Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
Biathlon
Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
-10 km Sprint:February 18, 1998-20 km Individual:February 11, 1998Each missed target equals a one-minute penalty.-4 x 7.5 km Relay:-7.5 km Sprint:February 15, 1998-15 km Individual:February 9, 1998-4 x 7.5 km Relay:-References:*...

 
Men's 20 km
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
-Men's aerials:February 17, 1998-Men's moguls:February 10, 1998-Women's aerials:February 17, 1998-Women's moguls:February 10, 1998-External links:*...

 
Men's aerials

Alpine skiing

Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Igor Yudin Super-G 1:45.92 36

Biathlon

Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Aleksandr Popov 2 30:53.0 55
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Leonidovich Sashurin is a retired Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - bronze medal on the relay*1996 - bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay...

1 30:34.0 46
Aleksey Aydarov 2 30:12.3 37
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Vladimirovich Ryzhenkov is a Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - Bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay*1996 - Gold medal in the Team event, bronze medal on the relay...

2 29:38.2 27

Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Aleksandr Popov 57:39.6 3 1'00:39.6 29
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Leonidovich Sashurin is a retired Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - bronze medal on the relay*1996 - bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay...

57:08.6 2 59:08.6 13
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Vladimirovich Ryzhenkov is a Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - Bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay*1996 - Gold medal in the Team event, bronze medal on the relay...

56:31.3 2 58:31.3 9
Aleksey Aydarov 55:46.5 1 56:46.5


Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Aleksey Aydarov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Ryzhenkov
Oleg Vladimirovich Ryzhenkov is a Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - Bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay*1996 - Gold medal in the Team event, bronze medal on the relay...


Aleksandr Popov
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Sashurin
Vadim Leonidovich Sashurin is a retired Belarusian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*1995 - bronze medal on the relay*1996 - bronze medal on the 20 km and on the relay...

0 1'23:14.0 4


Women
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
7.5 km Sprint Nataliya Ryzhenkova 4 26:10.5 52
Nataliya Moroz 0 25:04.7 28
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina . is a former Belarusian biathlete. Her international biathlon career began in 1983. In the 1993/1994 season she won the overall World Cup. The following year she finished second overall. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

2 24:50.0 24
Irina Tananayko 0 24:42.5 22

Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
15 km Nataliya Permyakova 58:33.5 3 1'01:33.5 41
Irina Tananayko 57:25.4 1 58:25.4 22
Nataliya Ryzhenkova 55:03.5 3 58:03.5 19
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina . is a former Belarusian biathlete. Her international biathlon career began in 1983. In the 1993/1994 season she won the overall World Cup. The following year she finished second overall. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

54:53.4 2 56:53.4 12


Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Irina Tananayko
Nataliya Ryzhenkova
Nataliya Moroz
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina
Svetlana Paramygina . is a former Belarusian biathlete. Her international biathlon career began in 1983. In the 1993/1994 season she won the overall World Cup. The following year she finished second overall. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

0 1'45:24.0 12


1A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

2One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
10 km
C
Sergey Dolidovich DNF
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He represented Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

31:54.5 73
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed for Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

31:43.9 70
Aleksandr Sannikov 29:54.7 39
15 km
pursuit1
F
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed for Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

DNF
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He represented Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

49:31.3 60
Aleksandr Sannikov 43:16.9 26
30 km
C
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He represented Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

1'47:32.5 54
Aleksandr Sannikov 1'42:48.0 40
Sergey Dolidovich 1'42:18.7 36
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed for Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

1'40:05.9 18
50 km
F
Vyacheslav Plaksunov DNF
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako
Nikolay Semenyako is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He represented Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

DNF
Sergey Dolidovich 2'17:07.5 31
Aleksandr Sannikov 2'16:34.4 27

1 Starting delay based om 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle


Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Sergey Dolidovich
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov
Aleksey Tregubov is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed for Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...


Aleksandr Sannikov
Vyacheslav Plaksunov
1'45:15.3 14


Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C
Lyudmila Korolik 20:17.9 63
Irina Skripnik 19:44.2 55
Svetlana Kamotskaya 19:32.7 48
Yelena Sinkevich 18:50.2 23
10 km
pursuit2
F
Lyudmila Korolik 34:55.4 58
Irina Skripnik 34:15.8 55
Svetlana Kamotskaya 33:11.2 47
Yelena Sinkevich 30:42.5 21
15 km
C
Irina Skripnik 52:26.2 43
Yekaterina Antonyuk 52:24.5 42
Svetlana Kamotskaya 51:59.0 39
Yelena Sinkevich 49:20.8 15
30 km
F
Irina Skripnik 1'34:38.4 47
Lyudmila Korolik 1'34:07.5 44
Svetlana Kamotskaya 1'33:51.6 42
Yelena Sinkevich 1'27:15.3 12

2 Starting delay based om 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle


Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Svetlana Kamotskaya
Yekaterina Antonyuk
Yelena Sinkevich
Lyudmila Korolik
59:56.9 14

Figure skating

Ice Dancing
Athletes CD1 CD2 OD FD TFP Rank
Tatjana Navka
Nikolai Morozov
Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov is a Russian former competitive ice dancer, who works as a coach and a choreographer.- Personal life :Morozov was briefly married to his ice dancing partner Tatiana Navka. He later married French ice dancer Caroline Douarin with whom he has a daughter, Annabelle...

14 15 17 16 32.0 16

Freestyle skiing

Men
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Oleg Kuleshov
Oleg Kuleshov
Oleg Mikhaylovich Kuleshov is a Russian handball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.He was born in Omsk.In 1996 he was a member of the Russian team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament...

Moguls 34.37 11.13 29 Did not advance
Aleksandr Tkachenko Aerials 178.46 18 Did not advance
Vasily Vorobyov 199.29 13 Did not advance
Aleksey Grishin 217.84 9 Q 220.99 8
Dmitry Dashchinsky 249.04 1 Q 240.79


Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Yuliya Milko-Chernemorets Moguls 35.91 20.20 19 Did not advance

Ice hockey

Men's Tournament

The Belorussian hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics. They won their group that featured Germany, France and Japan by beating France 4-0, Germany 8-2 and by drawing Japan 2-2. Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament. They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5-0 to Canada and identical scores of 5-2 to Sweden and the United States. They finished last of group A and had to face the top spot in group B which was Russia. They lost 4-1 and got eliminated in the process from the tournament. They ended the tournament in 7th place.

Preliminary Round - Group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.
Team
3 2 0 1 14 4
10
5
3 2 1 0 7 9
4
3 1 2 0 5 8
2
3 0 2 1 5 10
1

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First Round - Group C

Team
3 3 0 0 12 3
9
6
3 2 1 0 11 7
4
4
3 1 2 0 8 10
2
3 0 3 0 4 15
0

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Quarter-final

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Contestants
Aleksandr Alekseyev 
Aleksandr Andriyevsky 
Vadim Bekbulatov 
Sergey Yerkovich 
Aleksandr Galchenyuk 
Aleksey Kalyuzhny 
Viktor Karachun 
Oleg Khmyl 
Andrey Kovalyov 
Aleksey Lozhkin 
Igor Matushkin 
Andrey Mezin 
Vasily Pankov 
Oleg Romanov 
Oleg Antonenko
Oleg Antonenko
Oleg Vladimirovich Antonenko is a Belarusian professional ice hockey left wing. He currently plays for Molot-Prikamye Perm of the Russian Major League....

 
Yevgeny Roshchin 
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...

 
Aleksandr Shumidub 
Andrey Skabelka 
Sergey Stas 
Vladimir Tsyplakov
Vladimir Tsyplakov
Vladimir Viktorovich Tsyplakov is a Belarusian professional ice hockey player winger. He was drafted in the third round, 59th overall, by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.-USSR:...

 
Eduard Zankovets 
Aleksandr Zhurik

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:
  • normal hill ski jumping
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country
time
Total
rank
Points Rank
Sergey Zakharenko Individual 158.0 48 51:12.2 43
Konstantin Kalinovsky 181.0 45 49:38.2 42

Ski jumping

Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Rank Distance Points Points Rank
Aleksandr Sinyavsky Normal hill 70.0 71.5 50 Did not advance
Aleksey Shibko 74.0 80.0 40 Did not advance
Aleksey Shibko Large hill 94.5 65.1 55 Did not advance
Aleksandr Sinyavsky 109.0 94.2 32 Did not advance

Speed skating

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5000 m Vitaly Novichenko 7:19.76 32


Women
Event Athlete Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
500 m Lyudmila Kostyukevich 41.00 32 41.43 34 82.43 31
Anzhelika Kotyuga 39.76 17 39.85 18 79.61 16
1000 m Lyudmila Kostyukevich 1:22.58 34
Anzhelika Kotyuga 1:21.35 25
3000 m Svetlana Chepelnikova 4:36.97 29

Trivia

  • In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey
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     tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia
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    The Pahonia , transliteration: Pahonya, , Lithuanian: Vytis, Pagaunė, is a historical symbol of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of which the eastern part later became known as Belarus...

     flag and with the national anthem
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     of the former Soviet Union
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