Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's relay

Men's biathlon relay at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Nozawa Onsen
Dates	February 21
Competitors	72 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:21:56.3
Medalists
Germany Ricco Groß, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer, Frank Luck   Norway Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Dag Bjørndalen, Ole Einar Bjørndalen   Russia Pavel Muslimov, Vladimir Drachev, Sergei Tarasov, Viktor Maigourov

Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Relay		men		women

The Men's 4 x 7.5 kilometre biathlon relay competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics 21 February, at Nozawa Onsen. Each national team consisted of four members, with each skiing 7.5 kilometres and shooting twice, once prone and once standing.

At each shooting station, a competitor has eight shots to hit five targets; however, only five bullets are loaded in a magazine at one - if additional shots are required, the spare bullets must be loaded one at a time. If after the eight shots are taken, there are still targets not yet hit, the competitor must ski a 150-metre penalty loop.^[1]

Results

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Rank	Team	Penalties	Result
01 !	Germany Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	0+6 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+3	1:21:36.2 20:09.3 19:56.6 20:18.0 21:12.3
02 !	Norway Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	0+7 0+2 0+1 0+4 0+0	1:21:56.3 20:33.8 20:08.7 21:25.0 19:48.8
03 !	Russia Pavel Muslimov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Viktor Maigourov	0+7 0+1 0+2 0+3 0+1	1:22:19.3 20:35.9 19:56.6 21:01.4 20:45.4
4	Belarus Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Alexandr Popov Vadim Sashurin	0+4 0+0 0+3 0+1 0+0	1:23:14.0 20:23.6 20:18.5 21:08.3 21:23.6
5	Poland Wiesław Ziemianin Tomasz Sikora Jan Ziemianin Wojciech Kozub	0+8 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+4	1:24:09.8 20:29.7 20:54.5 21:34.3 21:11.3
6	Latvia Oļegs Maļuhins Ilmārs Bricis Gundars Upenieks Jēkabs Nākums	2+12 0+2 0+1 1+6 1+3	1:24:24.4 20:18.2 19:46.7 22:48.1 21:31.4
7	France Andreas Heymann Raphaël Poirée Thierry Dusserre Patrice Bailly-Salins	2+11 0+1 0+3 1+4 1+3	1:24:53.0 20:44.5 20:04.4 22:12.0 21:52.1
8	Finland Ville Räikkönen Paavo Puurunen Harri Eloranta Olli-Pekka Peltola	2+11 0+2 0+1 1+5 1+3	1:25:01.4 20:34.3 20:08.6 22:31.0 21:47.5
9	Italy Patrick Favre Wilfried Pallhuber René Cattarinussi Pieralberto Carrara	1+12 0+6 0+2 0+3 1+6	1:25:07.3 21:13.0 20:50.7 20:55.9 22:07.7
10	Sweden Mikael Löfgren Jonas Eriksson Tord Wiksten Fredrik Kuoppa	0+14 0+5 0+5 0+4 0+0	1:25:25.7 21:01.0 21:41.9 22:09.3 20:33.5
11	Austria Wolfgang Perner Ludwig Gredler Reinhard Neuner Wolfgang Rottmann	2+15 0+2 1+3 1+6 0+4	1:25:33.8 20:32.6 21:04.8 22:39.1 21:17.3
12	Slovenia Sašo Grajf Jože Poklukar Janez Ožbolt Tomaž Globočnik	2+9 0+2 2+4 0+3 0+4	1:25:43.2 20:32.6 21:04.8 22:39.1 21:17.3/small>
13	Estonia Janno Prants Indrek Tobreluts Kalju Ojaste Dimitri Borovik	0+13 0+2 0+1 0+6 0+4	1:26:30.2 20:39.7 21:15.3 23:03.7 21:31.5
14	Czech Republic Petr Garabík Zdeněk Vítek Jiří Holubec Ivan Masařík	0+7 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+1	1:26:35.5 21:30.8 22:11.8 22:00.9 20:52.0
15	Japan Kyoji Suga Hironao Meguro Shuichi Sekiya Atsushi Kazama	4+18 1+5 0+3 0+4 3+6	1:27:55.7 22:10.9 20:56.3 21:44.0 23:04.5
16	Kazakhstan Dmitry Pantov Dmitry Pozdnyakov Aleksandr Menshchikov Valery Ivanov	1+14 1+4 0+2 0+3 0+5	1:27:56.0 22:37.0 21:41.2 21:57.7 21:40.1
17	United States Jay Hakkinen Dan Westover Andrew Erickson Robert Rosser	0+15 0+4 0+4 0+5 0+2	1:28:13.9 20:37.7 22:14.0 22:57.2 22:25.0
18	Ukraine Vyacheslav Derkach Ryslan Lyssenko Mykola Krupnyk Andriy Deryzemlia	4+13 0+3 0+2 0+2 4+6	1:28:57.1 21:29.0 21:41.9 21:54.2 23:52.0

The penalties column is in the format: "total penalties + used spare rounds".

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