| | Event type
7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women
| Date | 9 February 2014 — 18:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Kompleks Dlya Sorevnovaniy Po Lyzhnym Gonkam i Biatlonu Laura, Mountain Cluster, Krasnaya Polyana | |
| Participants | 84 from 33 countries | |
| Format | Penalty loop (150 metres) skied for each missed target. | |
| Details | Course Length: 7,741 m Height Differential: 31 m Maximum Climb: 31 m Shooting 1: Prone at 2.574 km, 50 m range Shooting 2: Standing at 5.107 km, 50 m range Total Climbing: 258 m | |
Former Russian (now Slovakian) Anastasia Kuzmina repeated as gold medalist in a surprising biathlon sprint, as the favorites fell short, with pre-race contender Olga Vilukhina placing second for Russia. Several of the early favorites missed on the easier prone stage, as Tora Berger missed one shot, Darya Domracheva missed one shot, and Gabriela Soukalová even missed three. Domracheva and Berger were in the top three among the early skiers but were bumped down in the later stages. Kuzmina was the defending champion and shot cleanly to repeat. Vilukhina, who shot cleanly, clawed her way up the standings late in the race to earn her silver, the home Russian crowd roaring as she came in second. Ukraine’s Vita Semerenko finished strongly to win the bronze medal, only 1.8 seconds behind Semerenko.
That was how the results stood until the Oswald Commission and the release of the McLaren Report in December 2016. Three Russian skiiers were disqualified retroactively for doping - Yana Romanova, Olga Zaytseva, and Olga Vilukhina, with Vilukhina losing her silver medal. As of April 2019, it had not been re-allocated. However, in February 2020, Vilukhina was reinstated after an appeal to CAS and her silver medal was restored.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | Misses | Shooting 1 Misses | Shooting 1 | Shooting 2 Misses | Shooting 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anastasia Kuzmina |  SVK | 21:06.8 | 0 | 0 | 7:28.5 (3) | 0 | 14:34.5 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Olga Vilukhina |  RUS | 21:26.7 | 0 | 0 | 7:33.7 (8) | 0 | 14:54.8 (2) | Silver | 1 | |
| 3 | Vita Semerenko |  UKR | 21:28.5 | 0 | 0 | 7:42.7 (19) | 0 | 15:01.2 (5) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Karin Oberhofer |  ITA | 21:34.7 | 0 | 0 | 7:36.4 (=11) | 0 | 15:02.6 (7) | |||
| 5 | Anaïs Bescond |  FRA | 21:36.7 | 1 | 1 | 7:49.7 (33) | 0 | 15:06.6 (10) | |||
| 6 | Dorothea Wierer | ITA | 21:37.4 | 0 | 0 | 7:42.3 (18) | 0 | 14:58.2 (3) | |||
| 7 | Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak |  POL | 21:37.6 | 1 | 1 | 7:47.8 (27) | 0 | 15:06.5 (9) | |||
| 8 | Elisa Gasparin |  SUI | 21:38.2 | 0 | 0 | 7:37.0 (13) | 0 | 14:58.5 (4) | |||
| 9 | Daria Domrachava |  BLR | 21:38.6 | 1 | 1 | 8:00.9 (41) | 0 | 15:21.1 (18) | |||
| 10 | Tora Berger |  NOR | 21:40.6 | 1 | 1 | 8:04.2 (=46) | 0 | 15:23.3 (22) | |||
| 11 | Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle |  GER | 21:40.8 | 1 | 0 | 7:23.3 (1) | 1 | 15:07.3 (11) | |||
| 12 | Valj Semerenko | UKR | 21:44.9 | 1 | 0 | 7:28.0 (2) | 1 | 15:08.7 (12) | |||
| 13 | Selina Gasparin | SUI | 21:46.5 | 1 | 0 | 7:29.0 (4) | 1 | 15:19.4 (16) | |||
| 14 | Susan Dunklee |  USA | 21:48.3 | 1 | 0 | 7:38.4 (15) | 1 | 15:24.2 (23) | |||
| 15 | Teja Gregorin |  SLO | 21:48.9 | 1 | 0 | 7:33.5 (7) | 1 | 15:20.5 (17) | |||
| 16 | Veronika Vítková |  CZE | 21:50.8 | 0 | 0 | 7:31.3 (6) | 0 | 15:01.4 (6) | |||
| 17 | Nadzeya Skardzina | BLR | 21:50.9 | 0 | 0 | 7:46.8 (25) | 0 | 15:14.1 (14) | |||
| 18 | Tiril Eckhoff | NOR | 21:51.4 | 1 | 0 | 7:38.7 (16) | 1 | 15:21.4 (19) | |||
| 19 | Yana Romanova | RUS | 21:53.4 | 0 | 0 | 7:35.1 (10) | 0 | 15:04.4 (8) | 2 | ||
| 20 | Marie Dorin-Habert | FRA | 21:55.0 | 0 | 0 | 7:43.4 (23) | 0 | 15:23.2 (21) | |||
| 21 | Monika Hojnisz | POL | 21:55.1 | 0 | 0 | 7:48.2 (29) | 0 | 15:13.2 (13) | |||
| 22 | Andrea Henkel | GER | 22:01.5 | 1 | 0 | 7:33.8 (9) | 1 | 15:16.9 (15) | |||
| 23 | Eva Tofalvi |  ROU | 22:01.5 | 1 | 1 | 8:02.9 (43) | 0 | 15:24.9 (25) | |||
| 24 | Ann Kristin Flatland | NOR | 22:10.6 | 1 | 0 | 7:40.8 (17) | 1 | 15:32.5 (26) | |||
| 25 | Rosanna Crawford |  CAN | 22:10.8 | 1 | 0 | 7:37.9 (14) | 1 | 15:24.6 (24) | |||
| 26 | Olena Pidhrushna | UKR | 22:12.8 | 1 | 0 | 7:47.1 (26) | 1 | 15:33.0 (27) | |||
| 27 | Lisa Theresa Hauser |  AUT | 22:15.6 | 0 | 0 | 7:53.3 (36) | 0 | 15:33.5 (28) | |||
| 28 | Gabriela Soukalová | CZE | 22:17.5 | 3 | 3 | 8:29.7 (68) | 0 | 15:46.0 (32) | |||
| 29 | Kaisa Mäkäräinen |  FIN | 22:18.4 | 2 | 0 | 7:30.3 (5) | 2 | 15:47.1 (33) | |||
| 30 | Megan Imrie | CAN | 22:19.5 | 1 | 0 | 7:48.1 (28) | 1 | 15:38.8 (30) | |||
| 31 | Zina Kocher | CAN | 22:25.5 | 2 | 1 | 8:03.6 (45) | 1 | 16:13.6 (48) | |||
| 32 | Krystyna Pałka | POL | 22:27.8 | 1 | 1 | 8:03.5 (44) | 0 | 15:40.0 (31) | |||
| 33 | Nastassia Dubarezava | BLR | 22:29.7 | 1 | 0 | 7:36.4 (=11) | 1 | 15:34.4 (29) | |||
| 34 | Synnøve Solemdal | NOR | 22:32.1 | 2 | 1 | 8:04.2 (=46) | 1 | 15:52.3 (35) | |||
| 35 | Mari Laukkanen | FIN | 22:37.3 | 2 | 0 | 7:43.2 (21) | 2 | 16:01.4 (=41) | |||
| 36 | Liudmila Kalinchyk | BLR | 22:37.8 | 2 | 1 | 8:05.1 (49) | 1 | 15:52.1 (34) | |||
| 37 | Michela Ponza | ITA | 22:47.0 | 0 | 0 | 8:06.3 (50) | 0 | 15:53.9 (=36) | |||
| 38 | Fuyuko Suzuki |  JPN | 22:47.4 | 1 | 0 | 7:53.6 (37) | 1 | 15:53.9 (=36) | |||
| 39 | Magdalena Gwizdoń | POL | 22:51.2 | 2 | 1 | 8:12.8 (56) | 1 | 16:01.4 (=41) | |||
| 40 | Franziska Preuß | GER | 22:53.1 | 2 | 2 | 8:25.4 (63) | 0 | 16:03.1 (43) | |||
| 41 | Yuliya Dzhima | UKR | 22:55.5 | 3 | 1 | 8:04.8 (48) | 2 | 16:22.6 (52) | |||
| 42 | Janka Gereková | SVK | 22:58.0 | 3 | 1 | 7:49.6 (32) | 2 | 16:11.5 (47) | |||
| 43 | Sara Studebaker | USA | 22:59.5 | 1 | 1 | 8:32.2 (70) | 0 | 16:15.9 (50) | |||
| 44 | Eva Puskarčíková | CZE | 23:00.9 | 1 | 1 | 8:27.4 (66) | 0 | 16:14.5 (49) | |||
| 45 | Laura Dahlmeier | GER | 23:03.2 | 2 | 0 | 7:48.4 (30) | 2 | 16:18.9 (51) | |||
| 46 | Anaïs Chevalier | FRA | 23:03.4 | 1 | 0 | 7:49.9 (34) | 1 | 15:57.4 (39) | |||
| 47 | Johanna Talihärm |  EST | 23:09.3 | 0 | 0 | 8:06.9 (51) | 0 | 16:01.0 (40) | |||
| 48 | Zhang Yan |  CHN | 23:09.4 | 0 | 0 | 8:12.6 (54) | 0 | 16:09.7 (44) | |||
| 49 | Jitka Landová | CZE | 23:16.9 | 2 | 1 | 8:21.8 (60) | 1 | 16:30.8 (56) | |||
| 50 | Diana Rasimovičiūtė |  LTU | 23:18.6 | 2 | 1 | 8:17.6 (58) | 1 | 16:30.1 (55) | |||
| 51 | Victoria Padial |  ESP | 23:21.5 | 1 | 0 | 7:59.7 (40) | 1 | 16:10.6 (45) | |||
| 52 | Annelies Cook | USA | 23:23.4 | 2 | 0 | 7:42.8 (20) | 2 | 16:23.1 (53) | |||
| 53 | Nicole Gontier | ITA | 23:26.3 | 4 | 1 | 7:54.2 (38) | 3 | 16:37.6 (60) | |||
| 54 | Tang Jialin | CHN | 23:26.7 | 2 | 0 | 7:43.6 (24) | 2 | 16:35.1 (59) | |||
| 55 | Marie-Laure Brunet | FRA | 23:27.4 | 0 | 0 | 7:56.9 (39) | 0 | 15:54.7 (38) | |||
| 56 | Yelena Khrustalyova |  KAZ | 23:29.6 | 2 | 2 | 8:54.1 (78) | 0 | 16:39.7 (61) | |||
| 57 | Darya Usanova | KAZ | 23:33.3 | 1 | 1 | 8:36.1 (72) | 0 | 16:29.2 (54) | |||
| 58 | Megan Heinicke | CAN | 23:34.5 | 3 | 1 | 8:10.3 (52) | 2 | 16:46.2 (62) | |||
| 59 | Yekaterina Shumilova | RUS | 23:38.4 | 2 | 0 | 7:43.3 (22) | 2 | 16:11.3 (46) | |||
| 60 | Desislava Stoyanova |  BUL | 23:48.1 | 2 | 1 | 8:30.4 (69) | 1 | 16:51.8 (65) | |||
| 61 | Martina Chrapánová | SVK | 23:48.3 | 2 | 0 | 7:48.8 (31) | 2 | 16:30.9 (57) | |||
| 62 | Song Chaoqing | CHN | 23:49.5 | 1 | 1 | 8:22.1 (61) | 0 | 16:31.4 (58) | |||
| 63 | Galina Vishnevskaya | KAZ | 23:52.0 | 3 | 2 | 8:41.2 (73) | 1 | 16:57.1 (67) | |||
| 64 | Hannah Dreissigacker | USA | 23:55.0 | 4 | 1 | 8:10.6 (53) | 3 | 17:01.3 (70) | |||
| 65 | Laure Soulié |  AND | 23:57.8 | 2 | 1 | 8:25.9 (64) | 1 | 16:48.8 (63) | |||
| 66 | Darja Jurlova | EST | 24:01.1 | 2 | 1 | 8:25.0 (62) | 1 | 16:51.7 (64) | |||
| 67 | Yuki Nakajima | JPN | 24:12.9 | 2 | 1 | 8:28.5 (67) | 1 | 16:53.6 (66) | |||
| 68 | Kadri Lehtla | EST | 24:13.3 | 4 | 2 | 8:42.3 (74) | 2 | 17:17.8 (73) | |||
| 69 | Emőke Szőcs |  HUN | 24:15.4 | 2 | 0 | 8:12.7 (55) | 2 | 16:58.9 (68) | |||
| 70 | Grete Gaim | EST | 24:18.2 | 2 | 1 | 8:34.0 (71) | 1 | 17:01.1 (69) | |||
| 71 | Paulína Fialková | SVK | 24:27.1 | 5 | 3 | 8:45.2 (76) | 2 | 17:24.1 (75) | |||
| 72 | Marina Lebedeva | KAZ | 24:31.9 | 2 | 1 | 8:43.2 (75) | 1 | 17:15.8 (72) | |||
| 73 | Mun Ji-Hui |  KOR | 24:32.0 | 1 | 0 | 8:13.7 (57) | 1 | 17:01.6 (71) | |||
| 74 | Amanda Lightfoot |  GBR | 24:48.9 | 3 | 2 | 8:55.8 (79) | 1 | 17:36.6 (76) | |||
| 75 | Katharina Innerhofer | AUT | 24:49.0 | 4 | 1 | 8:02.3 (42) | 3 | 17:20.9 (74) | |||
| 76 | Jaque Mourão |  BRA | 25:06.4 | 1 | 0 | 8:26.3 (65) | 1 | 17:37.2 (77) | |||
| 77 | Tanja Karišik |  BIH | 25:06.8 | 2 | 1 | 8:57.3 (80) | 1 | 17:43.7 (78) | |||
| 78 | Žanna Juškāne |  LAT | 25:36.5 | 6 | 2 | 8:45.6 (77) | 4 | 18:19.8 (80) | |||
| 79 | Rina Suzuki | JPN | 25:40.6 | 2 | 0 | 8:20.1 (59) | 2 | 17:44.5 (79) | |||
| 80 | Miki Kobayashi | JPN | 25:52.3 | 5 | 1 | 9:02.0 (82) | 4 | 18:53.8 (82) | |||
| 81 | Lucy Glanville |  AUS | 26:57.1 | 2 | 0 | 9:00.1 (81) | 2 | 18:53.3 (81) | |||
| 82 | Sung Na | CHN | 27:01.5 | 4 | 3 | 9:42.6 (84) | 1 | 19:04.4 (83) | |||
| 83 | Alexandra Camenșcic |  MDA | 27:37.0 | 5 | 2 | 9:39.2 (83) | 3 | 19:52.7 (84) | |||
| Olga Zaytseva | RUS | [22:16.6] | [1] | [1] | [7:51.7] ([35]) | [0] | [15:22.1] ([20]) | 3 |