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Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's individual

The women's 15-kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at Soldier Hollow. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0-kilometre skiing course, shooting four times, twice prone and twice standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.[1]

Women's biathlon individual
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
Dates11 February
Competitors71 from 26 nations
Winning time47:29.1
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrea Henkel  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Liv Grete Poirée  Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Magdalena Forsberg  Sweden
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Results edit

The Biathlon World Cup test event in 2001 was won by Magdalena Forsberg, who shot clear and won by more than a minute from Martina Zellner, a German who was not selected for her national team for the 2002 Games.[2] Forsberg was also the defending world champion and World Cup champion in the distance[3] , and led the World Cup in the discipline, having won two of the three Individual races earlier in the season.[1] However despite a long history of success, she had never won an Olympic medal.[4] Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée won the other event of the season, at Antholz,[1] while Ekaterina Dafovska was the defending Olympic champion.[3]

The 25-year-old Andrea Henkel started before some of her more heralded competition, but recovered well after missing a shot on her second loop, making all ten of her remaining shots to add just the single minute to her ski time. Katrin Apel and Uschi Disl each beat Henkel's time going into the final shoot, despite missing shots earlier, but both missed three times on the final shoot, ending up outside the top 10. Olga Pyleva set the fastest times after the second and third shoots, leading Henkel by more than a minute, but sent two wide on the last shoot, and ended up 45 seconds behind the leading German. Defending champion Ekaterina Dafovska missed one shot in the race, like Henkel, but her ski speed wasn't enough to get close to a medal.[5]

Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée had an identical shooting line to Henkel, and while she was ahead of the German on the first two shoots, she fell behind on ski time, and ended up seven seconds back in second, well ahead of Pyleva, then in bronze position. The final serious challenge was from Magdalena Forsberg, who had won many World Championships, but did not have an Olympic medal. Forsberg was well over a minute clear of Henkel and Poirée as she approached the final shoot, but missed twice, losing any chance at gold. She did manage to get in for bronze, displacing Pyleva.[4][5]

The race was started at 11:00.[6]

Rank Bib Name Country Result Penalties Deficit
  26 Andrea Henkel   Germany 47:29.1 1 (0+1+0+0)
  56 Liv Grete Poirée   Norway 47:37.0 1 (0+1+0+0) +7.9
  65 Magdalena Forsberg   Sweden 48:08.3 2 (0+0+0+2) +39.2
4 43 Olga Pyleva   Russia 48:14.0 2 (0+0+0+2) +44.9
5 48 Ekaterina Dafovska   Bulgaria 48:15.5 1 (0+1+0+0) +46.4
6 44 Olga Nazarova   Belarus 48:29.9 1 (0+1+0+0) +1:00.8
7 41 Martina Glagow   Germany 48:34.2 1 (1+0+0+0) +1:05.1
8 29 Svetlana Ishmuratova   Russia 48:45.0 2 (1+0+0+1) +1:15.9
9 5 Martina Jašicová   Slovakia 48:47.5 2 (0+1+0+1) +1:18.4
10 47 Albina Akhatova   Russia 49:06.1 2 (2+0+0+0) +1:37.0
11 40 Florence Baverel-Robert   France 49:10.2 2 (0+0+2+0) +1:41.1
12 39 Uschi Disl   Germany 49:43.4 4 (0+1+0+3) +2:14.3
13 52 Katja Holanti   Finland 49:52.3 2 (0+0+1+1) +2:23.2
14 45 Soňa Mihoková   Slovakia 50:00.7 3 (0+1+1+1) +2:31.6
15 55 Sun Ribo   China 50:04.7 1 (0+1+0+0) +2:35.6
16 4 Sylvie Becaert   France 50:09.0 2 (0+0+0+2) +2:39.9
17 69 Liu Xianying   China 50:09.4 0 (0+0+0+0) +2:40.3
18 30 Katrin Apel   Germany 50:16.7 5 (0+2+0+3) +2:47.6
19 57 Kateřina Losmanová   Czech Republic 50:42.0 3 (1+1+1+0) +3:12.9
20 68 Pavlina Filipova   Bulgaria 50:47.5 3 (2+0+0+1) +3:18.4
21 24 Corinne Niogret   France 50:49.6 1 (0+1+0+0) +3:20.5
22 66 Ann Elen Skjelbreid   Norway 50:51.1 3 (0+1+1+1) +3:22.0
23 21 Zdeňka Vejnarová   Czech Republic 50:54.7 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:25.6
24 59 Olena Petrova   Ukraine 51:05.7 1 (0+0+1+0) +3:36.6
25 71 Lucija Larisi   Slovenia 51:12.1 2 (0+1+0+1) +3:43.0
26 60 Delphyne Burlet   France 51:19.2 2 (1+0+1+0) +3:50.1
27 62 Oksana Yakovlieva   Ukraine 51:22.2 2 (1+0+0+1) +3:53.1
28 67 Irena Česneková   Czech Republic 51:28.0 2 (0+0+2+0) +3:58.9
29 23 Oksana Khvostenko   Ukraine 51:34.4 0 (0+0+0+0) +4:05.3
30 17 Gunn Margit Andreassen   Norway 51:42.9 3 (0+1+1+1) +4:13.8
31 15 Rachel Steer   United States 51:50.6 2 (0+1+1+0) +4:21.5
32 42 Iva Karagiozova   Bulgaria 51:59.3 2 (1+1+0+0) +4:30.2
33 63 Marcela Pavkovčeková   Slovakia 52:03.7 4 (1+0+3+0) +4:34.6
34 58 Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine 52:10.7 3 (1+1+1+0) +4:41.6
35 13 Eva Háková   Czech Republic 52:11.0 3 (1+1+0+1) +4:41.9
36 50 Michela Ponza   Italy 52:13.6 2 (1+0+1+0) +4:44.5
37 31 Olga Zaitseva   Russia 52:26.2 4 (1+0+1+2) +4:57.1
38 37 Kseniya Zikunkova   Belarus 52:26.8 3 (1+0+0+2) +4:57.7
39 46 Linda Tjørhom   Norway 52:34.0 4 (1+1+0+2) +5:04.9
40 25 Sanna-Leena Perunka   Finland 52:48.8 3 (1+0+0+2) +5:19.7
41 36 Tadeja Brankovič   Slovenia 53:08.9 4 (1+2+0+1) +5:39.8
42 51 Hiromi Suga   Japan 53:10.6 3 (1+0+1+1) +5:41.5
43 2 Irina Nikulchina   Bulgaria 53:16.7 6 (3+2+0+1) +5:47.6
44 8 Kong Yingchao   China 53:38.0 2 (1+0+0+1) +6:08.9
45 61 Tamami Tanaka   Japan 53:40.4 4 (3+1+0+0) +6:11.3
46 38 Yu Shumei   China 53:43.0 5 (1+2+0+2) +6:13.9
47 6 Katja Haller   Italy 53:44.0 2 (2+0+0+0) +6:14.9
48 49 Outi Kettunen   Finland 53:48.1 4 (0+1+1+2) +6:19.0
49 64 Saskia Santer   Italy 54:14.7 7 (2+2+2+1) +6:45.6
50 22 Ryoko Takahashi   Japan 54:18.0 4 (0+1+0+3) +6:48.9
51 9 Lyudmila Lysenko   Belarus 54:25.4 4 (4+0+0+0) +6:56.3
52 14 Éva Tófalvi   Romania 54:36.7 3 (2+0+1+0) +7:07.6
53 32 Anna Murínová   Slovakia 54:39.2 5 (1+2+2+0) +7:10.1
54 7 Anna Stera-Kustucz   Poland 54:47.1 4 (2+1+0+1) +7:18.0
55 54 Kristina Sabasteanski   United States 55:00.9 4 (0+1+0+3) +7:31.8
56 53 Andreja Grašič   Slovenia 55:06.4 8 (2+3+2+1) +7:37.3
57 1 Dijana Grudiček   Slovenia 55:50.3 7 (0+4+1+2) +8:21.2
58 27 Ivett Szöllősi   Hungary 56:34.8 1 (0+0+0+1) +9:05.7
59 20 Kara Salmela   United States 57:25.9 8 (1+1+2+4) +9:56.8
60 34 Yelena Dubok   Kazakhstan 57:32.5 5 (0+2+1+2) +10:03.4
61 18 Dana Cojocea   Romania 57:37.0 5 (2+1+0+2) +10:07.9
62 28 Valentina Ciurina   Moldova 58:40.8 6 (1+1+3+1) +11:11.7
63 33 Andžela Brice   Latvia 59:20.9 6 (1+2+1+2) +11:51.8
64 16 Mami Shindo   Japan 59:38.6 8 (3+2+2+1) +12:09.5
65 3 Zsuzsanna Bekecs   Hungary 1:00:40.7 5 (2+2+0+1) +13:11.6
66 35 Kim Ja-youn   South Korea 1:01:13.8 7 (2+2+0+3) +13:44.7
67 12 Claudia Barrenechea   Chile 1:02:30.0 3 (1+1+1+0) +15:00.9
68 11 Despoina Vavatsi   Greece 1:04:39.4 7 (0+2+1+4) +17:10.3
69 10 Natalia Lovece   Argentina 1:09:56.8 12 (4+2+2+4) +22:27.7
19 Nathalie Santer   Italy DNF (3+2+2+ )
70 Lyudmila Ananko   Belarus (0+1+0+ )

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 1" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 6, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  2. ^ World Cup 7 - 15 km Individual Results Archived June 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 6 February 2013
  3. ^ a b "IBU Biathlon Guide 2012/13" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 21, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Henkel upsets form book to win Olympic biathlon 15km title". CNNSI.com. AFP. February 11, 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  5. ^ a b - Competition Analysis, Women's 15 km Individual - SLOC
  6. ^ Final results
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