# Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Sprint

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 | East Germany | 32:10.69 | 2 (0+2) | – |
| | 7 | Vladimir Alikin | Soviet Union | 32:53.10 | 0 (0+0) | +42.41 |
| | 42 | Anatoly Alyabyev | Soviet Union | 33:09.16 | 1 (0+1) | +58.47 |
| 4 | 11 | Klaus Siebert | East Germany | 33:32.76 | 2 (1+1) | +1:22.07 |
| 5 | 3 | Kjell Søbak | Norway | 33:34.64 | 1 (0+1) | +1:23.95 |
| 6 | 40 | Peter Zelinka | Czechoslovakia | 33:45.20 | 1 (0+1) | +1:34.51 |
| 7 | 36 | Odd Lirhus | Norway | 34:10.39 | 2 (1+1) | +1:59.70 |
| 8 | 41 | Peter Angerer | West Germany | 34:13.43 | 4 (2+2) | +2:02.74 |
| 9 | 28 | Aleksandr Tikhonov | Soviet Union | 34:14.88 | 2 (0+2) | +2:04.19 |
| 10 | 20 | Gerd Winkler | West Germany | 34:24.16 | 1 (1+0) | +2:13.47 |
| 11 | 15 | Franz-Josef Weber | Austria | 34:25.28 | 1 (0+1) | +2:14.59 |
| 12 | 46 | Erkki Antila | Finland | 34:32.97 | 2 (0+2) | +2:22.28 |
| 13 | 24 | Christian Poirot | France | 34:38.60 | 1 (0+1) | +2:27.91 |
| 14 | 8 | Sören Wikström | Sweden | 34:57.01 | 2 (1+1) | +2:46.32 |
| 15 | 27 | Ronnie Adolfsson | Sweden | 35:14.87 | 3 (0+3) | +3:04.18 |
| 16 | 1 | Jaromír Šimůnek | Czechoslovakia | 35:15.12 | 2 (0+2) | +3:04.43 |
| 17 | 33 | Terje Krokstad | Norway | 35:15.40 | 4 (1+3) | +3:04.71 |
| 18 | 37 | Luigi Weiss | Italy | 35:37.72 | 3 (0+3) | +3:27.03 |
| 19 | 31 | Lyle Nelson | United States | 35:40.56 | 2 (1+1) | +3:29.87 |
| 20 | 2 | Keith Oliver | Great Britain | 35:45.89 | 2 (1+1) | +3:35.20 |
| 21 | 49 | Mathias Jung | East Germany | 35:50.36 | 4 (1+3) | +3:39.67 |
| 22 | 43 | Per Andersson | Sweden | 35:55.57 | 2 (1+1) | +3:44.88 |
| 23 | 34 | Alfred Eder | Austria | 35:58.27 | 4 (0+4) | +3:47.58 |
| 24 | 9 | Arto Sutinen | Finland | 36:01.06 | 3 (2+1) | +3:50.37 |
| 25 | 16 | Adriano Darioli | Italy | 36:14.17 | 5 (1+4) | +4:03.48 |
| 26 | 30 | Hiroyuki Deguchi | Japan | 36:14.61 | 2 (1+1) | +4:03.92 |
| 27 | 5 | Fritz Fischer | West Germany | 36:29.87 | 4 (2+2) | +4:19.18 |
| 28 | 32 | Rudolf Horn | Austria | 36:31.25 | 5 (1+4) | +4:20.56 |
| 29 | 18 | Zdeněk Hák | Czechoslovakia | 36:32.59 | 6 (3+3) | +4:21.90 |
| 30 | 25 | Urs Brechbühl | Switzerland | 36:32.66 | 4 (2+2) | +4:21.97 |
| 31 | 13 | Arduino Tiraboschi | Italy | 36:39.98 | 3 (1+2) | +4:29.29 |
| 32 | 44 | Roland Burn | Switzerland | 36:52.35 | 5 (1+4) | +4:41.66 |
| 33 | 35 | Yvon Mougel | France | 36:57.43 | 6 (2+4) | +4:46.74 |
| 34 | 45 | Vladimir Velichkov | Bulgaria | 37:10.71 | 5 (1+4) | +5:00.02 |
| 35 | 22 | Keijo Kuntola | Finland | 37:15.28 | 5 (3+2) | +5:04.59 |
| 36 | 19 | Yuri Mitev | Bulgaria | 37:23.95 | 4 (2+2) | +5:13.26 |
| 37 | 14 | Takashi Shibata | Japan | 37:26.91 | 6 (3+3) | +5:16.22 |
| 38 | 21 | Marjan Burgar | Yugoslavia | 37:37.74 | 4 (1+3) | +5:27.05 |
| 39 | 12 | Yves Blondeau | France | 37:44.87 | 8 (3+5) | +5:34.18 |
| 40 | 17 | Jim Wood | Great Britain | 38:30.09 | 4 (3+1) | +6:19.40 |
| 41 | 6 | Song Yongjun | China | 38:37.19 | 3 (0+3) | +6:26.50 |
| 42 | 47 | Paul Gibbins | Great Britain | 38:44.24 | 5 (2+3) | +6:33.55 |
| 43 | 50 | Masaichi Kinoshita | Japan | 38:50.19 | 4 (2+2) | +6:39.50 |
| 44 | 48 | Donald Nielsen Jr. | United States | 38:51.02 | 6 (2+4) | +6:40.33 |
| 45 | 10 | Peter Hoag Jr. | United States | 38:53.44 | 4 (2+2) | +6:42.75 |
| 46 | 38 | Han Jinsuo | China | 44:06.85 | 6 (2+4) | +11:56.16 |
| 47 | 23 | Raúl Abella | Argentina | 44:40.55 | 5 (2+3) | +12:29.86 |
| 48 | 4 | Luis Ríos | Argentina | 44:51.18 | 5 (3+2) | +12:40.49 |
| 49 | 39 | Jorge Salas | Argentina | 47:12.58 | 6 (2+4) | +15:01.89 |
| | 26 | Li Xiaoming | China | DSQ | DSQ | DSQ |