Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint

The women's team sprint cross-country skiing competition in the freestyle technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 22 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia.[1]

Women's team sprint
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
The medal ceremony. From left: Sweden (silver), Germany (gold), Russia (bronze)
VenueWhistler Olympic Park
Dates22 February
Competitors36 from 18 nations
Winning time18:03.7
Medalists
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
 Germany
Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
 Sweden
Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
 Russia

The Swedish team of Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg (Olsson since 2008) were the defending Olympic champions when the technique was classical.[2] The defending world champions were the Finnish duo of Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, the defending Olympic bronze medalists, when the technique was also classical.[3] Italy's team of Magda Genuin and Arianna Follis won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 18 January 2009.[4] The last World Cup event in this format prior to the 2010 Games took place in Rybinsk, Russia on 24 January 2010 and was won by the German team of Stefanie Böhler and Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle.[5]

Results

Semifinals

The semifinals took place at 10:45 and 11:10 PST.[1]

RankHeatBibCountryAthleteTimeNote
116 FranceKarine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
18:42.2Q
211 ItalyMagda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:43.0Q
313 GermanyEvi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:43.5Q
418 PolandKornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:44.1q
514 RussiaIrina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:48.0q
612 FinlandRiitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:53.8q
715 JapanNobuko Fukuda
Madoka Natsumi
19:51.7
819 UkraineKateryna Grygorenko
Maryna Antsybor
19:55.6
917 SwitzerlandBettina Gruber
Silvana Bucher
20:04.6
1212 SwedenCharlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:35.9Q
2211 NorwayAstrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:47.2Q
3216 United StatesCaitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:48.9Q
4214 CanadaDaria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:54.9q
5210 SloveniaKatja Višnar
Vesna Fabjan
18:58.9
6215 KazakhstanOxana Jatskaja
Elena Kolomina
19:33.6
7217 BelarusEkaterina Rudakova
Olga Vasiljonok
19:52.3
8213 EstoniaTriin Ojaste
Kaija Udras
20:02.2
9218 ChinaMan Dandan
Li Hongxue
20:02.7

Final

The following are the results of the event.[6]

Defending Olympic champion Sweden won silver under a different team. Finland, the defending world champions, finished a disappointing eighth under a different team. Test event winners Italy finished fourth with the same team members. Germany, the last winners prior to the Olympics in this event, won gold with Nystad replacing Böhler.

RankBibCountryAthleteTimeDeficit
3 GermanyEvi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:03.7+0.0
12 SwedenCharlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:04.3+0.6
4 RussiaIrina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:07.7+4.0
41 ItalyMagda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:14.2+10.5
511 NorwayAstrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:32.8+29.1
616 United StatesCaitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:51.6+47.9
714 CanadaDaria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:51.8+48.1
82 FinlandRiitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:56.6+52.9
98 PolandKornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:59.1+55.4
106 FranceKarine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
19:04.2+1:00.5

References

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