Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint

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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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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]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 18 Kati Wilhelm  Germany 20:41.4 0 (0+0)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 37 Uschi Disl  Germany 20:57.0 1 (0+1) +15.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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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