February 18, 2006 – France’s Vincent Defrasne and Germany’s Kati Wilhelm won Olympic gold in the Men’s 12.5K Pursuit and Women’s 10K Pursuit today at the Torino Games. Tim Burke was the top North American in 38th in the men’s event.

Men’s 12.5K Pursuit

1 DEFRASNE Vincent FRA 35:20.2
2 BJOERNDALEN Ole Einar NOR 2.7
3 FISCHER Sven GER 15.6
4 BRICIS Ilmars LAT 26.7
5 HANEVOLD Halvard NOR 37.5
6 ANDRESEN Frode NOR 56.7
7 SUMANN Christoph AUT +1:19.5
8 GREIS Michael GER +1:19.7
9 TCHOUDOV Maxim RUS +1:21.2
10 ROBERT Julien FRA +1:55.7

38 BURKE Tim USA +3:57.4
46 CLEGG Robin CAN +5:10.1
49 LEONI David CAN +5:47.2
50 BAILEY Lowell USA +6:11.1

Womens 10K Pursuit

1 WILHELM Kati GER 36:43.6
2 GLAGOW Martina GER +1:13.6
3 AKHATOVA Albina RUS +1:21.4
4 ISHMOURATOVA Svetlana RUS +1:45.4
5 PONZA Michela ITA +2:08.1
6 POIREE Liv Grete NOR +2:19.8
7 NAZAROVA Olga BLR +2:26.1
8 EFREMOVA Lilia UKR +2:26.2
9 LIU Xianying CHN +2:41.7
10 DISL Uschi GER +2:47.2