The women's 10 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on February 15 at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia at 10:00 PST.Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 4 November 2009.

Each skier starts at 30-second intervals, skiing the entire 10 kilometre course. Estonia's Kristina Šmigun-Vähi was the defending Olympic champion in this event though it was held in the classical style.2006 Winter Olympic women's 10 km classical results. - accessed 4 November 2009 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen on Finland was the defending world champion though that event was also held in the classical style.FIS Nordic World Ski Championships women's 10 km classical results. - accessed 4 November 2009. The final World Cup event in women's 10 km freestyle prior to the 2010 Games took place on February 5 at Canmore, Alberta and was won by Sweden's Charlotte Kalla. - accessed 6 February 2010.

Šmigun-Vähi won silver in this event, Saarinen would finish 15th, and Kalla would win gold.2010 Winter Olympics 15 February 2010 Cross-country skiing women's 10 km freestyle results. - accessed 16 February 2010. Kalla is the Sweden's first female individual gold medalist in cross-country skiing since Toini Gustafsson's 5 km win at Grenoble in 1968.

Results

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 31 Charlotte Kalla 24:58.4 0.00 17 Kristina Šmigun-Vähi 25:05.0 +6.6 28 Marit Bjørgen 25:14.3 +15.9 23 Anna Haag 25:19.3 +20.9 33 Justyna Kowalczyk 25:20.1 +21.7 26 Riitta-Liisa Roponen 25:24.3 +25.9 22 Yevgeniya Medvedeva 25:26.5 +28.1 30 Kristin Størmer Steira 25:50.5 +52.1 21 Valentyna Shevchenko 25:51.1 +52.7 10 16 Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina 25:53.9 +55.5 11 27 Arianna Follis 25:54.1 +55.7 12 18 Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle 25:57.7 +59.3 12 19 Olga Zavyalova 25:57.7 +59.3 14 34 Silvia Rupil 25:58.5 +1:00.1 15 32 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 25:59.5 +1:01.1 16 14 Claudia Nystad 25:59.8 +1:01.4 17 12 Sabina Valbusa 26:05.8 +1:07.4 18 25 Marianna Longa 26:06.2 +1:07.8 19 20 Natalya Korostelyova 26:07.0 +1:08.6 20 29 Irina Khazova 26:08.7 +1:10.3 21 44 Miriam Gössner 26:14.8 +1:16.4 22 24 Vibeke Skofterud 26:16.3 +1:17.9 23 7 Stefanie Böhler 26:19.2 +1:20.8 24 8 Anna Olsson 26:23.1 +1:24.7 25 10 Kamila Rajdlová 26:26.2 +1:27.8 26 9 Karine Laurent Philippot 26:27.9 +1:29.5 27 11 Elena Kolomina 26:35.6 +1:37.2 28 47 Sylwia Jaskowiec 26:37.2 +1:38.8 29 6 Britta Johansson Norgren 26:48.1 +1:49.7 30 55 Caitlin Compton 26:49.1 +1:50.7 31 13 Riikka Sarasoja 26:50.2 +1:51.8 32 3 Ivana Janečková 26:51.3 +1:52.9 33 46 Vesna Fabjan 26:51.6 +1:53.2 34 41 Morgan Arritola 27:04.4 +2:06.0 35 2 Li Hongxue 27:05.7 +2:07.3 36 42 Tatyana Roshchina 27:06.6 +2:08.2 37 53 Maryna Antsybor 27:07.4 +2:09.0 38 1 Laura Orgue 27:09.4 +2:11.0 39 51 Kornelia Marek 27:12.6 +2:14.2 40 37 Oxana Yatskaya 27:16.3 +2:17.9 41 57 Barbara Jezeršek 27:17.3 +2:18.9 42 50 Holly Brooks 27:17.6 +2:19.2 43 54 Monika Gyorgy 27:19.5 +2:21.1 44 5 Alena Sannikova 27:21.3 +2:22.9 45 61 Paulina Maciuszek 27:22.1 +2:23.7 46 48 Kateryna Grygorenko 27:29.7 +2:31.3 47 36 Aurore Cuinet 27:30.2 +2:31.8 48 40 Celia Bourgeois 27:31.4 +2:33.0 49 15 Marthe Kristoffersen 27:38.4 +2:40.0 50 39 Liz Stephen 27:41.1 +2:42.7 51 52 Madeleine Williams 27:43.6 +2:45.2 52 58 Nobuko Fukuda 27:47.7 +2:49.3 53 4 Krista Lähteenmäki 27:49.4 +2:51.0 54 65 Lee Chae-Won 27:56.0 +2:57.6 55 38 Eva Nývltová 28:04.1 +3:05.7 56 35 Olga Vasiljonok 28:06.2 +3:07.8 57 56 Lada Nesterenko 28:06.4 +3:08.0 58 49 Tatjana Mannima 28:13.0 +3:14.6 59 43 Ekaterina Rudakova 28:16.1 +3:17.7 60 64 Antonia Grigorova 28:27.7 +3:29.3 61 60 Michiko Kashiwabara 28:32.0 +3:33.6 62 45 Laure Barthélémy 28:43.9 +3:45.5 63 62 Katherine Calder 28:50.9 +3:52.5 64 59 Irina Terentjeva 28:52.2 +3:53.8 65 63 Li Xin 29:38.5 +4:40.1 66 69 Teodora Malcheva 29:52.4 +4:54.0 67 67 Jaqueline Mourão 30:22.2 +5:23.8 68 68 Fiona Hughes 30:29.8 +5:31.4 69 66 Kelime Çetinkaya 30:48.0 +5:49.6 70 72 Anete Brice 30:51.8 +5:53.4 71 77 Alexandra Camenscic 31:01.0 +6:02.6 72 71 Tanja Karisik 31:30.4 +6:32.0 73 73 Maria Danou 32:14.6 +7:16.2 74 74 Erdene-Ochir Ochirsuren 32:56.1 +7:57.7 75 75 Vera Viczián 33:45.8 +8:47.4 76 78 Kristine Khachatryan 34:17.5 +9:19.1 77 70 Rosana Kiroska 34:45.8 +9:47.4 78 76 Belma Šmrković 35:47.4 +10:49.0

References

External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' 10 km Free, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-15. 2010 Winter Olympics February 14 2010 Cross-country skiing women's 10 km freestyle start list