FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 – Women's sprint

The Women's sprint event of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 was held on 19 February 2015.[1]

Women's sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015
Date	19 February 2015
Competitors	94 from 37 nations
Winning time	3:26.63
Medalists
Marit Bjørgen    Norway   Stina Nilsson    Sweden   Maiken Caspersen Falla    Norway

Results

Qualification

The qualification was held at 13:00.[2][3]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Justyna Kowalczyk	Poland	3:24.89		Q
2	11	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:25.13	+0.24	Q
3	4	Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes	Norway	3:25.40	+0.51	Q
4	6	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Norway	3:25.54	+0.65	Q
5	18	Stina Nilsson	Sweden	3:26.08	+1.19	Q
6	8	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	3:27.43	+2.54	Q
7	28	Sandra Ringwald	Germany	3:27.69	+2.80	Q
8	22	Katja Višnar	Slovenia	3:27.71	+2.82	Q
9	7	Anastasia Dotsenko	Russia	3:28.23	+3.34	Q
10	10	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway	3:28.91	+4.02	Q
11	14	Magdalena Pajala	Sweden	3:29.64	+4.75	Q
12	25	Kerttu Niskanen	Finland	3:30.23	+5.34	Q
13	13	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden	3:30.26	+5.37	Q
14	38	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	3:30.40	+5.51	Q
15	2	Hanna Falk	Sweden	3:31.09	+6.20	Q
16	34	Francesca Baudin	Italy	3:31.76	+6.87	Q
17	5	Yevgeniya Shapovalova	Russia	3:31.94	+7.05	Q
18	19	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia	3:32.35	+7.46	Q
19	21	Denise Herrmann	Germany	3:32.44	+7.55	Q
20	29	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	Finland	3:32.60	+7.71	Q
21	16	Sophie Caldwell	United States	3:32.76	+7.87	Q
22	12	Mona-Liisa Malvalehto	Finland	3:32.81	+7.92	Q
23	17	Laurien van der Graaff	Switzerland	3:32.95	+8.06	Q
24	32	Célia Aymonier	France	3:33.22	+8.33	Q
25	30	Yuliya Romanova	Russia	3:34.22	+9.33	Q
26	15	Sadie Bjornsen	United States	3:34.36	+9.47	Q
27	24	Anne Kyllönen	Finland	3:34.47	+9.58	Q
28	31	Perianne Jones	Canada	3:34.79	+9.90	Q
29	1	Ida Sargent	United States	3:36.53	+11.64	Q
30	39	Ewelina Marcisz	Poland	3:36.71	+11.82	Q
31	20	Hanna Kolb	Germany	3:36.96	+12.07
32	33	Kateřina Smutná	Austria	3:37.31	+12.42
33	36	Sylwia Jaśkowiec	Poland	3:38.37	+13.48
34	23	Gaia Vuerich	Italy	3:38.70	+13.81
35	45	Kornelia Kubińska	Poland	3:39.35	+14.46
36	9	Kikkan Randall	United States	3:39.75	+14.86
37	35	Anamarija Lampič	Slovenia	3:39.88	+14.99
38	26	Greta Laurent	Italy	3:39.95	+15.06
39	37	Victoria Carl	Germany	3:41.17	+16.28
40	46	Kateryna Serdyuk	Ukraine	3:43.91	+19.02
41	47	Anna Stoyan	Kazakhstan	3:43.98	+19.09
42	27	Nika Razinger	Slovenia	3:44.26	+19.37
43	40	Karolína Grohová	Czech Republic	3:44.43	+19.54
44	41	Piret Pormeister	Estonia	3:50.52	+25.63
45	42	Rosamund Musgrave	Great Britain	3:51.04	+26.15
46	43	Heidi Raju	Estonia	3:51.20	+26.31
47	49	Anna Shevchenko	Kazakhstan	3:51.30	+26.41
48	56	Barbora Klementová	Slovakia	3:52.27	+27.38
49	50	Maryna Antsybor	Ukraine	3:52.53	+27.64
50	48	Esther Bottomley	Australia	3:55.75	+30.86
51	44	Jessica Yeaton	Australia	3:56.35	+31.46
52	51	Viktoriya Lanchakova	Kazakhstan	3:57.48	+32.59
53	52	Ina Lukonina	Belarus	4:01.23	+36.34
54	60	Chi Chunxue	China	4:06.50	+41.61
55	55	Timea Sara	Romania	4:08.48	+43.59
56	54	Li Xin	China	4:11.37	+46.48
57	59	Anna Trnka	Australia	4:13.12	+48.23
58	57	Sarah Hale	Great Britain	4:13.33	+48.44
59	66	Anda Muižniece	Latvia	4:15.97	+51.08
60	58	Antoniya Grigorova	Bulgaria	4:18.37	+53.48
61	69	Lee Chae-won	South Korea	4:19.67	+54.78
62	62	Xanthea Dewez	Australia	4:21.46	+56.57
63	73	Enkhbayar Ariuntungalag	Mongolia	4:24.11	+59.22
64	63	Vineta Pētersone	Latvia	4:32.90	+1:08.01
65	64	Anna Mkhitaryan	Armenia	4:39.92	+1:15.03
66	93	Ildikó Papp	Hungary	4:45.42	+1:20.53
67	78	Jadambaa Khaliunaa	Mongolia	4:50.04	+1:25.15
68	72	Neda Bukovskyte	Lithuania	4:50.46	+1:25.57
69	81	Melina Meyer Magulas	Greece	4:55.55	+1:30.66
70	94	Ágnes Simon	Hungary	5:00.27	+1:35.38
71	75	Petya Stoycheva	Bulgaria	5:00.85	+1:35.96
72	67	Katya Galstyan	Armenia	5:01.89	+1:37.00
73	77	Yvonne Mrzljak	Croatia	5:02.72	+1:37.83
74	91	Tzvetelina Pavlova	Bulgaria	5:05.50	+1:40.61
75	68	Laima Klauža	Latvia	5:06.13	+1:41.24
76	85	Vaska Blagoeva	Bulgaria	5:06.76	+1:41.87
77	89	Martyna Biliūnaitė	Lithuania	5:13.43	+1:48.54
78	71	Silvija Adamonytė	Lithuania	5:14.67	+1:49.76
79	76	Ugnė Kastanauskaitė	Lithuania	5:17.34	+1:52.45
80	95	Viktória Zámbó	Hungary	5:26.77	+2:01.86
81	70	Lilit Tonoyan	Armenia	5:28.98	+2:04.09
82	92	Fanni Juhász	Hungary	5:29.56	+2:04.67
83	87	Doina Cravcenco	Moldova	5:37.66	+2:12.77
84	83	Haykanush Yeritsyan	Armenia	5:42.13	+2:17.24
85	61	Samaneh Beirami Baher	Iran	5:47.07	+2:22.18
86	82	Rosana Kirsoka	North Macedonia	5:56.40	+2:31.51
87	88	Alexandra Camenșcic	Moldova	6:00.49	+2:35.60
88	74	Georgia Nimpiti	Greece	6:17.34	+2:52.45
89	65	Farzaneh Rezasoltani	Iran	6:20.17	+2:55.28
90	80	Kunduz Abdykadyrova	Kyrgyzstan	6:31.88	+3:06.99
91	86	Dumitrita Ciobanu	Moldova	7:40.78	+4:15.89
92	90	Alina Lukianova	Kyrgyzstan	8:04.08	+4:39.19
93	84	Juliana Tcaciova	Moldova	8:39.62	+5:14.73
94	79	Makeleta Stephan	Tonga	10:54.67	+7:29.78
	53	Ekaterina Rudakova	Belarus	DNS

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were started at 15:15.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Justyna Kowalczyk	Poland	3:29.55		Q
2	10	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway	3:31.23	+1.68	Q
3	21	Sophie Caldwell	United States	3:31.75	+2.20	q
4	20	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	Finland	3:37.55	+8.00
5	30	Ewelina Marcisz	Poland	3:38.85	+9.30
6	11	Magdalena Pajala	Sweden	3:41.34	+11.79

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	4	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Norway	3:31.06		Q
2	14	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	3:32.32	+1.26	Q
3	7	Sandra Ringwald	Germany	3:38.06	+7.00
4	27	Anne Kyllönen	Finland	3:38.12	+7.06
5	17	Yevgeniya Shapovalova	Russia	3:39.51	+8.45
6	24	Célia Aymonier	France	3:45.58	+14.52

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	5	Stina Nilsson	Sweden	3:29.33		Q
2	6	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	3:30.15	+0.84	Q
3	16	Francesca Baudin	Italy	3:35.83	+6.50
4	26	Sadie Bjornsen	United States	3:38.84	+9.51
5	25	Yuliya Romanova	Russia	3:47.10	+17.77
	15	Hanna Falk	Sweden	DSQ

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:32.62		Q
2	12	Kerttu Niskanen	Finland	3:34.11	+1.49	Q
3	9	Anastasia Dotsenko	Russia	3:34.55	+1.93
4	19	Denise Herrmann	Germany	3:37.70	+5.08
5	22	Mona-Liisa Malvalehto	Finland	3:38.22	+5.60
6	29	Ida Sargent	United States	3:41.18	+8.56

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	8	Katja Višnar	Slovenia	3:29.36		Q
2	3	Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes	Norway	3:30.29	+0.93	Q
3	13	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden	3:31.82	+2.46	q
4	18	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia	3:32.87	+3.51
5	28	Perianne Jones	Canada	3:36.24	+6.88
6	23	Laurien van der Graaff	Switzerland	3:38.06	+8.70

Semifinals

The semifinals were started at 16:25.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Justyna Kowalczyk	Poland	3:28.90		Q
2	5	Stina Nilsson	Sweden	3:29.55	+0.65	Q
3	4	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Norway	3:29.75	+0.85	q
4	14	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	3:34.86	+5.96
5	10	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway	3:35.70	+6.80
6	13	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden	3:45.16	+16.26

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	6	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	3:28.86		Q
2	2	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:29.27	+0.41	Q
3	3	Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes	Norway	3:29.94	+1.08	q
4	21	Kerttu Niskanen	Finland	3:34.20	+5.34
5	12	Sophie Caldwell	United States	3:34.72	+5.86
6	8	Katja Višnar	Slovenia	3:41.05	+12.19

Final

The final was held at 17:00.[4]

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
	6	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	3:26.63
	5	Stina Nilsson	Sweden	3:27.05	+0.42
	2	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:27.62	+0.99
4	1	Justyna Kowalczyk	Poland	3:28.06	+1.43
5	3	Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes	Norway	3:32.73	+6.10
6	4	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Norway	3:37.10	+10.47

References

1. Competition schedule Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
2. Qualification start list
3. Qualification Results
4. Final Results