Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's pursuit

Women's pursuit at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea
Date	12 February
Competitors	58 from 24 nations
Winning time	30:35.3
Medalists
Laura Dahlmeier  Germany Anastasiya Kuzmina  Slovakia Anaïs Bescond  France

Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women	mixed

The women's 10 km pursuit biathlon competition of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics was held on 12 February 2018 at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1][2] The field consisted of the top 60 finishers in the sprint event, held two days earlier, with competitors' starting times dependent on their final time in the sprint event. Laura Dahlmeier, who was the champion in the sprint, won a second title, becoming the first female biathlete to win an Olympic sprint-pursuit double. Anastasiya Kuzmina finished second, and Anaïs Bescond was third.^[3] This was Bescond's first Olympic medal.

Summary

Dahlmeier started first, and hit all targets at her first prone shoots. The sprint silver medallist Marte Olsbu missed a target, and between the prone shoots Dalmeier was followed by Veronika Vítková and Anastasiya Kuzmina, who overtook Vítková, and by the second prone shoot closed the gap to Dahlmeyer by 10 seconds. Dahlmeier, Kuzmina, and Vítková all missed a target at the second prone shoot, and Anaïs Bescond and Irene Cadurisch, who did not miss, came into contention. By 5 km, Kuzmina was leading, with Dahlmeier 0.7 seconds behind her, followed by Bescond and Cadurisch half a minute behind. In the first standing shoot, Kuzmina missed two targets, Bescond missed one, and Cadurisch missed three and dropped out of medal contention. Dahlmeier did not miss, the only one of the leading group who shot clear, and took a 40 second lead over Kuzmina. Vítková was third, followed by Bescond: all other competitors were more than a minute behind. In the second standing shoot, Dahlmeier and Bescond shot clear, whereas Kuzmina missed once, dropping almost a minute behind Dahlmeier and a second ahead of Bescond. Vítková missed two targets and dropped out of medal contention. Other competitors trailed Kuzmina and Bescond by at least 30 seconds. The only question left at this point was who would win the silver medal. Kuzmina and Bescond ran together until the finish, where Kuzmina won the silver, leaving Bescond with bronze.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Danka Barteková, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Olle Dahlin, IBU Vice President of Development.

Qualification

Schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Results

The race started at 19:10.^[4]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Start	Time	Penalties (P+P+S+S)	Deficit
	1	Laura Dahlmeier	Germany	00:00	30:35.3	1 (0+1+0+0)	–
	13	Anastasiya Kuzmina	Slovakia	00:54	31:04.7	4 (0+1+2+1)	+29.4
	19	Anaïs Bescond	France	01:15	31:04.9	1 (0+0+1+0)	+29.6
4	2	Marte Olsbu	Norway	00:24	31:42.6	4 (1+2+0+1)	+1:07.3
5	7	Hanna Öberg	Sweden	00:41	31:44.2	3 (1+2+0+0)	+1:08.9
6	21	Denise Herrmann	Germany	01:20	31:54.7	2 (1+0+0+1)	+1:19.4
7	3	Veronika Vítková	Czech Republic	00:26	32:12.6	3 (0+1+0+2)	+1:37.3
8	26	Lena Häcki	Switzerland	01:34	32:16.8	3 (1+1+1+0)	+1:41.5
9	24	Tiril Eckhoff	Norway	01:26	32:23.1	5 (0+2+3+0)	+1:47.8
10	27	Mona Brorsson	Sweden	01:36	32:29.8	1 (0+0+1+0)	+1:54.5
11	6	Lisa Vittozzi	Italy	00:41	32:34.6	4 (1+2+0+1)	+1:59.3
12	12	Franziska Hildebrand	Germany	00:54	32:36.5	3 (2+1+0+0)	+2:01.2
13	5	Vanessa Hinz	Germany	00:40	32:41.4	4 (1+1+2+0)	+2:06.1
14	36	Nadezhda Skardino	Belarus	02:02	32:42.7	1 (0+0+1+0)	+2:07.4
15	18	Dorothea Wierer	Italy	01:14	32:48.4	5 (2+2+1+0)	+2:13.1
16	8	Irene Cadurisch	Switzerland	00:46	32:52.8	4 (0+0+3+1)	+2:17.5
17	17	Iryna Kryuko	Belarus	01:11	32:54.0	2 (1+0+0+1)	+2:18.7
18	14	Vita Semerenko	Ukraine	00:55	32:54.4	4 (2+1+1+0)	+2:19.1
19	53	Rosanna Crawford	Canada	02:23	33:03.0	2 (0+0+1+1)	+2:27.7
20	30	Galina Vishnevskaya	Kazakhstan	01:46	33:05.9	1 (0+0+1+0)	+2:30.6
21	37	Linn Persson	Sweden	02:05	33:21.7	3 (1+0+1+1)	+2:46.4
22	25	Kaisa Mäkäräinen	Finland	01:30	33:22.2	6 (0+3+3+0)	+2:46.9
23	23	Jessica Jislová	Czech Republic	01:23	33:24.3	3 (0+1+1+1)	+2:49.0
24	16	Anaïs Chevalier	France	01:09	33:28.0	5 (3+0+0+2)	+2:52.7
25	15	Markéta Davidová	Czech Republic	00:57	33:29.8	6 (1+2+1+2)	+2:54.5
26	22	Johanna Talihärm	Estonia	01:21	33:34.7	4 (0+1+2+1)	+2:59.4
27	4	Marie Dorin Habert	France	00:33	33:37.8	7 (2+0+2+3)	+3:02.5
28	40	Julia Ransom	Canada	02:08	33:38.3	1 (0+0+0+1)	+3:03.0
29	35	Elisabeth Högberg	Sweden	02:00	33:45.1	2 (1+0+1+0)	+3:09.8
30	34	Weronika Nowakowska	Poland	01:57	33:46.2	2 (0+1+1+0)	+3:10.9
31	20	Tatiana Akimova	Olympic Athletes from Russia	01:18	33:50.8	4 (1+1+0+2)	+3:15.5
32	43	Eva Puskarčíková	Czech Republic	02:14	33:53.8	3 (2+1+0+0)	+3:18.5
33	39	Baiba Bendika	Latvia	02:08	33:59.4	3 (1+0+2+0)	+3:24.1
34	10	Justine Braisaz	France	00:48	34:08.0	7 (0+2+1+4)	+3:32.7
35	31	Elisa Gasparin	Switzerland	01:46	34:11.2	5 (2+2+1+0)	+3:35.9
36	28	Krystyna Guzik	Poland	01:37	34:24.3	4 (1+1+1+1)	+3:49.0
37	9	Darya Domracheva	Belarus	00:46	34:26.8	6 (0+1+1+4)	+3:51.5
38	11	Paulína Fialková	Slovakia	00:51	34:33.6	8 (2+2+2+2)	+3:58.3
39	41	Selina Gasparin	Switzerland	02:12	34:40.2	5 (2+2+1+0)	+4:04.9
40	29	Katharina Innerhofer	Austria	01:45	34:41.2	5 (1+2+0+2)	+4:05.9
41	50	Synnøve Solemdal	Norway	02:18	34:45.5	4 (1+0+2+1)	+4:10.2
42	59	Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold	Norway	02:43	34:56.8	4 (0+3+1+0)	+4:21.5
43	45	Monika Hojnisz	Poland	02:14	35:05.6	4 (1+1+2+0)	+4:30.3
44	52	Nadzeya Pisarava	Belarus	02:23	35:10.3	3 (2+0+0+1)	+4:35.0
45	38	Zhang Yan	China	02:08	35:16.7	3 (3+0+0+0)	+4:41.4
46	55	Anastasiya Merkushyna	Ukraine	02:26	35:30.4	5 (0+2+2+1)	+4:55.1
47	51	Emily Dreissigacker	United States	02:21	35:36.7	4 (0+1+1+2)	+5:01.4
48	44	Nicole Gontier	Italy	02:14	35:37.6	7 (3+1+1+2)	+5:02.3
49	56	Magdalena Gwizdoń	Poland	02:30	36:07.0	5 (1+2+2+0)	+5:31.7
50	32	Anna Frolina	South Korea	01:51	36:14.2	8 (1+2+2+3)	+5:38.9
51	47	Anja Eržen	Slovenia	02:15	36:22.6	7 (0+2+2+3)	+5:47.3
52	33	Uliana Kaisheva	Olympic Athletes from Russia	01:52	36:33.6	5 (0+2+2+1)	+5:58.3
53	54	Emma Lunder	Canada	02:24	36:52.1	4 (0+1+1+2)	+6:16.8
54	49	Sari Furuya	Japan	02:15	37:02.1	5 (2+1+1+1)	+6:26.8
55	60	Emilia Yordanova	Bulgaria	02:44	37:04.3	6 (2+1+3+0)	+6:29.0
56	42	Fuyuko Tachizaki	Japan	02:14	37:07.9	7 (2+0+2+3)	+6:32.6
57	58	Darya Klimina	Kazakhstan	02:42	38:00.0	8 (1+1+3+3)	+7:24.7
58	48	Dunja Zdouc	Austria	02:15	38:39.1	8 (1+3+1+3)	+8:03.8
	46	Valentyna Semerenko	Ukraine	02:15	DNS
	57	Megan Tandy	Canada	02:37

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