Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's team pursuit

Women's team pursuit at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Richmond Olympic Oval
Dates	26–27 February 2010
Medalists
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, Stephanie Beckert, Anni Friesinger-Postma, Katrin Mattscherodt  Germany Masako Hozumi, Nao Kodaira, Maki Tabata  Japan Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś, Katarzyna Woźniak, Luiza Złotkowska  Poland

Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women

The women's team pursuit speed skating competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Richmond Olympic Oval on 26 and 27 February 2010.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Canada Christine Nesbitt Kristina Groves Brittany Schussler	2:55.79	Calgary, Canada	6 December 2009
Olympic record	Canada Christine Nesbitt Kristina Groves Cindy Klassen	3:01.24	Torino, Italy	15 February 2006

Results

Bracket

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Final

1

Canada

3:02.24

7

United States

3:02.19

7

United States

3:03.78

4

Germany

3:03.55

5

Netherlands

3:03.38

4

Germany

3:01.95

4

Germany

3:02.82

3

Japan

3:02.84

3

Japan

3:02.89

6

South Korea

3:07.45

3

Japan

3:02.73

Third place

8

Poland

3:02.92

8

Poland

3:02.90

7

United States

3:05.30

2

Russia

3:04.86

8

Poland

3:03.73

Quarterfinals

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Quarterfinal 1
1	Japan	Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata	3:02.89		Semifinal 1
2	South Korea	Lee Ju-Youn Noh Seon-Yeong Park Do-Yeong	3:07.45	+4.56	Final D
Quarterfinal 2
1	Poland	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:02.90		Semifinal 1
2	Russia	Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova	3:04.86	+1.96	Final D
Quarterfinal 3
1	Germany	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Anni Friesinger-Postma	3:01.95		Semifinal 2
2	Netherlands	Renate Groenewold Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	3:03.38	+1.43	Final C
Quarterfinal 4
1	United States	Jennifer Rodriguez Jilleanne Rookard Nancy Swider-Peltz, Jr	3:02.19		Semifinal 2
2	Canada	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	3:02.24	+0.05	Final C

Semifinals

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Semifinal 1
1	Japan	Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata	3:02.73		Final A
2	Poland	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:02.92	+0.19	Final B
Semifinal 2
1	Germany	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Anni Friesinger-Postma	3:03.55		Final A
2	United States	Jennifer Rodriguez Jilleanne Rookard Nancy Swider-Peltz, Jr	3:03.78	+0.23	Final B

Finals

Poland won the bronze medal

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Final A
	Germany	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Katrin Mattscherodt	3:02.82
	Japan	Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata	3:02.84	+0.02
Final B
	Poland	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:03.73
4	United States	Catherine Raney-Norman Jennifer Rodriguez Jilleanne Rookard	3:05.30	+1.57
Final C
5	Canada	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	3:01.41
6	Netherlands	Diane Valkenburg Jorien Voorhuis Ireen Wüst	3:02.04	+0.63
Final D
7	Russia	Yekaterina Lobysheva Alla Shabanova Yekaterina Shikhova	3:06.47
8	South Korea	Lee Ju-Youn Noh Seon-Young Park Do-Yeong	3:06.96	+0.49

References

External links

• "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Team pursuit Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
• "2010 Winter Olympics medalist in Speed Skating". Olympic.org. Retrieved 19 November 2013.