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Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint

The Women's 7.5 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February, at Soldier Hollow. Competitors raced over two 2.5 kilometre loops and one 3.0 kilometre loop of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.[1]

Women's biathlon sprint
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
DatesFebruary 13
Competitors74 from 27 nations
Winning time20:41.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kati Wilhelm  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Uschi Disl  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Magdalena Forsberg  Sweden
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Results edit

Two of the medalists from the women's Individual race were also strong challengers in the sprint, led by Magdalena Forsberg, the five-time defending World Cup overall champion, as well as the defending World Cup winner in the sprint. Kati Wilhelm was the defending world champion and Galina Kukleva was defending champion from the Nagano Games.[2] The test event at Soldier Hollow in 2001 saw Uschi Disl take the win, ahead of Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée and individual champion Andrea Henkel.[3] Entering the Olympics, the sprint World Cup standings were closely contested, with Disl, Olena Zubrilova, Forsberg, Olga Pyleva and Wilhelm separated by just 7 points. Skjelbreid-Poirée was further behind, but was coming in on a winning streak, having taken each of the last two World Cup sprints.[1]

Henkel, the first of the above to go out, was unable to recapture her shooting form from two days before, missing once on each shoot, and finishing well back, in 25th. Her teammate Wilhelm, starting shortly behind her, had no such problems, shooting clear and leading at each of the time checks. France's Florence Baverel-Robert also shot clear, but ended up 45 seconds behind Wilhelm. Pyleva and 1998 Olympic individual champion Ekaterina Dafovska were with in 7 seconds of Wilhelm after the first shoot, but both lost out on the second shoot, Pyleva missing once and finishing 8th, while Dafovska missed twice and ended up 15th.[4]

Disl was also close to Wilhelm after the first shoot, but missed a shot on the second, leaving her too much to make up. She did cut into Wilhelm's time on the final loop, but not by enough, coming in 15.6 seconds behind. Kukleva was close to Wilhelm's time after the first shoot, but fell back, despite hitting all her shots, ending up nearly a minute behind. Skjelbreid-Poirée came the closest to catching Wilhelm at the first time check, finishing the lap just 4 seconds behind the German, but missed a shot on the second loop, and slumped behind after that, finishing 43 seconds back. Forsberg lost her chance for gold on the first round of shooting, missing one, and while she shot clear on the second opportunity, she continued to lose time. However, she did just manage to edge Skjelbreid-Poirée for the bronze medal.[4][5]

The race was started at 13:30.[6]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties Deficit
  18 Kati Wilhelm   Germany 20:41.4 0 (0+0)
  37 Uschi Disl   Germany 20:57.0 1 (0+1) +15.6
  58 Magdalena Forsberg   Sweden 21:20.4 1 (1+0) +39.0
4 54 Liv Grete Poirée   Norway 21:24.1 1 (0+1) +42.7
5 25 Florence Baverel-Robert   France 21:27.9 0 (0+0) +46.5
6 47 Galina Kukleva   Russia 21:32.1 0 (0+0) +50.7
7 51 Sandrine Bailly   France 21:35.7 1 (0+1) +54.3
8 27 Olga Pyleva   Russia 21:44.2 1 (0+1) +1:02.8
9 42 Corinne Niogret   France 21:50.3 0 (0+0) +1:08.9
10 26 Andreja Grašič   Slovenia 21:55.6 1 (1+0) +1:14.2
11 2 Irina Nikulchina   Bulgaria 21:57.0 2 (1+1) +1:15.6
12 6 Katrin Apel   Germany 22:01.7 3 (1+2) +1:20.3
13 19 Martina Jašicová   Slovakia 22:11.9 0 (0+0) +1:30.5
14 36 Olga Nazarova   Belarus 22:14.9 1 (0+1) +1:33.5
15 28 Ekaterina Dafovska   Bulgaria 22:17.7 2 (0+2) +1:36.3
16 46 Gunn Margit Andreassen   Norway 22:19.7 1 (0+1) +1:38.3
17 52 Pavlina Filipova   Bulgaria 22:20.6 1 (0+1) +1:39.2
18 10 Anna Bogaliy   Russia 22:25.8 2 (0+2) +1:44.4
19 35 Svetlana Ishmuratova   Russia 22:27.3 2 (0+2) +1:45.9
20 33 Yu Shumei   China 22:29.9 1 (1+0) +1:48.5
21 57 Soňa Mihoková   Slovakia 22:32.1 1 (0+1) +1:50.7
22 43 Irena Česneková   Czech Republic 22:33.5 0 (0+0) +1:52.1
23 8 Delphyne Burlet   France 22:37.7 1 (1+0) +1:56.3
24 13 Sanna-Leena Perunka   Finland 22:39.9 1 (0+1) +1:58.5
25 14 Andrea Henkel   Germany 22:41.1 2 (1+1) +1:59.7
26 74 Lucija Larisi   Slovenia 22:44.7 1 (1+0) +2:03.3
27 15 Andreja Mali   Slovenia 22:45.5 1 (0+1) +2:04.1
28 38 Ryoko Takahashi   Japan 22:58.3 2 (2+0) +2:16.9
29 64 Tamami Tanaka   Japan 23:00.0 2 (2+0) +2:18.6
30 72 Hiromi Suga   Japan 23:03.5 2 (1+1) +2:22.1
31 4 Tetyana Vodopyanova   Ukraine 23:03.8 2 (0+2) +2:22.4
32 53 Magda Rezlerová   Czech Republic 23:05.0 2 (1+1) +2:23.6
33 5 Elena Khrustaleva   Belarus 23:06.6 2 (1+1) +2:25.2
34 12 Eva Háková   Czech Republic 23:09.4 1 (1+0) +2:28.0
35 45 Anna Murínová   Slovakia 23:10.0 1 (1+0) +2:28.6
36 21 Saskia Santer   Italy 23:11.2 2 (2+0) +2:29.8
37 59 Outi Kettunen   Finland 23:11.3 1 (0+1) +2:29.9
38 66 Ann Elen Skjelbreid   Norway 23:14.2 3 (1+2) +2:32.8
39 65 Kateřina Losmanová   Czech Republic 23:14.6 2 (0+2) +2:33.2
40 55 Nathalie Santer   Italy 23:14.7 3 (1+2) +2:33.3
41 68 Iva Karagiozova   Bulgaria 23:18.0 1 (0+1) +2:36.6
42 71 Liu Xianying   China 23:18.9 1 (1+0) +2:37.5
43 17 Anna Stera-Kustusz   Poland 23:24.6 0 (0+0) +2:43.2
44 70 Yevgeniya Kutsepalova   Belarus 23:26.5 1 (1+0) +2:45.1
45 20 Mami Shindo   Japan 23:36.8 2 (2+0) +2:55.4
46 49 Michela Ponza   Italy 23:36.9 2 (0+2) +2:55.5
47 48 Nina Lemesh   Ukraine 23:37.4 1 (1+0) +2:56.0
48 63 Olena Petrova   Ukraine 23:40.9 2 (1+1) +2:59.5
49 40 Kara Salmela   United States 23:44.1 3 (1+2) +3:02.7
50 61 Andrea Nahrgang   United States 23:48.7 1 (1+0) +3:07.3
51 32 Valentina Ciurina   Moldova 23:49.7 1 (0+1) +3:08.3
52 23 Katja Holanti   Finland 24:07.2 4 (1+3) +3:25.8
53 44 Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen   Norway 24:12.7 4 (3+1) +3:31.3
54 50 Anita Nyman   Finland 24:17.0 4 (2+2) +3:35.6
55 29 Dana Cojocea   Romania 24:17.3 1 (0+1) +3:35.9
56 1 Kong Yingchao   China 24:30.2 3 (2+1) +3:48.8
57 56 Sun Ribo   China 24:32.4 3 (2+1) +3:51.0
58 24 Andžela Brice   Latvia 24:32.5 1 (0+1) +3:51.1
59 41 Olena Zubrilova   Ukraine 24:33.2 4 (2+2) +3:51.8
60 9 Rachel Steer   United States 24:41.7 3 (2+1) +4:00.3
61 3 Éva Tófalvi   Romania 24:43.7 3 (2+1) +4:02.3
62 34 Yelena Dubok   Kazakhstan 24:50.1 1 (1+0) +4:08.7
63 67 Tadeja Brankovič   Slovenia 25:14.0 5 (4+1) +4:32.6
64 69 Tatiana Kutlíková   Slovakia 25:18.3 5 (3+2) +4:36.9
65 62 Kseniya Zikunkova   Belarus 25:21.5 5 (3+2) +4:40.1
66 11 Diana Rasimovičiūtė   Lithuania 25:41.4 3 (2+1) +5:00.0
67 7 Zsuzsanna Bekecs   Hungary 25:42.1 1 (1+0) +5:00.7
68 73 Siegrid Pallhuber   Italy 26:20.9 4 (1+3) +5:39.5
69 30 Kim Ja-youn   South Korea 26:45.2 3 (1+2) +6:03.8
70 16 Despoina Vavatsi   Greece 27:11.3 2 (0+2) +6:29.9
71 39 Ivett Szöllősi   Hungary 27:17.6 4 (2+2) +6:36.2
72 60 Alexandra Rusu   Romania 27:20.0 6 (3+3) +6:38.6
73 31 Natalia Lovece   Argentina 29:33.2 8 (3+5) +8:51.8
74 22 Claudia Barrenechea   Chile 30:15.1 5 (3+2) +9:33.7

References edit

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ "IBU Biathlon Guide 2012/13" (PDF). International Biathlon Union. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 21, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  3. ^ 2001 World Cup 7 - 7.5 km Sprint Results Archived April 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 6 February 2013
  4. ^ a b http://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/0102/BT/SWRL/OG__/SWSP/BT_O77B_1.0.pdf[ - Competition Analysis, Women's 7.5 km Sprint - SLOC]
  5. ^ "German double in 7.5K sprint". CNNSI.com. AP. February 13, 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. ^ Final results
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