Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Eight nations won medals in biathlon, with Norway leading the medal table, thanks to five medals, 2 gold, the same as Germany. Uschi Disl was the only individual to win three medals, one of each type. Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Halvard Hanevold led the men's table, with one gold and one silver each.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	2	2	1	5
2	Germany	2	1	2	5
3	Russia	1	1	1	3
4	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
5	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
7	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

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Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Halvard Hanevold  Norway	56:16.4	Pieralberto Carrara  Italy	56:21.9	Alexei Aidarov  Belarus	56:46.5
Sprint details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	27:16.2	Frode Andresen  Norway	28:17.8	Ville Räikkönen  Finland	28:21.7
Relay details	Germany Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	1:21:36.2	Norway Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	1:21:56.3	Russia Pavel Muslimov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Viktor Maigourov	1:22:19.3

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Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Ekaterina Dafovska  Bulgaria	54:52.0	Olena Petrova  Ukraine	55:09.8	Uschi Disl  Germany	55:17.9
Sprint details	Galina Kukleva  Russia	23:08.0	Uschi Disl  Germany	23:08.7	Katrin Apel  Germany	23:32.4
Relay details	Germany Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	1:40:13.6	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko	1:40:25.2	Norway Ann Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Skjelbreid	1:40:37.3

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Thirty-two nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.^[1]

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