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Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Individual
The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition happened during the 1980 Winter Olympics on February 16 at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. Biathlon is a fun winter sport that mixes cross-country skiing with rifle shooting. In this race, athletes skied a long way and stopped to shoot at targets with their rifles.
If a shooter missed the target, they had to add two minutes to their total time as a penalty. If they hit only the outer circle of the target, the penalty was just one minute. This made it very important to aim well, because every shot could change who won the race. The competition tested both how strong the skiers were and how well they could shoot.
Results
Anatoly Alyabyev did well at Lake Placid. His skiing wasn't the fastest, but he won because he hit all his targets. Frank Ullrich skied very fast but lost time with penalties and got the silver medal. Eberhard Rösch got the bronze medal after some penalties. Only Anatoly Alyabyev finished in under 1 hour and 10 minutes without any penalties. World champion Klaus Siebert skied well but had many penalties and finished lower.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Ski Time | Penalties | Result | Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 42 | Anatoly Alyabyev |  Soviet Union | 1:08:16.31 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 1:08:16.31 | – |
 | 37 | Frank Ullrich |  East Germany | 1:05:27.79 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 1:08:27.79 | +11.48 |
 | 4 | Eberhard Rösch | East Germany | 1:09:11.73 | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 1:11:11.73 | +2:55.42 |
| 4 | 13 | Svein Engen |  Norway | 1:08:30.25 | 3 (0+2+0+1) | 1:11:30.25 | +3:13.94 |
| 5 | 16 | Erkki Antila |  Finland | 1:07:32.32 | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 1:11:32.32 | +3:16.01 |
| 6 | 44 | Yvon Mougel |  France | 1:08:33.60 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 1:11:33.60 | +3:17.29 |
| 7 | 29 | Vladimir Barnashov | Soviet Union | 1:07:49.49 | 4 (2+0+2+0) | 1:11:49.49 | +3:33.18 |
| 8 | 7 | Vladimir Alikin | Soviet Union | 1:06:05.30 | 6 (1+3+2+0) | 1:12:05.30 | +3:48.99 |
| 9 | 10 | André Geourjon | France | 1:10:53.37 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 1:12:53.37 | +4:37.06 |
| 10 | 45 | Arduino Tiraboschi |  Italy | 1:11:06.05 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 1:13:06.05 | +4:49.74 |
| 11 | 15 | Ronnie Adolfsson |  Sweden | 1:08:10.90 | 5 (2+0+1+2) | 1:13:10.90 | +4:54.59 |
| 12 | 21 | Sören Wikström | Sweden | 1:08:13.34 | 5 (4+0+1+0) | 1:13:13.34 | +4:57.03 |
| 13 | 49 | Sigleif Johansen | Norway | 1:11:20.12 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 1:13:20.12 | +5:03.81 |
| 14 | 30 | Zdeněk Hák |  Czechoslovakia | 1:09:33.76 | 4 (2+0+1+1) | 1:13:33.76 | +5:17.45 |
| 15 | 27 | Klaus Siebert | East Germany | 1:07:48.71 | 6 (2+0+0+4) | 1:13:48.71 | +5:32.40 |
| 16 | 3 | Keith Oliver |  Great Britain | 1:12:02.30 | 2 (0+2+0+0) | 1:14:02.30 | +5:45.99 |
| 17 | 8 | Siegfried Dockner |  Austria | 1:10:35.28 | 4 (0+1+0+3) | 1:14:35.28 | +6:18.97 |
| 18 | 39 | Heikki Ikola | Finland | 1:10:02.16 | 5 (2+0+1+2) | 1:15:02.16 | +6:45.85 |
| 19 | 19 | Adriano Darioli | Italy | 1:10:11.22 | 5 (0+1+0+4) | 1:15:11.22 | +6:54.91 |
| 20 | 33 | Denis Sandona | France | 1:13:21.01 | 2 (2+0+0+0) | 1:15:21.01 | +7:04.70 |
| 21 | 14 | Angelo Carrara | Italy | 1:12:31.89 | 3 (2+1+0+0) | 1:15:31.89 | +7:15.58 |
| 22 | 36 | Peter Zelinka | Czechoslovakia | 1:09:36.40 | 6 (1+0+5+0) | 1:15:36.40 | +7:20.09 |
| 23 | 24 | Odd Lirhus | Norway | 1:07:39.41 | 8 (1+2+0+5) | 1:15:39.41 | +7:23.10 |
| 24 | 31 | Alfred Eder | Austria | 1:11:44.28 | 4 (2+2+0+0) | 1:15:44.28 | +7:27.97 |
| 25 | 46 | Jim Wood | Great Britain | 1:12:45.37 | 3 (0+0+2+1) | 1:15:45.37 | +7:29.06 |
| 26 | 38 | Rudolf Horn | Austria | 1:10:03.83 | 6 (0+3+1+2) | 1:16:03.83 | +7:47.52 |
| 27 | 23 | Peter Angerer |  West Germany | 1:08:07.60 | 8 (3+2+1+2) | 1:16:07.60 | +7:51.29 |
| 28 | 5 | Masaichi Kinoshita |  Japan | 1:14:21.46 | 2 (0+2+0+0) | 1:16:21.46 | +8:05.15 |
| 29 | 35 | Alois Kanamüller | West Germany | 1:11:34.80 | 6 (2+3+0+1) | 1:17:34.80 | +9:18.49 |
| 30 | 6 | Gerd Winkler | West Germany | 1:10:48.57 | 7 (3+0+2+2) | 1:17:48.57 | +9:32.26 |
| 31 | 40 | Sven Fahlén | Sweden | 1:09:49.23 | 8 (0+3+1+4) | 1:17:49.23 | +9:32.92 |
| 32 | 2 | Raimo Seppänen | Finland | 1:13:15.67 | 6 (0+2+1+3) | 1:19:15.67 | +10:59.36 |
| 33 | 18 | Graeme Ferguson | Great Britain | 1:12:53.98 | 7 (1+1+0+5) | 1:19:53.98 | +11:37.67 |
| 34 | 47 | Urs Brechbühl |  Switzerland | 1:11:59.13 | 8 (1+2+0+5) | 1:19:59.13 | +11:42.82 |
| 35 | 28 | Marjan Burgar |  Yugoslavia | 1:14:11.68 | 6 (0+4+0+2) | 1:20:11.68 | +11:55.37 |
| 36 | 1 | Martin Hagen |  United States | 1:13:02.95 | 8 (0+4+4+0) | 1:21:02.95 | +12:46.64 |
| 37 | 17 | Roland Burn | Switzerland | 1:10:12.97 | 11 (0+4+1+6) | 1:21:12.97 | +12:56.66 |
| 38 | 25 | Glen Jobe Jr. | United States | 1:15:36.52 | 6 (1+0+0+5) | 1:21:36.52 | +13:20.21 |
| 39 | 20 | Hiroyuki Deguchi | Japan | 1:14:53.16 | 7 (1+0+2+4) | 1:21:53.16 | +13:36.85 |
| 40 | 22 | Yuri Mitev |  Bulgaria | 1:11:58.06 | 10 (2+4+3+1) | 1:21:58.06 | +13:41.75 |
| 41 | 41 | Tsusumisa Kikuchi | Japan | 1:13:44.30 | 11 (6+1+1+3) | 1:24:44.30 | +16:27.99 |
| 42 | 12 | Josef Skalník | Czechoslovakia | 1:11:17.13 | 15 (1+5+2+7) | 1:26:17.13 | +18:00.82 |
| 43 | 48 | Vladimir Velichkov | Bulgaria | 1:09:57.24 | 18 (7+9+1+1) | 1:27:57.24 | +19:40.93 |
| 44 | 9 | Ying Zhenshan |  China | 1:15:47.00 | 13 (3+5+3+2) | 1:28:47.00 | +20:30.69 |
| 45 | 34 | Johnny Ruger | United States | 1:12:30.80 | 21 (8+4+6+3) | 1:33:30.80 | +25:14.49 |
| 46 | 26 | Wang Yumjie | China | 1:17:49.77 | 16 (2+2+6+6) | 1:33:49.77 | +25:33.46 |
| 47 | 43 | Luis Ríos |  Argentina | 1:34:26.50 | 21 (4+5+4+8) | 1:55:26.50 | +47:10.19 |
| 11 | Jorge Salas | Argentina | DNF | ||||
| 32 | Raúl Abella | Argentina | DNF | ||||
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