The women's 7.5 km sprint competition of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics was held on 10 February 2018 at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Start list
Summary The field included the defending champion Anastasiya Kuzmina (who also won gold in 2010), the 2014 bronze medalist Vita Semerenko, and the 2010 bronze medalist Marie Dorin Habert. None of them returned to the podium, although Dorin Habert finished in the 4th position.
Kuzmina had the best time in the first 2.5 km but missed twice in the prone shooting and was out of medal contention after that. After the shooting, Dorothea Wierer was leading, closely followed by several athletes, but she missed twice at the standing shooting and dropped out of contention as well. After the second shooting, Laura Dahlmeier was the only athlete in the leading group who had not missed any targets. She had a lead of 13 seconds over Veronika Vítková and Marte Olsbu, and more than 20 seconds over other athletes. However, Vítková and Olsbu were early starters, and Dahlmeier did not have difficulties preserving the lead and eventually finishing in first position. Olsbu, who started just before Vítková, and after the second shooting was behind her by 0.1 seconds, won over a second on the last stretch, which was sufficient for an eventual silver medal. Vítková remained in the bronze medal position. Lisa Vittozzi, Irene Cadurisch, and Paulína Fialková were all losing about 10 seconds to Vítková and Olsbu after the second shooting (and all started after them and after Dahlmeier), but ran slower than they did. Dorin Habert was losing 13 seconds to Vítková and ran faster, but came to the finish in fourth position, 8 seconds behind Olsbu.
In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Valeriy Borzov, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Anders Besseberg, president of the IBU.
Qualification
Schedule All times are (UTC+9). Date Time Round 10 February 20:15 Final
Results The race was started at 20:15.Final results
Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+S) Deficit 23 Laura Dahlmeier 21:06.2 0 (0+0) 11 Marte Olsbu 21:30.4 1 (1+0) 12 Veronika Vítková 21:32.0 1 (0+1) 28 Marie Dorin Habert 21:39.3 1 (1+0) 39 Vanessa Hinz 21:46.5 1 (0+1) 48 Lisa Vittozzi 21:46.7 1 (0+1) 2 Hanna Öberg 21:47.0 1 (0+1) 87 Irene Cadurisch 21:51.7 1 (1+0) 15 Darya Domracheva 21:52.4 2 (1+1) 10 35 Justine Braisaz 21:54.1 2 (1+1) 11 55 Paulína Fialková 21:56.8 1 (1+0) 12 14 Franziska Hildebrand 21:59.9 1 (0+1) 13 25 Anastasiya Kuzmina 22:00.1 3 (2+1) 14 33 Vita Semerenko 22:00.7 1 (0+1) 15 71 Markéta Davidová 22:03.3 1 (1+0) 16 52 Anaïs Chevalier 22:15.6 2 (1+1) +1:09.4 17 5 Iryna Kryuko 22:17.4 1 (0+1) +1:11.2 18 57 Dorothea Wierer 22:20.3 2 (0+2) +1:14.1 19 8 Anaïs Bescond 22:20.8 2 (0+2) +1:14.6 20 17 Tatiana Akimova 22:24.2 0 (0+0) +1:18.0 21 3 Denise Herrmann 22:25.8 2 (0+2) +1:19.6 22 13 Johanna Talihärm 22:27.0 1 (0+1) +1:20.8 23 36 Jessica Jislová 22:29.1 1 (1+0) +1:22.9 24 59 Tiril Eckhoff 22:32.4 4 (3+1) +1:26.2 25 19 Kaisa Mäkäräinen 22:36.4 3 (2+1) +1:30.2 26 62 Lena Häcki 22:39.7 3 (1+2) +1:33.5 27 30 Mona Brorsson 22:42.2 2 (1+1) +1:36.0 28 50 Krystyna Guzik 22:43.3 1 (1+0) +1:37.1 29 34 Katharina Innerhofer 22:51.5 1 (0+1) +1:45.3 30 18 Galina Vishnevskaya 22:52.2 2 (2+0) +1:46.0 31 29 Elisa Gasparin 22:52.4 2 (0+2) +1:46.2 32 45 Anna Frolina 22:56.9 3 (2+1) +1:50.7 33 44 Uliana Kaisheva 22:58.5 2 (1+1) +1:52.3 34 10 Weronika Nowakowska 23:03.2 2 (1+1) +1:57.0 35 83 Elisabeth Högberg 23:05.9 1 (0+1) +1:59.7 36 38 Nadezhda Skardino 23:07.8 3 (2+1) +2:01.6 37 69 Linn Persson 23:11.5 3 (1+2) +2:05.3 38 70 Zhang Yan 23:14.0 1 (1+0) +2:07.8 39 58 Baiba Bendika 23:14.6 4 (3+1) +2:08.4 40 49 Julia Ransom 23:15.0 1 (0+1) +2:08.8 41 9 Selina Gasparin 23:18.4 4 (3+1) +2:12.2 42 16 Fuyuko Tachizaki 23:19.7 1 (0+1) +2:13.5 43 24 Eva Puskarčíková 23:19.8 3 (2+1) +2:13.6 44 4 Nicole Gontier 23:20.0 3 (2+1) +2:13.8 45 77 Monika Hojnisz 23:20.6 3 (1+2) +2:14.4 46 26 Valentyna Semerenko 23:20.9 3 (2+1) +2:14.7 46 27 Anja Eržen 23:20.9 3 (2+1) +2:14.7 48 76 Dunja Zdouc 23:21.0 0 (0+0) +2:14.8 49 53 Sari Furuya 23:21.5 2 (1+1) +2:15.3 50 86 Synnøve Solemdal 23:23.9 3 (1+2) +2:17.7 51 81 Emily Dreissigacker 23:27.2 1 (0+1) +2:21.0 52 67 Nadzeya Pisarava 23:29.1 2 (0+2) +2:22.9 53 22 Rosanna Crawford 23:29.2 3 (1+2) +2:23.0 54 61 Emma Lunder 23:30.4 2 (0+2) +2:24.2 55 7 Anastasiya Merkushyna 23:32.3 3 (2+1) +2:26.1 56 68 Magdalena Gwizdoń 23:35.7 3 (0+3) +2:29.5 57 80 Megan Tandy 23:42.8 2 (1+1) +2:36.6 58 82 Darya Klimina 23:47.7 3 (2+1) +2:41.5 59 72 Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold 23:49.1 4 (2+2) +2:42.9 60 46 Emilia Yordanova 23:50.0 1 (1+0) +2:43.8 61 47 Clare Egan 23:51.6 3 (1+2) +2:45.4 62 1 Lisa Hauser 23:58.9 4 (3+1) +2:52.7 63 43 Olga Poltoranina 23:59.6 2 (0+2) +2:53.4 64 21 Mari Laukkanen 24:00.6 5 (3+2) +2:54.4 65 75 Diana Rasimovičiūtė 24:00.8 1 (1+0) +2:54.6 66 6 Susan Dunklee 24:13.1 5 (1+4) +3:06.9 67 51 Amanda Lightfoot 24:15.3 3 (2+1) +3:09.1 68 78 Yurie Tanaka 24:21.6 2 (1+1) +3:15.4 69 31 Federica Sanfilippo 24:30.1 3 (2+1) +3:23.9 70 40 Tang Jialin 24:30.3 3 (1+2) +3:24.1 71 73 Alina Raikova 24:33.8 3 (0+3) +3:27.6 72 37 Daniela Kadeva 24:39.2 3 (2+1) +3:33.0 73 42 Iryna Varvynets 24:48.1 5 (1+4) +3:41.9 74 66 Ivona Fialková 24:48.6 5 (2+3) +3:42.4 75 56 Urška Poje 24:52.8 4 (0+4) +3:46.6 76 65 Desislava Stoyanova 24:54.3 5 (2+3) +3:48.1 77 41 Laura Toivanen 24:55.4 1 (0+1) +3:49.2 78 84 Ko Eun-jung 25:12.1 2 (1+1) +4:05.9 79 60 Venla Lehtonen 25:13.7 3 (3+0) +4:07.5 80 54 Natalija Kočergina 25:16.2 5 (1+4) +4:10.0 81 32 Éva Tófalvi 25:20.0 4 (2+2) +4:13.8 82 20 Mun Ji-hee 25:26.6 6 (2+4) +4:20.4 83 79 Terézia Poliaková 25:32.2 5 (1+4) +4:26.0 84 85 Milena Todorova 25:33.6 2 (1+1) +4:27.4 85 74 Rina Mitsuhashi 25:53.1 5 (3+2) +4:46.9 86 64 Joanne Reid 26:18.8 7 (4+3) +5:12.6 87 63 Ekaterina Avvakumova 26:24.9 6 (3+3) +5:18.7
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