| | Event type
10 kilometres Sprint, Men
| Date | 23 February 1988 — 10:46 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Canmore Nordic Centre, Canmore | |
| Participants | 72 from 22 countries | |
| Format | Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target. | |
| Details | Course Length: 10,045 m Height Differential: 103 m Maximum Climb: 55 m Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 380 m | |
East German Frank-Peter Roetsch had won this event at the 1985 and 1987 World Championships, and had also won the 20 km individual event. He was the 1986-87 World Cup champion, and when this event started, he had already won the 20 km event in Calgary. In the end he won this event as expected, becoming the first biathlete to win both individual events at the Winter Olympics, although there had only been two events since 1980. Roetsch won the event despite missing one target and having to ski a penalty loop at the second shooting. The other medalists, Soviets Valery Medvedtsev, 1986 World Champion in this event, and Sergey Chepikov, were clean in their shooting rounds, thus Roetsch had outskied them by a large amount. The first six places went to biathletes from East Germany and the Soviet Union.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | Misses | Shooting 1 Misses | Shooting 1 | Shooting 2 Misses | Shooting 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank-Peter Roetsch |  GDR | 25:08.1 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Valery Medvedtsev |  URS | 25:23.7 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Sergey Chepikov | URS | 25:29.4 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Birk Anders | GDR | 25:51.8 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 5 | André Sehmisch | GDR | 25:52.3 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 6 | Frank Luck | GDR | 25:57.6 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 7 | Tapio Piipponen |  FIN | 26:02.2 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 8 | Johann Passler |  ITA | 26:07.7 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 9 | Dmitry Vasilyev | URS | 26:09.7 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 10 | Peter Angerer |  FRG | 26:13.2 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 11 | Geir Einang |  NOR | 26:13.3 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 12 | Fritz Fischer | FRG | 26:25.9 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 13 | Pieralberto Carrara | ITA | 26:32.7 | 2 | 2 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 14 | Frode Løberg | NOR | 26:32.9 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | 1 | ||
| 15 | Andreas Zingerle | ITA | 26:33.0 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 16 | Jan Matouš |  TCH | 26:33.3 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 17 | Franz Schuler |  AUT | 26:45.0 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 18 | Yury Kashkarov | URS | 26:49.1 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 19 | Ernst Reiter | FRG | 26:50.2 | 2 | 2 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 20 | Eirik Kvalfoss | NOR | 26:51.9 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 21 | Mike Dixon |  GBR | 26:53.3 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 22 | Mikael Löfgren |  SWE | 27:01.0 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 23 | Bruno Hofstätter | AUT | 27:02.8 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 24 | Tomáš Kos | TCH | 27:13.5 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 25 | Harri Eloranta | FIN | 27:15.2 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 26 | Stefan Höck | FRG | 27:26.2 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 27 | Josh Thompson |  USA | 27:27.7 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 28 | Jiří Holubec | TCH | 27:29.8 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 29 | Krasimir Videnov |  BUL | 27:31.1 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| =30 | Sverre Istad | NOR | 27:34.3 | 5 | 1 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| =30 | Lyle Nelson | USA | 27:34.3 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 32 | Francis Mougel |  FRA | 27:34.9 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 33 | Roberto Marchesi | ITA | 27:36.7 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| =34 | Glenn Rupertus |  CAN | 27:38.6 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| =34 | Jaromír Šimůnek | TCH | 27:38.6 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 36 | Hristo Vodenicharov | BUL | 27:40.5 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 37 | Egon Leitner | AUT | 27:42.4 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 38 | Vladimir Velichkov | BUL | 27:48.8 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 39 | Misao Kodate |  JPN | 27:52.6 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 40 | Alfred Eder | AUT | 27:57.3 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 41 | Juha Tella | FIN | 27:58.3 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 42 | Antero Lähde | FIN | 27:59.9 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 43 | Vasil Bozhilov | BUL | 28:06.5 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 44 | Tadashi Nakamura | JPN | 28:11.4 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 45 | Carl Davies | GBR | 28:12.1 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 46 | Ken Karpoff | CAN | 28:12.9 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 47 | Peter Sjödén | SWE | 28:13.3 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 48 | Zsolt Kovács |  HUN | 28:13.9 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 49 | Bill Carow | USA | 28:19.6 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 50 | Curt Schreiner | USA | 28:19.9 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 51 | Christian Dumont | FRA | 28:20.3 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 52 | Hervé Flandin | FRA | 28:21.4 | 4 | 3 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 53 | Jure Velepec |  YUG | 28:21.9 | 2 | 2 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 54 | Roger Westling | SWE | 28:24.8 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 55 | Charles Plamondon | CAN | 28:30.5 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 56 | Xavier Blond | FRA | 28:36.6 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 57 | Leif Andersson | SWE | 28:48.9 | 4 | 3 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 58 | Paget Stewart | CAN | 29:06.9 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 59 | Koichi Sato | JPN | 29:43.1 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 60 | Mark Langin | GBR | 29:52.1 | 5 | 3 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 61 | Trevor King | GBR | 30:00.5 | 5 | 3 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 62 | Andrew Paul |  AUS | 30:36.6 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 63 | Akihiro Takizawa | JPN | 31:38.7 | 5 | 3 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 64 | Shin Young-Sun |  KOR | 33:05.4 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 65 | Alejandro Giró |  ARG | 33:55.4 | 3 | 3 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 66 | Joo Young-Dai | KOR | 34:50.4 | 8 | 3 | – (–) | 5 | – (–) | |||
| 67 | Kim Yong-Woon | KOR | 35:18.6 | 7 | 3 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 68 | Luis Argel | ARG | 35:25.1 | 8 | 4 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 69 | Joung Young-Suk | KOR | 35:31.3 | 6 | 4 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 70 | Gustavo Giró | ARG | 36:38.8 | 6 | 3 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 71 | Judd Bankert |  GUM | 45:37.1 | 8 | 4 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 72 | Elliot Archilla |  PUR | 47:47.4 | 6 | 3 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) |