10 kilometres Sprint, Men
| Date | 23 February 1994 — 13:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Birkebeineren Skistadion, Lillehammer | |
| Participants | 68 from 28 countries | |
| Format | Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target. | |
| Details | Course Length: 10,747 m Height Differential: 57 m Maximum Climb: 32 m Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 404 m | |
Mark Kirchner was the defending champion and had won the last three World Championships at the distance. He had been second in the 1992-93 seasonal World Cup, but had struggled with his shooting during the 1993-94 season. And shooting would be crucial in the short event as, among the leaders, only two biathletes had clean shooting rounds, and they would win the gold and silver medals. Sergey Chepikov had been third (1988) and fourth (1992) in this event at the last two Winter Olympics, but moved up to the gold here. Ricco Groß, the silver medalist, repeated his silver medal from Albertville. Kirchner missed two targets but also did not ski that well and placed 12th overall. For Chepikov this was his fifth Olympic biathlon medal, but only his second gold, and his first in an individual event. In 1998 he would compete at Nagano in cross-country skiing, but he returned to the biathlon, competing for Russia at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, and would add a sixth biathlon medal, a silver in the relay, in 2006.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | Misses | Shooting 1 Misses | Shooting 1 | Shooting 2 Misses | Shooting 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergey Chepikov |  RUS | 28:07.0 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Ricco Groß |  GER | 28:13.0 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Sergey Tarasov | RUS | 28:27.4 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Vladimir Drachov | RUS | 28:28.9 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 5 | Ludwig Gredler |  AUT | 29:05.4 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 6 | Frank Luck | GER | 29:09.7 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 7 | Sven Fischer | GER | 29:16.0 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 8 | Hervé Flandin |  FRA | 29:33.8 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 9 | Janez Ožbolt |  SLO | 29:35.8 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 10 | Aliaksandr Papou |  BLR | 29:38.5 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 11 | Patrice Bailly-Salins | FRA | 29:43.1 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 12 | Mark Kirchner | GER | 29:51.7 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 13 | Johann Passler |  ITA | 29:53.1 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 14 | Ivar Ulekleiv |  NOR | 29:56.6 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 15 | Harri Eloranta |  FIN | 30:02.1 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 16 | Valery Kiriyenko | RUS | 30:06.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 17 | Aleh Ryzhankou | BLR | 30:11.0 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 18 | Taras Dolniy |  UKR | 30:16.6 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 19 | Thierry Dusserre | FRA | 30:22.6 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 20 | Ulf Johansson |  SWE | 30:24.2 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 21 | Petr Garabík |  CZE | 30:31.2 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 22 | Wolfgang Perner | AUT | 30:31.5 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 23 | Pieralberto Carrara | ITA | 30:33.1 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 24 | Wilfried Pallhuber | ITA | 30:35.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 25 | Jon Åge Tyldum | NOR | 30:36.7 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 26 | Steve Cyr |  CAN | 30:41.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 27 | Jan Ziemianin |  POL | 30:44.2 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 28 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | NOR | 30:44.6 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 29 | Jiří Holubec | CZE | 30:45.2 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 30 | Franz Schuler | AUT | 30:55.2 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 31 | Krasimir Videnov |  BUL | 30:59.3 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 32 | Tomasz Sikora | POL | 31:02.6 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 33 | János Panyik |  HUN | 31:04.3 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 34 | Gheorghe Vasile |  ROU | 31:05.3 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 35 | Stéphane Bouthiaux | FRA | 31:07.3 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 36 | Uroš Velepec | SLO | 31:07.5 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 37 | Viktar Maihurau | BLR | 31:09.2 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 38 | Per Brandt | SWE | 31:27.4 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 39 | Hillar Zahkna |  EST | 31:28.7 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 40 | Valentyn Dzhima | UKR | 31:31.8 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 41 | Ilmārs Bricis |  LAT | 31:36.9 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 42 | Misao Kodate |  JPN | 31:40.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 43 | Martin Pfurtscheller | AUT | 31:47.2 | 5 | 2 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 44 | Andreas Zingerle | ITA | 31:50.5 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 45 | Ihar Khokhriakou | BLR | 31:50.7 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 46 | Tomáš Kos | CZE | 31:52.0 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 47 | Ivan Maksymov | UKR | 31:52.7 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 48 | Dmitry Pantov |  KAZ | 31:54.2 | 5 | 2 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 49 | Ian Woods |  GBR | 31:58.3 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 50 | Aivo Udras | EST | 32:02.1 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 51 | Pavel Kotraba |  SVK | 32:04.0 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 52 | Vesa Hietalahti | FIN | 32:06.0 | 5 | 2 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 53 | Sylfest Glimsdal | NOR | 32:07.4 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 54 | Erkki Latvala | FIN | 32:08.4 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 55 | Gintaras Jasinskas |  LTU | 32:15.4 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 56 | Thanasis Tsakiris |  GRE | 32:21.5 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 57 | Daniel Krčmář | SVK | 32:24.1 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 58 | Olaf Mihelson | EST | 32:30.7 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 59 | Jože Poklukar | SLO | 32:31.7 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 60 | Jean-Marc Chabloz |  SUI | 32:35.6 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 61 | Krzysztof Topór | POL | 32:37.7 | 3 | 3 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 62 | Glenn Rupertus | CAN | 32:47.7 | 5 | 4 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 63 | Daniel Hediger | SUI | 33:05.6 | 8 | 4 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 64 | Dave Jareckie |  USA | 33:15.6 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 65 | Duncan Douglas | USA | 33:29.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 66 | Aivars Bogdanovs | LAT | 33:52.0 | 6 | 4 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 67 | Ken Rudd | GBR | 34:19.7 | 4 | 3 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 68 | Vasily Gherghy |  MDA | 34:48.0 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| Leif Andersson | SWE | – | – | – | – (–) | – | – (–) | ||||
| Glenn Olsson | SWE | – | – | – | – (–) | – | – (–) |