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7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women

Date23 February 1994 — 10:00
StatusOlympic
LocationBirkebeineren Skistadion, Lillehammer
Participants69 from 28 countries
FormatPenalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.
DetailsCourse Length: 7,939 m
Height Differential: 57 m
Maximum Climb: 30 m
Shooting 1: Prone at ? km, 50 m range
Shooting 2: Standing at ? km, 50 m range
Total Climbing: 271 m

The early leader was Ukrainian Valentyna Tserbe-Nessina, who started 10th and shot cleanly for a perfect series, finishing in 26:10.0. Her time held up until the 55th starter came into the stadium, Svetlana Paramygina, who was leading the seasonal World Cup. Paramygina narrowly edged out Tserbe-Nessina, finishing in 26:09.9, although she had missed two targets early in her race. Canadian Myriam Bédard, the 1993 World Champion in the event, started right after Paramygina, and later entered the stadium with almost the same time as the two leaders. But Bédard finished strongly and crossed the line in 26:08.8, despite her two missed targets during the race. With the drama seemingly played out, the 62nd starter, Kazakhstan’s Inna Sheshkil came into the stadium, on the same pace as the leaders. But struggling from fatigue, she fell only two metres from the line, and although she got up and finished, she was 3.9 seconds out of the medals.

This was Bédard’s second gold medal in Lillehammer as she had already won the 15 km individual race. Her life after biathlon was not as easy for her. She first tried to switch to speed skating, without success. In 2002, while working in marketing with Via Rail, she raised concerns about the company’s financial dealings. She would later claim that, because of this, she was forced to leave that job. This would only become known in 2004 during the sponsorship scandal which occurred after Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien left office. She would later make headlines in December 2006 when she was arrested in Maryland, was charged with illegally spiriting her daughter out of Canada, violating a custody agreement she had with her ex-husband, and would be sentenced to two years probation.

PosCompetitorNOCTimeMissesShooting 1 MissesShooting 1Shooting 2 MissesShooting 2
1Myriam BédardCAN26:08.820– (–)2– (–)Gold
2Sviatlana ParamihinaBLR26:09.922– (–)0– (–)Silver
3Valentyna Tserbe-NesinaUKR26:10.000– (–)0– (–)Bronze
4Inna SheshkilKAZ26:13.920– (–)2– (–)
5Petra SchaafGER26:33.622– (–)0– (–)
6Iryna KakuyevaBLR26:38.420– (–)2– (–)
7Nathalie SanterITA26:38.831– (–)2– (–)
8Simone Greiner-Petter-MemmGER26:46.533– (–)0– (–)
9Eva HákováCZE26:48.211– (–)0– (–)
10Elin KristiansenNOR26:53.500– (–)0– (–)
11Iva ShkodrevaBUL27:00.600– (–)0– (–)
12Soňa MihokováSVK27:03.821– (–)1– (–)
13Uschi DislGER27:04.121– (–)1– (–)
14Olena OhurtsovaUKR27:06.821– (–)1– (–)
15Martina JašicováSVK27:11.621– (–)1– (–)
16Mari LampinenFIN27:14.522– (–)0– (–)
17Ann-Elen SkjelbreidNOR27:17.710– (–)1– (–)
18Andreja GrašičSLO27:17.932– (–)1– (–)
19Nadezhda TalanovaRUS27:18.121– (–)1– (–)
20Véronique ClaudelFRA27:28.211– (–)0– (–)
21Kerryn RimAUS27:32.320– (–)2– (–)
22Annette SikvelandNOR27:32.821– (–)1– (–)
23Song AiqinCHN27:33.510– (–)1– (–)
=24Joan SmithUSA27:39.120– (–)2– (–)
=24Tuija SikiöFIN27:39.100– (–)0– (–)
26Antje HarveyGER27:46.530– (–)3– (–)
27Corinne NiogretFRA27:48.132– (–)1– (–)
28Ieva VolfaLAT27:52.631– (–)2– (–)
29Ekaterina DafovskaBUL27:54.410– (–)1– (–)
30Anne Briand-BouthiauxFRA28:00.844– (–)0– (–)
31Eveli PetersonEST28:03.811– (–)0– (–)
32Anfisa ReztsovaRUS28:09.872– (–)5– (–)
33Maryna SkolotaUKR28:11.332– (–)1– (–)
34Iveta KnížkováCZE28:18.331– (–)2– (–)
35Emmanuelle ClaretFRA28:19.751– (–)4– (–)
36Tuija VuoksialaFIN28:23.232– (–)1– (–)
37Lise MelocheCAN28:25.011– (–)0– (–)
38Natallia PermiakovaBLR28:26.942– (–)2– (–)
39Luiza NoskovaRUS28:27.853– (–)2– (–)
40Sandra PaintinAUS28:31.110– (–)1– (–)
41Wang JinfenCHN28:36.153– (–)2– (–)
42Lyubov BelyakovaRUS28:37.022– (–)0– (–)
43Ileana Ianoşiu-HanganROU28:37.121– (–)1– (–)
44Yoshiko HondaJPN28:37.321– (–)1– (–)
45Gillian HamiltonCAN28:43.020– (–)2– (–)
46Anna BozsikHUN29:04.420– (–)2– (–)
47Hildegunn FossenNOR29:16.242– (–)2– (–)
48Kazimiera StrolienėLTU29:16.642– (–)2– (–)
49Jiřína PelcováCZE29:23.030– (–)3– (–)
50Liudmila LysenkaBLR29:23.932– (–)1– (–)
51Beth CoatsUSA29:24.333– (–)0– (–)
=52Mariya ManolovaBUL29:26.720– (–)2– (–)
=52Joan GuetschowUSA29:26.741– (–)3– (–)
54María GiroARG29:31.910– (–)1– (–)
55Adina ŞotropaROU29:34.832– (–)1– (–)
56Jelena VšivtsevaEST29:35.333– (–)0– (–)
57Halina PitońPOL29:39.242– (–)2– (–)
58Krista LepikEST29:40.152– (–)3– (–)
59Catarina EklundSWE29:44.622– (–)0– (–)
60Eva-Karin WestinSWE29:50.422– (–)0– (–)
61Pirjo AaltoFIN29:59.230– (–)3– (–)
62Anna SteraPOL30:04.532– (–)1– (–)
63Gabriela SůvováCZE30:25.842– (–)2– (–)
64Mary OstergrenUSA30:35.643– (–)1– (–)
65Brigitta BereczkiHUN30:42.440– (–)4– (–)
66Yevgeniya RoppelKGZ31:08.031– (–)2– (–)
67Christina EklundSWE31:10.054– (–)1– (–)
68Zofia KiełpińskaPOL31:11.174– (–)3– (–)
69Elena GorohovaMDA35:04.174– (–)3– (–)