Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's pursuit

Women's biathlon pursuit at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cesana San Sicario
Dates	February 18
Competitors	60 from 22 nations
Winning time	36:43.6
Medalists
Kati Wilhelm   Germany   Martina Glagow   Germany   Albina Akhatova   Russia

Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Pursuit		men		women
Mass start		men		women
Relay		men		women

The Women's 10 kilometre biathlon pursuit competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 2.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.

The starting order for the pursuit was based on the results of the sprint; the top 60 finishers in that race qualified for the pursuit. In addition, each racer's final deficit behind sprint winner Florence Baverel-Robert corresponded to their starting deficit in the pursuit; Anna Carin Olofsson, who finished 2 seconds behind Fischer in the sprint, started 2 seconds after her in the pursuit.

The winner was the first racer over the finish line, Kati Wilhelm. Skiers who were lapped were not ranked in the official results.^[1]

At the 2005 World Championships, Germany's Uschi Disl successfully defended her four-second lead after the sprint event to win the pursuit, while Russian Olga Pyleva won the event at the 2002 Olympics. Kati Wilhelm led the pursuit World Cup standings before the Olympics, ahead of Sandrine Bailly of France and Disl.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Start	Penalties	Result
01 !	Kati Wilhelm	Germany	+0:18	1	—
02 !	Martina Glagow	Germany	+1:05	2	+1:13.6
03 !	Albina Akhatova	Russia	+0:09	1	+1:21.4
4	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Russia	+0:39	2	+1:45.4
5	Michela Ponza	Italy	0:56	1	+2:08.1
6	Liv Grete Poirée	Norway	+0:49	2	+2:19.8
7	Olga Nazarova	Belarus	+0:22	3	+2:26.1
8	Lilia Efremova	Ukraine	+0:07	3	+2:26.2
9	Liu Xianying	China	+0:46	3	+2:41.7
10	Uschi Disl	Germany	+1:58	4	+2:47.2
11	Katrin Apel	Germany	+1:34	3	+2:55.3
12	Sandrine Bailly	France	+0:12	3	+2:55.8
13	Florence Baverel-Robert	France	+0:00	4	+3:14.0
14	Anna Carin Olofsson	Sweden	+0:02	7	+3:22.5
15	Linda Tjorhom	Norway	+1:17	3	+3:36.2
16	Teja Gregorin	Slovenia	+1:00	2	+3:36.5
17	Kong Yingchao	China	+1:36	3	+3:58.3
18	Tora Berger	Norway	+1:34	2	+4:01.2
19	Olga Zaitseva	Russia	+0:34	5	+4:05.4
20	Madara Liduma	Latvia	+1:40	6	+4:07.2
21	Magdalena Gwizdon	Poland	+1:23	3	+4:29.0
22	Sun Ribo	China	+1:26	7	+4:45.2
23	Natalia Levtchenkova	Moldova	+2:03	1	+4:52.5
24	Katerina Holubcova	Czech Republic	+2:02	2	+4:53.9
25	Olena Zubrilova	Belarus	+0:09	8	+4:59.3
26	Delphyne Peretto	France	+1:00	3	+5:09.2
27	Diana Rasimovičiūtė	Lithuania	+1:17	4	+5:12.7
28	Ekaterina Dafovska	Bulgaria	+1:52	6	+5:24.0
29	Ekaterina Ivanova	Belarus	+2:00	7	+5:31.9
30	Irina Nikoultchina	Bulgaria	+1:59	7	+5:43.2
31	Tadeja Brankovič	Slovenia	+1:43	5	+5:58.5
32	Pavlina Filipova	Bulgaria	+2:22	6	+6:20.9
33	Dana Elena Plotogea	Romania	+2:30	3	+6:27.4
34	Sylvie Becaert	France	+1:42	3	+6:33.5
35	Zdenka Vejnarova	Czech Republic	+2:15	4	+6:34.1
36	Lenka Faltusova	Czech Republic	+1:46	4	+6:38.9
37	Krystyna Pałka	Poland	+1:36	5	+6:42.9
38	Nathalie Santer	Italy	+1:38	8	+6:48.0
39	Rachel Steer	United States	+1:58	2	+6:49.2
40	Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen	Norway	+2:02	6	+6:57.9
41	Nina Lemesh	Ukraine	+2:42	5	+7:05.0
50—	Martina Halinarova	Slovakia	+1:01	8	Lapped
50—	Sona Mihokova	Slovakia	+1:39	8	Lapped
50—	Marcela Pavkovcekova	Slovakia	+1:40	5	Lapped
50—	Alexandra Rusu	Romania	+2:21	4	Lapped
50—	Eveli Saue	Estonia	+2:24	7	Lapped
50—	Oksana Khvostenko	Ukraine	+2:39	4	Lapped
50—	Ikuyo Tsukidate	Japan	+2:46	7	Lapped
50—	Anna Lebedeva	Kazakhstan	+2:50	6	Lapped
50—	Dijana Grudiček	Slovenia	+2:57	3	Lapped
50—	Magdalena Nykiel	Poland	+3:01	1	Lapped
50—	Saskia Santer	Italy	+3:11.	3	Lapped
50—	Radka Popova	Bulgaria	+3:30	2	Lapped
50—	Andreja Mali	Slovenia	+3:31	3	Lapped
50—	Anzela Brice	Latvia	+3:32	3	Lapped
98—	Anna Murinova	Slovakia	Did not finish
98—	Ludmilla Ananko	Belarus	Did not finish
98—	Katja Haller	Italy	Did not finish
99—	Olena Petrova	Ukraine	Did not start
99—	Hou Yuxia	China	Did not start

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