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

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.

Women's team sprint
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueAlpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Dates21 February 2018
Competitors42 from 21 nations
Winning time15:56.47
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
 Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
 Norway
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Qualification

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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

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

Semifinals

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Rank Heat Bib Country Athletes Time Note
1 1 1   Norway Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
16:33.28 Q
2 1 3   Switzerland Nadine Fähndrich
Laurien van der Graaff
16:39.83 Q
3 1 5   Slovenia Alenka Čebašek
Anamarija Lampič
16:39.92 LL
4 1 2   Germany Nicole Fessel
Sandra Ringwald
16:51.67 LL
5 1 6   Czech Republic Kateřina Beroušková
Petra Nováková
16:53.06
6 1 9   Australia Jessica Yeaton
Barbara Jezeršek
17:20.38
7 1 4   Austria Lisa Unterweger
Teresa Stadlober
17:25.98
8 1 8   Belarus Yulia Tikhonova
Polina Seronosova
17:33.63
9 1 11   Slovakia Alena Procházková
Barbora Klementová
17:52.14
10 1 7   Kazakhstan Anna Shevchenko
Valeriya Tyuleneva
17:57.04
11 1 10   South Korea Lee Chae-won
Ju Hye-ri
19:19.17
1 2 14   United States Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
16:22.56 Q
2 2 12   Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
16:23.28 Q
3 2 15   Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalya Nepryayeva
Yuliya Belorukova
16:24.63 LL
4 2 13   Finland Mari Laukkanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
16:31.54 LL
5 2 18   Poland Justyna Kowalczyk
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
16:35.19 LL
6 2 17   France Aurore Jéan
Coraline Thomas Hugue
16:40.40 LL
7 2 21   Canada Emily Nishikawa
Dahria Beatty
17:01.54
8 2 16   Italy Elisa Brocard
Gaia Vuerich
17:13.04
9 2 20   China Chi Chunxue
Li Xin
17:35.94
10 2 19   Ukraine Tetyana Antypenko
Maryna Antsybor
17:44.04

Final

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The final started at 19:00.[5]

Rank Bib Country Athletes Time Deficit
  14   United States Kikkan Randall
Jessie Diggins
15:56.47
  12   Sweden Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
15:56.66 +0.19
  1   Norway Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
15:59.44 +2.97
4 3   Switzerland Nadine Fähndrich
Laurien van der Graaff
16:17.79 +21.32
5 13   Finland Mari Laukkanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
16:19.18 +22.71
6 5   Slovenia Alenka Čebašek
Anamarija Lampič
16:28.24 +31.77
7 18   Poland Justyna Kowalczyk
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
16:32.48 +36.01
8 17   France Aurore Jéan
Coraline Thomas Hugue
16:32.49 +36.02
9 15   Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalya Nepryayeva
Yuliya Belorukova
16:41.76 +45.29
10 2   Germany Nicole Fessel
Sandra Ringwald
17:06.57 +1:10.10

References

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  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