# Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Individual

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Igman - Veliko Polke. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.

## Summary

Frank Ullrich was the two-time defending World champion, and defending Olympic silver medalist, but his ski pace in Sarajevo was a couple of minutes behind the top competitors, and he ended up 5th. The world champion in the 10 km sprint, Eirik Kvalfoss, had the fastest ski time, but missed five shots, ending up with bronze. The gold went to West Germany's Peter Angerer, who had the best shooting record in the competition, and also the second-fastest ski time, leaving him almost a minute-and-a-half clear of his closest pursuer, East German Frank-Peter Roetsch.

## Results

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Ski Time | Penalties (P+S+P+S) | Result | Deficit |
| | 59 | Peter Angerer | West Germany | 1:09:52.7 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | 1:11:52.7 | – |
| | 42 | Frank-Peter Roetsch | East Germany | 1:10:21.4 | 3 (0+2+0+1) | 1:13:21.4 | +1:28.7 |
| | 31 | Eirik Kvalfoss | Norway | 1:09:02.4 | 5 (2+1+1+1) | 1:14:02.4 | +2:09.7 |
| 4 | 26 | Yvon Mougel | France | 1:10:53.1 | 4 (1+2+0+1) | 1:14:53.1 | +3:00.4 |
| 5 | 50 | Frank Ullrich | East Germany | 1:11:53.7 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | 1:14:53.7 | +3:01.0 |
| 6 | 56 | Rolf Storsveen | Norway | 1:11:23.9 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | 1:15:23.9 | +3:31.2 |
| 7 | 23 | Fritz Fischer | West Germany | 1:11:49.7 | 4 (2+0+0+2) | 1:15:49.7 | +3:57.0 |
| 8 | 61 | Leif Andersson | Sweden | 1:13:19.3 | 3 (1+2+0+0) | 1:16:19.3 | +4:26.6 |
| 9 | 57 | Andreas Zingerle | Italy | 1:12:21.7 | 4 (0+3+0+1) | 1:16:21.7 | +4:29.0 |
| 10 | 37 | Jan Matouš | Czechoslovakia | 1:11:39.0 | 5 (0+1+0+4) | 1:16:39.0 | +4:46.3 |
| 11 | 9 | Sven Fahlén | Sweden | 1:12:10.8 | 6 (1+0+3+2) | 1:18:10.8 | +6:18.1 |
| 12 | 28 | Tapio Piipponen | Finland | 1:12:38.4 | 6 (2+2+2+0) | 1:18:38.4 | +6:45.7 |
| 13 | 54 | Vladimir Velichkov | Bulgaria | 1:13:47.1 | 5 (0+2+0+3) | 1:18:47.1 | +6:54.4 |
| 14 | 52 | Jim Wood | Great Britain | 1:14:55.8 | 4 (0+1+1+2) | 1:18:55.8 | +7:03.1 |
| 15 | 48 | Zdeněk Hák | Czechoslovakia | 1:13:05.5 | 6 (2+2+0+2) | 1:19:05.5 | +7:12.8 |
| 16 | 46 | Arto Jääskeläinen | Finland | 1:14:23.3 | 5 (1+2+0+2) | 1:19:23.3 | +7:30.6 |
| 17 | 14 | Sergei Bulygin | Soviet Union | 1:12:28.0 | 7 (1+1+2+3) | 1:19:28.0 | +7:35.3 |
| 18 | 19 | Keijo Tiitola | Finland | 1:14:32.8 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 1:19:32.8 | +7:40.1 |
| 19 | 8 | Marco Zanon | Italy | 1:15:59.9 | 4 (0+1+2+1) | 1:19:59.9 | +8:07.2 |
| 20 | 30 | Ronnie Adolfsson | Sweden | 1:12:12.2 | 8 (2+4+0+2) | 1:20:12.2 | +8:19.5 |
| 21 | 58 | Francis Mougel | France | 1:13:20.5 | 7 (1+4+1+1) | 1:20:20.5 | +8:27.8 |
| 22 | 15 | Ernst Reiter | West Germany | 1:15:37.4 | 5 (2+1+0+2) | 1:20:37.4 | +8:44.7 |
| 23 | 3 | Christian Poirot | France | 1:14:54.2 | 6 (1+1+0+4) | 1:20:54.2 | +9:01.5 |
| 24 | 16 | Odd Lirhus | Norway | 1:11:55.0 | 9 (1+5+1+2) | 1:20:55.0 | +9:02.3 |
| 25 | 2 | Jaromír Šimůnek | Czechoslovakia | 1:15:04.3 | 6 (1+3+1+1) | 1:21:04.3 | +9:11.6 |
| 26 | 29 | Lyle Nelson | United States | 1:14:05.4 | 7 (2+3+1+1) | 1:21:05.4 | +9:12.7 |
| 27 | 5 | Spas Zlatev | Bulgaria | 1:16:10.9 | 5 (1+1+0+3) | 1:21:10.9 | +9:18.2 |
| 28 | 32 | Adriano Darioli | Italy | 1:13:14.0 | 8 (3+1+0+4) | 1:21:14.0 | +9:21.3 |
| 29 | 10 | Holger Wick | East Germany | 1:12:19.1 | 9 (3+2+2+2) | 1:21:19.1 | +9:26.4 |
| 30 | 6 | Franz Schuler | Austria | 1:16:23.0 | 5 (0+1+2+2) | 1:21:23.0 | +9:30.3 |
| 31 | 53 | Beat Meier | Switzerland | 1:14:24.4 | 7 (0+2+2+3) | 1:21:24.4 | +9:31.7 |
| 32 | 43 | Dmitry Vasilyev | Soviet Union | 1:14:09.2 | 8 (3+1+1+3) | 1:22:09.2 | +10:16.5 |
| 33 | 55 | Glen Eberle | United States | 1:18:15.0 | 4 (2+2+0+0) | 1:22:15.0 | +10:22.3 |
| 34 | 60 | Alfred Eder | Austria | 1:16:52.6 | 6 (1+2+1+2) | 1:22:52.6 | +10:59.9 |
| 35 | 47 | Juri Kashkarov | Soviet Union | 1:11:53.8 | 11 (3+2+2+4) | 1:22:53.8 | +11:01.1 |
| 36 | 22 | Rudolf Horn | Austria | 1:15:10.8 | 8 (1+2+3+2) | 1:23:10.8 | +11:18.1 |
| 37 | 17 | Charles MacIvor | Great Britain | 1:16:37.5 | 7 (2+2+2+1) | 1:23:37.5 | +11:44.8 |
| 38 | 11 | Yoshinobu Murase | Japan | 1:17:39.1 | 6 (2+1+0+3) | 1:23:39.1 | +11:46.4 |
| 39 | 49 | Shoichi Kinoshita | Japan | 1:16:49.8 | 7 (1+2+1+3) | 1:23:49.8 | +11:57.1 |
| 40 | 21 | Yuri Mitev | Bulgaria | 1:16:05.4 | 8 (1+2+2+3) | 1:24:05.4 | +12:12.7 |
| 41 | 63 | Andrej Lanišek | Yugoslavia | 1:18:23.1 | 6 (0+4+0+2) | 1:24:23.1 | +12:30.4 |
| 42 | 39 | Isao Yamase | Japan | 1:18:09.6 | 7 (1+3+2+1) | 1:25:09.6 | +13:16.9 |
| 43 | 62 | Imre Lestyan | Romania | 1:19:26.6 | 6 (2+1+1+2) | 1:25:26.6 | +13:33.9 |
| 44 | 24 | Tony McLeod | Great Britain | 1:17:34.5 | 8 (4+1+0+3) | 1:25:34.5 | +13:41.8 |
| 45 | 64 | Zsolt Kovács | Hungary | 1:19:18.7 | 7 (3+2+0+2) | 1:26:18.7 | +14:26.0 |
| 46 | 1 | Marjan Vidmar | Yugoslavia | 1:18:32.1 | 8 (2+3+2+1) | 1:26:32.1 | +14:39.4 |
| 47 | 38 | Andrew Paul | Australia | 1:21:38.7 | 5 (0+2+1+2) | 1:26:38.7 | +14:46.0 |
| 48 | 33 | Jure Velepec | Yugoslavia | 1:21:05.8 | 6 (3+1+1+1) | 1:27:05.8 | +15:13.1 |
| 49 | 18 | Mihai Rădulescu | Romania | 1:19:18.1 | 8 (0+2+4+2) | 1:27:18.1 | +15:25.4 |
| 50 | 41 | Vladimir Todaşcă | Romania | 1:20:00.9 | 8 (1+2+2+3) | 1:28:00.9 | +16:08.2 |
| 51 | 12 | János Spisák | Hungary | 1:20:06.9 | 8 (0+4+1+3) | 1:28:06.9 | +16:14.2 |
| 52 | 44 | Sun Xiaoping | China | 1:20:07.1 | 8 (2+2+2+2) | 1:28:07.1 | +16:14.4 |
| 53 | 20 | Martin Hagen | United States | 1:18:19.8 | 12 (2+4+2+4) | 1:30:19.8 | +18:27.1 |
| 54 | 27 | Liu Hongwang | China | 1:19:47.5 | 12 (3+2+4+3) | 1:31:47.5 | +19:54.8 |
| 55 | 13 | Víctor Figueroa | Argentina | 1:27:02.3 | 7 (2+2+2+1) | 1:34:02.3 | +22:09.6 |
| 56 | 4 | Manuel García | Spain | 1:24:12.4 | 10 (2+3+3+2) | 1:34:12.4 | +22:19.7 |
| 57 | 40 | Cecilio Fernández | Spain | 1:25:42.0 | 9 (3+2+2+2) | 1:34:42.0 | +22:49.3 |
| 58 | 36 | Luis Ríos | Argentina | 1:32:17.9 | 10 (2+2+4+2) | 1:42:17.9 | +30:25.2 |
| 59 | 34 | Ueng Ming-Yih | Chinese Taipei | 1:37:07.0 | 8 (2+2+1+3) | 1:45:07.0 | +33:14.3 |
| 60 | 45 | Hwang Byung-dae | South Korea | 1:34:49.9 | 15 (3+4+4+4) | 1:49:49.9 | +37:57.2 |
| 61 | 35 | Hernán Carazo | Costa Rica | 2:13:54.9 | 11 (3+3+3+2) | 2:24:54.9 | +73:02.2 |
| - | 7 | Long Yunzhou | China | DNF | - | (4+4+x+x) | - |
| - | 25 | László Palácsik | Hungary | DNF | - | - | - |
| - | 51 | Oscar di Lovera | Argentina | DNS | - | - | - |