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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]
[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
