Biathlon at

the Olympics - debuted in 1960 at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, over the mens individual 20 km. Eight years later, the Winter Olympics in Grenoble in 1968, the first t ime the competition took place in the mens relay 4 * 7.5 km, and the Winter Olympics in 1980 in Lake Placid debuted sprint at 10 km. Take-off at the beginning of womens biathlon at the Olympic Games took place in 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, where the games were played in the course of the 15 km individual, relay 3 * 7.5 km (in later years, to 2002. Relay takes place over a distance of 4 * 7.5 kilometers, and from the Olympics in Turin, for a distance of 4 * 6 km) and Sprint (7.5 km).