Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start

Women's biathlon mass start at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cesana San Sicario
Dates	25 February
Competitors	30 from 14 nations
Winning time	40:36.5
Medalists
Anna Carin Olofsson  Sweden Kati Wilhelm  Germany Uschi Disl  Germany

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 12.5 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 25 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 2.5 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.^[1]

Germany's Martina Glagow led the World Cup standings before the Olympics, while Norway's Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen was the reigning World Champion at the event.

Results

The race was held at 12:00.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Penalties (P+P+S+S)	Deficit
	5	Anna Carin Olofsson	Sweden	40:36.5	1 (0+0+0+1)	—
	3	Kati Wilhelm	Germany	40:55.3	1 (0+0+1+0)	+18.8
	8	Uschi Disl	Germany	41:18.4	3 (1+0+1+1)	+41.9
4	4	Martina Glagow	Germany	41:33.6	2 (1+0+1+0)	+57.1
5	2	Florence Baverel-Robert	France	41:40.5	2 (1+1+0+0)	+1:04.0
6	14	Olga Nazarova	Belarus	41:50.5	1 (0+0+1+0)	+1:14.0
7	16	Liu Xianying	China	41:57.2	2 (0+0+1+1)	+1:20.7
8	21	Ekaterina Dafovska	Bulgaria	42:09.4	3 (1+1+0+1)	+1:32.9
9	6	Albina Akhatova	Russia	42:19.5	2 (2+0+0+0)	+1:43.0
10	9	Sandrine Bailly	France	42:21.5	4 (0+1+2+1)	+1:45.0
11	19	Michela Ponza	Italy	42:21.6	1 (0+1+0+0)	+1:45.1
12	1	Svetlana Ishmouratova	Russia	42:33.5	4 (2+0+2+0)	+1:57.0
13	12	Andrea Henkel	Germany	42:41.5	3 (1+0+2+0)	+2:05.0
14	13	Linda Tjorhom	Norway	42:46.5	3 (0+0+2+1)	+2:10.0
15	10	Olga Zaitseva	Russia	42:58.3	1 (0+0+1+0)	+2:21.8
16	15	Olena Zubrilova	Belarus	43:12.3	4 (2+0+0+2)	+2:35.8
17	7	Lilia Efremova	Ukraine	43:21.0	6 (1+2+2+1)	+2:44.5
18	11	Liv Grete Poirée	Norway	43:43.8	4 (1+0+2+1)	+3:07.3
19	20	Teja Gregorin	Slovenia	43:51.4	4 (1+2+0+1)	+3:14.9
20	25	Madara Liduma	Latvia	43:52.7	5 (1+2+1+1)	+3:16.2
21	26	Natalia Levtchenkova	Moldova	44:21.8	2 (1+1+0+0)	+3:45.3
22	30	Sun Ribo	China	44:29.3	7 (2+2+3+0)	+3:52.8
23	27	Kong Yingchao	China	44:45.0	3 (2+1+0+0)	+4:08.5
24	18	Natalia Guseva	Russia	44:55.1	5 (2+3+0+0)	+4:18.6
25	24	Tora Berger	Norway	45:23.2	3 (1+1+1+0)	+4:46.7
26	22	Sylvie Becaert	France	45:38.4	6 (1+1+2+2)	+5:01.9
27	28	Delphyne Peretto	France	45:39.9	5 (3+0+0+2)	+5:03.4
28	17	Hou Yuxia	China	45:40.1	10 (3+1+2+4)	+5:03.6
29	29	Magdalena Gwizdon	Poland	45:59.5	5 (0+2+2+1)	+5:23.0
30	23	Krystyna Pałka	Poland	46:31.5	3 (1+2+0+0)	+5:55.0

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