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 | |||||||||||||
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 The medal ceremony. From left: Sweden (silver), Germany (gold), Russia (bronze) | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Whistler Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 22 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 18:03.7 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Distance | ||
| 10 km | women | |
| 15 km | men | women |
| 30 km | men | women |
| 50 km | men | |
| 4 × 5 km relay | women | |
| 4 × 10 km relay | men | |
| Sprint | ||
| Individual | men | women |
| Team | men | women |
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]
| Rank | Heat | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 6 |  France | Karine Laurent Philippot Laure Barthélémy | 18:42.2 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 1 |  Italy | Magda Genuin Arianna Follis | 18:43.0 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 3 |  Germany | Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Nystad | 18:43.5 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 8 |  Poland | Kornelia Marek Sylwia Jaśkowiec | 18:44.1 | q |
| 5 | 1 | 4 |  Russia | Irina Khazova Natalya Korostelyova | 18:48.0 | q |
| 6 | 1 | 2 |  Finland | Riitta-Liisa Roponen Riikka Sarasoja | 18:53.8 | q |
| 7 | 1 | 5 |  Japan | Nobuko Fukuda Madoka Natsumi | 19:51.7 | |
| 8 | 1 | 9 |  Ukraine | Kateryna Grygorenko Maryna Antsybor | 19:55.6 | |
| 9 | 1 | 7 |  Switzerland | Bettina Gruber Silvana Bucher | 20:04.6 | |
| 1 | 2 | 12 |  Sweden | Charlotte Kalla Anna Haag | 18:35.9 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 11 |  Norway | Astrid Jacobsen Celine Brun-Lie | 18:47.2 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 16 |  United States | Caitlin Compton Kikkan Randall | 18:48.9 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 14 |  Canada | Daria Gaiazova Sara Renner | 18:54.9 | q |
| 5 | 2 | 10 |  Slovenia | Katja Višnar Vesna Fabjan | 18:58.9 | |
| 6 | 2 | 15 |  Kazakhstan | Oxana Jatskaja Elena Kolomina | 19:33.6 | |
| 7 | 2 | 17 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belarus | Ekaterina Rudakova Olga Vasiljonok | 19:52.3 | |
| 8 | 2 | 13 |  Estonia | Triin Ojaste Kaija Udras | 20:02.2 | |
| 9 | 2 | 18 |  China | Man 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.
| Rank | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3 | Germany | Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Nystad | 18:03.7 | +0.0 |
 | 12 | Sweden | Charlotte Kalla Anna Haag | 18:04.3 | +0.6 |
 | 4 | Russia | Irina Khazova Natalya Korostelyova | 18:07.7 | +4.0 |
| 4 | 1 | Italy | Magda Genuin Arianna Follis | 18:14.2 | +10.5 |
| 5 | 11 | Norway | Astrid Jacobsen Celine Brun-Lie | 18:32.8 | +29.1 |
| 6 | 16 | United States | Caitlin Compton Kikkan Randall | 18:51.6 | +47.9 |
| 7 | 14 | Canada | Daria Gaiazova Sara Renner | 18:51.8 | +48.1 |
| 8 | 2 | Finland | Riitta-Liisa Roponen Riikka Sarasoja | 18:56.6 | +52.9 |
| 9 | 8 | Poland | Kornelia Marek Sylwia Jaśkowiec | 18:59.1 | +55.4 |
| 10 | 6 | France | Karine Laurent Philippot Laure Barthélémy | 19:04.2 | +1:00.5 |
References
- Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 3 November 2009.
- 2006 Winter Olympics women's team sprint classical results. Archived 2011-02-16 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 February 2009.
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 women's team sprint classical results. Archived 2009-04-14 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009 results.
- FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Whistler Olympic Park 18 January 2009 women's team sprint freestyle results. Archived 20 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
- FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Rybinsk 24 January 2010 women's team sprint freestyle results. Archived 1 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 24 January 2010.
- vancouver2010.com: Ladies' Team Sprint Free
External links
- 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Team Sprint Free (semifinals), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-21.
- 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Team Sprint Free (final), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-21.