Biathlon World Championships 1997 at Brezno-Osrblie (svk) Men: 20 km Individual February 7: 1. Ricco Gross (ger) 52:04.6 (0) 2. Oleg Ryzhenkov (blr) 52:40.1 (2) 3. Ludwig Gredler (aut) 53:13.0 (2) 4. Sergey Rozhkov (rus) 53:15.9 (1) 5. Sven Fischer (ger) 53:49.5 (2) 6. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (nor) 54:03.3 (3) 7. Ville Raikkonen (fin) 54:06.8 (1) 8. Jon Åge Tyldum (nor) 54:13.8 (1) 9. Steve Cyr (can) 54:18.3 (0) 10. Janos Panyik (hun) 54:23.5 (0)