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5/10 kilometres Pursuit, Women

Date15 February 1994
StatusOlympic
LocationBirkebeineren Skistadion, Lillehammer
Participants55 from 17 countries
Format5 kilometres (Classical) style race on day one. On day two, runners left in order of their finish in the 5 kilometres (Classical), based on time differential, and skiied 10 kilometres (Freestyle), with final placements determined by finish of that race.
DetailsCourse Length: ?
Height Differential: 68 m
Maximum Climb: 51 m
Total Climbing: 420 m

This was the second women’s Olympic pursuit race. It was held on 13 February, with the 5 km classical skied in the morning, and the 10 km freestyle in the afternoon. Lyubov Yegorova, third in the 1993 World Championships, had won the 5 km in the morning and started 56 seconds ahead of Stefania Belmondo, who had won the 1993 World title in the pursuit. The second starter was Belmondo’s teammate, Manuela Di Centa, who was 20 seconds in back of Yegorova. In the pursuit, Belmondo would post the fastest time but she started too far behind to catch the leaders, eventually winning the bronze medal. Di Centa slightly outskied Yegorova in freestyle, but the Russian held on to win the gold medal by 8.3 seconds. This was Yegorova’s fifth Olympic gold medal, and she would add a sixth six days later in the relay. Di Centa would win a medal in all five cross-country events in Lillehammer, with golds in the 15 km and 30 km. Belmondo first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1988, and would compete through the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, eventually winning 10 Olympic medals, only the second woman to do so in the Winter Olympics.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
11Lyubov YegorovaRUS27:30.1Gold
22Manuela Di CentaITA27:38.4Silver
313Stefania BelmondoITA28:13.1Bronze
46Larisa LazutinaRUS28:28.6
511Nina GavrylyukRUS28:28.9
68Kateřina NeumannováCZE28:41.8
77Trude DybendahlNOR28:42.2
84Anita MoenNOR29:13.2
910Antonina OrdinaSWE29:23.5
1023Sophie VilleneuveFRA29:28.8
1120Sylvia HoneggerSUI29:30.9
1212Elin NilsenNOR29:35.4
133Marja-Liisa KirvesniemiFIN29:49.6
1415Małgorzata RuchałaPOL29:49.7
159Pirkko MäättäFIN29:53.1
1626Fumiko AokiJPN30:00.4
1732Alžběta HavrančíkováSVK30:02.0
1824Gabriella ParuzziITA30:20.9
1916Svetlana NageykinaRUS30:23.7
2029Iryna Taranenko-TereliaUKR30:38.2
2114Marjut RoligFIN30:40.2
2231Bernadetta BocekPOL30:50.2
2337Barbara MettlerSUI31:08.3
2421Ľubomíra BalážováSVK31:20.1
2535Anna-Lena FritzonSWE31:29.5
2622Piret NiglasEST31:33.5
2730Kristina ŠmigunEST31:51.4
2838Dorota KwaśnyPOL31:53.6
2925Annika EvaldssonSWE32:03.4
3051Isabelle ManciniFRA32:12.8
3128Nina KemppelUSA32:13.8
3240Leslie ThompsonUSA32:22.6
3343Iveta ZelingerováCZE32:32.2
3419Bice VanzettaITA32:35.1
3548Tatiana KutlíkováSVK32:45.0
3650Sumiko YokoyamaJPN32:48.0
3717Anna FrithioffSWE32:50.1
3833Yelena VolodinaKAZ32:53.1
3942Silke SchwagerSUI33:10.1
4046Jaroslava BukvajováSVK33:20.3
4154Élisabeth TardyFRA33:29.9
4227Cristel VahtraEST33:32.3
4357Irina NikulchinaBUL33:38.6
4447Martina VondrováCZE33:43.9
4536Liudmila DidelevaBLR33:47.9
4639Silja SuijaEST33:55.3
4741Carole StanisièreFRA34:02.4
4856Oksana KotovaKAZ34:03.6
4944Alena PiirainenBLR34:06.4
5053Ingrid ButtsUSA34:31.6
5160Jasmin BaumannSUI35:01.2
5255Jana RázlováCZE35:38.8
5349Yelena ChernetsovaKAZ35:46.4
DNF59Kerrin PettyUSA
DNF34Alena SinkevichBLR
DNS5Inger Helene NybråtenNOR
DNS18Tuulikki PyykkönenFIN
DNS45Sviatlana KamotskayaBLR
DNS52Nataliya ShtaymetsKAZ
DNS58Halina NowakPOL
DNS61Ineta KravaleLAT