Cross-country skiing at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre |
Dates | 10–25 February |
No. of events | 12 (6 men, 6 women) |
Competitors | 313 from 65 nations |
Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Distance | ||
Freestyle | men | women |
Skiathlon | men | women |
Classical | men | women |
Relay | men | women |
Sprint | ||
Individual | men | women |
Team | men | women |
Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. [1] The twelve events took place between 10 and 25 February 2018.
A maximum of 310 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 20 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 12 men or 12 women. There were two qualification standards for the games: an A standard and a B standard. [2]
The following was the competition schedule for all twelve events. [3]
All times are (UTC+9).
Date | Time | Event |
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10 February | 16:15 | Women's skiathlon |
11 February | 15:15 | Men's skiathlon |
13 February | 17:30 | Men's & women's individual sprint qualification classical |
13 February | 20:00 | Men's & women's individual sprint finals classical |
15 February | 15:30 | Women's 10 km freestyle |
16 February | 15:00 | Men's 15 km freestyle |
17 February | 18:30 | Women's 4 × 5 km relay |
18 February | 15:15 | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
21 February | 17:00 | Women's team sprint freestyle |
21 February | 19:00 | Men's team sprint freestyle |
24 February | 14:00 | Men's 50 km mass start classical |
25 February | 15:15 | Women's 30 km mass start classical |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Norway | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
2 | Sweden | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
7 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (8 entries) | 12 | 12 | 13 | 37 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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10 km freestyle [10] | Ragnhild Haga Norway | 25:00.5 | Charlotte Kalla Sweden | 25:20.8 | Marit Bjørgen Norway Krista Pärmäkoski Finland | 25:32.4 |
15 km skiathlon [11] | Charlotte Kalla Sweden | 40:44.9 | Marit Bjørgen Norway | 40:52.7 | Krista Pärmäkoski Finland | 40:55.0 |
30 km classical [12] | Marit Bjørgen Norway | 1:22:17.6 | Krista Pärmäkoski Finland | 1:24:07.1 | Stina Nilsson Sweden | 1:24:16.5 |
4 × 5 km relay [13] | Norway Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Ragnhild Haga Marit Bjørgen | 51:24.3 | Sweden Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Ebba Andersson Stina Nilsson | 51:26.3 | Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Belorukova Anastasia Sedova Anna Nechaevskaya | 52:07.6 |
Sprint classical [14] | Stina Nilsson Sweden | 3:03.84 | Maiken Caspersen Falla Norway | 3:06.87 | Yulia Belorukova Olympic Athletes from Russia | 3:07.21 |
Team sprint freestyle [15] | United States Kikkan Randall Jessie Diggins | 15:56.47 | Sweden Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson | 15:56.66 | Norway Marit Bjørgen Maiken Caspersen Falla | 15:59.44 |
A total of 313 athletes from 65 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate [16] (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).
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