Kazakhstan at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	KAZ
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	60 (45 men, 15 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Vladimir Smirnov (cross-country skiing)
Rank:	20
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1994
See also:	(1900–1912) (1952–1988) (1992)

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				14 February
				20 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	1	2
Biathlon	4	4	8
Cross-country skiing	5	5	10
Figure skating	3	2	5
Freestyle skiing	1	1	2
Ice hockey	22	0	22
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	5	2	7
Total	45	15	60

Alpine skiing

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

Men

Women

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Dmitry Pantov	3	30:51.8	54
	Valery Ivanov	5	59:58.8	31
	Dmitry Pozdnyakov	0	29:30.1	24

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Dmitry Pozdnyakov	59:22.9	6	1'05:22.9	59
	Valery Ivanov	56:55.9	7	1'03:55.9	52
	Dmitry Pantov	58:10.5	5	1'03:10.5	49

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Inna Sheshkil	1	24:32.9	20
	Margarita Dulova	1	24:21.7	18

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Inna Sheshkil	56:27.7	7	1'03:27.7	54
	Lyudmila Guryeva	54:42.8	4	58:42.8	23

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	Vitaly Lilichenko	32:54.5	80
	Andrey Nevzorov	31:30.4	68
	Pavel Ryabinin	30:37.0	50
	Vladimir Smirnov	27:45.1	4
15 km pursuit^1 F	Vitaly Lilichenko	48:58.1	59
	Andrey Nevzorov	45:30.7	48
	Pavel Ryabinin	44:41.7	36
	Vladimir Smirnov	40:07.5
30 km C	Vladimir Bortsov	1'45:12.8	50
	Andrey Nevzorov	1'42:48.8	41
	Pavel Ryabinin	1'39:31.6	13
	Vladimir Smirnov	1'38:59.1	12
50 km F	Vitaly Lilichenko	2'25:58.0	55
	Vladimir Bortsov	2'20:39.3	45
	Andrey Nevzorov	2'15:14.7	23
	Vladimir Smirnov	2'07:26.4	8

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	Olga Seleznyova	20:27.7	66
	Svetlana Deshevykh	19:25.3	44
	Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova	19:10.7	35
	Oksana Yatskaya	18:57.3	27
10 km pursuit^2 F	Olga Seleznyova	36:00.6	63
	Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova	32:39.4	42
	Oksana Yatskaya	32:20.5	39
	Svetlana Deshevykh	32:20.2	38
15 km C	Yelena Volodina-Antonova	55:34.0	57
	Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova	53:13.7	49
	Oksana Yatskaya	51:39.7	32
	Svetlana Deshevykh	50:28.0	20
30 km F	Olga Seleznyova	1'36:30.6	52
	Oksana Yatskaya	1'33:23.4	40
	Svetlana Shishkina-Malakhova	1'31:39.7	30
	Svetlana Deshevykh	1'29:48.1	21

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.

Men

Pairs

Ice dancing

Freestyle skiing

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

Men

Women

Ice hockey

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

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - Group A

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

First round - Group D

width=165	Team	width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40
	3	3	0	0	15	6	+9	6
	3	2	1	0	12	4	+8	4
	3	1	2	0	11	9	+2	2
	3	0	3	0	6	25	-19	0

Leading scorers

Rank	Player
4th	Aleksandr Koreshkov	7	3	6	9	2
6th	Konstantin Shafranov	7	4	3	7	6

• Team roster

• Aleksandr Koreshkov

• Konstantin Shafranov

• Mikhail Borodulin

• Yevgeniy Koreshkov

• Vladimir Zavyalov

• Igor Zemlyanov

• Dmitriy Dudarev

• Andrey Pchelyakov

• Andrey Sokolov

• Pavel Kamentsev

• Vitaly Tregubov

• Vadim Glovatsky

• Andrey Savenkov

• Vladimir Antipin

• Piotr Deviatkin

• Igor Dorohkin

• Alexander Shimin

• Alexey Trochshinsky

• Vitaliy Yeremeyev

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 Kolmakov	Normal hill	67.5	63.0	58	did not advance
Pavel Gayduk		72.0	76.5	48	did not advance
Stanislav Filimonov		75.5	85.0	32	did not advance
Dmitry Chvykov		79.0	93.5	25 Q	75.0	83.5	177.0	30
Dmitry Chvykov	Large hill	101.5	76.2	49	did not advance
Aleksandr Kolmakov		101.5	80.7	46	did not advance
Pavel Gayduk		104.5	87.1	42	did not advance
Stanislav Filimonov		111.0	98.3	27 Q	116.0	108.3	206.6	25

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Speed skating

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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Vladimir Klepinin	37.22	36	36.92	31	74.14	32
	Vadim Shakshakbayev	36.87	29	36.57	23	73.44	24
1000 m	Vladimir Klepinin					1:14.38	37
	Sergey Tsybenko					1:12.40	17
1500 m	Sergey Kaznacheyev					1:55.22	41
	Radik Bikchentayev					1:52.87	27
	Sergey Tsybenko					1:52.03	19
5000 m	Radik Bikchentayev					6:52.65	27
	Sergey Kaznacheyev					6:51.50	26

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
1500 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	2:01.65	11
3000 m	Kenzhesh Sarsekenova-Orynbayeva	4:42.07	31
	Lyudmila Prokasheva	4:14.23	7
5000 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	7:11.14

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/KAZ/editions/46 Kazakhstan at the 1998 Winter Olympics