2002 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Pursuit (Women)

sport	biathlon
discipline	10 km pursuit
gender	Women
Attendees	52 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Soldier Hollow
Competition phase	February 16, 2002
Winning time	31: 07.7 min
Medalists  Olga Pyljowa ( RUS )  Kati Wilhelm ( GER )  Irina Nikultschina ( BUL )
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Biathlon competitions at the 2002 Winter Olympics
sprint	Women	Men
persecution	Women	Men
Mass start	Women	Men
singles	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men

The women's biathlon 10km pursuit at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Soldier Hollow on February 10th . Of the 60 best athletes in the sprint competition , 52 from 21 nations started.

Kati Wilhelm , who had already won the sprint, was the first to go into the cross-country ski run with a lead of 16 seconds over her compatriot Uschi Disl . Magdalena Forsberg from Sweden and Liv Grete Poirée from Norway took up the chase, 39 and 43 seconds respectively . After the first shooting, Wilhelm dropped back to sixth with three shooting errors. Disl also made two mistakes and so Forsberg was able to take the lead from Poirée, who had to complete a penalty loop, with a faultless shooting.

However, the two leaders failed in the second shooting and had to run a penalty loop. Wilhelm, however, did better and hit all five targets. The Slovenian Andreja Grašič and the Bulgarian Irina Nikultschina , who already made no mistakes in the first shooting, were able to call this performance again. So the two of them took up the pursuit of the leading Forsberg with Wilhelm.

Poirée and Forsberg both cleared the third shooting and left the shooting range together after the Swede lost some time while running on the Norwegian. Nikultschina and Grašič, who shot for the third time without errors, followed the duo with a deficit of five seconds and 15 seconds respectively. Wilhelm, on the other hand, missed the target with her fourth shot and fell back to fifth place, 30 seconds behind. She was followed at short intervals by Disl, the French Florence Baverel-Robert and the two Russian Galina Kuklewa and Olga Pyljowa .

The last shooting was a real thriller. Nikultschina had caught up with Poirée and Forsberg and everyone came together to the shooting range. However, each of the athletes showed nerves and so they each shot twice. While the leading trio was in the penalty loop, the chasing group began shooting for the medal ranks. The French Baverel-Robert missed twice and Disl's poor shooting performance continued with three more penalties. Grašič and Kuklewa also made a mistake and were no longer involved in the battle for the podium. Wilhelm and Pyljowa, however, each met all five and went to the final round together. Forsberg, Skjelbreid-Poirée and Nikultschina also went into the last lap together, but were already more than 10 seconds behind the duo at the top. In the end, the Russian prevailed with a lead of 5 seconds over Wilhelm and thus secured the Olympic victory. In the battle for bronze, Forsberg had it demolished. Despite the second-best running time on the last lap, Poirée was unable to prevail in the duel against the former cross-country skier Nikultschina, because she ran the fastest time on the last lap and thus secured the bronze medal.

Competition description

The 60 best athletes from the previous sprint race qualified for the 10 km pursuit . The winner of the sprint went into the race first, the other athletes started with the time gap they had at the finish of the sprint. There were four 2.5 km long and one 2.75 km long running laps to be completed, after the first four the athletes had to hit five targets at the shooting range in the order lying-lying-standing-standing. For each target not hit, the athlete had to complete a 150-meter penalty loop. The winner was whoever reached the finish line first.

Results

rank	Stnr,	athlete	country	Start time	Time (min)	Penalties (L + L + S + S)	Deficit (min)
1	8th	Olga Pylyova	Russia	1:03	31: 07.7	1 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0)
2	1	Kati Wilhelm	Germany	0:00	31: 13.0	4 (3 + 0 + 1 + 0)	+0: ​​05.3
3	11	Irina Nikultschina	Bulgaria	1:16	31: 15.8	2 (0 + 0 + 0 + 2)	+0: ​​08.1
4th	4th	Liv Grete Poirée	Norway	0:43	31: 18.3	4 (1 + 1 + 0 + 2)	+0: ​​10.6
5	6th	Galina Kuklewa	Russia	0:51	31: 31.7	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+0: ​​24.0
6th	3	Magdalena Forsberg	Sweden	0:39	31: 34.0	3 (0 + 1 + 0 + 2)	+0: ​​26.3
7th	12	Katrin Apel	Germany	1:20	31: 47.9	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+0: ​​40.2
8th	10	Andreja Grašič	Slovenia	1:14	32: 01.9	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+0: ​​54.2
9	2	Uschi Disl	Germany	0:16	32: 21.2	7 (2 + 2 + 0 + 3)	+1: 13.5
10	15th	Ekaterina Dafowska	Bulgaria	1:36	32: 22.6	2 (0 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+1: 14.9
11	14th	Wolha Nasarawa	Belarus	1:33	32: 24.5	1 (0 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+1: 16.8
12	17th	Pavlina Filipova	Bulgaria	1:39	32: 35.1	2 (0 + 0 + 2 + 0)	+1: 27.4
13	25th	Andrea Henkel	Germany	2:00	32: 35.4	1 (0 + 0 + 1 + 0)	+1: 27.7
14th	5	Florence Baverel-Robert	France	0:46	32: 39.8	3 (1 + 0 + 0 + 2)	+1: 32.1
15th	19th	Svetlana Ischmuratowa	Russia	1:46	32: 50.3	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+1: 42.6
16	16	Gunn Margit Andreassen	Norway	1:38	32: 56.8	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+1: 49.1
17th	7th	Sandrine Bailly	France	0:54	32: 57.2	4 (2 + 0 + 0 + 2)	+1: 49.5
18th	13	Martina Jašicová	Slovakia	1:30	33: 26.4	2 (0 + 0 + 2 + 0)	+2: 18.7
19th	18th	Anna Bogali	Russia	1:44	33: 40.0	3 (0 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+2: 32.3
20th	24	Sanna-Leena Perunka	Finland	1:58	33: 44.5	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+2: 36.8
21st	21st	Soňa Mihoková	Slovakia	1:51	33: 57.4	3 (1 + 0 + 2 + 0)	+2: 49.7
22nd	39	Kateřina Losmanová	Czech Republic	2:33	34: 04.7	2 (1 + 1 + 0 + 0)	+2: 57.0
23	29	Tamami Tanaka	Japan	2:19	34: 07.7	2 (0 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+3: 00.0
24	30th	Hiromi Suga	Japan	2:22	34: 18.8	1 (0 + 0 + 0 + 1)	+3: 11.1
25th	34	Eva Háková	Czech Republic	2:28	34: 20.1	2 (0 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+3: 12.4
26th	31	Tetiana Vodopyanova	Ukraine	2:22	34: 23.0	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)	+3: 15.3
27	9	Corinne Niogret	France	1:09	34: 35.3	3 (1 + 2 + 0 + 0)	+3: 27.6
28	44	Jauhenija Kuzapalawa	Belarus	2:45	34: 40.1	2 (0 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+3: 32.4
29	26th	Lucija Larisi	Slovenia	2:03	34: 40.2	4 (1 + 1 + 0 + 2)	+3: 32.5
30th	33	Elena Khrustalyova	Belarus	2:25	34: 41.5	2 (0 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+3: 33.8
31	22nd	Irena Česneková	Czech Republic	1:52	34: 41.7	3 (1 + 1 + 1 + 0)	+3: 34.0
32	27	Andreja Mali	Slovenia	2:04	34: 46.3	3 (0 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+3: 38.6
33	23	Delphyne Burlet	France	1:56	34: 48.4	3 (0 + 0 + 3 + 0)	+3: 40.7
34	32	Magda Rezlerová	Czech Republic	2:24	35: 02.9	4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+3: 55.2
35	35	Anna Murínová	Slovakia	2:29	35: 14.6	3 (1 + 1 + 0 + 1)	+4: 06.9
36	28	Ryoko Takahashi	Japan	2:17	35: 20.6	3 (0 + 1 + 2 + 0)	+4: 12.9
37	37	Outi kettuns	Finland	2:30	35: 48.6	4 (1 + 0 + 2 + 1)	+4: 40.9
38	46	Michela Ponza	Italy	2:55	35: 54.7	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)	+4: 47.0
39	38	Ann-Elen Skjelbreid	Norway	2:33	35: 56.6	6 (1 + 1 + 2 + 2)	+4: 48.9
40	53	Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen	Norway	3:31	36: 13.9	4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+5: 06.2
41	45	Mami Shindo	Japan	2:55	36: 28.6	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	+5: 20.9
42	36	Saskia Santer	Italy	2:30	36: 41.8	7 (1 + 2 + 2 + 2)	+5: 34.1
43	43	Anna Stera-Kustusz	Poland	2:43	36: 59.3	4 (0 + 1 + 2 + 1)	+5: 51.6
44	20th	Yu Shumei	China	1:48	37: 02.6	6 (1 + 2 + 3 + 0)	+5: 54.9
45	49	Kara Hermanson Salmela	United States	3:03	37: 07.7	5 (2 + 0 + 1 + 2)	+6: 00.0
46	52	Katja Holanti	Finland	3:26	37: 41.7	6 (2 + 1 + 2 + 1)	+6: 34.0
47	50	Andrea Nahrgang	United States	3:07	38: 08.5	3 (0 + 1 + 1 + 1)	+7: 00.8
48	51	Valentina Ciurina	Moldova	3:08	38: 19.7	5 (2 + 1 + 2 + 0)	+7: 12.0
	54	Anita Nyman	Finland	3:36	LAP	(2 + 2 + 3 +)	LAP
	55	Dana Cojocea	Romania	3:36		(2 + 0 + 3 +)
	58	Andžela Brice	Latvia	3:51		(0 + 0 + 3 +)
	60	Rachel Steer	United States	4:00		(2 + 4 ++)
	40	Nathalie Santer	Italy	2:33	DNS
	41	Iwa Karagyosova	Bulgaria	2:37
	42	Liu Xianying	China	2:38
	47	Nina Lemesch	Ukraine	2:56
	48	Olena Petrova	Ukraine	3:00
	56	Kong Yingchao	China	3:49
	57	Sun Ribo	China	3:51
	59	Alena Subrylawa	Ukraine	3:52

Web links

• Results (pdf)