The Men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February 1998, at Nozawa Onsen. Competitors raced over two 3.0 kilometre loops and one 4.0 kilometre loop of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.
Results Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties Deficit 37 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 27:16.2 0 (0+0) 61 Frode Andresen 28:17.8 2 (1+1) +1:01.6 73 Ville Räikkönen 28:21.7 1 (0+1) +1:05.5 72 Viktor Maigourov 28:36.0 0 (0+0) +1:19.8 64 Jēkabs Nākums 28:36.9 1 (1+0) +1:20.7 10 Oļegs Maļuhins 28:37.4 1 (0+1) +1:21.2 71 Frank Luck 28:40.3 1 (1+0) +1:24.1 19 Halvard Hanevold 28:40.8 2 (1+1) +1:24.6 53 Paavo Puurunen 28:44.0 0 (0+0) +1:27.8 10 67 Pieralberto Carrara 28:44.2 2 (1+1) +1:28.0 11 38 Ludwig Gredler 28:44.3 2 (0+2) +1:28.1 12 14 Vladimir Drachev 28:46.4 1 (0+1) +1:30.2 13 2 Egil Gjelland 28:49.1 1 (1+0) +1:32.9 14 54 Wilfried Pallhuber 28:50.1 1 (1+0) +1:33.9 15 45 Ivan Masařík 28:58.6 2 (1+1) +1:42.4 16 20 Jože Poklukar 29:00.5 1 (0+1) +1:44.3 17 52 Ricco Groß 29:13.9 1 (0+1) +1:57.7 18 24 Dimitri Borovik 29:19.4 1 (0+1) +2:03.2 19 45 Kyoji Suga 29:19.4 2 (0+2) +2:03.2 20 18 Harri Eloranta 29:21.8 2 (1+1) +2:05.6 21 46 Fredrik Kuoppa 29:22.0 2 (0+2) +2:05.8 22 51 Sergei Tarasov 29:23.2 3 (2+1) +2:07.0 23 66 Wojciech Kozub 29:28.5 3 (2+1) +2:12.3 24 15 Dmitry Pozdnyakov 29:30.1 0 (0+0) +2:13.9 25 16 Mikael Löfgren 29:31.6 1 (0+1) +2:15.4 26 28 Wiesław Ziemianin 29:34.4 1 (0+1) +2:18.2 27 41 Oleg Ryzhenkov 29:38.2 2 (0+2) +2:22.0 28 40 Tomasz Sikora 29:40.8 1 (1+0) +2:24.6 29 11 Sven Fischer 29:47.1 2 (1+1) +2:30.9 30 57 Ruslan Lysenko 29:49.6 0 (0+0) +2:33.4 31 65 Valery Ivanov 29:58.8 5 (1+4) +2:42.6 32 42 Ilmārs Bricis 30:01.7 4 (2+2) +2:45.5 33 39 Tomaž Globočnik 30:04.4 3 (1+2) +2:48.2 34 1 Carsten Heymann 30:09.6 2 (0+2) +2:53.4 35 9 Hubert Leitgeb 30:10.0 1 (1+0) +2:53.8 36 58 Indrek Tobreluts 30:11.3 3 (1+2) +2:55.1 37 68 Alexei Aidarov 30:12.3 2 (1+1) +2:56.1 38 62 Wolfgang Perner 30:13.5 4 (2+2) +2:57.3 39 12 Wolfgang Rottmann 30:16.0 2 (0+2) +2:59.8 40 69 Aleksander Grajf 30:24.2 3 (2+1) +3:08.0 41 47 Ľubomír Machyniak 30:30.3 1 (1+0) +3:14.1 42 6 Tomaž Žemva 30:32.1 1 (0+1) +3:15.9 43 26 Shuichi Sekiya 30:33.4 3 (3+0) +3:17.2 44 33 Janno Prants 30:33.4 3 (3+0) +3:17.2 45 44 Andriy Deryzemlia 30:33.6 3 (1+2) +3:17.4 46 25 Vadim Sashurin 30:34.0 1 (1+0) +3:17.8 47 32 Mike Dixon 30:34.4 0 (0+0) +3:18.2 48 59 Steve Cyr 30:35.0 3 (3+0) +3:18.8 49 70 Dan Westover 30:39.5 1 (1+0) +3:23.3 50 60 Thierry Dusserre 30:43.6 1 (1+0) +3:27.4 51 21 Zdeněk Vítek 30:46.5 2 (1+1) +3:30.3 52 23 René Cattarinussi 30:50.0 4 (1+3) +3:33.8 53 43 Petr Garabík 30:51.3 3 (1+2) +3:35.1 54 36 Dmitry Pantov 30:51.8 3 (2+1) +3:35.6 55 4 Alexandr Popov 30:53.0 2 (2+0) +3:36.8 56 7 Aleksey Kobelev 31:02.8 4 (2+2) +3:46.6 57 49 Georgi Kasabov 31:09.5 0 (0+0) +3:53.3 58 30 Thanasis Tsakiris 31:14.6 2 (1+1) +3:58.4 59 55 Liutauras Barila 31:23.7 5 (4+1) +4:07.5 60 31 Jay Hakkinen 31:31.6 3 (1+2) +4:15.4 61 63 Atsushi Kazama 31:41.1 6 (2+4) +4:24.9 62 3 Reinhard Neuner 31:45.3 4 (1+3) +4:29.1 63 48 János Panyik 31:50.0 1 (1+0) +4:33.8 64 8 Marius Ene 31:54.8 2 (2+0) +4:38.6 65 27 Aleksandr Tropnikov 31:55.8 4 (3+1) +4:39.6 66 35 Kevin Quintilio 32:32.6 3 (2+1) +5:16.4 67 5 Julien Robert 32:52.4 0 (0+0) +5:36.2 68 13 Mark Gee 33:00.3 5 (4+1) +5:44.1 69 29 Andreas Heymann 33:06.9 2 (2+0) +5:50.7 70 22 Jeon Jae-won 35:09.5 6 (4+2) +7:53.3 71 17 Ion Bucsa 36:33.8 6 (2+4) +9:17.6 34 Raphaël Poirée 50 Jean-Marc Chabloz
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