Biathlon at the 1999 Asian Winter Games

Biathlon at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Provincial Nordic Venue
Dates	1–5 February 1999
Competitors	34 from 5 nations

Biathlon at the 1999 Asian Winter Games took place in the Provincial Nordic venue, around the resort town of Yongpyong, Kangwon, South Korea with six events contested — three for men and three for women.

Schedule

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	1st Mon	2nd Tue	3rd Wed	4th Thu	5th Fri
Men's 10 km sprint			F
Men's 20 km individual	F
Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay					F
Women's 7.5 km sprint			F
Women's 15 km individual	F
Women's 4 × 6 km relay					F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km sprint details	Zhang Qing  China	Dmitriy Pozdnyakov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Pantov  Kazakhstan
20 km individual details	Zhang Qing  China	Dmitriy Pozdnyakov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Pantov  Kazakhstan
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Kazakhstan Alexey Karevskiy Sergey Abdukarov Dmitriy Pantov Dmitriy Pozdnyakov	Japan Takashi Shindo Shinji Ebisawa Hideki Yamamoto Hidenori Isa	South Korea Son Hae-kwon Shin Byung-kook Choi Neung-chul Jeon Jae-won

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
7.5 km sprint details	Yu Shumei  China	Margarita Dulova  Kazakhstan	Sun Ribo  China
15 km individual details	Yu Shumei  China	Liu Xianying  China	Margarita Dulova  Kazakhstan
4 × 7.5 km relay details	Kazakhstan Galina Avtayeva Margarita Dulova Yelena Dubok Lyudmila Guryeva	China Yu Shumei Sun Ribo Liu Xianying Kong Yingchao	South Korea Kim Ja-youn Kim Mi-young Yoo Jea-sun Choi Mi-jung

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	1	7
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	3	3	8
3	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	6	18

Participating nations

A total of 34 athletes from 5 nations competed in biathlon at the 1999 Asian Winter Games:

•  China (8)
•  Japan (7)
•  Kazakhstan (9)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  South Korea (9)

References

• Results of the Fourth Winter Asian Games
• China secures most medals

External links

• Schedule