Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint

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Women's team sprint
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg
Venue Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Dates21 February 2018
Competitors42 from 21 nations
Winning time15:56.47
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Bronze medal icon.svg Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
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The women's team sprint freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 February 2018 at 19:00 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. [1] [2] The event consisted of 6 by 1.25km sprints alternating between 2 teammates. Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins won the event, making this the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in women's cross-country skiing. It was also the first ever Olympic gold medal for the United States in cross-country skiing. [3] Charlotte Kalla and Stina Nilsson came second, and the defending champion Marit Bjørgen, skiing in pair with Maiken Caspersen Falla, won the bronze medal.

Qualification

A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of one team for the sprint consisting of two athletes. [4]

Results

Q — qualified for next round
LL — lucky loser
PF — photo finish

Semifinals

RankHeatBibCountryAthletesTimeNote
111Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
16:33.28Q
213Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Nadine Fähndrich
Laurien van der Graaff
16:39.83Q
315Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Alenka Čebašek
Anamarija Lampič
16:39.92LL
412Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Nicole Fessel
Sandra Ringwald
16:51.67LL
516Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Kateřina Beroušková
Petra Nováková
16:53.06
619Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Jessica Yeaton
Barbara Jezeršek
17:20.38
714Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Lisa Unterweger
Teresa Stadlober
17:25.98
818Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus Yulia Tikhonova
Polina Seronosova
17:33.63
9111Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Alena Procházková
Barbora Klementová
17:52.14
1017Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Anna Shevchenko
Valeriya Tyuleneva
17:57.04
11110Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Lee Chae-won
Ju Hye-ri
19:19.17
1214Flag of the United States.svg  United States Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
16:22.56Q
2212Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
16:23.28Q
3215Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalya Nepryayeva
Yuliya Belorukova
16:24.63LL
4213Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Mari Laukkanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
16:31.54LL
5218Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Justyna Kowalczyk
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
16:35.19LL
6217Flag of France.svg  France Aurore Jéan
Coraline Thomas Hugue
16:40.40LL
7221Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Emily Nishikawa
Dahria Beatty
17:01.54
8216Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Elisa Brocard
Gaia Vuerich
17:13.04
9220Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Chi Chunxue
Li Xin
17:35.94
10219Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Tetyana Antypenko
Maryna Antsybor
17:44.04

Final

The final started at 19:00. [5]

RankBibCountryAthletesTimeDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg14Flag of the United States.svg  United States Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
15:56.47
Silver medal icon.svg12Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
15:56.66+0.19
Bronze medal icon.svg1Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
15:59.44+2.97
43Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Nadine Fähndrich
Laurien van der Graaff
16:17.79+21.32
513Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Mari Laukkanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
16:19.18+22.71
65Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Alenka Čebašek
Anamarija Lampič
16:28.24+31.77
718Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Justyna Kowalczyk
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
16:32.48+36.01
817Flag of France.svg  France Aurore Jéan
Coraline Thomas Hugue
16:32.49+36.02
915Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalya Nepryayeva
Yuliya Belorukova
16:41.76+45.29
102Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Nicole Fessel
Sandra Ringwald
17:06.57+1:10.10

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References

  1. "Schedule". Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. Start list
  3. Bragg, Beth (21 February 2018). "Anchorage skier Kikkan Randall wins Olympics gold". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  4. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Cross-country skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 13 April 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  5. Final results