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Biathlon

Cross-country (any style) and rifle shooting (.22 caliber, small-bore, standing and prone). MT indicates missed targets

Medal breakdown (6 events): Five medals— Norway (2-2-1) and Germany (2-1-2); Three— Russia (1-1-1); One— Bulgaria (1-0-0), Italy (0-1-0), Ukraine (0-1-0), Belarus (0-0-1) and Finland (0-0-1).

Men

10 kilometers

		MT	Time
1	Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, NOR	0	27:16.2
2	Frode Andresen, NOR	2	28:17.8
3	Ville Raikkonen, FIN	1	28:21.7

Best USA: 49th, Dan Westover (1 MT; 30:39.5).

20 kilometers

		MT	Time
1	Halvard Hanevold, NOR	1	56:16.4
2	Pier Alberto Carrara, ITA	0	56:21.9
3	Aleksei Aidarov, BLR	1	56:46.5

Best USA: 42nd, Jay Hakkinen (4 MTs; 1:02:10.3).

4 x 7.5–km Relay

		MT	Time
1	Germany	6	1:21:36.2
2	Norway	7	1:21:56.3
3	Russia	7	1:22:19.3

GER— Ricco Gross, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer, Frank Luck; NOR— Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Dag Bjoerndalen, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen; RUS— Pavel Mouslimov, Vladimir Dratschev, Serguei Tarassov, Victor Maigourov.

USA entry: 17th; Jay Hakkinen, Dan Westover, Andrew Erickson, Robert Rosser (15 MTs; 1:28:13.9).

Women

7.5 kilometers

		MT	Time
1	Galina Koukleva, RUS	1	23:08.0
2	Ursula Disl, GER	1	23:08.7
3	Katrin Apel, GER	1	23:32.4

Best USA: 33rd, Kristina Sabasteanski (1 MT; 25:12.2).

15 kilometers

		MT	Time
1	Ekaterina Dafovska, BUL	1	54:52.0
2	Elena Petrova, UKR	1	55:09.8
3	Ursula Disl, GER	1	55:17.9

Best USA: 55th, Stacey Ann Wooley (2 MTs; 1:03:57.3); 56th, Kara Salmela (5 MTs; 1:04:43.7).

4 x 7.5–km Relay

		MT	Time
1	Germany	11	1:40:13.6
2	Russia	9	1:40:25.2
3	Norway	10	1:40:37.3

GER— Ursula Disl, Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle; RUS— Olga Melnik, Galina Koukleva, Albina Akhatova, Olga Romasko; NOR— Ann-Elen Skjelbreid, Annette Sikveland, Margit Gunn Andreassen, Liv Grete Skjelbreid.

USA entry: 15th, Ntala Skinner, Stacey Ann Wooley, Kara Salmela, Kristina Sabasteanski (12 MTs; 1:48:30.2).

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