Biathlon at the 2007 Asian Winter Games

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Biathlon at the 2007 Asian Winter Games was held at the Beida Lake Skiing Resort in Changchun, China from 29 January to 2 February 2007. ^[1]

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Medal table 1.2 Medalists 2 Results 2.1 Men's events 2.1.1 10 km sprint 2.2 Women's events 2.2.1 7.5 km sprint 2.2.2 10 km pursuit 3 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	3	3	8
2	Japan	1	0	0	1

[edit] Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km sprint	Hidenori Isa (JPN)	Zhang Chengye (CHN)	Zhang Qing (CHN)
Women's 10 km sprint	Kong Yingchao (CHN)	Liu Xianying (CHN)	Dong Xue (CHN)
Women's 7.5 km sprint	Liu Xianying (CHN)	Kong Yingchao (CHN)	Dong Xue (CHN)

[edit] Results

[edit] Men's events

[edit] 10 km sprint

This was held on the opening day of the games. Isa was not the fastest skier of the day, but a faultless shoot helped him catch Zhang Chengye, the only participant with a top-ten placing from this season's World Cup races. Zhang Chengye was also the highest ranked in the World Cup before the event, with 36th overall; bronze medallist Zhang Qing was the second-ranked Asian, in 57th, while Isa was ranked 64th.

Pos.	Athlete	Nation	Time	Misses	Gap
	Hidenori Isa	JPN	29:35.66	0+0
	Zhang Chengye	CHN	29:43.33	1+3	+7.67
	Zhang Qing	CHN	30:28.84	0+1	+53.18
4	Tatsumi Kasahara	JPN	30:51.02	1+2	+1:15.36
5	Tian Ye	CHN	30:56.74	0+2	+1:21.08
6	Sergey Naumik	KAZ	31:23.93	1+1	+1:48.27

[edit] Women's events

[edit] 7.5 km sprint

China's three top-25 athletes by the World Cup ranking swept the medals; no other competitor had managed to win World Cup points this season, except for China's Yin Qiao, who was ranked 38th but missed five times to finish seventh. Dong had been the best thus far in the World Cup season, having been ranked as highly as seventh, though Kong had a sprint World Cup podium from Hochfilzen. However, it was 29-year-old Liu, with seventh place from the second sprint in Hochfilzen as the best this season but a World Championship silver medal from 2005, who prevailed over her younger compatriots due to better skiing than Kong and better shooting than Dong.

Pos.	Athlete	Nation	Time	Misses	Gap
	Liu Xianying	CHN	25:19.28	0+2
	Kong Yingchao	CHN	25:23.37	0+1	+4.09
	Dong Xue	CHN	26:16.28	2+3	+57.00
4	Tamami Tanaka	JPN	27:09.60	2+2	+1:50.32
5	Viktoria Afanasyeva	KAZ	27:21.32	1+4	+2:02.04
6	Megumi Izumi	JPN	27:52.34	4+0	+2:33.06

[edit] 10 km pursuit

Faster skiing and better shooting gave Kong the gold medal.

Pos.	Athlete	Nation	Time	Misses	Gap
	Kong Yingchao	CHN	36:13.39	0+0+0+0
	Liu Xianying	CHN	37:01.90	1+0+0+2	+1:48.51
	Dong Xue	CHN	40:12.52	0+2+1+2	+3:59.13
4	Yelena Khrustaleva	KAZ	42:27.82	3+0+1+0	+6:16.43
5	Yin Qiao	CHN	42:40.93	1+2+0+2	+6:29.54
6	Viktoria Afanasyeva	KAZ	43:00.70	2+0+1+4	+6:49.31

[edit] References

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