Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's individual


The Women's 15 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 13 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a competitor's skiing time.
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets won at this track at the pre-Olympic trial event in 2005, when she finished in a time of 50:47.9 with one penalty minute, while Andrea Henkel was the defending World and Olympic champion. Henkel had not won a 15 km World Cup race apart from these two wins in the Championships, however, and Sweden's Anna Carin Olofsson was the World Cup leader before the Games.
Olga Pyleva originally placed second in the race, but was found to be in violation of anti-doping rules when she tested positive for carphedon, and she was then disqualified.

Results

The race was held at 12:00.
RankBibNameCountryResultPenaltiesDeficit
15Svetlana Ishmouratova49:24.11
32Martina Glagow50:34.92 +1:10.8
26Albina Akhatova50:55.02 +1:30.9
10Andrea Henkel51:46.32 +2:22.2
35Krystyna Pałka51:50.70 +2:26.6
38Sandrine Bailly51:58.23 +2:34.1
13Olga Nazarova51:59.62 +2:35.5
31Natalia Levchenkova52:11.72 +2:47.6
27Liv Grete Poirée52:22.03 +2:57.9
105Madara Līduma52:27.24 +3:03.1
1147Ekaterina Dafovska52:45.13 +3:21.0
1218Uschi Disl52:49.75 +3:25.6
1340Tora Berger52:53.42 +3:29.3
149Olena Zubrilova52:55.61 +3:31.5
1542Anna Carin Olofsson52:55.85 +3:31.7
166Kati Wilhelm52:59.05 +3:34.9
1712Michela Ponza53:01.42 +3:37.3
1839Teja Gregorin53:03.73 +3:39.6
1924Éva Tófalvi53:04.32 +3:40.2
2034Oksana Khvostenko53:22.51 +3:58.4
2177Andreja Mali53:46.01 +4:21.9
2225Marcela Pavkovčeková53:52.83 +4:28.7
233Liu Xianying53:55.65 +4:31.5
248Sylvie Becaert53:59.02 +4:34.9
2551Kong Yingchao54:03.53 +4:39.4
2636Florence Baverel-Robert54:14.15 +4:50.0
2746Zina Kocher54:18.83 +4:54.7
2857Irina Nikoultchina54:29.36 +5:05.2
2937Olena Petrova54:35.63 +5:11.5
3063Dijana Grudiček55:01.34 +5:37.2
3160Yin Qiao55:06.24 +5:42.1
3254Tamami Tanaka55:10.54 +5:46.4
337Magdalena Gwizdon55:17.54 +5:53.4
3449Martina Halinárová55:17.74 +5:53.6
3528Anna Bogaliy55:18.45 +5:54.3
3658Lilia Efremova55:28.05 +6:03.9
3730Kanae Meguro55:28.45 +6:04.3
3876Barbara Ertl55:30.02 +6:05.9
3922Tadeja Brankovič55:38.96 +6:14.8
4069Delphyne Peretto55:40.53 +6:16.4
4153Rachel Steer55:48.33 +6:24.2
4229Sandra Keith55:56.32 +6:32.2
4321Pavlina Filipova56:07.75 +6:43.6
4450Ekaterina Ivanova56:09.76 +6:45.6
4548Katerina Holubcova56:17.94 +6:53.8
4680Valj Semerenko56:22.63 +6:58.5
4767Soňa Mihoková56:29.55 +7:05.4
4861Anzela Brice56:30.52 +7:06.4
4919Anna Lebedeva56:46.54 +7:22.4
5017Linda Tjørhom56:47.86 +7:23.7
5143Saskia Santer56:52.16 +7:28.0
5262Nathalie Santer57:08.46 +7:44.3
5320Zdenka Vejnarova57:14.36 +7:50.2
5478Nina Kadeva57:15.05 +7:50.9
5566Ikuyo Tsukidate57:20.44 +7:56.3
5679Katarzyna Ponikwia57:32.74 +8:08.6
572Tracey Barnes57:58.01 +8:33.9
5823Hou Yuxia58:35.79 +9:11.6
5975Jana Gereková58:37.25 +9:13.1
6011Gunn Margit Andreassen59:04.36 +9:40.2
6165Magda Rezlerová59:18.06 +9:53.9
6264Sarah Konrad59:33.110 +10:09.0
6341Linda Savļaka59:44.33 +10:20.2
6473Lanny Barnes59:46.24 +10:22.1
6556Martine Albert59:52.15 +10:28.0
661Diana Rasimovičiūtė8 +10:40.3
6771Irena Česneková7 +10:43.9
6870Alexandra Rusu5 +10:49.6
6982Tomomi Otaka6 +10:58.1
7072Gerda Krumina4 +11:02.0
7168Magdalena Grzywa7 +11:17.2
7245Dana Elena Plotogea7 +11:21.4
7314Eveli Saue5 +11:29.5
744Aleksandra Vasiljević1 +11:47.7
7581Mihaela Purdea7 +12:47.4
7659Kseniya Zikunkova8 +12:53.4
7774Marie-Pierre Parent4 +13:33.0
7852Emma Fowler7 +14:14.8
7916Petra Starčević8 +17:25.5
8033Zsofia Gottschall8 +18:53.2
8155Verónica Isbej7 +25:31.2
44Olga Pyleva50:09.61