Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint


The Women's 7.5 km sprint biathlon competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics took place at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 9 February 2014. It was won by Anastasiya Kuzmina from Slovakia, who was the defending champion. Olga Vilukhina from Russia won the silver medal, and Vita Semerenko from Ukraine won the bronze. Vilukhina was competing in her first Olympic event, whereas Semerenko had competed for but never previously won an Olympic medal.
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle took an early lead in the event, after missing one target in the standing shooting. Soon, her result was improved by four seconds by Anaïs Bescond, also with one missing target. Kuzmina, who started 33rd shot flawlessly and edged Bescond by 29.9 seconds. Later Bescond was pushed from the medal position first by Karin Oberhofer, and then by Vilukhina. Semerenko, who after the second shooting was fifth, by 5.9 km was second, ahead of Vilukhina, but at the finish line lost 2.2 seconds to Vilukhina, taking bronze and pushing Oberhofer out of the medal position. Dorothea Wierer, who was third after the standing shooting finished sixth.
On November 28 Russian biathlete Olga Vilukhina was stripped of her olympic medal due to doping violations. Her teammate Yana Romanova was also disqualified.

Schedule

All dates and times are.
DateTimeRound
9 February 201418:30–19:36Final

Results

The race was started at 18:30.
RankBibNameCountryTimePenalties Deficit
33Anastasiya Kuzmina21:06.80 —
DSQ 56Olga Vilukhina21:26.70 +19.9
62Vita Semerenko21:28.50 +21.7
46Karin Oberhofer21:34.70 +27.9
14Anaïs Bescond21:36.71 +29.9
64Dorothea Wierer21:37.40 +30.6
3921:37.61 +30.8
41Elisa Gasparin21:38.20 +31.4
22Darya Domracheva21:38.61 +31.8
1019Tora Berger21:40.61 +33.8
116Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle21:40.81 +34.0
1243Valj Semerenko21:44.91 +38.1
1358Selina Gasparin21:46.51 +39.7
1411Susan Dunklee21:48.31 +41.5
1549Teja Gregorin21:48.91 +42.1
1655Veronika Vítková21:50.80 +44.0
1717Nadezhda Skardino21:50.90 +44.1
1810Tiril Eckhoff21:51.41 +44.6
DSQ 81Yana Romanova21:53.40 +46.6
2060Marie Dorin Habert21:55.00 +48.2
2182Monika Hojnisz21:55.10 +48.3
2234Andrea Henkel22:01.51 +54.7
2247Éva Tófalvi22:01.51 +54.7
2468Ann Kristin Flatland22:10.61 +1:03.8
2571Rosanna Crawford22:10.81 +1:04.0
2630Olena Pidhrushna22:12.81 +1:06.0
275Lisa Hauser22:15.60 +1:08.8
DSQ61Olga Zaitseva22:16.61 +1:09.8
2916Gabriela Soukalová22:17.53 +1:10.7
3051Kaisa Mäkäräinen22:18.42 +1:11.6
3140Megan Imrie22:19.51 +1:12.7
3212Zina Kocher22:25.52 +1:18.7
338Krystyna Pałka22:27.81 +1:21.0
3465Nastassia Dubarezava22:29.71 +1:22.9
3542Synnøve Solemdal22:32.12 +1:25.3
3631Mari Laukkanen22:37.32 +1:30.5
3745Liudmila Kalinchik22:37.82 +1:31.0
3827Michela Ponza22:47.00 +1:40.2
3925Fuyuko Suzuki22:47.41 +1:40.6
4067Magdalena Gwizdoń22:51.22 +1:44.4
4150Franziska Preuß22:53.12 +1:46.3
4223Juliya Dzhyma22:55.53 +1:48.7
431Jana Gereková22:58.03 +1:51.2
4474Sara Studebaker22:59.51 +1:52.7
4537Eva Puskarčíková23:00.91 +1:54.1
4673Laura Dahlmeier23:03.22 +1:56.4
4784Anaïs Chévalier23:03.41 +1:56.6
4879Johanna Talihärm23:09.30 +2:02.5
4959Zhang Yan23:09.40 +2:02.6
5024Jitka Landová23:16.92 +2:10.1
5154Diana Rasimovičiūtė23:18.62 +2:11.8
52323:21.51 +2:14.7
5357Annelies Cook23:23.42 +2:16.6
5480Nicole Gontier23:26.34 +2:19.5
5552Tang Jialin23:26.72 +2:19.9
5653Marie-Laure Brunet23:27.40 +2:20.6
5729Elena Khrustaleva23:29.62 +2:22.8
5866Darya Usanova23:33.31 +2:26.5
5978Megan Heinicke23:34.53 +2:27.7
607Ekaterina Shumilova23:38.42 +2:31.6
6148Desislava Stoyanova23:48.12 +2:41.3
6277Martina Chrapánová23:48.32 +2:41.5
6321Song Chaoqing23:49.51 +2:42.7
649Galina Vishnevskaya23:52.03 +2:45.2
6563Hannah Dreissigacker23:55.04 +2:48.2
662Laure Soulie23:57.82 +2:51.0
6769Daria Yurlova24:01.12 +2:54.3
6872Yuki Nakajima24:12.92 +3:06.1
6938Kadri Lehtla24:13.34 +3:06.5
7044Emőke Szőcs24:15.42 +3:08.6
7115Grete Gaim24:18.22 +3:11.4
7270Paulína Fialková24:27.15 +3:20.3
7383Marina Lebedeva24:31.92 +3:25.1
744Mun Ji-Hee24:32.01 +3:25.2
7520Amanda Lightfoot24:48.93 +3:42.1
7628Katharina Innerhofer24:49.04 +3:42.2
7718Jaqueline Mourão25:06.41 +3:59.6
7826Tanja Karišik25:06.82 +4:00.0
7932Žanna Juškāne25:36.56 +4:29.7
8075Rina Suzuki25:40.62 +4:33.8
8135Miki Kobayashi25:52.35 +4:45.5
8236Lucy Glanville26:57.12 +5:50.3
8376Song Na27:01.54 +5:54.7
8413Alexandra Camenscic27:37.05 +6:30.2