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Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 30 kilometre classical

The Women's 30 kilometre classical interval start cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 24 February at Soldier Hollow. This was the final women's event of the 2002 Olympics cross-country program.

Women’s 30 kilometre classical
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
Dates24 February
Competitors50 from 17 nations
Winning time1:30:57.1
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gabriella Paruzzi  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Stefania Belmondo  Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bente Skari  Norway
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All skiers started at 30 second intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course.

The race edit

The early leader in this race was Russian Larisa Lazutina, the 1999 World Champion and 2001 Holmenkollen champion in the event. She won the race by almost two minutes over Italian Gabriella Paruzzi. Lazutina led at every checkpoint and had the fastest intermediate split for each time check. Stefania Belmondo of Italy finished third and Norwegian Bente Skari finished in fourth place.

After the competition, it was confirmed that Lazutina had tested positive for darpopoietin, an erythropoietin analogue, and was disqualified from all events in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Her teammate, Olga Danilova, who had originally finished eighth had been sanctioned for doping two months earlier and was also disqualified. This brought Paruzzi up to gold medal, her first individual olympic medal. The silver medalist became Italy's Stefania Belmondo while Skari won the bronze.[1]

For Belmondo this was her 10th Olympic medal, equaling the Winter Olympic record for women held by Soviet/Unified Team skier Raisa Smetanina, both trailing only Norway's Bjørn Dæhlie, who won 12.

Results edit

The race was started at 09:30.[2]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
  53 Gabriella Paruzzi   Italy 1:30:57.1
  48 Stefania Belmondo   Italy 1:31:01.6 +4.5
  44 Bente Skari   Norway 1:31:36.3 +39.2
4 51 Anita Moen   Norway 1:31:37.3 +40.2
5 41 Valentyna Shevchenko   Ukraine 1:33:03.1 +2:06.0
6 42 Viola Bauer   Germany 1:33:25.1 +2:28.0
7 49 Kristina Šmigun   Estonia 1:33:52.7 +2:55.6
8 40 Vibeke Skofterud   Norway 1:35:02.3 +4:05.2
9 47 Yuliya Chepalova   Russia 1:35:37.4 +4:40.3
10 24 Natascia Leonardi Cortesi   Switzerland 1:35:46.8 +4:49.7
11 45 Svetlana Nageykina   Belarus 1:35:51.6 +4:54.5
12 50 Petra Majdič   Slovenia 1:35:51.8 +4:54.7
13 36 Katrin Šmigun   Estonia 1:37:02.6 +5:06.9
14 34 Marit Bjørgen   Norway 1:37:02.6 +6:05.5
15 27 Nina Kemppel   United States 1:37:08.7 +6:11.6
16 35 Svetlana Shishkina   Kazakhstan 1:37:14.5 +6:17.4
17 38 Oxana Yatskaya   Kazakhstan 1:37:25.3 +6:28.2
18 22 Iryna Terelya   Ukraine 1:37:32.9 +6:35.8
19 29 Antonella Confortola   Italy 1:37:47.4 +6:50.3
19 39 Olga Zavyalova   Russia 1:37:47.4 +6:50.3
21 19 Laurence Rochat   Switzerland 1:38:24.2 +7:27.1
22 21 Sumiko Yokoyama   Japan 1:39:48.8 +8:51.7
23 31 Wendy Kay Wagner   United States 1:39:54.8 +8:57.7
24 16 Annmari Viljanmaa   Finland 1:40:47.9 +9:50.8
25 33 Elin Ek   Sweden 1:40:48.2 +9:51.1
26 32 Madoka Natumi   Japan 1:41:06.0 +10:08.9
27 23 Kamila Rajdlová   Czech Republic 1:41:57.7 +11:00.6
28 13 Amanda Fortier   Canada 1:42:08.1 +11:11.0
29 15 Nataliya Zyatikova   Belarus 1:42:18.0 +11:20.9
30 37 Irina Skripnik   Belarus 1:42:49.1 +11:52.0
31 28 Milaine Thériault   Canada 1:42:56.9 +11:59.8
32 10 Elena Antonova   Kazakhstan 1:43:37.6 +12:40.5
33 12 Marianna Longa   Italy 1:44:02.5 +13:05.4
34 30 Jaime Fortier   Canada 1:44:26.2 +13:29.1
35 14 Barbara Jones   United States 1:45:18.7 +14:21.6
36 17 Midori Furusawa   Japan 1:45:50.0 +14:52.9
37 3 Svetlana Deshevykh   Kazakhstan 1:46:18.1 +15:21.0
38 9 Olena Rodina   Ukraine 1:46:51.2 +15:54.1
39 25 Anna Dahlberg   Sweden 1:46:51.3 +15:54.2
40 11 Kateřina Hanušová   Czech Republic 1:48:52.6 +17:55.5
41 5 Luan Zhengrong   China 1:49:37.7 +18:40.6
42 20 Hou Yuxia   China 1:49:45.8 +18:48.7
43 7 Tomomi Otaka   Japan 1:50:00.3 +19:03.2
2 Maryna Pestryakova   Ukraine Did not finish
6 Anna-Carin Olofsson   Sweden
18 Ulrika Persson   Sweden
26 Satu Salonen   Finland
52 Manuela Henkel   Germany
1 Sara Renner   Canada Did not start
4 Aelin Peterson   United States
8 Vera Zyatikova   Belarus
DSQ 46 Larisa Lazutina   Russia 1:29:09.0
DSQ 43 Olga Danilova   Russia 1:33:44.1

References edit

  1. ^ Wong, Edward (24 February 2002). "After Drugs Tests, I.O.C. Takes Back Medals". mytimes.com. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  2. ^ Final results
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