The men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February, at Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center. In sprint, competitors race over three loops of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing, with each miss being penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.
Results
The sprint was added to the world championships in 1974, and made its Olympic debut in Lake Placid. Two-time defending world champion Frank Ullrich was more than 10 seconds clear after the first shoot, and despite two misses at the second shoot, he actually saw his lead increase, allowing him to pull away in the final section and win by more than 40 seconds. Vladimir Alikin, Kjell Søbak, Erkki Antila and Anatoly Alyabyev were closely matched after the first shoot, but Alikin, who shot clear, and Alyabyev, who missed once, pulled clear for silver and bronze, while Antila missed two shots and Søbak fell off the skiing pace.
Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties Deficit 29 Frank Ullrich 32:10.692 (0+2) 7 Vladimir Alikin 32:53.100 (0+0) 42 Anatoly Alyabyev 33:09.161 (0+1) 11 Klaus Siebert 33:32.762 (1+1)+1:22.07 3 Kjell Søbak 33:34.641 (0+1)+1:23.95 40 Peter Zelinka 33:45.201 (0+1)+1:34.51 36 Odd Lirhus 34:10.392 (1+1)+1:59.70 41 Peter Angerer 34:13.434 (2+2)+2:02.74 28 Aleksandr Tikhonov 34:14.882 (0+2)+2:04.19 10 20 Gerd Winkler 34:24.161 (1+0)+2:13.47 11 15 Franz-Josef Weber 34:25.281 (0+1)+2:14.59 12 46 Erkki Antila 34:32.972 (0+2)+2:22.28 13 24 Christian Poirot 34:38.601 (0+1)+2:27.91 14 8 Sören Wikström 34:57.012 (1+1)+2:46.32 15 27 Ronnie Adolfsson 35:14.873 (0+3)+3:04.18 16 1 Jaromír Šimůnek 35:15.122 (0+2)+3:04.43 17 33 Terje Krokstad 35:15.404 (1+3)+3:04.71 18 37 Luigi Weiss 35:37.723 (0+3)+3:27.03 19 31 Lyle Nelson 35:40.562 (1+1)+3:29.87 20 2 Keith Oliver 35:45.892 (1+1)+3:35.20 21 49 Mathias Jung 35:50.364 (1+3)+3:39.67 22 43 Per Andersson 35:55.572 (1+1)+3:44.88 23 34 Alfred Eder 35:58.274 (0+4)+3:47.58 24 9 Arto Sutinen 36:01.063 (2+1)+3:50.37 25 16 Adriano Darioli 36:14.175 (1+4)+4:03.48 26 30 Hiroyuki Deguchi 36:14.612 (1+1)+4:03.92 27 5 Fritz Fischer 36:29.874 (2+2)+4:19.18 28 32 Rudolf Horn 36:31.255 (1+4)+4:20.56 29 18 Zdeněk Hák 36:32.596 (3+3)+4:21.90 30 25 Urs Brechbühl 36:32.664 (2+2)+4:21.97 31 13 Arduino Tiraboschi 36:39.983 (1+2)+4:29.29 32 44 Roland Burn 36:52.355 (1+4)+4:41.66 33 35 Yvon Mougel 36:57.436 (2+4)+4:46.74 34 45 Vladimir Velichkov 37:10.715 (1+4)+5:00.02 35 22 Keijo Kuntola 37:15.285 (3+2)+5:04.59 36 19 Yuri Mitev 37:23.954 (2+2)+5:13.26 37 14 Takashi Shibata 37:26.916 (3+3)+5:16.22 38 21 Marjan Burgar 37:37.744 (1+3)+5:27.05 39 12 Yves Blondeau 37:44.878 (3+5)+5:34.18 40 17 Jim Wood 38:30.094 (3+1)+6:19.40 41 6 Song Yongjun 38:37.193 (0+3)+6:26.50 42 47 Paul Gibbins 38:44.245 (2+3)+6:33.55 43 50 Masaichi Kinoshita 38:50.194 (2+2)+6:39.50 44 48 Donald Nielsen Jr. 38:51.026 (2+4)+6:40.33 45 10 Peter Hoag Jr. 38:53.444 (2+2)+6:42.75 46 38 Han Jinsuo 44:06.856 (2+4) 47 23 Raúl Abella 44:40.555 (2+3) 48 4 Luis Ríos 44:51.185 (3+2) 49 39 Jorge Salas 47:12.586 (2+4) 26 Li Xiaoming
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