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.
Results Rank Bib Name Country Result Penalties (P+S+P+S) Deficit 69 Halvard Hanevold 1 (0+0+0+1) 3 Pieralberto Carrara 0 (0+0+0+0) 70 Alexei Aidarov 1 (0+0+0+1) 68 Ivan Masařík 1 (0+0+0+1)+1:14.3 45 Ilmārs Bricis 3 (0+1+2+0)+1:58.7 28 Ricco Groß 1 (0+0+1+0)+1:59.0 32 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 4 (1+0+2+1)+2:00.4 57 Peter Sendel 1 (1+0+0+0)+2:13.9 8 Oleg Ryzhenkov 2 (0+1+0+1)+2:14.9 10 14 Dag Bjørndalen 1 (0+0+0+1)+2:18.3 11 6 Tomas Globočnik 2 (1+1+0+0)+2:39.1 12 40 Ludwig Gredler 3 (1+0+0+2)+2:40.1 13 22 Vadim Sashurin 2 (1+0+1+0)+2:52.2 14 37 Kyoji Suga 2 (1+0+0+1)+2:59.2 15 39 Sergei Tarasov 4 (1+0+2+1)+3:07.9 16 52 Sven Fischer 3 (1+0+1+1)+3:09.7 17 60 Pavel Muslimov 3 (0+1+1+1)+3:10.1 18 16 Janno Prants 2 (1+0+1+0)+3:21.9 19 1 Frode Andresen 5 (1+1+1+2)+3:34.6 20 72 Mikael Löfgren 1:00:00.32 (0+2+0+0)+3:43.9 21 73 René Cattarinussi 1:00:00.53 (2+1+0+0)+3:44.1 22 34 Raphaël Poirée 1:00:08.42 (0+0+2+0)+3:52.0 23 65 Paavo Puurunen 1:00:11.73 (1+1+1+0)+3:55.3 24 66 Wolfgang Perner 1:00:14.14 (0+1+1+2)+3:57.7 25 21 Sašo Grajf 1:00:18.22 (1+1+0+0)+4:01.8 26 12 Wolfgang Rottmann 1:00:23.52 (0+1+0+1)+4:07.1 27 46 Ville Räikkönen 1:00:25.33 (0+0+1+2)+4:08.9 28 10 Hironao Meguro 1:00:38.22 (1+0+1+0)+4:21.8 29 49 Alexandr Popov 1:00:39.63 (0+2+0+1)+4:23.22323 Wojciech Kozub 1:00:41.14 (1+1+1+1)+4:24.7 31 47 Dimitri Borovik 1:01:07.73 (1+0+1+1)+4:51.3 32 5 Jan Wüstenfeld 1:01:07.94 (0+0+2+2)+4:51.5 33 48 Mike Dixon 1:01:08.01 (0+1+0+0)+4:51.6 34 20 Jiří Holubec 1:01:08.82 (1+1+0+0)+4:52.43519 Vladimir Drachev 1:01:13.96 (1+2+1+2)+4:57.5 35 24 Aleksandr Tropnikov 1:01:17.72 (0+1+1+0)+5:01.3 37 15 Jēkabs Nākums 1:01:40.15 (4+0+1+0)+5:23.7 38 17 Ľubomír Machyniak 1:01:43.74 (1+0+1+2)+5:27.3 39 31 Fredrik Kuoppa 1:01:59.22 (0+0+1+1)+5:42.8 40 7 Julien Robert 1:02:01.61 (0+1+0+0)+5:45.2 41 26 Wilfried Pallhuber 1:02:07.75 (2+1+2+0)+5:51.3 42 55 Jay Hakkinen 1:02:10.34 (1+1+0+2)+5:53.9 43 38 Liutauras Barila 1:02:12.25 (1+0+3+1)+5:55.8 44 63 Kalju Ojaste 1:02:15.74 (2+0+2+0)+5:59.3 45 71 Atsushi Kazama 1:02:23.54 (1+1+1+1)+6:07.1 46 13 Thierry Dusserre 1:02:26.61 (0+1+0+0)+6:10.2 47 50 Tomasz Sikora 1:02:39.95 (1+0+1+3)+6:23.5 48 59 Wiesław Ziemianin 1:02:39.94 (2+1+1+0)+6:23.5 49 53 Dmitry Pantov 1:03:10.55 (1+2+0+2)+6:54.1 50 30 Vyacheslav Derkach 1:03:14.64 (3+1+0+0)+6:58.2 51 54 Jean-Marc Chabloz 1:03:41.04 (1+1+1+1)+7:24.6 52 64 Valery Ivanov 1:03:55.97 (3+2+0+2)+7:39.5 53 9 Pavel Vavilov 1:03:59.47 (1+2+3+1)+7:43.0 54 42 Patrick Favre 1:04:10.57 (1+3+3+0)+7:54.1 55 44 Steve Cyr 1:04:12.96 (0+3+1+2)+7:56.5 56 51 Petr Garabík 1:04:28.86 (2+2+0+2)+8:12.4 57 62 Andreas Heymann 1:04:42.76 (1+1+2+2)+8:26.3 58 41 Janez Ožbolt 1:05:18.95 (2+1+1+1)+9:02.5 59 18 Dmitry Pozdnyakov 1:05:22.96 (0+1+4+1)+9:06.5 60 29 Marius Ene 1:05:23.95 (1+1+2+1)+9:07.5 61 56 Tomaž Žemva 1:05:27.08 (3+2+1+2)+9:10.6 62 2 Günther Dengg 1:05:33.95 (0+2+2+1)+9:17.5 63 43 Mykola Krupnyk 1:05:36.36 (2+1+2+1)+9:19.9 64 27 Kevin Quintilio 1:05:37.24 (2+0+1+1)+9:20.8 65 36 Thanasis Tsakiris 1:06:38.85 (2+1+1+1) 66 61 Gundars Upenieks 1:06:42.68 (3+1+2+2) 67 33 Georgi Kasabov 1:06:59.55 (0+2+1+2) 68 58 Mark Gee 1:07:46.87 (2+2+0+3) 69 67 Robert Rosser 1:08:35.77 (1+4+1+1) 70 4 Ion Bucsa 1:11:27.56 (0+2+3+1) 71 11 Jeon Jae-won 1:15:17.8 25 Vesa Hietalahti 35 János Panyik
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