Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint

Qualifying

Sixty-six skiers completed the 1.1 kilometre course in the qualifying portion of the event, with the top thirty advancing to the quarterfinals.^[2]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Beckie Scott	Canada	2:12.45	Q
2	Arianna Follis	Italy	2:12.90	Q
3	Lina Andersson	Sweden	2:13.29	Q
4	Claudia Kuenzel	Germany	2:13.64	Q
5	Alena Sidko	Russia	2:14.54	Q
6	Petra Majdič	Slovenia	2:14.62	Q
7	Virpi Kuitunen	Finland	2:14.83	Q
8	Chandra Crawford	Canada	2:15.06	Q
9	Sara Renner	Canada	2:15.37	Q
10	Kikkan Randall	United States	2:15.63	Q
11	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	Finland	2:15.75	Q
12	Anna Dahlberg	Sweden	2:15.91	Q
13	Ella Gjømle	Norway	2:16.02	Q
14	Manuela Henkel	Germany	2:16.04	Q
15	Madoka Natsumi	Japan	2:16.30	Q
16	Viktoria Lopatina	Belarus	2:16.36	Q
17	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	2:16.38	Q
18	Magda Genuin	Italy	2:16.41	Q
19	Britta Norgren	Sweden	2:16.43	Q
20	Olga Moskalenko-Rotcheva	Russia	2:16.43	Q
21	Emelie Öhrstig	Sweden	2:16.75	Q
22	Julija Tchepalova	Russia	2:16.90	Q
23	Hilde G. Pedersen	Norway	2:17.17	Q
24	Kati Venäläinen	Finland	2:17.29	Q
25	Natalia Matveeva	Russia	2:17.73	Q
26	Laurence Rochat	Switzerland	2:17.73	Q
27	Alena Prochazkova	Slovakia	2:17.75	Q
28	Nobuko Fukuda	Japan	2:17.82	Q
29	Olga Vasiljonok	Belarus	2:18.12	Q
30	Stefanie Boehler	Germany	2:18.14	Q
31	Nicole Fessel	Germany	2:18.35
32	Seraina Mischol	Switzerland	2:18.83
33	Barbara Moriggl	Italy	2:19.12
34	Aurelie Perrillat	France	2:19.28
35	Wendy Kay Wagner	United States	2:19.71
36	Vita Jakimchuk	Ukraine	2:19.92
37	Irina Terentjeva	Lithuania	2:20.08
38	Elena Kolomina	Kazakhstan	2:20.28
38	Lindsey Williams	United States	2:20.28
40	Vesna Fabjan	Slovenia	2:20.34
41	Tatjana Mannima	Estonia	2:20.44
42	Elina Hietamäki	Finland	2:20.49
43	Marina Malets-Lisogor	Ukraine	2:20.79
44	Justyna Kowalczyk	Poland	2:21.19
45	Natalya Issachenko	Kazakhstan	2:21.22
46	Oxana Jatskaja	Kazakhstan	2:22.12
47	Emilie Vina	France	2:22.42
48	Kaili Sirge	Estonia	2:22.42
49	Amanda Ammar	Canada	2:22.78
50	Eva Nývltová	Czech Republic	2:22.86
51	Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka	Belarus	2:23.19
52	Esther Bottomley	Australia	2:23.55
53	Katarína Garajová	Slovakia	2:23.98
54	Piret Pormeister	Estonia	2:24.67
55	Elodie Bourgeois Pin	France	2:24.77
56	Man Dandan	China	2:25.16
57	Song Bo	China	2:27.07
58	Maja Kezele	Croatia	2:27.16
59	Monika Gyorgy	Romania	2:27.53
60	Daria Starostina	Kazakhstan	2:27.58
61	Jia Yuping	China	2:30.03
62	Elena Gorohova	Moldova	2:31.61
63	Kelime Aydin	Turkey	2:33.33
64	Lee Chae-Won	South Korea	2:35.47
65	Liu Liming	China	2:35.76
66	Panagiota Tsakiri	Greece	2:43.28

Quarterfinals

There were five quarterfinal races, each with six skiers. The top two in each heat advanced to the semifinals.^[2]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	1	Beckie Scott (CAN)	2:16.6	Q
2	10	Kikkan Randall (USA)	2:17.8	Q
3	20	Olga Moskalenko-Rotcheva (RUS)	2:18.4
4	30	Stefanie Boehler (GER)	2:18.5
5	21	Emelie Öhrstig (SWE)	2:19.9
6	11	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN)	2:20.7

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	4	Claudia Kuenzel (GER)	2:15.5	Q
2	7	Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)	2:16.2	Q
3	14	Manuela Henkel (GER)	2:16.4
4	17	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	2:16.8
5	27	Alena Prochazkova (SVK)	2:17.9
6	24	Kati Venäläinen (FIN)	2:18.1

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	5	Alena Sidko (RUS)	2:17.7	Q
2	6	Petra Majdič (SLO)	2:17.7	Q
3	26	Laurence Rochat (SUI)	2:18.9
4	15	Madoka Natsumi (JPN)	2:19.9
5	16	Viktoria Lopatina (BLR)	2:24.8
6	25	Natalia Matveeva (RUS)	2:31.4

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	12	Anna Dahlberg (SWE)	2:14.3	Q
2	2	Arianna Follis (ITA)	2:14.7	Q
3	19	Britta Norgren (SWE)	2:15.0
4	9	Sara Renner (CAN)	2:15.6
5	29	Olga Vasiljonok (BLR)	2:16.6
6	22	Julija Tchepalova (RUS)	2:16.6

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	8	Chandra Crawford (CAN)	2:14.2	Q
2	13	Ella Gjømle (NOR)	2:15.7	Q
3	3	Lina Andersson (SWE)	2:16.0
4	18	Magda Genuin (ITA)	2:17.9
5	28	Nobuko Fukuda (JPN)	2:18.2
6	23	Hilde G. Pedersen (NOR)	2:19.1

Semifinals

There were two semifinal races, each with five skiers. The top two in each semifinal advanced to the A Final, to compete for the top four places, while the third and fourth-placed finishers advanced to the B Final, for places five through eight.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	4	Claudia Kuenzel (GER)	2:15.5	Q
2	1	Beckie Scott (CAN)	2:15.8	Q
3	7	Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)	2:16.3
4	6	Petra Majdič (SLO)	2:18.7
5	10	Kikkan Randall (USA)	2:19.1

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	8	Chandra Crawford (CAN)	2:13.4	Q
2	5	Alena Sidko (RUS)	2:15.1	Q
3	2	Arianna Follis (ITA)	2:16.2
4	13	Ella Gjømle (NOR)	2:16.4
5	12	Anna Dahlberg (SWE)	2:18.9

Finals

Chandra Crawford finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Claudia Kuenzel to win the Olympic gold medal in the women's cross-country sprint.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result
	8	Chandra Crawford (CAN)	2:12.3
	4	Claudia Kuenzel (GER)	2:13.0
	5	Alena Sidko (RUS)	2:13.2
4	1	Beckie Scott (CAN)	2:14.7

Final B

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Result
1	7	Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)	2:18.1
2	13	Ella Gjømle (NOR)	2:18.2
3	2	Arianna Follis (ITA)	2:20.3
4	6	Petra Majdič (SLO)	2:21.5