The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 15 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Sweden won the event. This became the first gold medal in the women's relay for Sweden since the 1960 Winter Olympics. Finland won the silver medals, and Germany finished third.
Gold medals won in this event featured a fragment from the Chelyabinsk meteor, to commemorate the first anniversary of the meteor strike.
Results The race was started at 14:00.
In November 2017, Yuliya Ivanova was disqualified from the event meaning that the whole Russian team was also disqualified. In September 2018, Marina Piller was disqualified for doping, and all her 2014 Olympic results were annulled, including the result of the Italian relay team.
Rank Bib Nation Time Deficit 2 Ida IngemarsdotterEmma WikénAnna HaagCharlotte Kalla 53:02.714:09.814:02.312:40.212:10.4 5 Anne KyllönenAino-Kaisa SaarinenKerttu NiskanenKrista Lähteenmäki 53:03.214:21.213:51.312:14.112:36.6 7 Nicole FesselStefanie BöhlerClaudia NystadDenise Herrmann 53:03.614:13.413:59.912:19.112:31.2 4 6 Aurore JéanCélia AymonierAnouk Faivre-PiconCoraline Hugue 53:47.714:12.114:13.812:34.512:47.3 5 1 Heidi WengTherese JohaugAstrid Uhrenholdt JacobsenMarit Bjørgen 53:56.314:12.014:13.512:34.512:56.3 6 9 Kornelia KubińskaJustyna KowalczykSylwia JaśkowiecPaulina Maciuszek 54:38.914:37.413:47.712:34.213:39.6 +1:36.2 7 4 Kikkan RandallSadie BjornsenLiz StephenJessie Diggins 55:33.414:45.214:31.812:44.213:32.2 +2:30.7 8 12 Eva Vrabcová-NývltováKarolina GrohováPetra NovakováKlara Moravcová 56:29.814:06.115:25.313:06.413:52.0 +3:27.1 9 13 Alenka ČebašekKatja VišnarBarbara JezeršekVesna Fabjan 56:37.014:18.215:39.112:56.113:43.6 +3:34.3 10 10 Tetyana AntypenkoValentyna ShevchenkoMaryna Antsybor Kateryna Grygorenko 56:56.115:10.614:55.413:01.713:48.4 +3:53.4 11 11 Kateřina SmutnáNathalie SchwarzTeresa StadloberVeronika Mayerhofer 57:04.714:20.315:36.813:08.713:58.9 +4:02.0 12 14 Perianne JonesDaria GaiazovaEmily NishikawaBrittany Webster 59:13.615:50.915:09.513:27.314:45.9 +6:10.9 DSQ 3 Yuliya IvanovaOlga KuzyukovaNatalya ZhukovaYuliya Chekalyova 54:06.314:05.514:37.212:34.912:48.7 +1:03.6 DSQ 8 Virginia De Martin TopraninElisa BrocardMarina PillerIlaria Debertolis 55:19.914:26.914:49.412:42.913:20.7 +2:17.2
Flower and medal ceremonies Immediately after the race a flower ceremony was held at the ski stadium, where the medalist received flowers on the podium. The next day the medal ceremony was held in Sochi, where the gold medals was handed out by International Olympic Committee member Gunilla Lindberg and flowers handed out by International Ski Federation Cross-Country Committee chairman Vegard Ulvang, after which the Swedish national anthem was played for the gold medal team on the podium.
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