Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 10 kilometre classical

Women's 10 kilometre classical at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Soldier Hollow
Dates	12 February
Competitors	61 from 23 nations
Winning time	28:05.6
Medalists
Bente Skari  Norway Julija Tchepalova  Russia Stefania Belmondo  Italy

Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Distance
10 km		women
15 km	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
30 km	men	women
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
Sprint
Sprint	men	women

The women's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 12 February at Soldier Hollow.

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 10 kilometre course. The defending Olympic champion was the Russia Larisa Lazutina, who won in Nagano, but the 10 kilometre event was then held as a pursuit.

The race

Early in the race, Norwegian Bente Skari was well behind Russian Olga Danilova.^[1] Danilova led by over 15 seconds at 5.8 km, but Skari had closed to within 10 seconds at 8.7 km. Norway's Skari finished strongly, defeating Danilova to win by 2 seconds. The bronze medal went to russian Yuliya Chepalova, the 2000-01 World Cup champion. Fourth was another Russian, Larisa Lazutina.

In October 2003, Olga Danilova was disqualified for use of darpopoietin, an erythropoietin analogue. In January 2004 Lazutina was disqualified for use of the same substance. Chepalova was moved up to the silver medal, while fifth-place finisher Stefania Belmondo was awarded the bronze medal.

Results

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Rank	Name	Country	Time
	Bente Skari	Norway	28:05.6
	Julija Tchepalova	Russia	28:09.9
	Stefania Belmondo	Italy	28:45.8
4	Beckie Scott	Canada	28:49.2
5	Lyubov Yegorova	Russia	28:50.7
6	Hilde G. Pedersen	Norway	28:56.2
7	Satu Salonen	Finland	29:02.3
8	Petra Majdič	Slovenia	29:03.9
9	Anita Moen	Norway	29:15.5
10	Viola Bauer	Germany	29:30.0
11	Irina Terelia	Ukraine	29:35.8
12	Valentina Shevchenko	Ukraine	29:42.7
13	Sara Renner	Canada	29:46.7
14	Svetlana Nageykina	Russia	29:48.4
15	Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	Switzerland	29:57.5
16	Lina Andersson	Sweden	30:00.1
17	Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb Storti	France	30:00.2
18	Manuela Henkel	Germany	30:00.5
19	Elin Ek	Sweden	30:02.3
20	Marianna Longa	Italy	30:04.0
21	Svetlana Shishkina	Kazakhstan	30:06.7
22	Jenny Olsson	Sweden	30:09.5
23	Milaine Thérault	Canada	30:12.6
24	Oksana Yatskaya	Kazakhstan	30:13.9
25	Tina Bay	Norway	30:16.3
26	Kamila Rajdlová	Czech Republic	30:17.9
27	Vera Zyatikova	Belarus	30:20.5
28	Kati Sundqvist	Finland	30:24.0
29	Yelena Antonova	Kazakhstan	30:27.3
30	Nataša Lačen	Slovenia	30:31.3
31	Sumiko Yokoyama	Japan	30:32.3
32	Kanoko Goto	Japan	30:36.6
33	Svetlana Deshevykh	Kazakhstan	30:39.2
34	Antonella Confortola	Italy	30:42.2
35	Nataliya Zyatikova	Belarus	30:44.2
36	Wendy Wagner	United States	30:50.7
37	Annmari Viljanmaa	Finland	30:51.8
38	Nina Kemppel	United States	30:51.9
39	Cristina Paluselli	Italy	30:59.4
40	Anna Dahlberg	Sweden	31:01.7
41	Olena Rodina	Ukraine	31:07.4
42	Katrin Šmigun	Estonia	31:10.2
43	Yelena Kalugina	Belarus	31:10.9
44	Hou Yuxia	China	31:30.6
45	Jaime Fortier	Canada	31:42.1
46	Jaroslava Bukvajová	Slovakia	31:50.5
47	Madoka Natsumi	Japan	31:54.1
48	Tomomi Otaka	Japan	32:27.9
49	Ilona Bublová	Czech Republic	32:32.8
50	Luan Zhengrong	China	32:35.3
51	Piret Niglas	Estonia	32:49.1
52	Tessa Benoit	United States	33:09.1
53	Aelin Peterson	United States	33:18.9
54	Lee Chae-Won	South Korea	34:04.1
55	Maja Kezele	Croatia	34:10.8
56	Margarita Nikolyan	Armenia	38:16.4
57	Franziska Becskehazy	Brazil	46:46.0
	Laurence Rochat	Switzerland	DNF
	Kristina Šmigun	Estonia	DNF
	Olga Danilova	Russia	DSQ
	Larisa Lazutina	Russia	DSQ

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