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Biathlon — Individual, Men

Times held	18
Total participants	786
Total countries	53

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1960	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	30	9
1964	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	51	14
1968	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	60	16
1972	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	54	14
1976	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	52	18
1980	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	49	18
1984	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	63	25
1988	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	71	21
1992	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	94	27
1994	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	70	28
1998	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	72	29
2002	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	87	34
2006	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	88	34
2010	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	88	32
2014	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	89	31
2018	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	86	26
2022	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	92	28
2026	Individual (20 kilometres), Men	Olympic	89	28

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1960	Klas Lestander	👁 Image SWE	Antti Tyrväinen	👁 Image FIN	Aleksandr Privalov	👁 Image URS
1964	Vladimir Melanin	👁 Image URS	Aleksandr Privalov	👁 Image URS	Olav Jordet	👁 Image NOR
1968	Magnar Solberg	👁 Image NOR	Aleksandr Tikhonov	👁 Image URS	Vladimir Gundartsev	👁 Image URS
1972	Magnar Solberg	👁 Image NOR	Hansjörg Knauthe	👁 Image GDR	Lars-Göran Arwidson	👁 Image SWE
1976	Nikolay Kruglov	👁 Image URS	Heikki Ikola	👁 Image FIN	Aleksandr Yelizarov	👁 Image URS
1980	Anatoly Alyabyev	👁 Image URS	Frank Ullrich	👁 Image GDR	Eberhard Rösch	👁 Image GDR
1984	Peter Angerer	👁 Image FRG	Frank-Peter Roetsch	👁 Image GDR	Eirik Kvalfoss	👁 Image NOR
1988	Frank-Peter Roetsch	👁 Image GDR	Valery Medvedtsev	👁 Image URS	Johann Passler	👁 Image ITA
1992	Yauhen Redzkin	👁 Image EUN	Mark Kirchner	👁 Image GER	Mikael Löfgren	👁 Image SWE
1994	Sergey Tarasov	👁 Image RUS	Frank Luck	👁 Image GER	Sven Fischer	👁 Image GER
1998	Halvard Hanevold	👁 Image NOR	Pieralberto Carrara	👁 Image ITA	Aliaksei Aydarau	👁 Image BLR
2002	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	👁 Image NOR	Frank Luck	👁 Image GER	Viktor Maygurov	👁 Image RUS
2006	Michael Greis	👁 Image GER	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	👁 Image NOR	Halvard Hanevold	👁 Image NOR
2010	Emil Hegle Svendsen	👁 Image NOR	Siarhei Novikau Ole Einar Bjørndalen	👁 Image BLR 👁 Image NOR	—	—
2014	Martin Fourcade	👁 Image FRA	Erik Lesser	👁 Image GER	Yevgeny Garanichev	👁 Image RUS
2018	Johannes Thingnes Bø	👁 Image NOR	Jakov Fak	👁 Image SLO	Dominik Landertinger	👁 Image AUT
2022	Quentin Fillon Maillet	👁 Image FRA	Anton Smolski	👁 Image BLR	Johannes Thingnes Bø	👁 Image NOR
2026	Johan-Olav Botn	👁 Image NOR	Éric Perrot	👁 Image FRA	Sturla Holm Lægreid	👁 Image NOR

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Norway	👁 Image NOR	7	2	5	14
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	3	3	3	9
France	👁 Image FRA	2	1	0	3
Germany	👁 Image GER	1	4	1	6
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	1	3	1	5
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	1	0	2	3
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	1	0	2	3
Unified Team	👁 Image EUN	1	0	0	1
West Germany	👁 Image FRG	1	0	0	1
Belarus	👁 Image BLR	0	2	1	3
Finland	👁 Image FIN	0	2	0	2
Italy	👁 Image ITA	0	1	1	2
Slovenia	👁 Image SLO	0	1	0	1
Austria	👁 Image AUT	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Magnar Solberg	👁 Image NOR	2	0	0	2
Ole Einar Bjørndalen	👁 Image NOR	1	2	0	3
Frank-Peter Roetsch	👁 Image GDR 👁 Image GER	1	1	0	2
Halvard Hanevold	👁 Image NOR	1	0	1	2
Johannes Thingnes Bø	👁 Image NOR	1	0	1	2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.

Country		Games	Athlete/Team	Placement
Argentina	👁 Image ARG	1980 Winter Olympics	Luis Ríos	47	See all
Australia	👁 Image AUS	2014 Winter Olympics	Alexei Almoukov	43	See all
Austria	👁 Image AUT	2018 Winter Olympics	Dominik Landertinger	3	Bronze	See all
Belarus	👁 Image BLR	2010 Winter Olympics	Siarhei Novikau	=2	Silver	See all
2022 Winter Olympics	Anton Smolski	2	Silver
Belgium	👁 Image BEL	2026 Winter Olympics	Florent Claude	46	See all
Bosnia and Herzegovina	👁 Image BIH	2006 Winter Olympics	Miro Ćosić	83	See all
Bulgaria	👁 Image BUL	1984 Winter Olympics	Vladimir Velichkov	13	See all
Canada	👁 Image CAN	2022 Winter Olympics	Scott Gow	5	See all
Chile	👁 Image CHI	2002 Winter Olympics	Carlos Varas	86	See all
2006 Winter Olympics	Marco Zúñiga	86
Chinese Taipei	👁 Image TPE	1976 Winter Olympics	Ueng Ming-Yih	50	See all
Costa Rica	👁 Image CRC	1984 Winter Olympics	Hernán Carazo	61	See all
Croatia	👁 Image CRO	2010 Winter Olympics	Jakov Fak	50	See all
Czechia	👁 Image CZE	1998 Winter Olympics	Ivan Masařík	4	See all
Czechoslovakia	👁 Image TCH	1984 Winter Olympics	Jan Matouš	10	See all
Denmark	👁 Image DEN	2026 Winter Olympics	Sondre Slettemark	62	See all
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	1988 Winter Olympics	Frank-Peter Roetsch	1	Gold	See all
Estonia	👁 Image EST	1994 Winter Olympics	Aivo Udras	16	See all
Finland	👁 Image FIN	1960 Winter Olympics	Antti Tyrväinen	2	Silver	See all
1976 Winter Olympics	Heikki Ikola	2	Silver
France	👁 Image FRA	2014 Winter Olympics	Martin Fourcade	1	Gold	See all
2022 Winter Olympics	Quentin Fillon Maillet	1	Gold
Germany	👁 Image GER	2006 Winter Olympics	Michael Greis	1	Gold	See all
Great Britain	👁 Image GBR	1972 Winter Olympics	Keith Oliver	11	See all
Greece	👁 Image GRE	1994 Winter Olympics	Thanasis Tsakiris	37	See all
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	1960 Winter Olympics	Pál Sajgó	26	See all
Italy	👁 Image ITA	1998 Winter Olympics	Pieralberto Carrara	2	Silver	See all
Japan	👁 Image JPN	1998 Winter Olympics	Kyoji Suga	14	See all
2006 Winter Olympics	Kyoji Suga	14
Kazakhstan	👁 Image KAZ	2014 Winter Olympics	Yan Savitsky	20	See all
Kyrgyzstan	👁 Image KGZ	1998 Winter Olympics	Aleksandr Tropnikov	36	See all
Latvia	👁 Image LAT	1998 Winter Olympics	Ilmārs Bricis	5	See all
Lithuania	👁 Image LTU	1992 Winter Olympics	Gintaras Jasinskas	19	See all
2026 Winter Olympics	Vytautas Strolia	19
Mongolia	👁 Image MGL	1964 Winter Olympics	Bayanjavyn Damdinjav	38	See all
1968 Winter Olympics	Bayanjavyn Damdinjav	38
New Zealand	👁 Image NZL	2022 Winter Olympics	Campbell Wright	32	See all
Norway	👁 Image NOR	1968 Winter Olympics	Magnar Solberg	1	Gold	See all
1972 Winter Olympics	Magnar Solberg	1	Gold
1998 Winter Olympics	Halvard Hanevold	1	Gold
2002 Winter Olympics	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1	Gold
2010 Winter Olympics	Emil Hegle Svendsen	1	Gold
2018 Winter Olympics	Johannes Thingnes Bø	1	Gold
2026 Winter Olympics	Johan-Olav Botn	1	Gold
People's Republic of China	👁 Image CHN	2010 Winter Olympics	Zhang Chengye	18	See all
Poland	👁 Image POL	1968 Winter Olympics	Stanisław Szczepaniak	4	See all
Puerto Rico	👁 Image PUR	1988 Winter Olympics	Elliot Archilla	68	See all
ROC	👁 Image ROC	2022 Winter Olympics	Maksim Tsvetkov	4	See all
Republic of Korea	👁 Image KOR	2018 Winter Olympics	Timofei Lapshin	20	See all
Republic of Moldova	👁 Image MDA	2022 Winter Olympics	Pavel Magazeev	26	See all
Romania	👁 Image ROU	1964 Winter Olympics	Vilmoș Gheorghe	5	See all
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	1994 Winter Olympics	Sergey Tarasov	1	Gold	See all
Serbia	👁 Image SRB	2014 Winter Olympics	Milanko Petrović	67	See all
Serbia and Montenegro	👁 Image SCG	2006 Winter Olympics	Aleksandar Milenković	85	See all
Slovakia	👁 Image SVK	2010 Winter Olympics	Pavol Hurajt	4	See all
Slovenia	👁 Image SLO	2018 Winter Olympics	Jakov Fak	2	Silver	See all
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	1964 Winter Olympics	Vladimir Melanin	1	Gold	See all
1976 Winter Olympics	Nikolay Kruglov	1	Gold
1980 Winter Olympics	Anatoly Alyabyev	1	Gold
Spain	👁 Image ESP	1984 Winter Olympics	Manuel García	56	See all
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	1960 Winter Olympics	Klas Lestander	1	Gold	See all
Switzerland	👁 Image SUI	2018 Winter Olympics	Benjamin Weger	6	See all
Ukraine	👁 Image UKR	2014 Winter Olympics	Serhiy Semenov	9	See all
Unified Team	👁 Image EUN	1992 Winter Olympics	Yauhen Redzkin	1	Gold	See all
United States	👁 Image USA	2014 Winter Olympics	Lowell Bailey	8	See all
West Germany	👁 Image FRG	1984 Winter Olympics	Peter Angerer	1	Gold	See all
Yugoslavia	👁 Image YUG	1980 Winter Olympics	Marjan Burgar	35	See all
1988 Winter Olympics	Jure Velepec	35

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/event_names/131

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Biathlon — Individual, Men

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