7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women
| Date | 11 February 1992 — 13:45 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Les Saisies | |
| Participants | 69 from 20 countries | |
| Format | Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target. | |
| Details | Course Length: 7,350 m Height Differential: 57 m Maximum Climb: 39 m Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 279 m | |
This was the first women’s biathlon event at the Winter Olympics, although women had been competing in the World Cup since the 1982-83 season and at the World Championships since 1984. The early years of women’s international biathlon had been dominated by Norwegian and Swedish athletes. But in recent years the Soviet women, or at Albertville, the Unified Team women, had come on strong. The favorite was Norway’s Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo, the 1991 World Champion and a former cross-country skier. In the end the first women’s Olympic gold medal would go to a former cross-country Olympian, Anfisa Reztsova, who had won two medals in cross-country skiing at Calgary in 1988. She won the sprint despite three missed targets shooting, but her skiing was so powerful that she overcame that. The other two medalists also missed two targets, as skiing predominated in this event. Reztsova would go on to win the 1991-92 World Cup and would repeat in the 1992-93 season. Nykkelmo placed 31st, done in by five shooting misses.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | Misses | Shooting 1 Misses | Shooting 1 | Shooting 2 Misses | Shooting 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anfisa Reztsova |  EUN | 24:29.2 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Antje Misersky |  GER | 24:45.1 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Yelena Belova | EUN | 24:50.8 | 2 | 2 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Nadezhda Aleksieva |  BUL | 24:55.8 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 5 | Jiřína Adamičková |  TCH | 24:57.6 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 6 | Petra Schaaf | GER | 25:10.4 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 7 | Anne Briand |  FRA | 25:29.8 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 8 | Silvana Blagoeva | BUL | 25:33.5 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 9 | Delphyne Burlet | FRA | 25:50.5 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 10 | Inga Kesper | GER | 25:57.3 | 2 | 2 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 11 | Uschi Disl | GER | 25:58.9 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 12 | Myriam Bédard |  CAN | 26:04.6 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 13 | Svetlana Pechorskaya | EUN | 26:09.7 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 14 | Mia Stadig |  SWE | 26:15.0 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 15 | Elin Kristiansen |  NOR | 26:23.3 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 16 | Nathalie Santer |  ITA | 26:28.7 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 17 | Corinne Niogret | FRA | 26:32.3 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 18 | Gabriela Sůvová | TCH | 26:42.1 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 19 | Signe Trosten | NOR | 26:43.3 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 20 | Yelena Golovina | EUN | 26:50.3 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 21 | Joan Smith |  USA | 26:54.5 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 22 | Yoshiko Mikami |  JPN | 26:57.3 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 23 | Vera Vucheva | BUL | 27:01.0 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 24 | Véronique Claudel | FRA | 27:04.5 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 25 | Mary Ostergren | USA | 27:05.7 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 26 | Inger Björkbom | SWE | 27:13.1 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 27 | Kazimiera Strolienė |  LTU | 27:16.7 | 4 | 3 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 28 | Terhi Markkanen |  FIN | 27:20.7 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 29 | Song Aiqin |  CHN | 27:21.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 30 | Jelena Poljakova |  EST | 27:22.8 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 31 | Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo | NOR | 27:24.2 | 5 | 1 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 32 | Anne Elvebakk | NOR | 27:34.2 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 33 | Iva Shkodreva | BUL | 27:42.6 | 5 | 2 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 34 | Mari Lampinen | FIN | 27:46.1 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 35 | Wang Jinfen | CHN | 27:53.2 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 36 | María Giro |  ARG | 27:53.5 | 0 | 0 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 37 | Monika Schwingshackl | ITA | 27:56.1 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 38 | Adina Şotropa |  ROU | 27:57.0 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 39 | Kerryn Pethybridge |  AUS | 27:58.7 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 40 | Halina Pitoń |  POL | 28:11.7 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 41 | Iveta Knížková | TCH | 28:13.0 | 8 | 3 | – (–) | 5 | – (–) | |||
| 42 | Krista Lepik | EST | 28:18.6 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 43 | Anna Hermansson | SWE | 28:20.3 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 44 | Nancy Bell-Johnstone | USA | 28:20.6 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 45 | Tuija Sikiö | FIN | 28:21.4 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 46 | Agata Suszka | POL | 28:23.6 | 3 | 0 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 47 | Lise Meloche | CAN | 28:24.7 | 2 | 0 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 48 | Ileana Ianoşiu-Hangan | ROU | 28:32.1 | 5 | 3 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 49 | Erica Carrara | ITA | 28:38.5 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| =50 | Jane Isakson | CAN | 28:39.7 | 1 | 1 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| =50 | Zofia Kiełpińska | POL | 28:39.7 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 52 | Wang Jinping | CHN | 28:42.4 | 1 | 0 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 53 | Johanna Saarinen | FIN | 28:48.6 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 54 | Sandra Paintin | AUS | 28:50.0 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 55 | Mihaela Cârstoi | ROU | 29:10.5 | 3 | 3 | – (–) | 0 | – (–) | |||
| 56 | Siegrid Pallhuber | ITA | 29:23.1 | 5 | 3 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 57 | Christina Eklund | SWE | 29:25.9 | 4 | 2 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 58 | Eveli Peterson | EST | 29:31.4 | 5 | 1 | – (–) | 4 | – (–) | |||
| 59 | Yvonne Visser | CAN | 29:35.9 | 4 | 1 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 60 | Krystyna Liberda | POL | 29:39.9 | 7 | 5 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 61 | Brigitta Bereczki |  HUN | 29:42.6 | 6 | 3 | – (–) | 3 | – (–) | |||
| 62 | Helena Černohorská | TCH | 30:13.8 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 63 | Monica Jauca | ROU | 31:13.7 | 5 | 0 | – (–) | 5 | – (–) | |||
| 64 | Joan Guetschow | USA | 31:30.6 | 3 | 1 | – (–) | 2 | – (–) | |||
| 65 | Kathalin Czifra | HUN | 32:04.4 | 3 | 2 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 66 | Beatrix Holéczy | HUN | 32:44.5 | 2 | 1 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 67 | Anna Bozsik | HUN | 33:44.8 | 4 | 3 | – (–) | 1 | – (–) | |||
| 68 | Fabiana Lovece | ARG | 39:07.0 | 9 | 4 | – (–) | 5 | – (–) | |||
| Liu Giulan | CHN | – | – | – | – (–) | – | – (–) |