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7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women

Date 9 February 2014 — 18:30
StatusOlympic
LocationKompleks Dlya Sorevnovaniy Po Lyzhnym Gonkam i Biatlonu Laura, Mountain Cluster, Krasnaya Polyana
Participants84 from 33 countries
FormatPenalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target.
DetailsCourse Length: 7,741 m
Height Differential: 31 m
Maximum Climb: 31 m
Shooting 1: Prone at 2.574 km, 50 m range
Shooting 2: Standing at 5.107 km, 50 m range
Total Climbing: 258 m

Former Russian (now Slovakian) Anastasia Kuzmina repeated as gold medalist in a surprising biathlon sprint, as the favorites fell short, with pre-race contender Olga Vilukhina placing second for Russia. Several of the early favorites missed on the easier prone stage, as Tora Berger missed one shot, Darya Domracheva missed one shot, and Gabriela Soukalová even missed three. Domracheva and Berger were in the top three among the early skiers but were bumped down in the later stages. Kuzmina was the defending champion and shot cleanly to repeat. Vilukhina, who shot cleanly, clawed her way up the standings late in the race to earn her silver, the home Russian crowd roaring as she came in second. Ukraine’s Vita Semerenko finished strongly to win the bronze medal, only 1.8 seconds behind Semerenko.

That was how the results stood until the Oswald Commission and the release of the McLaren Report in December 2016. Three Russian skiiers were disqualified retroactively for doping - Yana Romanova, Olga Zaytseva, and Olga Vilukhina, with Vilukhina losing her silver medal. As of April 2019, it had not been re-allocated. However, in February 2020, Vilukhina was reinstated after an appeal to CAS and her silver medal was restored.

PosCompetitorNOCTimeMissesShooting 1 MissesShooting 1Shooting 2 MissesShooting 2
1Anastasia KuzminaSVK21:06.8007:28.5 (3)014:34.5 (1)Gold
2Olga VilukhinaRUS21:26.7007:33.7 (8)014:54.8 (2)Silver1
3Vita SemerenkoUKR21:28.5007:42.7 (19)015:01.2 (5)Bronze
4Karin OberhoferITA21:34.7007:36.4 (=11)015:02.6 (7)
5Anaïs BescondFRA21:36.7117:49.7 (33)015:06.6 (10)
6Dorothea WiererITA21:37.4007:42.3 (18)014:58.2 (3)
7Weronika Nowakowska-ZiemniakPOL21:37.6117:47.8 (27)015:06.5 (9)
8Elisa GasparinSUI21:38.2007:37.0 (13)014:58.5 (4)
9Daria DomrachavaBLR21:38.6118:00.9 (41)015:21.1 (18)
10Tora BergerNOR21:40.6118:04.2 (=46)015:23.3 (22)
11Evi Sachenbacher-StehleGER21:40.8107:23.3 (1)115:07.3 (11)
12Valj SemerenkoUKR21:44.9107:28.0 (2)115:08.7 (12)
13Selina GasparinSUI21:46.5107:29.0 (4)115:19.4 (16)
14Susan DunkleeUSA21:48.3107:38.4 (15)115:24.2 (23)
15Teja GregorinSLO21:48.9107:33.5 (7)115:20.5 (17)
16Veronika VítkováCZE21:50.8007:31.3 (6)015:01.4 (6)
17Nadzeya SkardzinaBLR21:50.9007:46.8 (25)015:14.1 (14)
18Tiril EckhoffNOR21:51.4107:38.7 (16)115:21.4 (19)
19Yana RomanovaRUS21:53.4007:35.1 (10)015:04.4 (8)2
20Marie Dorin-HabertFRA21:55.0007:43.4 (23)015:23.2 (21)
21Monika HojniszPOL21:55.1007:48.2 (29)015:13.2 (13)
22Andrea HenkelGER22:01.5107:33.8 (9)115:16.9 (15)
23Eva TofalviROU22:01.5118:02.9 (43)015:24.9 (25)
24Ann Kristin FlatlandNOR22:10.6107:40.8 (17)115:32.5 (26)
25Rosanna CrawfordCAN22:10.8107:37.9 (14)115:24.6 (24)
26Olena PidhrushnaUKR22:12.8107:47.1 (26)115:33.0 (27)
27Lisa Theresa HauserAUT22:15.6007:53.3 (36)015:33.5 (28)
28Gabriela SoukalováCZE22:17.5338:29.7 (68)015:46.0 (32)
29Kaisa MäkäräinenFIN22:18.4207:30.3 (5)215:47.1 (33)
30Megan ImrieCAN22:19.5107:48.1 (28)115:38.8 (30)
31Zina KocherCAN22:25.5218:03.6 (45)116:13.6 (48)
32Krystyna PałkaPOL22:27.8118:03.5 (44)015:40.0 (31)
33Nastassia DubarezavaBLR22:29.7107:36.4 (=11)115:34.4 (29)
34Synnøve SolemdalNOR22:32.1218:04.2 (=46)115:52.3 (35)
35Mari LaukkanenFIN22:37.3207:43.2 (21)216:01.4 (=41)
36Liudmila KalinchykBLR22:37.8218:05.1 (49)115:52.1 (34)
37Michela PonzaITA22:47.0008:06.3 (50)015:53.9 (=36)
38Fuyuko SuzukiJPN22:47.4107:53.6 (37)115:53.9 (=36)
39Magdalena GwizdońPOL22:51.2218:12.8 (56)116:01.4 (=41)
40Franziska PreußGER22:53.1228:25.4 (63)016:03.1 (43)
41Yuliya DzhimaUKR22:55.5318:04.8 (48)216:22.6 (52)
42Janka GerekováSVK22:58.0317:49.6 (32)216:11.5 (47)
43Sara StudebakerUSA22:59.5118:32.2 (70)016:15.9 (50)
44Eva PuskarčíkováCZE23:00.9118:27.4 (66)016:14.5 (49)
45Laura DahlmeierGER23:03.2207:48.4 (30)216:18.9 (51)
46Anaïs ChevalierFRA23:03.4107:49.9 (34)115:57.4 (39)
47Johanna TalihärmEST23:09.3008:06.9 (51)016:01.0 (40)
48Zhang YanCHN23:09.4008:12.6 (54)016:09.7 (44)
49Jitka LandováCZE23:16.9218:21.8 (60)116:30.8 (56)
50Diana RasimovičiūtėLTU23:18.6218:17.6 (58)116:30.1 (55)
51Victoria PadialESP23:21.5107:59.7 (40)116:10.6 (45)
52Annelies CookUSA23:23.4207:42.8 (20)216:23.1 (53)
53Nicole GontierITA23:26.3417:54.2 (38)316:37.6 (60)
54Tang JialinCHN23:26.7207:43.6 (24)216:35.1 (59)
55Marie-Laure BrunetFRA23:27.4007:56.9 (39)015:54.7 (38)
56Yelena KhrustalyovaKAZ23:29.6228:54.1 (78)016:39.7 (61)
57Darya UsanovaKAZ23:33.3118:36.1 (72)016:29.2 (54)
58Megan HeinickeCAN23:34.5318:10.3 (52)216:46.2 (62)
59Yekaterina ShumilovaRUS23:38.4207:43.3 (22)216:11.3 (46)
60Desislava StoyanovaBUL23:48.1218:30.4 (69)116:51.8 (65)
61Martina ChrapánováSVK23:48.3207:48.8 (31)216:30.9 (57)
62Song ChaoqingCHN23:49.5118:22.1 (61)016:31.4 (58)
63Galina VishnevskayaKAZ23:52.0328:41.2 (73)116:57.1 (67)
64Hannah DreissigackerUSA23:55.0418:10.6 (53)317:01.3 (70)
65Laure SouliéAND23:57.8218:25.9 (64)116:48.8 (63)
66Darja JurlovaEST24:01.1218:25.0 (62)116:51.7 (64)
67Yuki NakajimaJPN24:12.9218:28.5 (67)116:53.6 (66)
68Kadri LehtlaEST24:13.3428:42.3 (74)217:17.8 (73)
69Emőke SzőcsHUN24:15.4208:12.7 (55)216:58.9 (68)
70Grete GaimEST24:18.2218:34.0 (71)117:01.1 (69)
71Paulína FialkováSVK24:27.1538:45.2 (76)217:24.1 (75)
72Marina LebedevaKAZ24:31.9218:43.2 (75)117:15.8 (72)
73Mun Ji-HuiKOR24:32.0108:13.7 (57)117:01.6 (71)
74Amanda LightfootGBR24:48.9328:55.8 (79)117:36.6 (76)
75Katharina InnerhoferAUT24:49.0418:02.3 (42)317:20.9 (74)
76Jaque MourãoBRA25:06.4108:26.3 (65)117:37.2 (77)
77Tanja KarišikBIH25:06.8218:57.3 (80)117:43.7 (78)
78Žanna JuškāneLAT25:36.5628:45.6 (77)418:19.8 (80)
79Rina SuzukiJPN25:40.6208:20.1 (59)217:44.5 (79)
80Miki KobayashiJPN25:52.3519:02.0 (82)418:53.8 (82)
81Lucy GlanvilleAUS26:57.1209:00.1 (81)218:53.3 (81)
82Sung NaCHN27:01.5439:42.6 (84)119:04.4 (83)
83Alexandra CamenșcicMDA27:37.0529:39.2 (83)319:52.7 (84)
DQOlga ZaytsevaRUS[22:16.6][1][1][7:51.7] ([35])[0][15:22.1] ([20])3