1982–83 Biathlon World Cup

The 1982–83 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 27 January 1983 in Ruhpolding, West Germany, and ended on 11 March 1983 in Holmenkollen, Norway. It was the sixth season of the Biathlon World Cup, and the first in which women were allowed to compete in their own European Cup. Though called the European Cup, participation was not restricted to Europeans.

1982–83 World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Peter Angerer
Competition
←1981–82 1983–84→

The second World Cup round was originally going to be held in Oberhof, East Germany, but they had to cancel due to a lack of snow.^[1] The races were therefore moved to Antholz-Anterselva, Italy.^[2]

Originally the first round of the European Cup was to be held in Jáchymov, Czechoslovakia from 21 to 24 January 1983, but it was cancelled, thus the races in Lappeenranta, Finland were the only ones held.^[3][4]

Men's calendar

Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1982–83 season.^[5][6][7]

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Ruhpolding	27–30 January	●	●	●
Antholz-Anterselva	9–12 February	●	●	●
Antholz-Anterselva	24–27 February	●	●	●
Lahti	4–5 March	●	●
Holmenkollen	9–11 March	●	●	●
Total		5	5	4

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

Women's calendar

Location	Date	Individual	Sprint	Relay
Lappeenranta	4–6 March	●	●	●
Total		1	1	1

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

World Cup Podium

Men

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	27 January 1983	Ruhpolding	20 km Individual	Peter Angerer	Andreas Schweiger	Frank Ullrich	Peter Angerer	[8][9]
1	28 January 1983	Ruhpolding	10 km Sprint	Eirik Kvalfoss	Frank Ullrich	Odd Lirhus	Frank Ullrich	[10][11]
2	9 February 1983	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Frank Ullrich	Odd Lirhus	Peter Angerer		[12][13]
2	11 February 1983	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Algimantas Šalna	Peter Angerer	Frank-Peter Roetsch		[14][15]
WC	23 February 1983	Antholz-Anterselva	20 km Individual	Frank Ullrich	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Peter Angerer		[16][17]
WC	26 February 1983	Antholz-Anterselva	10 km Sprint	Eirik Kvalfoss	Peter Angerer	Alfred Eder	Peter Angerer	[18][19]
3	4 March 1983	Lahti	20 km Individual	Algimantas Šalna	Odd Lirhus	Fritz Fischer		[20][21]
3	5 March 1983	Lahti	10 km Sprint	Algimantas Šalna	Eirik Kvalfoss	Dmitry Vasilyev		[22][21]
4	9 March 1983	Oslo Holmenkollen	20 km Individual	Dmitry Vasilyev	Johann Passler	Andreas Schweiger		[23]
4	10 March 1983	Oslo Holmenkollen	10 km Sprint	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Peter Angerer	Johann Passler		[24]

Women

Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib (After competition)	Det.
1	4 March 1983	Lappeenranta	10 km Individual	Gry Østvik	Pirjo Aalto	Tuula Ylinen	Gry Østvik	Detail
1	5 March 1983	Lappeenranta	5 km Sprint	Aino Kallunki	Siv Bråten	Aila Flyktman		Detail

Standings: Men

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Peter Angerer	143
2.	Eirik Kvalfoss	136
3.	Frank Ullrich	134
4.	Frank-Peter Roetsch	128
5.	Odd Lirhus	126

• Final standings after 10 races.

^[5][6]

Standings: Women

Overall

Pos.		Points
1.	Gry Østvik	47
2.	Siv Bråten	45
3.	Aino Kallunki	43
4.	Aila Flyktman	42
5.	Tuula Ylinen	42

• Final standings after 2 races.

Achievements

First World/European Cup career victory

•  Peter Angerer (FRG), 23, in his 4th season — the WC 1 Individual in Ruhpolding; first podium was 1980–81 Sprint in Ruhpolding
•  Algimantas Šalna (URS), 23, in his 2nd season — the WC 2 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was his first podium
•  Gry Østvik (NOR), 19, in her 1st season — the EC 1 Individual in Lappeenranta; it also was her first podium
•  Aino Kallunki (FIN), in her 1st season — the EC 1 Sprint in Lappeenranta; it also was her first podium
•  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS), 20, in his 1st season — the WC 4 Individual in Holmenkollen; first podium was 1982–83 Sprint in Lahti
•  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR), 18, in his 1st season — the WC 4 Sprint in Holmenkollen; first podium was 1982–83 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva

First World/European Cup podium

•  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR), 18, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 2 Sprint in Antholz-Anterselva
•  Pirjo Mattila (FIN), in her 1st season — no. 2 in the EC 1 Individual in Lappeenranta
•  Tuula Ylinen (FIN), in her 1st season — no. 3 in the EC 1 Individual in Lappeenranta
•  Siv Bråten (NOR), 22, in her 1st season — no. 2 in the EC 1 Sprint in Lappeenranta
•  Aila Flyktman (FIN), in her 1st season — no. 3 in the EC 1 Sprint in Lappeenranta
•  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS), 20, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 3 Sprint in Lahti
•  Johann Passler (ITA), 21, in his 2nd season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Individual in Holmenkollen

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

•  Algimantas Šalna (URS), 3 (3) first places
•  Frank Ullrich (GDR), 2 (16) first places
•  Eirik Kvalfoss (NOR), 2 (5) first places
•  Peter Angerer (FRG), 1 (1) first place
•  Gry Østvik (NOR), 1 (1) first place
•  Aino Kallunki (FIN), 1 (1) first place
•  Dmitry Vasilyev (URS), 1 (1) first place
•  Frank-Peter Roetsch (GDR), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following notable biathletes retired after the 1982–83 season:

•  Erkki Antila (FIN)

Notes

1. ¹ In the individual races here some non-World Cup racers participated. Among those was Holger Wick, he was not a World Cup racer and so did not receive any World Cup points, and for World Cup purposes Vladimir Velichkov and Johann Passler finished 9th and 10th respectively in the 20 km individual and received the appropriate World Cup points.

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