The women's team sprint freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 February 2018 at 19:00 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Start list The event consisted of six by 1.25km sprints alternating between two teammates. Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins won the event, making this the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in women's cross-country skiing. It was also the first ever Olympic gold medal for the United States in cross-country skiing. Charlotte Kalla and Stina Nilsson came second, and the defending champion Marit Bjørgen, skiing in pair with Maiken Caspersen Falla, won the bronze medal.
Qualification
A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of one team for the sprint consisting of two athletes.
Results Q — qualified for next round LL — lucky loser PF — photo finish
Semifinals Rank Heat Bib Country Athletes Time Note 1 1 1 Marit BjørgenMaiken Caspersen Falla 16:33.28 Q 2 1 3 Nadine FähndrichLaurien van der Graaff 16:39.83 Q 3 1 5 Alenka ČebašekAnamarija Lampič 16:39.92 LL 4 1 2 Nicole FesselSandra Ringwald 16:51.67 LL 5 1 6 Kateřina BerouškováPetra Nováková 16:53.06 6 1 9 Jessica YeatonBarbara Jezeršek 17:20.38 7 1 4 Lisa UnterwegerTeresa Stadlober 17:25.98 8 1 8 Yulia TikhonovaPolina Seronosova 17:33.63 9 1 11 Alena ProcházkováBarbora Klementová 17:52.14 10 1 7 Anna ShevchenkoValeriya Tyuleneva 17:57.04 11 1 10 Lee Chae-wonJu Hye-ri 19:19.17 1 2 14 Kikkan RandallJessie Diggins 16:22.56 Q 2 2 12 Charlotte KallaStina Nilsson 16:23.28 Q 3 2 15 Natalya NepryayevaYuliya Belorukova 16:24.63 LL 4 2 13 Mari LaukkanenKrista Pärmäkoski 16:31.54 LL 5 2 18 Justyna KowalczykSylwia Jaśkowiec 16:35.19 LL 6 2 17 Aurore JéanCoraline Thomas Hugue 16:40.40 LL 7 2 21 Emily NishikawaDahria Beatty 17:01.54 8 2 16 Elisa BrocardGaia Vuerich 17:13.04 9 2 20 Chi ChunxueLi Xin 17:35.94 10 2 19 Tetyana AntypenkoMaryna Antsybor 17:44.04
Final The final started at 19:00.Final results
Rank Bib Country Athletes Time Deficit 14 Kikkan RandallJessie Diggins 15:56.47 — 12 Charlotte KallaStina Nilsson 15:56.66 1 Marit BjørgenMaiken Caspersen Falla 15:59.44 3 Nadine FähndrichLaurien van der Graaff 16:17.79 +21.32 13 Mari LaukkanenKrista Pärmäkoski 16:19.18 +22.71 5 Alenka ČebašekAnamarija Lampič 16:28.24 +31.77 18 Justyna KowalczykSylwia Jaśkowiec 16:32.48 +36.01 17 Aurore JéanCoraline Thomas Hugue 16:32.49 +36.02 15 Natalya NepryayevaYuliya Belorukova 16:41.76 +45.29 10 2 Nicole FesselSandra Ringwald 17:06.57
Broadcast call The final is also known for its NBC broadcast call of "Here comes Diggins!" from Chad Salmela alongside Steve Schlanger:
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