Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | BLR |
NOC | Belarus Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Nagano | |
Competitors | 59 (44 men, 15 women) in 9 sports |
Flag bearers | Alexandr Popov, Biathlon |
Medals Ranked 20th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
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Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Medalists
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
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Alexei Aidarov | Biathlon | Men's individual | 11 February |
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Dmitri Dashinski | Freestyle skiing | Men's aerials | 18 February |
Competitors
[edit]The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Biathlon | 4 | 5 | 9 |
Cross-country skiing | 5 | 5 | 10 |
Figure skating | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Freestyle skiing | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Ice hockey | 23 | 0 | 23 |
Nordic combined | 2 | – | 2 |
Ski jumping | 2 | – | 2 |
Speed skating | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Total | 44 | 15 | 59 |
Alpine skiing
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Igor Yudin | Super-G | 1:45.92 | 36 |
Biathlon
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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10 km Sprint | Aleksandr Popov | 2 | 30:53.0 | 55 |
Vadim Sashurin | 1 | 30:34.0 | 46 | |
Alexei Aidarov | 2 | 30:12.3 | 37 | |
Oleg Ryzhenkov | 2 | 29:38.2 | 27 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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20 km | Aleksandr Popov | 57:39.6 | 3 | 1'00:39.6 | 29 |
Vadim Sashurin | 57:08.6 | 2 | 59:08.6 | 13 | |
Oleg Ryzhenkov | 56:31.3 | 2 | 58:31.3 | 9 | |
Alexei Aidarov | 55:46.5 | 1 | 56:46.5 | ![]() |
- Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Aleksandr Popov Vadim Sashurin |
0 | 1'23:14.0 | 4 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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7.5 km Sprint | Nataliya Ryzhenkova | 4 | 26:10.5 | 52 |
Nataliya Moroz | 0 | 25:04.7 | 28 | |
Svetlana Paramygina | 2 | 24:50.0 | 24 | |
Irina Tananayko | 0 | 24:42.5 | 22 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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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 | 54:53.4 | 2 | 56:53.4 | 12 |
- Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina |
0 | 1'45:24.0 | 12 |
- 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
- 2 One minute added per missed target.
Cross-country skiing
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
10 km C |
Sergey Dolidovich | DNF | – |
Nikolay Semenyako | 31:54.5 | 73 | |
Aleksey Tregubov | 31:43.9 | 70 | |
Aleksandr Sannikov | 29:54.7 | 39 | |
15 km pursuit1 F |
Aleksey Tregubov | DNF | – |
Nikolay Semenyako | 49:31.3 | 60 | |
Aleksandr Sannikov | 43:16.9 | 26 | |
30 km C |
Nikolay Semenyako | 1'47:32.5 | 54 |
Aleksandr Sannikov | 1'42:48.0 | 40 | |
Sergey Dolidovich | 1'42:18.7 | 36 | |
Aleksey Tregubov | 1'40:05.9 | 18 | |
50 km F |
Vyacheslav Plaksunov | DNF | – |
Nikolay Semenyako | DNF | – | |
Sergey Dolidovich | 2'17:07.5 | 31 | |
Aleksandr Sannikov | 2'16:34.4 | 27 |
- 1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Sergey Dolidovich Aleksey Tregubov Aleksandr Sannikov Vyacheslav Plaksunov |
1'45:15.3 | 14 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 on 5 km results.
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Svetlana Kamotskaya Yekaterina Antonyuk Yelena Sinkevich Lyudmila Korolik |
59:56.9 | 14 |
Figure skating
[edit]- Ice Dancing
Athletes | CD1 | CD2 | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
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Tatjana Navka Nikolai Morozov |
14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 32.0 | 16 |
Freestyle skiing
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
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Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | ||
Oleg Kuleshov | 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 | ||||
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Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | ||
Yuliya Milko-Chernemorets | Moguls | 35.91 | 20.20 | 19 | did not advance |
Ice hockey
[edit]Men's tournament
[edit]The Belarusian hockey 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
[edit]Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.
Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 5 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 1 |
All times are local (UTC-7).
7 February 1998 | France ![]() | 0 – 4 (0-1, 0-1, 0-2) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 3,419 |
9 February 1998 | Germany ![]() | 2 – 8 (0-2, 2-3, 0-3) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 8,063 |
10 February 1998 | Japan ![]() | 2 – 2 (1-1, 1-1, 0-0) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 3,659 |
First Round – group C
[edit]Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 15 | -11 | 0 |
All times are local (UTC-7).
13 February 1998 | Canada ![]() | 5 – 0 (0-2, 0-2, 0-1) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,960 |
14 February 1998 | United States ![]() | 5 – 2 (2-1, 1-0, 2-1) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,975 |
16 February 1998 | Sweden ![]() | 5 – 2 (0-2, 1-1, 1-2) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 4,235 |
Quarter-final
[edit]All times are local (UTC-7).
18 February 1998 | Russia ![]() | 4 – 1 (1-0, 1-0, 2-0) | ![]() | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 4,628 |
Nordic combined
[edit]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 | |
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Points | Rank | ||||
Sergey Zakharenko | Individual | 158.0 | 48 | 51:12.2 | 43 |
Konstantin Kalinovsky | 181.0 | 45 | 49:38.2 | 42 |
Ski jumping
[edit]Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | ||||
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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
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5000 m | Vitaly Novichenko | 7:19.76 | 32 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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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
[edit]- In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia flag and with the national anthem of the former Soviet Union.