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

The Women's sprint cross-country skiing competition in the classical technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 17 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia.Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - Accessed November 3, 2009.

Canada's Chandra Crawford was the defending Olympic champion in this event, though that event was in the freestyle technique.2006 Winter Olympics women's individual sprint freestyle results. - Accessed November 3, 2009. Italy's Arianna Follis was the defending world champion in this event which was also held in freestyle technique.FIS Nordic World Ski 2009 women's individual sprint freestyle results. - Accessed November 3, 2009. Alena Procházková of Slovakia won the test event that took place at Olympic venue on 16 January 2009.Whistler Olympic Park World Cup 16 January 2009 women's individual sprint classical results. - Accessed November 3, 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 6 February 2010 in Canmore, Alberta and was won by Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk. - Accessed February 6, 2010.

Follis did not qualify for the event at the Winter Olympics. Crawford and Procházková were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Kowalczyk won silver. It was Bjørgen's second medal at these Olympics and first gold for her. Majdič won her first Olympic medal and the first for Slovenia in cross-country skiing. During the warm-up she crashed down a bank, into an unprotected deep gorge and landed on ice and rocks, sustaining five broken ribs and a pneumothorax. In spite of agonizing pain, she finished third in the sprint a few hours later, winning the first individual Winter Olympic medal for Slovenia in 16 years and its first ever in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics. She earned the highest praise from other skiers, staff and the media for her amazing braveryReuters as she attended the medal giving ceremony with a tube in her chest to relieve pneumothorax.

Results

Qualifying Qualifying took place at 10:15 PST. Rank Bib Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 2 Marit Bjørgen 3:38.05 +0.00 Q 2 18 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 3:38.82 +0.77 Q 3 23 Anna Olsson 3:41.95 +3.90 Q 4 12 Magda Genuin 3:42.18 +4.13 Q 5 17 Justyna Kowalczyk 3:43.35 +5.30 Q 6 21 Virpi Kuitunen 3:43.72 +5.67 Q 7 7 Katja Višnar 3:44.10 +6.05 Q 8 13 Celine Brun-Lie 3:44.71 +6.66 Q 9 22 Nicole Fessel 3:44.79 +6.74 Q 10 24 Kikkan Randall 3:44.97 +6.92 Q 11 25 Astrid Jacobsen 3:45.01 +6.96 Q 12 1 Kateřina Smutná 3:45.03 +6.98 Q 13 8 Magdalena Pajala 3:45.50 +7.45 Q 14 5 Natalya Korostelyova 3:45.56 +7.51 Q 15 20 Pirjo Muranen 3:46.04 +7.99 Q 16 6 Alena Procházková 3:46.16 +8.11 Q 17 27 Daria Gaiazova 3:46.97 +8.92 Q 18 47 Chandra Crawford 3:47.25 +9.20 Q 19 3 Petra Majdič 3:47.84 +9.79 Q 20 10 Kirsi Perälä 3:48.08 +10.03 Q 21 4 Vesna Fabjan 3:48.40 +10.35 Q 22 26 Madoka Natsumi 3:48.48 +10.43 Q 23 31 Aurore Cuinet 3:48.52 +10.47 Q 24 38 Katrin Zeller 3:48.63 +10.58 Q 25 19 Ida Ingemarsdotter 3:49.11 +11.06 Q 26 16 Yevgeniya Shapovalova 3:49.52 +11.47 Q 27 14 Hanna Falk 3:49.94 +11.89 Q 28 30 Maiken Caspersen Falla 3:50.23 +12.18 Q 29 33 Hanna Kolb 3:50.29 +12.24 Q 30 40 Doris Trachsel 3:50.85 +12.80 Q 31 28 Kaija Udras 3:51.05 +13.00 32 15 Oxana Jatskaja 3:51.27 +13.22 33 37 Eva Nývltová 3:51.37 +13.32 34 43 Sara Renner 3:51.79 +13.74 35 9 Elena Turysheva 3:51.99 +13.94 36 35 Elena Kolomina 3:52.12 +14.07 37 34 Triin Ojaste 3:52.31 +14.26 38 50 Holly Brooks 3:52.51 +14.46 39 29 Karin Moroder 3:53.74 +15.69 40 11 Olga Rocheva 3:53.87 +15.82 41 39 Perianne Jones 3:54.27 +16.22 42 45 Nastassia Dubarezava 3:56.87 +18.82 43 32 Elisa Brocard 3:58.27 +20.22 44 52 Monika Gyorgy 3:58.32 +20.27 45 46 Elena Antonova 4:01.35 +23.30 46 36 Olga Vasiljonok 4:01.73 +23.68 47 49 Katherine Calder 4:03.11 +25.06 48 48 Marina Matrossova 4:03.14 +25.09 49 41 Irina Terentjeva 4:04.47 +26.42 50 44 Esther Bottomley 4:05.12 +27.07 51 42 Man Dandan 4:08.55 +30.50 52 51 Nina Broznić 4:15.31 +37.26 53 53 Kelime Çetinkaya 4:22.32 +44.27 54 54 Olga Reshetkova 4:32.96 +54.91

Quarterfinals Quarterfinals took place at 12:30 PST. Quarterfinal 1 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 1 Marit Bjørgen 3:35.4 +0.0 Q 2 11 Astrid Jacobsen 3:39.0 +3.6 Q 3 10 Kikkan Randall 3:39.4 +4.0 LL 4 20 Kirsi Perälä 3:39.7 +4.3 5 21 Vesna Fabjan 3:43.7 +8.3 6 30 Doris Trachsel 3:44.7 +9.3 Quarterfinal 2 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 4 Magda Genuin 3:41.9 +0.0 Q 2 14 Natalya Korostelyova 3:42.9 +1.0 Q 3 24 Katrin Zeller 3:43.0 +1.1 4 7 Katja Višnar 3:43.5 +1.6 5 17 Daria Gaiazova 3:44.4 +2.5 6 27 Hanna Falk 4:22.5 +40.6 Quarterfinal 3 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 5 Justyna Kowalczyk 3:38.8 +0.0 Q 2 6 Virpi Kuitunen 3:39.9 +1.1 Q 3 25 Ida Ingemarsdotter 3:40.0 +1.2 4 16 Alena Procházková 3:40.1 +1.3 5 15 Pirjo Muranen 3:41.7 +2.9 6 26 Yevgeniya Shapovalova 3:43.2 +4.4 Quarterfinal 4 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 19 Petra Majdič 3:40.2 +0.0 Q 2 12 Kateřina Smutná 3:40.5 +0.3 Q 3 2 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 3:40.7 +0.5 4 9 Nicole Fessel 3:41.2 +1.0 5 29 Hanna Kolb 3:41.6 +1.4 6 22 Madoka Natsumi 3:42.6 +2.4 Quarterfinal 5 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 3 Anna Olsson 3:36.5 +0.0 Q 2 13 Magdalena Pajala 3:37.7 +1.2 Q 3 8 Celine Brun-Lie 3:39.7 +3.2 LL 4 28 Maiken Caspersen Falla 3:41.6 +5.1 5 23 Aurore Cuinet 3:48.7 +12.2 6 18 Chandra Crawford 3:50.0 +13.5

Semifinals Semifinals took place at 13:20 PST. Semifinals 1 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 1 Marit Bjørgen 3:39.3 +0.0 Q 2 4 Magda Genuin 3:42.2 +2.9 Q 3 11 Astrid Jacobsen 3:44.2 +4.9 4 10 Kikkan Randall 3:45.9 +6.6 5 6 Virpi Kuitunen 3:46.4 +7.1 6 14 Natalya Korostelyova 3:48.1 +8.8 Semifinals 2 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 5 Justyna Kowalczyk 3:38.0 +0.0 Q 2 3 Anna Olsson 3:38.7 +0.7 Q 3 8 Celine Brun-Lie 3:40.1 +2.1 LL 4 19 Petra Majdič 3:41.2 +3.2 LL 5 13 Magdalena Pajala 3:45.0 +7.0 6 12 Kateřina Smutná 3:45.1 +7.1

Final Final took place at 13:45 PST. Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note 1 Marit Bjørgen 3:39.2 +0.0 5 Justyna Kowalczyk 3:40.3 +1.1 19 Petra Majdič 3:41.0 +1.8 4 3 Anna Olsson 3:41.7 +2.5 5 4 Magda Genuin 3:49.1 +9.9 6 8 Celine Brun-Lie 3:51.5 +12.3

See also Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Women's 1 km Sprint Classic

References

External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Individual Sprint Classic, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-16.