Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

Men's biathlon individual; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Nozawa Onsen
Dates	February 11
Competitors	72 from 29 nations
Winning time	56:16.4
Medalists
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Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Relay	men	women

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Nozawa Onsen. Competitors raced over five loops of a 4.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Ski Time	Penalties	Result	Deficit
	Halvard Hanevold	Norway	55:16.4	1	56:16.4	-
	Pieralberto Carrara	Italy	56:21.9	0	56:21.9	+0:05.5
	Alexei Aidarov	Belarus	55:46.5	1	56:46.5	+0:30.1
4	Ivan Masařík	Czech Republic	56:30.7	1	57:30.7	+1:14.3
5	Ilmārs Bricis	Latvia	55:15.1	3	58:15.1	+1:58.7
6	Ricco Groß	Germany	57:15.4	1	58:15.4	+1:59.0
7	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	54:16.8	4	58:16.8	+2:00.4
8	Peter Sendel	Germany	57:30.3	1	58:30.3	+2:13.9
9	Oleg Ryzhenkov	Belarus	56:31.3	2	58:31.3	+2:14.9
10	Dag Bjørndalen	Norway	57:34.7	1	58:34.7	+2:18.3
11	Tomaž Globočnik	Slovenia	56:55.5	2	58:55.5	+2:39.1
12	Ludwig Gredler	Austria	55:56.5	3	58:56.5	+2:40.1
13	Vadim Sashurin	Belarus	57:08.6	2	59:08.6	+2:52.2
14	Kyoji Suga	Japan	57:15.6	2	59:15.6	+2:59.2
15	Sergei Tarasov	Russia	55:24.3	4	59:24.3	+3:07.9
16	Sven Fischer	Germany	56:26.1	3	59:26.1	+3:09.7
17	Pavel Muslimov	Russia	56:26.5	3	59:26.5	+3:10.1
18	Janno Prants	Estonia	57:38.3	2	59:38.3	+3:21.9
19	Frode Andresen	Norway	54:51.0	5	59:51.0	+3:34.6
20	Mikael Löfgren	Sweden	58:00.3	2	60:00.3	+3:43.9
21	René Cattarinussi	Italy	57:00.5	3	60:00.5	+3:44.1
22	Raphaël Poirée	France	58:08.4	2	60:08.4	+3:52.0
23	Paavo Puurunen	Finland	57:11.7	3	60:11.7	+3:55.3
24	Wolfgang Perner	Austria	56:14.1	4	60:14.1	+3:57.7
25	Sašo Grajf	Slovenia	58:18.2	2	60:18.2	+4:01.8
26	Wolfgang Rottmann	Austria	58:23.5	2	60:23.5	+4:07.1
27	Ville Räikkönen	Finland	57:25.3	3	60:25.3	+4:08.9
28	Hironao Meguro	Japan	58:38.2	2	60:38.2	+4:21.8
29	Alexandr Popov	Belarus	57:39.6	3	60:39.6	+4:23.2
30	Wojciech Kozub	Poland	56:41.1	4	60:41.1	+4:24.7
31	Dimitri Borovik	Estonia	58:07.7	3	61:07.7	+4:51.3
32	Jan Wüstenfeld	Germany	57:07.9	4	61:07.9	+4:51.5
33	Mike Dixon	Great Britain	60:08.0	1	61:08.0	+4:51.6
34	Jiří Holubec	Czech Republic	59:08.8	2	61:08.8	+4:52.4
35	Vladimir Drachev	Russia	55:13.9	6	61:13.9	+4:57.5
36	Aleksandr Tropnikov	Kyrgyzstan	59:17.7	2	61:17.7	+5:01.3
37	Jēkabs Nākums	Latvia	56:40.1	5	61:40.1	+5:23.7
38	Ľubomír Machyniak	Slovakia	57:43.7	4	61:43.7	+5:27.3
39	Fredrik Kuoppa	Sweden	59:59.2	2	61:59.2	+5:42.8
40	Julien Robert	France	61:01.6	1	62:01.6	+5:45.2
41	Wilfried Pallhuber	Italy	57:07.7	5	62:07.7	+5:51.3
42	Jay Hakkinen	United States	58:10.3	4	62:10.3	+5:53.9
43	Liutauras Barila	Lithuania	57:12.2	5	62:12.2	+5:55.8
44	Kalju Ojaste	Estonia	58:15.7	4	62:15.7	+5:59.3
45	Atsushi Kazama	Japan	58:23.5	4	62:23.5	+6:07.1
46	Thierry Dusserre	France	61:26.6	1	62:26.6	+6:10.2
47	Tomasz Sikora	Poland	57:39.9	5	62:39.9	+6:23.5
48	Wiesław Ziemianin	Poland	58:39.9	4	62:39.9	+6:23.5
49	Dmitry Pantov	Kazakhstan	58:10.5	5	63:10.5	+6:54.1
50	Vyacheslav Derkach	Ukraine	59:14.6	4	63:14.6	+6:58.2
51	Jean-Marc Chabloz	Switzerland	59:41.0	4	63:41.0	+7:24.6
52	Valery Ivanov	Kazakhstan	56:55.9	7	63:55.9	+7:39.5
53	Pavel Vavilov	Russia	56:59.4	7	63:59.4	+7:43.0
54	Patrick Favre	Italy	57:10.5	7	64:10.5	+7:54.1
55	Steve Cyr	Canada	58:12.9	6	64:12.9	+7:56.5
56	Petr Garabík	Czech Republic	58:28.8	6	64:28.8	+8:12.4
57	Andreas Heymann	France	58:42.7	6	64:42.7	+8:26.3
58	Janez Ožbolt	Slovenia	60:18.9	5	65:18.9	+9:02.5
59	Dmitry Pozdnyakov	Kazakhstan	59:22.9	6	65:22.9	+9:06.5
60	Marius Ene	Romania	60:23.9	5	65:23.9	+9:07.5
61	Tomaž Žemva	Slovenia	57:27.0	8	65:27.0	+9:10.6
62	Günther Dengg	Austria	60:33.9	5	65:33.9	+9:17.5
63	Mykola Krupnyk	Ukraine	59:36.3	6	65:36.3	+9:19.9
64	Kevin Quintilio	Canada	61:37.2	4	65:37.2	+9:20.8
65	Thanasis Tsakiris	Greece	61:38.8	5	66:38.8	+10:22.4
66	Gundars Upenieks	Latvia	58:42.6	8	66:42.6	+10:26.2
67	Georgi Kasabov	Bulgaria	61:59.5	5	66:59.5	+10:43.1
68	Mark Gee	Great Britain	60:46.8	7	67:46.8	+11:30.4
69	Robert Rosser	United States	61:35.7	7	68:35.7	+12:19.3
70	Ion Bucsa	Moldova	65:27.5	6	71:27.5	+15:11.1
71	Jeon Jae-Won	23x15px South Korea	62:17.8	13	75:17.8	+19:01.4
-	Vesa Hietalahti	Finland	DNF	-	-	-