| 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 | |
 Poland (1924–1936) Soviet Union (1952–1988) Unified Team (1992) | |
Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bronze | Alexei Aidarov | Biathlon | Men's individual | 11 February |
| Bronze | Dmitri Dashinski | Freestyle skiing | Men's aerials | 18 February |
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. [1]
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
| Igor Yudin | Super-G | 1:45.92 | 36 | ||
| Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athletes | Race | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
| Alexei Aidarov Oleg Ryzhenkov Aleksandr Popov Vadim Sashurin | 0 | 1'23:14.0 | 4 |
| 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 | 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 | 54:53.4 | 2 | 56:53.4 | 12 |
| Athletes | Race | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
| Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina | 0 | 1'45:24.0 | 12 |
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Sergey Dolidovich Aleksey Tregubov Aleksandr Sannikov Vyacheslav Plaksunov | 1'45:15.3 | 14 |
| 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 | |
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Svetlana Kamotskaya Yekaterina Antonyuk Yelena Sinkevich Lyudmila Korolik | 59:56.9 | 14 |
| Athletes | CD1 | CD2 | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tatjana Navka Nikolai Morozov | 14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 32.0 | 16 |
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | ||
| Yuliya Milko-Chernemorets | Moguls | 35.91 | 20.20 | 19 | did not advance | ||
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.
Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Belarus | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 5 |
 Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 4 |
 France | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 2 |
 Japan | 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) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 3,419 |
| 9 February 1998 | Germany | 2 – 8 (0-2, 2-3, 0-3) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 8,063 |
| 10 February 1998 | Japan | 2 – 2 (1-1, 1-1, 0-0) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 3,659 |
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 |
 Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 4 |
 United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 2 |
| Belarus | 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) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,960 |
| 14 February 1998 | United States | 5 – 2 (2-1, 1-0, 2-1) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,975 |
| 16 February 1998 | Sweden | 5 – 2 (0-2, 1-1, 1-2) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 4,235 |
All times are local (UTC-7).
| 18 February 1998 | Russia  | 4 – 1 (1-0, 1-0, 2-0) | Belarus | The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 4,628 |
Men's individual
Events:
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||||
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 5000 m | Vitaly Novichenko | 7:19.76 | 32 |
| 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 | ||||
Canada competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Germany competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. In terms of gold medals, Germany finished ranking second with 12 gold medals. Meanwhile, the 36 total medals won by German athletes were the most of any nation at these Games, as well at any Winter Olympics, until this record was broken by the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Japan competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
Japan was the host nation for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. It was the second time that Japan has hosted the Winter Games, after the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, and the third time overall, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
France competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Finland competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The nation won all Nordic combined events, most notably Samppa Lajunen, in the individual events.
Ukraine competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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The Czech Republic competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The medal hopes were set on ice hockey team and Kateřina Neumannová in cross-country skiing. The ice hockey team won their first gold medal in history. Kateřina Neumannová was also successful, winning one silver and one bronze medal. The surprise performance for the team was freestyle skier Aleš Valenta who came fourth.
France competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Norway competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Austria competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Italy competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Switzerland competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Switzerland competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
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Finland competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Germany competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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Belarus competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.