The women's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 12 February at Soldier Hollow.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 10 kilometre course. The defending Olympic champion was the Russia Larisa Lazutina, who won in Nagano, but the 10 kilometre event was then held as a pursuit.
The race Early in the race, Norwegian Bente Skari was well behind Russian Olga Danilova. Danilova led by over 15 seconds at 5.8 km, but Skari had closed to within 10 seconds at 8.7 km. Norway's Skari finished strongly, defeating Danilova to win by 2 seconds. The bronze medal went to Russian Yuliya Chepalova, the 2000-01 World Cup champion. Fourth was another Russian, Larisa Lazutina.
In October 2003, Olga Danilova was disqualified for use of darpopoietin, an erythropoietin analogue. In January 2004 Lazutina was disqualified for use of the same substance. Chepalova was moved up to the silver medal, while fifth-place finisher Stefania Belmondo was awarded the bronze medal. Chepalova was also later found guilty of doping, but her results were left unaffected.
Results The race was started at 09:00.Final results
Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 54 Bente Skari 28:05.6 50 Yuliya Chepalova 28:09.9 43 Stefania Belmondo 28:45.8 4 55 Beckie Scott 28:49.2 5 45 Lyubov Yegorova 28:50.7 6 53 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 28:56.2 7 41 Satu Salonen 29:02.3 8 58 Petra Majdič 29:03.9 9 46 Anita Moen 29:15.5 +1:09.9 10 59 Viola Bauer 29:30.0 +1:24.4 11 26 Iryna Terelya 29:35.8 +1:30.2 12 51 Valentyna Shevchenko 29:42.7 +1:37.1 13 39 Sara Renner 29:46.7 +1:41.1 14 44 Svetlana Nageykina 29:48.4 +1:42.8 15 24 Natascia Leonardi Cortesi 29:57.5 +1:51.9 16 60 Lina Andersson 30:00.1 +1:54.5 17 27 Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb Storti 30:00.2 +1:54.6 18 47 Manuela Henkel 30:00.5 +1:54.9 19 7 Elin Ek 30:02.3 +1:56.7 20 5 Marianna Longa 30:04.0 +1:58.4 21 28 Svetlana Shishkina 30:06.7 +2:01.1 22 10 Jenny Olsson 30:09.5 +2:03.9 23 23 Milaine Thérault 30:12.6 +2:07.0 24 42 Oksana Yatskaya 30:13.9 +2:08.3 25 57 Tina Bay 30:16.3 +2:10.7 26 38 Kamila Rajdlová 30:17.9 +2:12.3 27 25 Vera Zyatikova 30:20.5 +2:14.9 28 48 Kati Sundqvist 30:24.0 +2:18.4 29 2 Yelena Antonova 30:27.3 +2:21.7 30 35 Nataša Lačen 30:31.3 +2:25.7 31 31 Sumiko Yokoyama 30:32.3 +2:26.7 32 22 Kanoko Goto 30:36.6 +2:31.0 33 21 Svetlana Deshevykh 30:39.2 +2:33.6 34 16 Antonella Confortola 30:42.2 +2:36.6 35 15 Nataliya Zyatikova 30:44.2 +2:38.6 36 32 Wendy Wagner 30:50.7 +2:45.1 37 11 Annmari Viljanmaa 30:51.8 +2:46.2 38 36 Nina Kemppel 30:51.9 +2:46.3 39 29 Cristina Paluselli 30:59.4 +2:53.8 40 30 Anna Dahlberg 31:01.7 +2:56.1 41 12 Olena Rodina 31:07.4 +3:01.8 42 18 Katrin Šmigun 31:10.2 +3:04.6 43 6 Yelena Kalugina 31:10.9 +3:05.3 44 3 Hou Yuxia 31:30.6 +3:25.0 45 4 Jaime Fortier 31:42.1 +3:36.5 46 40 Jaroslava Bukvajová 31:50.5 +3:44.9 47 37 Madoka Natsumi 31:54.1 +3:48.5 48 1 Tomomi Otaka 32:27.9 +4:22.3 49 20 Ilona Bublová 32:32.8 +4:27.2 50 14 Luan Zhengrong 32:35.3 +4:29.7 51 34 Piret Niglas 32:49.1 +4:43.5 52 8 Tessa Benoit 33:09.1 +5:03.5 53 19 Aelin Peterson 33:18.9 +5:13.3 54 17 Lee Chae-won 34:04.1 +5:58.5 55 13 Maja Kezele 34:10.8 +6:05.2 56 9 Margarita Nikolyan 38:16.4 +10:10.8 57 61 Franziska Becskehazy 46:46.0 +18:40.4 33 Laurence Rochat 56 Kristina Šmigun 49 Olga Danilova 28:08.1 52 Larisa Lazutina 28:21.6
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