
39	12	37:44.87	8 (3+5)	+5:34.18
40	17	38:30.09	4 (3+1)	+6:19.40
41	6	38:37.19	3 (0+3)	+6:26.50
42	47	38:44.24	5 (2+3)	+6:33.55
43	50	38:50.19	4 (2+2)	+6:39.50
44	48	38:51.02	6 (2+4)	+6:40.33
45	10	38:53.44	4 (2+2)	+6:42.75
46	38	44:06.85	6 (2+4)
47	23	44:40.55	5 (2+3)
48	4	44:51.18	5 (3+2)
49	39	47:12.58	6 (2+4)
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Notes and References

Web site: The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 – Official Results. LA84 Foundation. Lake Placid Organizing Committee. 1980. 20 September 2013.
Web site: Biathlon at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's 10 kilometres Sprint . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417192109/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1980/BIA/mens-10-kilometres-sprint.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 June 2019.