# Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's individual

The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Nozawa Onsen. Competitors raced over five loops of a 4.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.

## Results

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Result | Penalties (P+S+P+S) | Deficit |
| | 69 | Halvard Hanevold | Norway | 56:16.4 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | – |
| | 3 | Pieralberto Carrara | Italy | 56:21.9 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +5.5 |
| | 70 | Alexei Aidarov | Belarus | 56:46.5 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +30.1 |
| 4 | 68 | Ivan Masařík | Czech Republic | 57:30.7 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +1:14.3 |
| 5 | 45 | Ilmārs Bricis | Latvia | 58:15.1 | 3 (0+1+2+0) | +1:58.7 |
| 6 | 28 | Ricco Groß | Germany | 58:15.4 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +1:59.0 |
| 7 | 32 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 58:16.8 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | +2:00.4 |
| 8 | 57 | Peter Sendel | Germany | 58:30.3 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | +2:13.9 |
| 9 | 8 | Oleg Ryzhenkov | Belarus | 58:31.3 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +2:14.9 |
| 10 | 14 | Dag Bjørndalen | Norway | 58:34.7 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +2:18.3 |
| 11 | 6 | Tomas Globočnik | Slovenia | 58:55.5 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +2:39.1 |
| 12 | 40 | Ludwig Gredler | Austria | 58:56.5 | 3 (1+0+0+2) | +2:40.1 |
| 13 | 22 | Vadim Sashurin | Belarus | 59:08.6 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | +2:52.2 |
| 14 | 37 | Kyoji Suga | Japan | 59:15.6 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | +2:59.2 |
| 15 | 39 | Sergei Tarasov | Russia | 59:24.3 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | +3:07.9 |
| 16 | 52 | Sven Fischer | Germany | 59:26.1 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | +3:09.7 |
| 17 | 60 | Pavel Muslimov | Russia | 59:26.5 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | +3:10.1 |
| 18 | 16 | Janno Prants | Estonia | 59:38.3 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | +3:21.9 |
| 19 | 1 | Frode Andresen | Norway | 59:51.0 | 5 (1+1+1+2) | +3:34.6 |
| 20 | 72 | Mikael Löfgren | Sweden | 1:00:00.3 | 2 (0+2+0+0) | +3:43.9 |
| 21 | 73 | René Cattarinussi | Italy | 1:00:00.5 | 3 (2+1+0+0) | +3:44.1 |
| 22 | 34 | Raphaël Poirée | France | 1:00:08.4 | 2 (0+0+2+0) | +3:52.0 |
| 23 | 65 | Paavo Puurunen | Finland | 1:00:11.7 | 3 (1+1+1+0) | +3:55.3 |
| 24 | 66 | Wolfgang Perner | Austria | 1:00:14.1 | 4 (0+1+1+2) | +3:57.7 |
| 25 | 21 | Sašo Grajf | Slovenia | 1:00:18.2 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +4:01.8 |
| 26 | 12 | Wolfgang Rottmann | Austria | 1:00:23.5 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +4:07.1 |
| 27 | 46 | Ville Räikkönen | Finland | 1:00:25.3 | 3 (0+0+1+2) | +4:08.9 |
| 28 | 10 | Hironao Meguro | Japan | 1:00:38.2 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | +4:21.8 |
| 29 | 49 | Alexandr Popov | Belarus | 1:00:39.6 | 3 (0+2+0+1) | +4:23.2 |
| 23 | 23 | Wojciech Kozub | Poland | 1:00:41.1 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | +4:24.7 |
| 31 | 47 | Dimitri Borovik | Estonia | 1:01:07.7 | 3 (1+0+1+1) | +4:51.3 |
| 32 | 5 | Jan Wüstenfeld | Germany | 1:01:07.9 | 4 (0+0+2+2) | +4:51.5 |
| 33 | 48 | Mike Dixon | Great Britain | 1:01:08.0 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | +4:51.6 |
| 34 | 20 | Jiří Holubec | Czech Republic | 1:01:08.8 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +4:52.4 |
| 35 | 19 | Vladimir Drachev | Russia | 1:01:13.9 | 6 (1+2+1+2) | +4:57.5 |
| 35 | 24 | Aleksandr Tropnikov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:01:17.7 | 2 (0+1+1+0) | +5:01.3 |
| 37 | 15 | Jēkabs Nākums | Latvia | 1:01:40.1 | 5 (4+0+1+0) | +5:23.7 |
| 38 | 17 | Ľubomír Machyniak | Slovakia | 1:01:43.7 | 4 (1+0+1+2) | +5:27.3 |
| 39 | 31 | Fredrik Kuoppa | Sweden | 1:01:59.2 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | +5:42.8 |
| 40 | 7 | Julien Robert | France | 1:02:01.6 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | +5:45.2 |
| 41 | 26 | Wilfried Pallhuber | Italy | 1:02:07.7 | 5 (2+1+2+0) | +5:51.3 |
| 42 | 55 | Jay Hakkinen | United States | 1:02:10.3 | 4 (1+1+0+2) | +5:53.9 |
| 43 | 38 | Liutauras Barila | Lithuania | 1:02:12.2 | 5 (1+0+3+1) | +5:55.8 |
| 44 | 63 | Kalju Ojaste | Estonia | 1:02:15.7 | 4 (2+0+2+0) | +5:59.3 |
| 45 | 71 | Atsushi Kazama | Japan | 1:02:23.5 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | +6:07.1 |
| 46 | 13 | Thierry Dusserre | France | 1:02:26.6 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | +6:10.2 |
| 47 | 50 | Tomasz Sikora | Poland | 1:02:39.9 | 5 (1+0+1+3) | +6:23.5 |
| 48 | 59 | Wiesław Ziemianin | Poland | 1:02:39.9 | 4 (2+1+1+0) | +6:23.5 |
| 49 | 53 | Dmitry Pantov | Kazakhstan | 1:03:10.5 | 5 (1+2+0+2) | +6:54.1 |
| 50 | 30 | Vyacheslav Derkach | Ukraine | 1:03:14.6 | 4 (3+1+0+0) | +6:58.2 |
| 51 | 54 | Jean-Marc Chabloz | Switzerland | 1:03:41.0 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | +7:24.6 |
| 52 | 64 | Valery Ivanov | Kazakhstan | 1:03:55.9 | 7 (3+2+0+2) | +7:39.5 |
| 53 | 9 | Pavel Vavilov | Russia | 1:03:59.4 | 7 (1+2+3+1) | +7:43.0 |
| 54 | 42 | Patrick Favre | Italy | 1:04:10.5 | 7 (1+3+3+0) | +7:54.1 |
| 55 | 44 | Steve Cyr | Canada | 1:04:12.9 | 6 (0+3+1+2) | +7:56.5 |
| 56 | 51 | Petr Garabík | Czech Republic | 1:04:28.8 | 6 (2+2+0+2) | +8:12.4 |
| 57 | 62 | Andreas Heymann | France | 1:04:42.7 | 6 (1+1+2+2) | +8:26.3 |
| 58 | 41 | Janez Ožbolt | Slovenia | 1:05:18.9 | 5 (2+1+1+1) | +9:02.5 |
| 59 | 18 | Dmitry Pozdnyakov | Kazakhstan | 1:05:22.9 | 6 (0+1+4+1) | +9:06.5 |
| 60 | 29 | Marius Ene | Romania | 1:05:23.9 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | +9:07.5 |
| 61 | 56 | Tomaž Žemva | Slovenia | 1:05:27.0 | 8 (3+2+1+2) | +9:10.6 |
| 62 | 2 | Günther Dengg | Austria | 1:05:33.9 | 5 (0+2+2+1) | +9:17.5 |
| 63 | 43 | Mykola Krupnyk | Ukraine | 1:05:36.3 | 6 (2+1+2+1) | +9:19.9 |
| 64 | 27 | Kevin Quintilio | Canada | 1:05:37.2 | 4 (2+0+1+1) | +9:20.8 |
| 65 | 36 | Thanasis Tsakiris | Greece | 1:06:38.8 | 5 (2+1+1+1) | +10:22.4 |
| 66 | 61 | Gundars Upenieks | Latvia | 1:06:42.6 | 8 (3+1+2+2) | +10:26.2 |
| 67 | 33 | Georgi Kasabov | Bulgaria | 1:06:59.5 | 5 (0+2+1+2) | +10:43.1 |
| 68 | 58 | Mark Gee | Great Britain | 1:07:46.8 | 7 (2+2+0+3) | +11:30.4 |
| 69 | 67 | Robert Rosser | United States | 1:08:35.7 | 7 (1+4+1+1) | +12:19.3 |
| 70 | 4 | Ion Bucsa | Moldova | 1:11:27.5 | 6 (0+2+3+1) | +15:11.1 |
| 71 | 11 | Jeon Jae-won | South Korea | 1:15:17.8 | 13 (4+2+3+4) | +19:01.4 |
| | 25 | Vesa Hietalahti | Finland | DNF | | |
| | 35 | János Panyik | Hungary | DNS | | |