Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's pursuit


The women's 10 km pursuit biathlon competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 11 February 2014.
In the pursuit competition, the competitors start times were determined according to the results of the Women's sprint held two days earlier, with the sprint champion Anastasiya Kuzmina starting first. None of the sprint medalists won a medal in the pursuit. Instead, Darya Domracheva of Belarus became the champion, with Tora Berger of Norway winning the silver medal, and Teja Gregorin of Slovenian winning the bronze. Gregorin's medal became the first ever medal of Slovenia in biathlon.

Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the Nation Cup scores of their top 3 athletes in the individual, sprint, and relay competitions at the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany, and the 2013 World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. The top 20 nations would be able to start four athletes in the sprint, while nations 21 through 28 could start one each. Nations below 28 could only start if any nation decided to vacate a quota spot.
During the 2012–13 or 2013–14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes. Or, two placings in the top half at the Junior World Championships. They also can have a combination of both criteria.
For the pursuit race the top 60 athletes in the sprint race qualified to compete.

Schedule

All dates and times are.
DateTimeRound
11 February 201419:00Final

Results

The race was started at 19:00.
RankBibNameCountryStartTimePenalties Deficit
9Darya Domracheva0:3229:30.71
10Tora Berger0:3430:08.31 +37.6
15Teja Gregorin0:4230:12.71 +42.0
29Gabriela Soukalová1:1130:18.31 +47.6
12Valj Semerenko0:3830:23.61 +52.9
1Anastasiya Kuzmina0:0030:29.12 +58.4
DSQ 2Olga Vilukhina0:2030:32.91 +1:02.2
4Karin Oberhofer0:2830:37.81 +1:07.1
24Ann Kristin Flatland1:0430:40.20 +1:09.5
103Vita Semerenko0:2230:40.32 +1:09.6
DSQ28Olga Zaitseva1:1030:43.00 +1:12.3
125Anaïs Bescond0:3030:43.72 +1:13.0
1317Nadezhda Skardino0:4430:43.71 +1:13.0
1420Marie Dorin Habert0:4830:53.61 +1:22.9
1513Selina Gasparin0:4030:59.12 +1:28.4
1630Kaisa Mäkäräinen1:1231:02.33 +1:31.6
176Dorothea Wierer0:3131:03.22 +1:32.5
1814Susan Dunklee0:4231:11.64 +1:40.9
1921Monika Hojnisz0:4831:14.02 +1:43.3
207Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak0:3131:25.42 +1:54.7
2116Veronika Vítková0:4431:42.92 +2:12.2
2226Olena Pidhrushna1:0631:54.21 +2:23.5
DSQ 19Yana Romanova0:4731:55.12 +2:24.4
2418Tiril Eckhoff0:4532:12.36 +2:41.6
2532Zina Kocher1:1932:15.14 +2:44.4
2623Éva Tófalvi0:5532:15.33 +2:44.6
2711Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle0:3432:16.66 +2:45.9
2831Megan Imrie1:1332:22.72 +2:52.0
2922Andrea Henkel0:5532:30.43 +2:59.7
3046Laura Dahlmeier1:5632:38.81 +3:08.1
318Elisa Gasparin0:3132:42.85 +3:12.1
3239Fuyuko Suzuki1:4132:49.01 +3:18.3
3337Liudmila Kalinchik1:3132:54.92 +3:24.2
3433Krystyna Pałka1:2132:56.33 +3:25.6
3543Jana Gereková1:5132:57.74 +3:27.0
3635Synnøve Solemdal1:2533:04.33 +3:33.6
3757Elena Khrustaleva2:2333:06.50 +3:35.8
3840Magdalena Gwizdoń1:4433:14.32 +3:43.6
3927Lisa Hauser1:0933:25.03 +3:54.3
4041Franziska Preuß1:4633:34.03 +4:03.3
4158Darya Usanova2:2733:54.62 +4:23.9
4245Eva Puskarčíková1:5433:59.02 +4:28.3
4351Diana Rasimovičiūtė2:1234:07.12 +4:36.4
4447Anaïs Chevalier1:5734:14.51 +4:43.8
4525Rosanna Crawford1:0434:15.67 +4:44.9
4652Victoria Padial2:1534:30.32 +4:59.6
4760Ekaterina Shumilova2:3234:34.23 +5:03.5
4838Michela Ponza1:4034:36.43 +5:05.7
4954Nicole Gontier2:2034:37.56 +5:06.8
5055Tang Jialin2:2034:40.42 +5:09.7
5144Sara Studebaker1:5335:00.05 +5:29.3
5250Jitka Landová2:1035:37.65 +6:06.9
5349Zhang Yan2:0336:12.12 +6:41.4
5453Annelies Cook2:1736:20.95 +6:50.2
5548Johanna Talihärm2:0337:52.55 +8:21.8
5634Nastassia Dubarezava1:2341:01.8*12 +11:31.1
59Megan Heinicke2:28DNF8
36Mari Laukkanen1:31DNS
42Juliya Dzhyma1:49DNS
56Marie-Laure Brunet2:21DNS

* Includes four-minute penalty
On 27 November 2017, IOC disqualified Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova for doping violations.