The Women's 7.5 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 16 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over three loops of a 2.5 kilometre skiing course, shooting ten times, five prone and five standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.
Uschi Disl was the defending World Champion at the sprint, while Kati Wilhelm won the sprint at the trial event in 2005, despite shooting two penalty laps. Wilhelm was also the defending Olympic champion, and entered the games leading the sprint World Cup ahead of Disl and Russian Svetlana Ishmouratova.
Results
Rank Name Country Time Penalties Deficit Florence Baverel-Robert 22:31.4 0 — Anna Carin Olofsson 22:33.8 1 +0:02.4 Lilia Efremova 22:38.0 0 +0:06.6 4 Albina Akhatova 22:40.2 0 +0:08.8 5 Olena Zubrilova 22:40.5 0 +0:09.1 6 Sandrine Bailly 22:43.0 2 +0:11.6 7 Kati Wilhelm 22:49.8 1 +0:18.4 8 Olga Nazarova 22:53.2 0 +0:21.8 9 Olga Zaytseva 23:05.8 0 +0:34.4 10 Svetlana Ishmouratova 23:10.3 1 +0:38.9 11 Liu Xianying 23:17.5 1 +0:46.1 12 Liv Grete Poirée 23:20.0 2 +0:48.6 13 Michela Ponza 23:27.2 1 +0:55.8 14 Delphyne Peretto 23:31.2 0 +0:59.8 14 Teja Gregorin 23:31.2 0 +0:59.8 16 Martina Halinarova 23:32.8 0 +1:01.4 17 Martina Glagow 23:35.9 1 +1:04.5 18 Diana Rasimovičiūtė 23:48.1 1 +1:16.7 19 Linda Tjorhom 23:48.5 1 +1:17.1 20 Magdalena Gwizdon 23:54.7 1 +1:23.3 21 Sun Ribo 23:57.6 2 +1:26.2 22 Katrin Apel 24:04.9 2 +1:33.5 23 Tora Berger 24:05.8 1 +1:34.4 24 Kong Yingchao 24:07.0 1 +1:35.6 25 Krystyna Pałka 24:07.3 1 +1:35.9 26 Nathalie Santer 24:09.5 2 +1:38.1 27 Sona Mihokova 24:09.9 1 +1:38.5 28 Madara Liduma 24:11.0 2 +1:39.6 29 Marcela Pavkovcekova 24:11.1 0 +1:39.7 30 Sylvie Becaert 24:12.9 0 +1:41.5 31 Tadeja Brankovič 24:14.1 2 +1:42.7 32 Lenka Faltusová 24:16.9 0 +1:45.5 33 Ekaterina Dafovska 24:23.2 2 +1:51.8 34 Uschi Disl 24:29.1 3 +1:57.7 35 Rachel Steer 24:29.6 1 +1:58.2 36 Irina Nikoultchina 24:30.0 4 +1:58.6 37 Ekaterina Ivanova 24:30.8 4 +1:59.4 38 Anna Murinova 24:32.1 1 +2:00.7 39 Kateřina Holubcová 24:33.3 1 +2:01.9 40 Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen 24:34.0 1 +2:02.6 41 Natalia Levtchenkova 24:34.2 1 +2:02.8 42 Ludmilla Ananko 24:36.1 1 +2:04.7 43 Zdeňka Vejnarová 24:46.4 2 +2:15.0 44 Olena Petrova 24:52.2 2 +2:20.8 45 Alexandra Rusu 24:52.5 0 +2:21.1 46 Pavlina Filipova 24:53.3 2 +2:21.9 47 Eveli Saue 24:55.4 1 +2:24.0 48 Dana Elena Plotogea 25:01.7 1 +2:30.3 49 Oksana Khvostenko 25:10.1 1 +2:38.7 50 Nina Lemesh 25:13.5 2 +2:42.1 51 Ikuyo Tsukidate 25:17.0 1 +2:45.6 52 Anna Lebedeva 25:21.8 2 +2:50.4 53 Katja Haller 25:22.6 1 +2:51.2 54 Hou Yuxia 25:25.8 5 +2:54.4 55 Dijana Grudiček 25:28.6 3 +2:57.2 56 Magdalena Nykiel 25:32.2 1 +3:00.8 57 Saskia Santer 25:42.6 3 +3:11.2 58 Radka Popova 26:01.1 2 +3:29.7 59 Andreja Mali 26:02.5 3 +3:31.1 60 Anzela Brice 26:03.1 3 +3:31.7 61 Magda Rezlerová 26:06.7 2 +3:35.3 62 Zina Kocher 26:11.1 4 +3:39.7 63 Katarzyna Ponikwia 26:17.3 1 +3:45.9 64 Kanae Meguro 26:19.9 4 +3:48.5 65 Tamami Tanaka 26:20.6 5 +3:49.2 66 Sandra Keith 26:20.7 3 +3:49.3 67 Emma Fowler 26:22.9 1 +3:51.5 68 Elena Gorohova 26:23.9 2 +3:52.5 69 Tomomi Otaka 26:28.7 3 +3:57.3 70 Éva Tófalvi 26:38.3 4 +4:06.9 71 Tracey Barnes 26:47.9 2 +4:16.5 72 Linda Savlaka 26:54.6 1 +4:23.2 73 Martine Albert 27:04.4 2 +4:33.0 74 Gerda Krumina 27:30.5 3 +4:59.1 75 Sarah Konrad 27:30.6 8 +4:59.2 76 Marie Pierre Parent 27:31.1 2 +4:59.7 77 Mihaela Purdea 27:32.7 4 +5:01.3 78 Aleksandra Vasiljević 28:10.9 1 +5:39.5 79 Petra Starčević 28:11.9 2 +5:40.5 80 Carolyn Treacy 28:18.7 4 +5:47.3 81 Valentina Ciurina 30:04.2 4 +7:32.8 82 Zsofia Gottschall 31:09.1 6 +8:37.7 83 Veronica Isbej 33:52.0 4 +11:20.6 — Olga Pyleva Did not start
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