1983–84 Biathlon World Cup

The 1983–84 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 6 January 1984 in Falun, Sweden, and ended on 11 March 1984 in Lygna, Norway. It was the seventh season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Men's calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1983–84 season.^[1][2][3]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Falun	6–8 January	●	●	●
Pontresina	12–15 January	●	●	●
Ruhpolding	19–22 January	●	●	●
Sarajevo	11–17 February	●	●	●
Oberhof	1–4 March	●	●	●
Holmenkollen	7–10 March	●	●	●
Total		6	6	6

• 1984 Winter Olympics races were not included in the 1983–84 World Cup scoring system.

*The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

World Cups

World Cup 1 in Falun
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
6 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][4][5]	1.  Odd Lirhus (NOR) 1:01:52.8 (0+0+0+0)	4.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 5.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS); 6.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 7.  Andrei Zenkov (URS);^[α] 8.  Arto Jääskeläinen (FIN); 9.  Algimantas Šalna (URS); 10.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR);^[α]
		2.  Yvon Mougel (FRA) +2:23.2 (0+1+1+1)
		3.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN) +2:30.4 (0+0+0+1)
7 January	10 km sprint[1][2][3][6][7]	1.  Sergei Bulygin (URS)^[α] 29:42.2 (0)	4.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 5.  Andrei Nepein (URS); 6.  Jaromír Šimůnek (TCH); 7.  Terje Krokstad (NOR); 8.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 9.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 10.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN);
		2.  Algimantas Šalna (URS) +0:17.4 (2)
		3.  Risto Punkka (FIN) +0:24.2 (0)
8 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][6][8]	1.  Soviet Union I 1:39:25.4^[β] Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Algimantas Šalna Sergei Bulygin	4.  Czechoslovakia 1:41:25.3 (Šimůnek, Hák, Zelinka, Matouš); 5.  Finland I 1:41:53.2 (Tiitola, Jääskeläinen, Punkka, Piipponen); 6.  Norway I 1:42:17.4 (Storsveen, Nerhagen, Kvalfoss, Søbak); 10.  Norway II
		2.  Soviet Union II 1:39:54.4 Andrei Nepein Even Tudeberg Andrei Zenkov Pjotr Miloradov
		3.  East Germany 1:40:52.7 Jürgen Wirth André Sehmisch Karsten Langhelm Maik Dietz

World Cup 2 in Pontresina
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
12 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][9]	1.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) 1:02:05.0 (0)	4.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 5.  Yvon Mougel (FRA); 6.  Ralf Göthel (GDR) 7.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR); 8.  Éric Claudon (FRA); 9.  Andreas Zingerle (ITA); 10.  Peter Angerer (FRG);
		2.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +1:08.7 (3)
		3.  Holger Wick (GDR) +1:39.7 (2)
14 January	10 km sprint[1][2][3][10]	1.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) 29:29.4 (0+1)	4.  Walter Pichler (FRG); 5.  Øivind Nerhagen (NOR); 6.  Peter Angerer (FRG); 7.  Yvon Mougel (FRA); 8.  Frank Ullrich (GDR); 9.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 10.  Francis Mougel (FRA);
		2.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:34.9 (2+1)
		3.  Ralf Göthel (GDR) +0:44.2 (0+1)
15 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][10]	1.  Norway 1:39:09.1 (2) Eirik Kvalfoss Øivind Nerhagen Odd Lirhus Svein Engen	4.  East Germany 1:41:33.3 (7); 5.  West Germany II 1:45:07.3 (4); 6.  France 1:45:40.5 (4); 7.  Bulgaria 1:47:09 (6); 8.  Italy 1:47:47 (6);
		2.  Soviet Union 1:39:29.3 (2) Pavel Antipov Sergei Antonov Oleg Savjalov Konstantin Waigin
		3.  West Germany I 1:40:26.0 (5) Stefan Höck Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer

World Cup 3 in Ruhpolding
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
19 January	20 km individual[1][2][3][11]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 1:04:56.2 (1+2+0+0)	4.  Éric Claudon (FRA); 5.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 6.  Keijo Tiitola (FIN); 7.  Terje Krokstad (NOR); 8.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 9.  Matthias Jacob (GDR); 10.  Jan Matouš (TCH);
		2.  Tapio Piipponen (FIN) +0:38.3 (0+0+0+1)
		3.  Rolf Storsveen (NOR) +0:45.9 (0+0+0+0)
21 January	10 km sprint[1][2][3][12]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 30:19.5 (0+1)	4.  Frank Ullrich (GDR); 5.  Alfred Eder (AUT); 6.  Odd Lirhus (NOR); 7.  Jan Matouš (TCH); 8.  Holger Wick (GDR); 9.  Vítězslav Jureček (TCH); 10.  Walter Pichler (FRG);
		2.  Terje Krokstad (NOR) +0:02.1 (0+1)
		3.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:04.0 (2+0)
22 January	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][12]	1.  East Germany 1:46:22.0 (0) Holger Wick Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob Frank Ullrich	4.  Czechoslovakia 1:49:41.1; 5.  Austria II 1:50:32.3; 6.  Norway II 1:50:35.4 (1) (Fenne, Rognstad, Løvstuen, Engen); 7.  Finland 1:50:46.8; 8.  West Germany II;
		2.  West Germany I 1:47:32.5 (1) Stefan Höck Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer
		3.  Norway I 1:49:04.5 (3) Rolf Storsveen Odd Lirhus Terje Krokstad Kjell Søbak

World Cup 4 in Oberhof
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
1 March	20 km individual[1][2][3][13][14]	1.  Juri Kashkarov (URS) 1:05:26.5 (1+0+0+0)	4.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 5.  Ralf Göthel (GDR); 6.  Holger Wick (GDR); 7.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 8.  Terje Krokstad (NOR); 9.  Algimantas Šalna (URS); 10.  Matthias Jacob (GDR);
		2.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:18.5 (0+0+1+0)
		3.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS) +0:59.3 (0+1+0+1)
3 March	10 km sprint[1][2][3][15][16]	1.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) 30:50.6 (1+0)	4.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 5.  Sergei Bulygin (URS); 6.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 7.  Juri Kashkarov (URS); 8.  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS); 9.  Terje Krokstad (NOR); 10.  Steffen Hauswald (GDR);
		2.  Algimantas Šalna (URS) +0:19.5 (0+2)
		3.  Peter Angerer (FRG) +0:50.3 (2+0)
4 March	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][15]	1.  Soviet Union 1:39:10.4 (0) Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Algimantas Šalna Sergei Bulygin	4.  West Germany 1:41:59.1; 5.  Finland 1:43:34.9; 6.  Austria 1:44:07.5; 7.  Norway/ West Germany 1:44:17.2; 8.  East Germany II 1:44:29.0;
		2.  East Germany 1:41:17.9 (2) Holger Wick Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob Ralf Göthel
		3.  Norway 1:41:27.8 (2) Odd Lirhus Terje Krokstad Øivind Nerhagen Eirik Kvalfoss

World Cup 5 in Holmenkollen
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
7 March	20 km individual[1][2][3][17][18]	1.  Peter Angerer (FRG) 1:05:16.2 (2)	4.  Ralf Göthel (GDR); 5.  Gisle Fenne (NOR);^[γ] 6.  Risto Punkka (FIN); 7.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR); 8.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR); 9.  Yves Marechal (FRA); 10.  Siegfried Dockner (AUT);
		2.  Fritz Fischer (FRG) +0:34.2 (2)
		3.  Alfred Eder (AUT) +1:35.1 (2)
8 March	10 km sprint[1][2][3][19][20]	1.  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR) 32:00.0 (1)	4.  Fritz Fischer (FRG); 5.  Ralf Göthel (GDR); 6.  André Sehmisch (GDR); 7.  Odd Lirhus (NOR); 8.  Jürgen Wirth (GDR); 9.  Svein Engen (NOR); 10.  Johnny Rognstad (NOR);
		2.  Peter Angerer (FRG) +0:18.1 (1)
		3.  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR) +0:18.3 (1)
10 March	4 × 7.5 km relay[1][2][21]	1.  Norway I 1:50:08.6 (3) Johnny Rognstad Eirik Kvalfoss Rolf Storsveen Kjell Søbak	4.  France 1:55:18.1 (3) (F. Mougel, Claudon, Y. Mougel, Poirot); 5.  Norway II 1:58:34.4 (5) (Lirhus, Krokstad, Fenne, Engen); 6.  Sweden 1:56:09.5 (4) (Westling, Adolfsson, Fahlén, Höglund); 7.  Sweden/ Italy 1:58:37 (1); 8.  Italy 1:58:58 (3); 9.  Norway III 1:59:09 (3); 10.  United States 2:00:00 (3);
		2.  East Germany 1:52:07.2 (2) André Sehmisch Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob Ralf Göthel
		3.  West Germany 1:53:58.7 (4) Walter Pichler Fritz Fischer Herbert Fritzenwenger Peter Angerer

Results

Overall World Cup[1][2][19]
Rank	Name	Points
1	Frank-Peter Roetsch	139
2	Peter Angerer	138
3	Eirik Kvalfoss	134
4	Fritz Fischer	130
5	Ralf Göthel	122
6	Odd Lirhus	110
7	Terje Krokstad	107
7	Tapio Piipponen	95
9	Yvon Mougel	93
10	Jan Matouš	85
10	Rolf Storsveen	85
12	Algimantas Šalna	84
12	Juri Kashkarov	84
12	Holger Wick	84
12	Matthias Jacob	84
16	Risto Punkka	83
17	Alfred Eder	76
18	Øivind Nerhagen	67
18	Francis Mougel	67
20	Éric Claudon	63
21	Dmitry Vasilyev	62
22	André Sehmisch	59
23	Vladimir Velichkov	53
24	Frank Ullrich	49
24	Walter Pichler	49
26	Adriano Darioli	41
27	Vítězslav Jureček	40
28	Siegfried Dockner	39
28	Andrei Nepein	39
30	Kjell Søbak	37
...
39	Johnny Rognstad	24
...
40	Gisle Fenne	23
...
51	Svein Engen	13

New scoring system

The European Cup scoring system was changed before this season.

Points allocation in 1983–84
Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Points	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Women's calendar

Below is the European Cup calendar for the 1983–84 season.^[1]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Falun	6–8 January	●	●
Ruhpolding	19–21 January	●	●
Chamonix	29 February–4 March	●	●	●
Lygna	10–11 March	●	●
Total		4	4	1

• 1984 World Championship races were not included in the 1983–84 European Cup scoring system.

European Cups

European Cup 1 in Falun
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
6 January	10 km individual[1][22]^[δ]	1.  Gry Østvik (NOR) 40:53.8 (0+1+1)	4.  Mette Mestad (NOR); 5.  Aila Flyktman (FIN); 6.  Eva Lundgren (SWE); 7.  Doris Niva (SWE); 8.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR); 9.  Bente Mestad (NOR); 10.  Anne-L. Engstrøm (SWE);
		2.  Siv Bråten (NOR) +0:41.3 (1+0+1)
		3.  Aino Kallunki (FIN) +1:16.8 (1+1+2)
7 January	5 km sprint[1][22][23]	1.  Aino Kallunki (FIN) 19:33.6 (2)	4.  Eva Lundgren (SWE); 5.  Aila Flyktman (FIN); 6.  Kaisa Mikkola (FIN); 7.  Mette Mestad (NOR); 8.  Maria Schill (SWE); 9.  Doris Niva (SWE); 10.  Anita Nygård (NOR);^[α]
		2.  Anette Bouvin (SWE) +0:15.9 (2)
		3.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR) +1:07.7 (3)

European Cup 2 in Ruhpolding
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
19 January	10 km individual[1][24]	1.  Mette Mestad (NOR)	4.  Gry Østvik (NOR); 5.  Aino Kallunki (FIN); 6.  Aila Flyktman (FIN); No further competitors
		2.  Siv Bråten (NOR)
		3.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR)
21 January	5 km sprint[1]	1.  Gry Østvik (NOR)	4.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR); 5.  Aila Flyktman (FIN); 6.  Aino Kallunki (FIN); No further competitors
		2.  Mette Mestad (NOR)
		3.  Siv Bråten (NOR)

European Cup 3 in Lygna
Date	Event	Podium	Top 10
10 March	10 km individual[1][2][3][25]	1.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR) 52:00 (2)	4.  Eva Lundgren (SWE); 5.  Anette Bouvin (SWE); 6.  Mette Mestad (NOR); 7.  Bente Mestad (NOR); 8.  Rigmor Hansen (NOR); 9.  Ingeborg Nordmo Krokstad (NOR);^[ɛ] 10.  Doris Niva (SWE);
		2.  Siv Bråten (NOR) +2:19 (2)
		3.  Gry Østvik (NOR) +2:27 (4)
11 March	5 km sprint[1][25]	1.  Anette Bouvin (SWE) 26:34 (2)	4.  Liv Høgli (NOR);^[ɛ] 5.  Doris Niva (SWE); 6.  Sanna Grønlid (NOR); 7.  Siv Bråten (NOR); 8.  Gry Østvik (NOR); 9.  Bente Mestad (NOR); 10.  Rigmor Hansen (NOR);
		2.  Eva Lundgren (SWE) +0:14 (1)
		3.  Mette Mestad (NOR) +1:41 (2)

Women's results

Overall World Cup[1][25]
Rank	Name	Points
1	Mette Mestad	54
2	Sanna Grønlid	53
3	Gry Østvik	52
4	Siv Bråten	51
5	Aino Kallunki	49
6	Eva Lundgren	48
7	Anette Bouvin	43
7	Aila Flyktman	43
9	Doris Niva	35
10	Bente Mestad	27
11	Anne-L. Engström	20
12	Kaisa Mikkola	15
12	Rigmor Hansen	15
14	Maria Schill	12
15	Joan Skinstad	10
16	Mia Stadig	4
17	Persson	2
18	Petia Nikolova	1

Achievements

First World/European Cup career victory

•  Mette Mestad (NOR), 25, in her 2nd season — the WC 2 Individual in Ruhpolding; it also was her first podium
•  Juri Kashkarov (URS), 20, in his 2nd season — the WC 4 Individual in Oberhof; it also was his first podium
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 24, in her 2nd season — the EC 3 Individual in Lygna; first podium was 1983–84 Sprint in Falun
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 23, — the EC 3 Sprint in Lygna; first podium was 1983–84 Sprint in Falun

First World/European Cup podium

•  Risto Punkka (FIN), 26, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 23, — no. 2 in the EC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 24, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the EC 1 Sprint in Falun
•  Holger Wick (GDR), 21, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Individual in Pontresina
•  Ralf Göthel (GDR), 22, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Pontresina
•  Rolf Storsveen (NOR), 24, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Individual in Ruhpolding
•  Eva Lundgren (SWE), 25, — no. 2 in the EC 3 Sprint in Lygna

Victory in this World/European Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

•  Peter Angerer (FRG), 3 (4) first places
•  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR), 2 (7) first places
•  Gry Østvik (NOR), 2 (3) first places
•  Algimantas Šalna (URS), 1 (4) first places
•  Odd Lirhus (NOR), 1 (2) first places
•  Aino Kallunki (FIN), 1 (2) first places
•  Fritz Fischer (FRG), 1 (2) first places
•  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR), 1 (2) first places
•  Mette Mestad (NOR), 1 (1) first places
•  Juri Kashkarov (URS), 1 (1) first places
•  Sanna Grønlid (NOR), 1 (1) first places
•  Anette Bouvin (SWE), 1 (1) first places

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1983–84 season:

•  Yvon Mougel (FRA)
•  Franz Bernreiter (FRG)^[26]
•  Mathias Jung (GDR)
•  Luigi Weiss (ITA)
•  Odd Lirhus (NOR)^[27]
•  Svein Engen (NOR)^[28]

Notes

1. ^{1 2 3 4} In the individual races in Falun some non-World Cup racers participated. In the 20 km individual Andrei Zenkov and Øivind Nerhagen, among others, were non-World Cup racers, and so for World Cup purposes Arto Jääskeläinen came 7th, and Rolf Storsveen and Kjell Søbak finished 9th and 10th respectively and received the appropriate World Cup points.^[29] In the 10 km sprint, one of the non-World Cup racers was Sergei Bulygin, and so he did not receive any World Cup points, and for World Cup purposes Algimantas Šalna won that race and received the appropriate World Cup points. Also in the European Cup races there were some non-European Cup racers participating, among those were Anita Nygård who finished 10th in the 5 km sprint. For European Cup purposes though, Siv Bråten finished 10th and received the appropriate points.

2. ⁵ The Aftenposten source says that the relay teams received a very unusual amount of penalty loops, with 12, 13, 21, 20, 25 and 25 penalty loops respectively for the first six teams.^[6] However, in the same paper, it says that the two Norwegian teams got 14 penalty loops combined,^[8] which does not add up with it saying that the "Norway I" team got 25 penalties. So those high numbers probably refers to the number of missed shots.

3. ⁶ In the individual races here some non-World Cup racers participated. Among those was Gisle Fenne, he was not a World Cup racer and so did not receive any World Cup points, and for World Cup purposes Risto Punkka came fifth and received the appropriate World Cup points.^[30]

4. ⁷ The Sports Book does originally have different order of the finishers in this 10 km race with B. Mestad, Mikkola and Schill coming 8th, 9th and 10th, respectively. However it later contradicts itself by giving the points of those positions to Grønlid, B. Mestad and Anne-L. Engstrøm instead. Because that table shows how each racers score adds up, that has been given precedent.^[1]

5. ^{8 9} In the individual races here some non-European Cup racers participated. Among those was Ingeborg Nordmo Krokstad in the 10 km individual, she was not a European Cup racer and so did not receive any points, and for European Cup purposes Doris Niva came 9th and received the appropriate points, with Anne L. Engstrøm finishing 10th. And in 5 km sprint Liv Høgli was also a non-European Cup racer and thus for European Cup purposes those who finished behind her moves up a spot with Doris Niva finishing 4th and Anne L. Engstrøm finishing 10th.^[1]

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