Belarus competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

[1] The Belarusian hockey team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics.

Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament.

They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5–0 to Canada and identical scores of 5–2 to Sweden and the United States.

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.