Chronological summary of the 2014 Winter Olympics

This article contains a chronological summary of major events from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Calendar In the following calendar each blue box represents one or more event competition(s), such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent medal-awarding finals for a sport with in each box the number of finals that were contested on that day.

All dates are MSK (UTC+4) OCOpening ceremony●Event competitions1Event finalsEGExhibition galaCCClosing ceremony

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Day 0 – Thursday 6 February Twelve new events were added for the games. For this reason competition started a day before the opening ceremony. This marks the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics that competitions were held before the opening ceremony.

Figure skating In the team trophy competition, the men's short and the pairs short were held. The Russians led the day with 19 points, with Evgeni Plushenko's nine points in the men's short, and Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov's ten points in the pairs short. Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu earned ten points to finish in first place in the men's short, but Narumi Takahashi and Ryuichi Kihara only gained three more points for Japan in the pairs short. Canada and China finish the day holding the second and third overall positions, respectively.

Freestyle skiing Hannah Kearney of the United States finished in first place in the first qualifying round of the women's moguls with a score of 23.05. The top ten move on to the third round, while the remaining 20 move onto Round 2.

Snowboarding Canada's Maxence Parrot led the qualification round of the men's slopestyle with a best score of 97.50, while Switzerland's Isabel Derungs led the qualification round of the women's slopestyle with a best score of 87.50. The top four in each heat automatically advance to the final, while the remaining athletes progress to the semifinal.

Day 1 – Friday 7 February Opening ceremony The opening ceremony started at 20:14 MSK at Fisht Olympic Stadium, with an audience of 40,000 in attendance. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the games officially open, while Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak jointly lit the Olympic cauldron installed at the Sochi Medals Plaza in the Sochi Olympic Park.

Day 2 – Saturday 8 February Biathlon Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway won the gold medal in the men's sprint with a time of 24:33.5, while Dominik Landertinger of Austria recorded a time of 24:34.8 to win the silver and Jaroslav Soukup of the Czech Republic earned the bronze with a time of 24:39.2. Bjørndalen tied the record for most Winter Olympics medals.

Cross-country skiing Marit Bjørgen of Norway finished the women's 15 km skiathlon with a time of 38:33.6 to win the gold medal. Sweden's Charlotte Kalla finished with the silver with a time of 38:35.4, and Heidi Weng of Norway took the bronze with a time of 38:46.8.

Figure skating On the second day of the team trophy competition, Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States led the ice dance short program with 10 points. In the women's short program, Yulia Lipnitskaya led all competitors by earning 10 points for Russia. Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov also earned 10 points for Russia in the pairs free program. The five teams that advanced to the final day of competition were Russia (47 points), Canada (41) USA (34), Italy (31) and Japan (30).

Freestyle skiing In the women's moguls, Russia's Ekaterina Stolyarova came in first in the second qualifying round to advance to the final along with nine others. Then in final, Canadian sisters Justine and Chloé Dufour-Lapointe took gold and silver, respectively, while Hannah Kearney of the United States finished third.

Ice hockey Women's tournament Preliminary round – Group A 3–1 5–0

Luge The first two runs of the men's singles were held.

Ski jumping In the qualification round of the men's normal hill individual, Michael Hayböck of Austria led all competitors with a score of 128.6. He will join 39 others, and 10 jumpers from the World Cup, in the finals.

Snowboarding In the men's slopestyle, Billy Morgan (Great Britain), Sage Kotsenburg (United States), Mark McMorris (Canada) and Yuki Kadono (Japan) finished in the top four in the semifinal to qualify for the final. Kotsenburg then won the gold in the final with a score of 93.50 on his first run. Ståle Sandbech (Norway) won the silver with a score of 91.75 and McMorris earned the bronze with 88.75.

Speed skating Sven Kramer of the Netherlands set an Olympic record of 6:10.76 in the men's 5000 metres to win the gold medal, while fellow Dutch skaters Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma recorded times of 6:15.71 and 6:16.66 to earn the other two medals, respectively.

Gold medalistsSportEventCompetitor(s)BiathlonMen's sprintOle Einar BjørndalenCross-country skiingWomen's 15 km skiathlonMarit BjørgenFreestyle skiingWomen's mogulsJustine Dufour-LapointeSnowboardingMen's slopestyleSage KotsenburgSpeed skatingMen's 5000 metresSven KramerOR

Day 3 – Sunday 9 February Alpine skiing Matthias Mayer of Austria won the gold in the men's downhill with a time of 2:06.23, beating Christof Innerhofer of Italy by 0.06 seconds, and Kjetil Jansrud of Norway by 0.10 seconds.

Biathlon In the women's sprint, Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia became the first female biathlete to repeat as Olympic champion. Russia's Olga Vilukhina finished 19.9 seconds behind to win the silver and Ukraine's Vita Semerenko finished 21.7 seconds behind to win the bronze.

Cross-country skiing In the men's 30 km skiathlon, Dario Cologna of Switzerland took home the gold medal with a total time of 1:08:15.4. Marcus Hellner of Sweden finished 0.4 seconds behind Cologna to win the silver, and Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway finished 1.4 seconds behind to take the bronze.

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Chronological summary of the 2014 Winter Olympics

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