The women's 12.5 km mass start biathlon competition of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics was held on 17 February 2018 at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Start list Anastasiya Kuzmina won the gold medal, the defending champion Darya Domracheva took the silver, and Tiril Eckhoff replicated her 2014 bronze medal success.

Summary Kuzmina was leading from the start, and was skiing alone after the second shooting, with Domracheva ten seconds behind. In the first standing shooting, Domracheva missed a target, and Kuzmina, despite a missed target in the second standing shooting, was never seriously challenged for first place. Domracheva did not miss a target in the last shooting and went on to finish second. Eckhoff missed one target in the first prone shooting and one in the first standing shooting, and for most of the race was skiing in the middle of the field. However, in the last shooting all of her direct competitors missed, and she left the shooting range in third place and went on to take the bronze medal.

Qualification

Schedule All times are (UTC+9). Date Time Round 17 February 20:15 Final

Results The race was started at 20:15.Final results

Rank Bib Name Country Time Penalties (P+P+S+S) Deficit 4 Anastasiya Kuzmina 35:23.01 (0+0+0+1) 9 Darya Domracheva 35:41.81 (0+0+1+0) 18 Tiril Eckhoff 35:50.72 (1+0+1+0) 13 Lisa Vittozzi 36:08.62 (1+0+0+1) 2 Hanna Öberg 36:09.51 (0+0+1+0) 8 Dorothea Wierer 36:10.31 (0+0+0+1) 19 Nadezhda Skardino 36:10.90 (0+0+0+0) 3 Marte Olsbu 36:14.61 (0+1+0+0) 21 Marie Dorin Habert 36:20.92 (0+1+0+1) 10 7 Kaisa Mäkäräinen 36:23.92 (0+1+0+1)+1:00.9 11 10 Denise Herrmann 36:27.22 (0+0+2+0)+1:04.2 12 28 Franziska Preuß 36:38.91 (0+0+1+0)+1:15.9 13 17 Mona Brorsson 36:55.31 (0+0+1+0)+1:32.3 14 5 Veronika Vítková 36:57.81 (0+0+0+1)+1:34.8 15 30 Monika Hojnisz 36:59.20 (0+0+0+0)+1:36.2 16 1 Laura Dahlmeier 37:10.12 (1+1+0+0)+1:47.1 17 6 Anaïs Bescond 37:23.54 (1+0+2+1)+2:00.5 18 29 Markéta Davidová 37:23.83 (0+1+1+1)+2:00.8 19 14 Valj Semerenko 37:39.91 (1+0+0+0)+2:16.9 20 11 Justine Braisaz 37:49.65 (0+1+3+1)+2:26.6 21 16 Paulína Fialková 37:52.64 (1+2+0+1)+2:29.6 22 25 Linn Persson 37:54.52 (1+0+0+1)+2:31.5 23 23 Lena Häcki 38:22.34 (1+2+0+1)+2:59.3 24 12 Vita Semerenko 38:25.33 (0+0+3+0)+3:02.3 25 15 Vanessa Hinz 38:52.44 (2+1+0+1)+3:29.4 26 26 Iryna Kryuko 39:04.04 (3+1+0+0)+3:41.0 27 27 Elisa Gasparin 39:21.05 (0+2+1+2)+3:58.0 28 20 Irene Cadurisch 39:44.74 (2+1+1+0)+4:21.7 29 24 Anaïs Chevalier 40:39.76 (2+3+1+0)+5:16.7 30 22 Tatiana Akimova 41:32.46 (0+0+5+1)+6:09.4

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