The Women's 15 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 13 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets won at this track at the pre-Olympic trial event in 2005, when she finished in a time of 50:47.9 with one penalty minute, while Andrea Henkel was the defending World and Olympic champion.(ed) Tore Johansen, Egil Svendsby Sportsboken 2005, pg. 225, Chr. Schibsteds Forlag 2005. Henkel had not won a 15 km World Cup race apart from these two wins in the Championships, however,PROFILE - ANDREA HENKEL (GER) from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 19 January 2006 and Sweden's Anna Carin Olofsson was the World Cup leader before the Games.
Russia's Olga Pyleva originally placed second in the race, but was found to be in violation of anti-doping rules when she tested positive for carphedon, and she was then disqualified.
Results The race was held at 12:00.Final results Rank Bib Name Country Result Penalties Deficit 15 Svetlana Ishmouratova 49:24.1 1 (0+0+1+0) 32 Martina Glagow 50:34.9 2 (0+1+0+1) +1:10.8 26 Albina Akhatova 50:55.0 2 (1+0+0+1) +1:30.9 10 Andrea Henkel 51:46.3 2 (0+0+0+2) +2:22.2 35 Krystyna Pałka 51:50.7 0 (0+0+0+0) +2:26.6 38 Sandrine Bailly 51:58.2 3 (1+1+0+1) +2:34.1 13 Olga Nazarova 51:59.6 2 (2+0+0+0) +2:35.5 31 Natalia Levchenkova 52:11.7 2 (0+2+0+0) +2:47.6 27 Liv Grete Poirée 52:22.0 3 (0+0+0+3) +2:57.9 10 5 Madara Līduma 52:27.2 4 (1+1+1+1) +3:03.1 11 47 Ekaterina Dafovska 52:45.1 3 (0+1+1+1) +3:21.0 12 18 Uschi Disl 52:49.7 5 (0+2+0+3) +3:25.6 13 40 Tora Berger 52:53.4 2 (1+1+0+0) +3:29.3 14 9 Olena Zubrilova 52:55.6 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:31.5 15 42 Anna Carin Olofsson 52:55.8 5 (1+3+0+1) +3:31.7 16 6 Kati Wilhelm 52:59.0 5 (0+0+3+2) +3:34.9 17 12 Michela Ponza 53:01.4 2 (0+0+1+1) +3:37.3 18 39 Teja Gregorin 53:03.7 3 (0+2+0+1) +3:39.6 19 24 Éva Tófalvi 53:04.3 2 (0+1+0+1) +3:40.2 20 34 Oksana Khvostenko 53:22.5 1 (0+0+0+1) +3:58.4 21 77 Andreja Mali 53:46.0 1 (1+0+0+0) +4:21.9 22 25 Marcela Pavkovčeková 53:52.8 3 (0+0+1+2) +4:28.7 23 3 Liu Xianying 53:55.6 5 (1+3+0+1) +4:31.5 24 8 Sylvie Becaert 53:59.0 2 (0+1+1+0) +4:34.9 25 51 Kong Yingchao 54:03.5 3 (0+1+1+1) +4:39.4 26 36 Florence Baverel-Robert 54:14.1 5 (4+0+1+0) +4:50.0 27 46 Zina Kocher 54:18.8 3 (0+2+0+1) +4:54.7 28 57 Irina Nikoultchina 54:29.3 6 (1+2+2+1) +5:05.2 29 37 Olena Petrova 54:35.6 3 (0+2+0+1) +5:11.5 30 63 Dijana Grudiček 55:01.3 4 (0+1+1+2) +5:37.2 31 60 Yin Qiao 55:06.2 4 (2+1+0+1) +5:42.1 32 54 Tamami Tanaka 55:10.5 4 (2+0+1+1) +5:46.4 33 7 Magdalena Gwizdon 55:17.5 4 (1+1+1+1) +5:53.4 34 49 Martina Halinárová 55:17.7 4 (2+1+0+1) +5:53.6 35 28 Anna Bogaliy 55:18.4 5 (0+2+1+2) +5:54.3 36 58 Lilia Efremova 55:28.0 5 (2+2+0+1) +6:03.9 37 30 Kanae Meguro 55:28.4 5 (0+3+1+1) +6:04.3 38 76 Barbara Ertl 55:30.0 2 (1+0+0+1) +6:05.9 39 22 Tadeja Brankovič 55:38.9 6 (0+2+1+3) +6:14.8 40 69 Delphyne Peretto 55:40.5 3 (1+1+1+0) +6:16.4 41 53 Rachel Steer 55:48.3 3 (1+1+1+0) +6:24.2 42 29 Sandra Keith 55:56.3 2 (1+0+0+1) +6:32.2 43 21 Pavlina Filipova 56:07.7 5 (1+0+1+3) +6:43.6 44 50 Ekaterina Ivanova 56:09.7 6 (3+0+2+1) +6:45.6 45 48 Kateřina Holubcová 56:17.9 4 (0+0+3+1) +6:53.8 46 80 Valj Semerenko 56:22.6 3 (0+1+1+1) +6:58.5 47 67 Soňa Mihoková 56:29.5 5 (1+0+3+1) +7:05.4 48 61 Anzela Brice 56:30.5 2 (0+0+0+2) +7:06.4 49 19 Anna Lebedeva 56:46.5 4 (1+1+1+1) +7:22.4 50 17 Linda Tjørhom 56:47.8 6 (2+2+0+2) +7:23.7 51 43 Saskia Santer 56:52.1 6 (1+2+1+2) +7:28.0 52 62 Nathalie Santer 57:08.4 6 (0+2+1+3) +7:44.3 53 20 Zdeňka Vejnarová 57:14.3 6 (4+1+1+0) +7:50.2 54 78 Nina Kadeva 57:15.0 5 (2+1+0+2) +7:50.9 55 66 Ikuyo Tsukidate 57:20.4 4 (1+2+0+1) +7:56.3 56 79 Katarzyna Ponikwia 57:32.7 4 (2+1+1+0) +8:08.6 57 2 Tracey Barnes 57:58.0 1 (1+0+0+0) +8:33.9 58 23 Hou Yuxia 58:35.7 9 (1+2+2+4) +9:11.6 59 75 Jana Gereková 58:37.2 5 (1+2+1+1) +9:13.1 60 11 Gunn Margit Andreassen 59:04.3 6 (0+0+1+5) +9:40.2 61 65 Magda Rezlerová 59:18.0 6 (1+2+3+0) +9:53.9 62 64 Sarah Konrad 59:33.1 10 (2+2+4+2) +10:09.0 63 41 Linda Savļaka 59:44.3 3 (3+0+0+0) +10:20.2 64 73 Lanny Barnes 59:46.2 4 (1+2+0+1) +10:22.1 65 56 Martine Albert 59:52.1 5 (2+0+0+3) +10:28.0 66 1 Diana Rasimovičiūtė 8 (3+2+1+2) +10:40.3 67 71 Irena Česneková 7 (3+0+2+2) +10:43.9 68 70 Alexandra Rusu 5 (1+3+0+1) +10:49.6 69 82 Tomomi Otaka 6 (1+2+2+1) +10:58.1 70 72 Gerda Krumina 4 (0+1+1+2) +11:02.0 71 68 Magdalena Grzywa 7 (2+0+3+2) +11:17.2 72 45 Dana Elena Plotogea 7 (2+1+2+2) +11:21.4 73 14 Eveli Saue 5 (3+1+0+1) +11:29.5 74 4 Aleksandra Vasiljević 1 (1+0+0+0) +11:47.7 75 81 Mihaela Purdea 7 (3+2+2+0) +12:47.4 76 59 Kseniya Zikunkova 8 (1+2+2+3) +12:53.4 77 74 Marie-Pierre Parent 4 (0+3+0+1) +13:33.0 78 52 Emma Fowler 7 (0+3+1+3) +14:14.8 79 16 Petra Starčević 8 (4+1+1+2) +17:25.5 80 33 Zsofia Gottschall 8 (1+3+1+3) +18:53.2 81 55 Verónica Isbej 7 (2+2+1+2) +25:31.2 44 Olga Pyleva 50:09.6 1 (1+0+0+0)
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