Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's individual

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Women's biathlon individual
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue Soldier Hollow
Dates11 February
Competitors71 from 26 nations
Winning time47:29.1
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Andrea Henkel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Liv Grete Poirée Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Bronze medal icon.svg Magdalena Forsberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
  1998
2006  

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]

RankBibNameCountryResultPenaltiesDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg26 Andrea Henkel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 47:29.11 (0+1+0+0)
Silver medal icon.svg56 Liv Grete Poirée Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 47:37.01 (0+1+0+0)+7.9
Bronze medal icon.svg65 Magdalena Forsberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 48:08.32 (0+0+0+2)+39.2
443 Olga Pyleva Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 48:14.02 (0+0+0+2)+44.9
548 Ekaterina Dafovska Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 48:15.51 (0+1+0+0)+46.4
644 Olga Nazarova Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 48:29.91 (0+1+0+0)+1:00.8
741 Martina Glagow Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 48:34.21 (1+0+0+0)+1:05.1
829 Svetlana Ishmuratova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 48:45.02 (1+0+0+1)+1:15.9
95 Martina Jašicová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 48:47.52 (0+1+0+1)+1:18.4
1047 Albina Akhatova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 49:06.12 (2+0+0+0)+1:37.0
1140 Florence Baverel-Robert Flag of France.svg  France 49:10.22 (0+0+2+0)+1:41.1
1239 Uschi Disl Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 49:43.44 (0+1+0+3)+2:14.3
1352 Katja Holanti Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 49:52.32 (0+0+1+1)+2:23.2
1445 Soňa Mihoková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 50:00.73 (0+1+1+1)+2:31.6
1555 Sun Ribo Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 50:04.71 (0+1+0+0)+2:35.6
164 Sylvie Becaert Flag of France.svg  France 50:09.02 (0+0+0+2)+2:39.9
1769 Liu Xianying Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 50:09.40 (0+0+0+0)+2:40.3
1830 Katrin Apel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 50:16.75 (0+2+0+3)+2:47.6
1957 Kateřina Losmanová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 50:42.03 (1+1+1+0)+3:12.9
2068 Pavlina Filipova Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 50:47.53 (2+0+0+1)+3:18.4
2124 Corinne Niogret Flag of France.svg  France 50:49.61 (0+1+0+0)+3:20.5
2266 Ann Elen Skjelbreid Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 50:51.13 (0+1+1+1)+3:22.0
2321 Zdeňka Vejnarová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 50:54.71 (0+0+0+1)+3:25.6
2459 Olena Petrova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 51:05.71 (0+0+1+0)+3:36.6
2571 Lucija Larisi Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 51:12.12 (0+1+0+1)+3:43.0
2660 Delphyne Burlet Flag of France.svg  France 51:19.22 (1+0+1+0)+3:50.1
2762 Oksana Yakovlieva Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 51:22.22 (1+0+0+1)+3:53.1
2867 Irena Česneková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 51:28.02 (0+0+2+0)+3:58.9
2923 Oksana Khvostenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 51:34.40 (0+0+0+0)+4:05.3
3017 Gunn Margit Andreassen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 51:42.93 (0+1+1+1)+4:13.8
3115 Rachel Steer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51:50.62 (0+1+1+0)+4:21.5
3242 Iva Karagiozova Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 51:59.32 (1+1+0+0)+4:30.2
3363 Marcela Pavkovčeková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 52:03.74 (1+0+3+0)+4:34.6
3458 Olena Zubrilova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 52:10.73 (1+1+1+0)+4:41.6
3513 Eva Háková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 52:11.03 (1+1+0+1)+4:41.9
3650 Michela Ponza Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 52:13.62 (1+0+1+0)+4:44.5
3731 Olga Zaitseva Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 52:26.24 (1+0+1+2)+4:57.1
3837 Kseniya Zikunkova Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 52:26.83 (1+0+0+2)+4:57.7
3946 Linda Tjørhom Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 52:34.04 (1+1+0+2)+5:04.9
4025 Sanna-Leena Perunka Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 52:48.83 (1+0+0+2)+5:19.7
4136 Tadeja Brankovič Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 53:08.94 (1+2+0+1)+5:39.8
4251 Hiromi Suga Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53:10.63 (1+0+1+1)+5:41.5
432 Irina Nikulchina Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 53:16.76 (3+2+0+1)+5:47.6
448 Kong Yingchao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 53:38.02 (1+0+0+1)+6:08.9
4561 Tamami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53:40.44 (3+1+0+0)+6:11.3
4638 Yu Shumei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 53:43.05 (1+2+0+2)+6:13.9
476 Katja Haller Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 53:44.02 (2+0+0+0)+6:14.9
4849 Outi Kettunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 53:48.14 (0+1+1+2)+6:19.0
4964 Saskia Santer Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 54:14.77 (2+2+2+1)+6:45.6
5022 Ryoko Takahashi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 54:18.04 (0+1+0+3)+6:48.9
519 Lyudmila Lysenko Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 54:25.44 (4+0+0+0)+6:56.3
5214 Éva Tófalvi Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 54:36.73 (2+0+1+0)+7:07.6
5332 Anna Murínová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 54:39.25 (1+2+2+0)+7:10.1
547 Anna Stera-Kustucz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 54:47.14 (2+1+0+1)+7:18.0
5554 Kristina Sabasteanski Flag of the United States.svg  United States 55:00.94 (0+1+0+3)+7:31.8
5653 Andreja Grašič Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 55:06.48 (2+3+2+1)+7:37.3
571 Dijana Grudiček Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 55:50.37 (0+4+1+2)+8:21.2
5827 Ivett Szöllősi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 56:34.81 (0+0+0+1)+9:05.7
5920 Kara Salmela Flag of the United States.svg  United States 57:25.98 (1+1+2+4)+9:56.8
6034 Yelena Dubok Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 57:32.55 (0+2+1+2)+10:03.4
6118 Dana Cojocea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 57:37.05 (2+1+0+2)+10:07.9
6228 Valentina Ciurina Flag of Moldova (3-2).svg  Moldova 58:40.86 (1+1+3+1)+11:11.7
6333 Andžela Brice Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 59:20.96 (1+2+1+2)+11:51.8
6416 Mami Shindo Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 59:38.68 (3+2+2+1)+12:09.5
653 Zsuzsanna Bekecs Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:00:40.75 (2+2+0+1)+13:11.6
6635 Kim Ja-youn Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 1:01:13.87 (2+2+0+3)+13:44.7
6712 Claudia Barrenechea Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1:02:30.03 (1+1+1+0)+15:00.9
6811 Despoina Vavatsi Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1:04:39.47 (0+2+1+4)+17:10.3
6910 Natalia Lovece Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 1:09:56.812 (4+2+2+4)+22:27.7
19 Nathalie Santer Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF(3+2+2+ )
70 Lyudmila Ananko Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus (0+1+0+ )

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