# Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Bronze | Alexei Aidarov | Biathlon | Men's individual | 11 February |
| Bronze | Dmitri Dashinski | Freestyle skiing | Men's aerials | 18 February |

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Biathlon | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Cross-country skiing | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Figure skating | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Freestyle skiing | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Ice hockey | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| Nordic combined | 2 | – | 2 |
| Ski jumping | 2 | – | 2 |
| Speed skating | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Total | 44 | 15 | 59 |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Time | Time | Rank |
| Igor Yudin | Super-G | | | 1:45.92 | 36 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Aleksandr Popov | 2 | 30:53.0 | 55 |
| 10 km Sprint | Vadim Sashurin | 1 | 30:34.0 | 46 |
| 10 km Sprint | Alexei Aidarov | 2 | 30:12.3 | 37 |
| 10 km Sprint | Oleg Ryzhenkov | 2 | 29:38.2 | 27 |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Aleksandr Popov | 57:39.6 | 3 | 1'00:39.6 | 29 |
| 20 km | Vadim Sashurin | 57:08.6 | 2 | 59:08.6 | 13 |
| 20 km | Oleg Ryzhenkov | 56:31.3 | 2 | 58:31.3 | 9 |
| 20 km | Alexei Aidarov | 55:46.5 | 1 | 56:46.5 | |

### Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Aleksandr Popov Vadim Sashurin | 0 | 1'23:14.0 | 4 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Nataliya Ryzhenkova | 4 | 26:10.5 | 52 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Nataliya Moroz | 0 | 25:04.7 | 28 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Svetlana Paramygina | 2 | 24:50.0 | 24 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Irina Tananayko | 0 | 24:42.5 | 22 |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 15 km | Nataliya Permyakova | 58:33.5 | 3 | 1'01:33.5 | 41 |
| 15 km | Irina Tananayko | 57:25.4 | 1 | 58:25.4 | 22 |
| 15 km | Nataliya Ryzhenkova | 55:03.5 | 3 | 58:03.5 | 19 |
| 15 km | Svetlana Paramygina | 54:53.4 | 2 | 56:53.4 | 12 |

### Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina | 0 | 1'45:24.0 | 12 |
    $^1$ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
    $^2$ One minute added per missed target.

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 10 km C | Sergey Dolidovich | DNF | – |
| 10 km C | Nikolay Semenyako | 31:54.5 | 73 |
| 10 km C | Aleksey Tregubov | 31:43.9 | 70 |
| 10 km C | Aleksandr Sannikov | 29:54.7 | 39 |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Aleksey Tregubov | DNF | – |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Nikolay Semenyako | 49:31.3 | 60 |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Aleksandr Sannikov | 43:16.9 | 26 |
| 30 km C | Nikolay Semenyako | 1'47:32.5 | 54 |
| 30 km C | Aleksandr Sannikov | 1'42:48.0 | 40 |
| 30 km C | Sergey Dolidovich | 1'42:18.7 | 36 |
| 30 km C | Aleksey Tregubov | 1'40:05.9 | 18 |
| 50 km F | Vyacheslav Plaksunov | DNF | – |
| 50 km F | Nikolay Semenyako | DNF | – |
| 50 km F | Sergey Dolidovich | 2'17:07.5 | 31 |
| 50 km F | Aleksandr Sannikov | 2'16:34.4 | 27 |
    $^1$ Starting delay based on 10 km results.
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Sergey Dolidovich Aleksey Tregubov Aleksandr Sannikov Vyacheslav Plaksunov | 1'45:15.3 | 14 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km C | Lyudmila Korolik | 20:17.9 | 63 |
| 5 km C | Irina Skripnik | 19:44.2 | 55 |
| 5 km C | Svetlana Kamotskaya | 19:32.7 | 48 |
| 5 km C | Yelena Sinkevich | 18:50.2 | 23 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Lyudmila Korolik | 34:55.4 | 58 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Irina Skripnik | 34:15.8 | 55 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Svetlana Kamotskaya | 33:11.2 | 47 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Yelena Sinkevich | 30:42.5 | 21 |
| 15 km C | Irina Skripnik | 52:26.2 | 43 |
| 15 km C | Yekaterina Antonyuk | 52:24.5 | 42 |
| 15 km C | Svetlana Kamotskaya | 51:59.0 | 39 |
| 15 km C | Yelena Sinkevich | 49:20.8 | 15 |
| 30 km F | Irina Skripnik | 1'34:38.4 | 47 |
| 30 km F | Lyudmila Korolik | 1'34:07.5 | 44 |
| 30 km F | Svetlana Kamotskaya | 1'33:51.6 | 42 |
| 30 km F | Yelena Sinkevich | 1'27:15.3 | 12 |
    $^2$ Starting delay based on 5 km results.
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Svetlana Kamotskaya Yekaterina Antonyuk Yelena Sinkevich Lyudmila Korolik | 59:56.9 | 14 |

## Figure skating
### Ice Dancing

| Athletes | CD1 | CD2 | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
| Tatjana Navka Nikolai Morozov | 14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 32.0 | 16 |

## Freestyle skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank |
| Oleg Kuleshov | Moguls | 34.37 | 11.13 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksandr Tkachenko | Aerials | | 178.46 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Vasily Vorobyov | Aerials | | 199.29 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksey Grishin | Aerials | | 217.84 | 9 Q | | 220.99 | 8 |
| Dmitry Dashchinsky | Aerials | | 249.04 | 1 Q | | 240.79 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank |
| Yuliya Milko-Chernemorets | Moguls | 35.91 | 20.20 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Ice hockey
### Men's tournament

The Belarusian hockey team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics. They won their group that featured Germany, France and Japan by beating France 4–0, Germany 8-2 and by drawing Japan 2-2. Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament. They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5–0 to Canada and identical scores of 5–2 to Sweden and the United States. They finished last of group A and had to face the top spot in group B which was Russia. They lost 4-1 and got eliminated in the process from the tournament. They ended the tournament in 7th place.

#### Preliminary round – group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Belarus | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 5 |
| Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 4 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 2 |
| Japan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 1 |
All times are local (UTC-7).

#### First Round – group C

| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 |
| Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 4 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 2 |
| Belarus | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 15 | -11 | 0 |
All times are local (UTC-7).

#### Quarter-final

All times are local (UTC-7).
* Contestants Aleksandr Alekseyev Aleksandr Andriyevsky Vadim Bekbulatov Sergey Yerkovich Aleksandr Galchenyuk Aleksey Kalyuzhny Viktor Karachun Oleg Khmyl Andrey Kovalyov Aleksey Lozhkin Igor Matushkin Andrey Mezin Vasily Pankov Oleg Romanov Oleg Antonenko Yevgeny Roshchin Ruslan Salei Aleksandr Shumidub Andrey Skabelka Sergey Stas Vladimir Tsyplakov Eduard Zankovets Aleksandr Zhurik

## Nordic combined

Men's individual
Events:
* normal hill ski jumping
* 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country time | Total rank |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Cross-country time | Total rank |
| Sergey Zakharenko | Individual | 158.0 | 48 | 51:12.2 | 43 |
| Konstantin Kalinovsky | Individual | 181.0 | 45 | 49:38.2 | 42 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Aleksandr Sinyavsky | Normal hill | 70.0 | 71.5 | 50 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksey Shibko | Normal hill | 74.0 | 80.0 | 40 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksey Shibko | Large hill | 94.5 | 65.1 | 55 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksandr Sinyavsky | Large hill | 109.0 | 94.2 | 32 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5000 m | Vitaly Novichenko | 7:19.76 | 32 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Lyudmila Kostyukevich | 41.00 | 32 | 41.43 | 34 | 82.43 | 31 |
| 500 m | Anzhelika Kotyuga | 39.76 | 17 | 39.85 | 18 | 79.61 | 16 |
| 1000 m | Lyudmila Kostyukevich | | | | | 1:22.58 | 34 |
| 1000 m | Anzhelika Kotyuga | | | | | 1:21.35 | 25 |
| 3000 m | Svetlana Chepelnikova | | | | | 4:36.97 | 29 |

## Trivia

* In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia flag and with the national anthem of the former Soviet Union.