title: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start
text: # Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start
  
  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. 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.
  
  ## Schedule
  
  All times are (UTC+9).
  
  | Date | Time | Round |
  | - | - | - |
  | 17 February | 20:15 | Final |
  
  ## Results
  
  The race was started at 20:15.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Penalties (P+P+S+S) | Deficit |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Anastasiya Kuzmina | Slovakia | 35:23.0 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | — |
  | | 9 | Darya Domracheva | Belarus | 35:41.8 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +18.8 |
  | | 18 | Tiril Eckhoff | Norway | 35:50.7 | 2 (1+0+1+0) | +27.7 |
  | 4 | 13 | Lisa Vittozzi | Italy | 36:08.6 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | +45.6 |
  | 5 | 2 | Hanna Öberg | Sweden | 36:09.5 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +46.5 |
  | 6 | 8 | Dorothea Wierer | Italy | 36:10.3 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +47.3 |
  | 7 | 19 | Nadezhda Skardino | Belarus | 36:10.9 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +47.9 |
  | 8 | 3 | Marte Olsbu | Norway | 36:14.6 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | +51.6 |
  | 9 | 21 | Marie Dorin Habert | France | 36:20.9 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +57.9 |
  | 10 | 7 | Kaisa Mäkäräinen | Finland | 36:23.9 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | +1:00.9 |
  | 11 | 10 | Denise Herrmann | Germany | 36:27.2 | 2 (0+0+2+0) | +1:04.2 |
  | 12 | 28 | Franziska Preuß | Germany | 36:38.9 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +1:15.9 |
  | 13 | 17 | Mona Brorsson | Sweden | 36:55.3 | 1 (0+0+1+0) | +1:32.3 |
  | 14 | 5 | Veronika Vítková | Czech Republic | 36:57.8 | 1 (0+0+0+1) | +1:34.8 |
  | 15 | 30 | Monika Hojnisz | Poland | 36:59.2 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | +1:36.2 |
  | 16 | 1 | Laura Dahlmeier | Germany | 37:10.1 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | +1:47.1 |
  | 17 | 6 | Anaïs Bescond | France | 37:23.5 | 4 (1+0+2+1) | +2:00.5 |
  | 18 | 29 | Markéta Davidová | Czech Republic | 37:23.8 | 3 (0+1+1+1) | +2:00.8 |
  | 19 | 14 | Valj Semerenko | Ukraine | 37:39.9 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | +2:16.9 |
  | 20 | 11 | Justine Braisaz | France | 37:49.6 | 5 (0+1+3+1) | +2:26.6 |
  | 21 | 16 | Paulína Fialková | Slovakia | 37:52.6 | 4 (1+2+0+1) | +2:29.6 |
  | 22 | 25 | Linn Persson | Sweden | 37:54.5 | 2 (1+0+0+1) | +2:31.5 |
  | 23 | 23 | Lena Häcki | Switzerland | 38:22.3 | 4 (1+2+0+1) | +2:59.3 |
  | 24 | 12 | Vita Semerenko | Ukraine | 38:25.3 | 3 (0+0+3+0) | +3:02.3 |
  | 25 | 15 | Vanessa Hinz | Germany | 38:52.4 | 4 (2+1+0+1) | +3:29.4 |
  | 26 | 26 | Iryna Kryuko | Belarus | 39:04.0 | 4 (3+1+0+0) | +3:41.0 |
  | 27 | 27 | Elisa Gasparin | Switzerland | 39:21.0 | 5 (0+2+1+2) | +3:58.0 |
  | 28 | 20 | Irene Cadurisch | Switzerland | 39:44.7 | 4 (2+1+1+0) | +4:21.7 |
  | 29 | 24 | Anaïs Chevalier | France | 40:39.7 | 6 (2+3+1+0) | +5:16.7 |
  | 30 | 22 | Tatiana Akimova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 41:32.4 | 6 (0+0+5+1) | +6:09.4 |
  