Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's pursuit

Women's pursuit
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Women's pursuit; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea
Date	12 February
Competitors	58 from 24 nations
Winning time	30:35.3
Medalists
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Last updated October 08, 2022

The women's 10 km pursuit biathlon competition of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics was held on 12 February 2018 at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1]^[2] The field consisted of the top 60 finishers in the sprint event, held two days earlier, with competitors' starting times dependent on their final time in the sprint event. Laura Dahlmeier, who was the champion in the sprint, won a second title, becoming the first female biathlete to win an Olympic sprint-pursuit double. Anastasiya Kuzmina finished second, and Anaïs Bescond was third.^[3] This was Bescond's first Olympic medal.

Summary

Dahlmeier started first, and hit all targets at her first prone shoots. The sprint silver medallist Marte Olsbu missed a target, and between the prone shoots Dalmeier was followed by Veronika Vítková and Anastasiya Kuzmina, who overtook Vítková, and by the second prone shoot closed the gap to Dahlmeier by 10 seconds. Dahlmeier, Kuzmina, and Vítková all missed a target at the second prone shoot, and Anaïs Bescond and Irene Cadurisch, who did not miss, came into contention. By 5 km, Kuzmina was leading, with Dahlmeier 0.7 seconds behind her, followed by Bescond and Cadurisch half a minute behind. In the first standing shoot, Kuzmina missed two targets, Bescond missed one, and Cadurisch missed three and dropped out of medal contention. Dahlmeier did not miss, the only one of the leading group who shot clear, and took a 40 second lead over Kuzmina. Vítková was third, followed by Bescond: all other competitors were more than a minute behind. In the second standing shoot, Dahlmeier and Bescond shot clear, whereas Kuzmina missed once, dropping almost a minute behind Dahlmeier and a second ahead of Bescond. Vítková missed two targets and dropped out of medal contention. Other competitors trailed Kuzmina and Bescond by at least 30 seconds. The only question left at this point was who would win the silver medal. Kuzmina and Bescond ran together until the finish, where Kuzmina won the silver, leaving Bescond with bronze.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Danka Barteková, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Olle Dahlin, IBU Vice President of Development.

Qualification

Schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Round
12 February	19:10	Final

Results

The race was started at 19:10.^[4]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Start	Time	Penalties (P+P+S+S)	Deficit
	1	Laura Dahlmeier	Germany	0:00	30:35.3	1 (0+1+0+0)	—
	13	Anastasiya Kuzmina	Slovakia	0:54	31:04.7	4 (0+1+2+1)	+29.4
	19	Anaïs Bescond	France	1:15	31:04.9	1 (0+0+1+0)	+29.6
4	2	Marte Olsbu	Norway	0:24	31:42.6	4 (1+2+0+1)	+1:07.3
5	7	Hanna Öberg	Sweden	0:41	31:44.2	3 (1+2+0+0)	+1:08.9
6	21	Denise Herrmann	Germany	1:20	31:54.7	2 (1+0+0+1)	+1:19.4
7	3	Veronika Vítková	Czech Republic	0:26	32:12.6	3 (0+1+0+2)	+1:37.3
8	26	Lena Häcki	Switzerland	1:34	32:16.8	3 (1+1+1+0)	+1:41.5
9	24	Tiril Eckhoff	Norway	1:26	32:23.1	5 (0+2+3+0)	+1:47.8
10	27	Mona Brorsson	Sweden	1:36	32:29.8	1 (0+0+1+0)	+1:54.5
11	6	Lisa Vittozzi	Italy	0:41	32:34.6	4 (1+2+0+1)	+1:59.3
12	12	Franziska Hildebrand	Germany	0:54	32:36.5	3 (2+1+0+0)	+2:01.2
13	5	Vanessa Hinz	Germany	0:40	32:41.4	4 (1+1+2+0)	+2:06.1
14	36	Nadezhda Skardino	Belarus	2:02	32:42.7	1 (0+0+1+0)	+2:07.4
15	18	Dorothea Wierer	Italy	1:14	32:48.4	5 (2+2+1+0)	+2:13.1
16	8	Irene Cadurisch	Switzerland	0:46	32:52.8	4 (0+0+3+1)	+2:17.5
17	17	Iryna Kryuko	Belarus	1:11	32:54.0	2 (1+0+0+1)	+2:18.7
18	14	Vita Semerenko	Ukraine	0:55	32:54.4	4 (2+1+1+0)	+2:19.1
19	53	Rosanna Crawford	Canada	2:23	33:03.0	2 (0+0+1+1)	+2:27.7
20	30	Galina Vishnevskaya	Kazakhstan	1:46	33:05.9	1 (0+0+1+0)	+2:30.6
21	37	Linn Persson	Sweden	2:05	33:21.7	3 (1+0+1+1)	+2:46.4
22	25	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Finland	1:30	33:22.2	6 (0+3+3+0)	+2:46.9
23	23	Jessica Jislová	Czech Republic	1:23	33:24.3	3 (0+1+1+1)	+2:49.0
24	16	Anaïs Chevalier	France	1:09	33:28.0	5 (3+0+0+2)	+2:52.7
25	15	Markéta Davidová	Czech Republic	0:57	33:29.8	6 (1+2+1+2)	+2:54.5
26	22	Johanna Talihärm	Estonia	1:21	33:34.7	4 (0+1+2+1)	+2:59.4
27	4	Marie Dorin Habert	France	0:33	33:37.8	7 (2+0+2+3)	+3:02.5
28	40	Julia Ransom	Canada	2:08	33:38.3	1 (0+0+0+1)	+3:03.0
29	35	Elisabeth Högberg	Sweden	2:00	33:45.1	2 (1+0+1+0)	+3:09.8
30	34	Weronika Nowakowska	Poland	1:57	33:46.2	2 (0+1+1+0)	+3:10.9
31	20	Tatiana Akimova	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:18	33:50.8	4 (1+1+0+2)	+3:15.5
32	43	Eva Puskarčíková	Czech Republic	2:14	33:53.8	3 (2+1+0+0)	+3:18.5
33	39	Baiba Bendika	Latvia	2:08	33:59.4	3 (1+0+2+0)	+3:24.1
34	10	Justine Braisaz	France	0:48	34:08.0	7 (0+2+1+4)	+3:32.7
35	31	Elisa Gasparin	Switzerland	1:46	34:11.2	5 (2+2+1+0)	+3:35.9
36	28	Krystyna Guzik	Poland	1:37	34:24.3	4 (1+1+1+1)	+3:49.0
37	9	Darya Domracheva	Belarus	0:46	34:26.8	6 (0+1+1+4)	+3:51.5
38	11	Paulína Fialková	Slovakia	0:51	34:33.6	8 (2+2+2+2)	+3:58.3
39	41	Selina Gasparin	Switzerland	2:12	34:40.2	5 (2+2+1+0)	+4:04.9
40	29	Katharina Innerhofer	Austria	1:45	34:41.2	5 (1+2+0+2)	+4:05.9
41	50	Synnøve Solemdal	Norway	2:18	34:45.5	4 (1+0+2+1)	+4:10.2
42	59	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	Norway	2:43	34:56.8	4 (0+3+1+0)	+4:21.5
43	45	Monika Hojnisz	Poland	2:14	35:05.6	4 (1+1+2+0)	+4:30.3
44	52	Nadzeya Pisarava	Belarus	2:23	35:10.3	3 (2+0+0+1)	+4:35.0
45	38	Zhang Yan	China	2:08	35:16.7	3 (3+0+0+0)	+4:41.4
46	55	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Ukraine	2:26	35:30.4	5 (0+2+2+1)	+4:55.1
47	51	Emily Dreissigacker	United States	2:21	35:36.7	4 (0+1+1+2)	+5:01.4
48	44	Nicole Gontier	Italy	2:14	35:37.6	7 (3+1+1+2)	+5:02.3
49	56	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Poland	2:30	36:07.0	5 (1+2+2+0)	+5:31.7
50	32	Anna Frolina	South Korea	1:51	36:14.2	8 (1+2+2+3)	+5:38.9
51	47	Anja Eržen	Slovenia	2:15	36:22.6	7 (0+2+2+3)	+5:47.3
52	33	Uliana Kaisheva	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:52	36:33.6	5 (0+2+2+1)	+5:58.3
53	54	Emma Lunder	Canada	2:24	36:52.1	4 (0+1+1+2)	+6:16.8
54	49	Sari Furuya	Japan	2:15	37:02.1	5 (2+1+1+1)	+6:26.8
55	60	Emilia Yordanova	Bulgaria	2:44	37:04.3	6 (2+1+3+0)	+6:29.0
56	42	Fuyuko Tachizaki	Japan	2:14	37:07.9	7 (2+0+2+3)	+6:32.6
57	58	Darya Klimina	Kazakhstan	2:42	38:00.0	8 (1+1+3+3)	+7:24.7
58	48	Dunja Zdouc	Austria	2:15	38:39.1	8 (1+3+1+3)	+8:03.8
	46	Valentyna Semerenko	Ukraine	2:15	DNS
	57	Megan Tandy	Canada	2:37	DNS

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References

↑ "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
↑ Start list
↑ "Results - Women's 10 km pursuit". 2018 Winter Olympics official site. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
↑ Final results

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[1] "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

[2] Start list

[3] "Results - Women's 10 km pursuit". 2018 Winter Olympics official site. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.

[4] Final results

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Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Qualification
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed
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