FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Women's team sprint

The Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 was held on 2 March 2011. Sprint qualifying at 12:00 CET with finals at 14:15 CET. The defending world champions were Finland's Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen while the defending Olympic champions were Germany's Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad.2010 Winter Olympics 22 February 2010 Cross-country skiing women's team sprint results. - accessed 24 June 2010. Kuitunen retired after the 2009-10 season.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Heat Bib Country Athlete Time Note 1 1 1 Katja VišnarPetra Majdič 19:58.6 Q 2 1 2 Maiken Caspersen FallaAstrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 19:59.6 Q 3 1 3 Ida IngemarsdotterCharlotte Kalla 20:00.2 Q 4 1 5 Perianne JonesDaria Gaiazova 20:36.9 q 5 1 4 Masako IshidaMadoka Natsumi 20:41.0 q 6 1 7 Eva NývltováIvana Janečková 21:08.1 out 7 1 6 Oxana YatskayaTatyana Roshchina 21:16.9 out 8 1 8 Zoya ZaviedieievaVita Yakymchuk 22:45.7 out

Semifinal 2

Rank Heat Bib Country Athlete Time Note 1 2 9 Aino-Kaisa SaarinenKrista Lähteenmäki 20:04.0 Q 2 2 10 Arianna FollisMarianna Longa 20:04.0 Q 3 2 12 Sadie BjornsenKikkan Randall 20:31.9 Q 4 2 11 Stefanie BöhlerNicole Fessel 20:33.9 q 5 2 13 Anastasia DotsenkoYuliya Ivanova 20:48.6 q 6 2 14 Piret PormeisterTriin Ojaste 20:55.6 out 7 2 16 Lina KreivenaitėIngrida Ardišauskaitė 22:50.2 out 8 2 15 Rosamund MusgraveSarah Young 23:31.8 out

Final

Rank Bib Country Athlete Time Deficit 3 Ida IngemarsdotterCharlotte Kalla 19:25.0 9 Aino Kaisa SaarinenKrista Lähteenmäki 19:28.3 +3.3 2 Maiken Caspersen FallaAstrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 19:29.1 +4.1 10 Arianna FollisMarianna Longa 19:40.1 +15.1 1 Katja VišnarPetra Majdič 19:43.5 +18.5 5 Perianne JonesDaria Gaiazova 20:11.9 +46.9 11 Stefanie BöhlerNicole Fessel 20:12.8 +47.8 4 Masako IshidaMadoka Natsumi 20:19.1 +54.1 12 Sadie BjornsenKikkan Randall 20:21.5 +56.5 10 13 Anastasia DotsenkoYuliya Ivanova 20:23.3 +58.3

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