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

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Women's team sprint
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Medal ceremony for the women's team sprint.jpg
The medal ceremony. From left: Sweden (silver), Germany (gold), Russia (bronze)
Venue Whistler Olympic Park
Dates22 February
Competitors36 from 18 nations
Winning time18:03.7
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Bronze medal icon.svg Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
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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]

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
116Flag of France.svg  France Karine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
18:42.2Q
211Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Magda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:43.0Q
313Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:43.5Q
418Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Kornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:44.1q
514Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:48.0q
612Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:53.8q
715Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Nobuko Fukuda
Madoka Natsumi
19:51.7
819Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Kateryna Grygorenko
Maryna Antsybor
19:55.6
917Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Bettina Gruber
Silvana Bucher
20:04.6
1212Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:35.9Q
2211Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Astrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:47.2Q
3216Flag of the United States.svg  United States Caitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:48.9Q
4214Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Daria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:54.9q
5210Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Katja Višnar
Vesna Fabjan
18:58.9
6215Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Oxana Yatskaya
Elena Kolomina
19:33.6
7217Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus Ekaterina Rudakova
Olga Vasiljonok
19:52.3
8213Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Triin Ojaste
Kaija Udras
20:02.2
9218Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  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.

RankBibCountryAthleteTimeDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:03.7
Silver medal icon.svg12Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:04.3+0.6
Bronze medal icon.svg4Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:07.7+4.0
41Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Magda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:14.2+10.5
511Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Astrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:32.8+29.1
616Flag of the United States.svg  United States Caitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:51.6+47.9
714Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Daria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:51.8+48.1
82Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:56.6+52.9
98Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Kornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:59.1+55.4
106Flag of France.svg  France Karine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
19:04.2+1:00.5

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