Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's individual

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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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]

Results

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 26 Andrea Henkel  Germany 47:29.1 1 (0+1+0+0)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 56 Liv Grete Poirée  Norway 47:37.0 1 (0+1+0+0) +7.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

  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. Archived from the original on February 12, 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  5. ^ a b - Competition Analysis, Women's 15 km Individual - SLOC
  6. ^ Final results