The men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics was held on 20 February, at Canmore Nordic Centre. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.
Summary The defending world champion, Frank-Peter Roetsch, had the fastest ski time by more than a full minute, and despite three missed shots, he held off the field to win by 20 seconds. 1986 World champion Valeriy Medvedtsev and Norway's Eirik Kvalfoss finished with the joint second-fastest ski time, but while Medvedtsev's two misses saw him win silver, Kvalfoss missed three and finished 6th. Italy's Johann Passler, the fourth-fastest skier, held off Sergei Tchepikov, who had the best shooting score, to win bronze.
Results
Rank Bib Name Country Ski Time Penalties (P+S+P+S) Result Deficit 43 Frank-Peter Roetsch 53:33.3 3 (1+1+0+1) 56:33.3 – 26 Valeriy Medvedtsev 54:54.6 2 (0+1+0+1) 56:54.6 +0:21.3 53 Johann Passler 55:10.1 2 (1+0+0+1) 57:10.1 +0:36.8 4 51 Sergei Tchepikov 56:17.5 1 (0+1+0+0) 57:17.5 +0:44.2 5 11 Juri Kashkarov 55:43.1 2 (0+1+1+0) 57:43.1 +1:09.8 6 50 Eirik Kvalfoss 54:54.6 3 (1+1+1+0) 57:54.6 +1:21.3 7 28 André Sehmisch 55:11.4 3 (0+1+2+0) 58:11.4 +1:38.1 8 35 Tapio Piipponen 55:18.3 3 (1+0+1+1) 58:18.3 +1:45.0 9 59 Matthias Jacob 55:20.1 3 (0+2+1+0) 58:20.1 +1:46.8 10 29 Peter Angerer 55:46.7 3 (0+2+0+1) 58:46.7 +2:13.4 11 14 Gottlieb Taschler 55:53.6 3 (1+1+0+1) 58:53.6 +2:20.3 12 58 Alexandr Popov 56:24.0 3 (0+2+1+0) 59:24.0 +2:50.7 13 47 Mike Dixon 57:32.4 2 (1+0+0+1) 59:32.4 +2:59.1 14 48 Jan Matouš 56:35.3 3 (1+0+0+2) 59:35.3 +3:02.0 15 12 Khristo Vodenicharov 58:20.8 2 (1+0+1+0) +3:47.5 16 7 Jürgen Wirth 57:25.9 3 (1+0+1+1) +3:52.6 17 61 Herbert Fritzenwenger 56:27.8 4 (0+2+2+0) +3:54.5 18 63 Jean-Paul Giachino 57:43.7 3 (0+1+1+1) +4:10.4 19 45 Vasil Bozhilov 56:49.8 4 (2+1+0+1) +4:16.5 20 27 Frode Løberg 56:52.7 4 (1+0+3+0) +4:19.4 21 32 Vladimir Velichkov 56:56.5 4 (1+1+0+2) +4:23.2 22 8 Tomáš Kos 58:02.7 3 (0+1+0+2) +4:29.4 23 42 Fritz Fischer 56:04.5 5 (1+1+0+3) +4:31.2 24 71 Bruno Hofstätter 57:05.1 4 (1+1+0+2) +4:31.8 25 57 Josh Thompson 56:29.4 5 (1+1+0+3) +4:56.1 26 33 Alfred Eder 55:39.7 6 (3+1+2+0) +5:06.4 27 18 Egon Leitner 58:52.3 3 (1+1+1+0) +5:19.0 28 1 Carl Davies 58:54.1 3 (0+2+0+1) +5:20.8 29 9 Ernst Reiter 56:54.8 5 (2+0+2+1) +5:21.5 30 17 Gisle Fenne 56:56.5 5 (1+1+3+0) +5:23.2 31 30 Peter Sjödén 59:07.8 3 (0+1+0+2) +5:34.5 32 37 Jiří Holubec 57:08.3 5 (0+2+1+2) +5:35.0 33 55 Ken Karpoff 59:19.7 3 (0+3+0+0) +5:46.4 34 19 Glenn Rupertus 56:10.4 7 (1+3+2+1) +6:37.1 35 24 Jure Velepec 59:15.6 4 (1+1+1+1) +6:42.3 36 39 Franz Schuler 55:24.5 8 (1+4+1+2) +6:51.2 37 68 Leif Andersson 58:27.3 5 (1+1+1+2) +6:54.0 38 60 Juha Tella 57:39.0 6 (2+1+3+0) +7:05.7 39 65 Sylfest Glimsdal 55:46.9 8 (2+4+0+2) +7:13.6 40 52 Misao Kodate 57:51.0 6 (1+3+1+1) +7:17.7 41 2 Thierry Gerbier 57:51.7 6 (2+2+1+1) +7:18.4 42 15 Darin Binning 59:54.8 4 (1+1+2+0) +7:21.5 43 66 Werner Kiem 57:00.3 7 (2+3+1+1) +7:27.0 44 62 František Chládek 4 (1+1+1+1) +7:28.0 45 21 Éric Claudon 58:16.8 6 (1+3+0+2) +7:43.5 46 10 Charles Plamondon 59:27.5 5 (1+1+1+2) +7:54.2 47 22 Trevor King 58:37.9 6 (2+1+1+2) +8:04.6 48 4 Tadashi Nakamura 57:01.3 8 (2+4+0+2) +8:28.0 49 40 Bill Carow 5 (0+3+0+2) +8:36.8 50 54 Harri Eloranta 58:10.6 7 (2+2+1+2) +8:37.3 51 49 Mikael Löfgren 58:12.0 7 (2+2+2+1) +8:38.7 52 31 Curt Schreiner 5 (1+1+1+2) +8:49.4 53 56 Mark Langin 4 (0+1+1+2) +9:17.0 54 23 Zsolt Kovács 4 (1+2+0+1) +9:41.9 55 64 Khristo Kovachki 59:15.6 7 (1+2+2+2) +9:42.3 56 41 Hervé Flandin 59:50.9 7 (2+3+1+1) +10:17.6 57 20 Andrew Paul 6 (3+2+1+0) +12:26.0 58 13 Arto Jääskeläinen 58:29.5 11 (4+1+2+4) +12:56.2 59 67 Jamie Kallio 7 (0+0+2+5) +13:39.8 60 36 Koichi Sato 8 (3+2+1+2) +13:45.4 61 69 Akihiro Takizawa 7 (3+2+1+1) +14:04.7 62 34 Hong Byung-sik 8 (4+0+2+2) +17:29.9 63 3 Joo Young-dai 8 (3+3+1+1) +17:54.2 64 5 Alejandro Giró 5 (1+2+1+1) +20:01.1 65 70 Kim Yong-woon 9 (4+2+1+2) +20:49.7 66 44 Shin Young-sun 9 (2+3+3+1) +21:11.2 67 46 Luis Argel 11 (3+3+4+1) +27:14.3 68 16 Elliot Archilla 13 (2+3+4+4) +55:24.3 - 6 Roger Westling DNF - 38 Andreas Zingerle DQ - 25 Gustavo Giró DQ
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