Biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games

Biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games was held at the Iwaki General Athletic Park in Iwaki, Japan from 3 February to 7 February 2003.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km sprint	Hironao Meguro (JPN)	Sunao Noto (JPN)	Tatsumi Kasahara (JPN)
12.5 km pursuit	Hironao Meguro (JPN)	Sunao Noto (JPN)	Kyoji Suga (JPN)
4 × 7.5 km relay	Japan Sunao Noto Hironao Meguro Tatsumi Kasahara Kyoji Suga	South Korea Son Hae-kwon Kim Kyung-tae Shin Byung-gook Park Yoon-bae	China Qiu Lianhai Zhang Hongjun Zhang Qing Wang Xin

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
7.5 km sprint	Tamami Tanaka (JPN)	Kong Yingchao (CHN)	Liu Xianying (CHN)
10 km pursuit	Kong Yingchao (CHN)	Liu Xianying (CHN)	Sun Ribo (CHN)
4 × 6 km relay	China Kong Yingchao Liu Xianying Sun Ribo Yu Shumei	Japan Sanae Takano Tamami Tanaka Ikuyo Tsukidate Kanae Suzuki	Kazakhstan Yelena Dubok Olga Dudchenko Inna Mozhevitina Viktoriya Afanasyeva

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	3	2	9
2	China	2	2	3	7
3	South Korea	0	1	0	1
4	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Total		6	6	6	18

Participating nations

A total of 35 athletes from 5 nations competed in biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games:

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

External links

• Schedule
• Results