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	Zhang Qing  China	Dmitriy Pozdnyakov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Pantov  Kazakhstan
20 km individual	Zhang Qing  China	Dmitriy Pozdnyakov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Pantov  Kazakhstan
4 × 7.5 km relay	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	Yu Shumei  China	Margarita Dulova  Kazakhstan	Sun Ribo  China
15 km individual	Yu Shumei  China	Liu Xianying  China	Margarita Dulova  Kazakhstan
4 × 7.5 km relay	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