The women’s team sprint competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 16 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou. Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl of Germany won the event. Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling of Sweden won silver medals, and Yuliya Stupak and Natalya Nepryayeva, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, bronze.
Summary The defending champions are Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins. Diggins qualified, Randall has since retired. The silver medalists were Charlotte Kalla and Stina Nilsson. Kalla qualified for the Olympics but did not participate in the team sprint, and Nilsson switched to biathlon. The 2018 bronze medalists were Marit Bjørgen, who retired from competitions, and Maiken Caspersen Falla, who qualified. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics was Natalya Nepryayeva, and the sprint leader was Maja Dahlqvist. Jonna Sundling and Dahlqvist won the only team sprint event of the season. They are also the 2021 World Champions in team sprint and previously finished 1–2 in the individual sprint at the 2022 Olympics.
In the final, five teams, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the United States, and the Russian Olympic Committee, were skiing together, and at the last interchange were within 4 seconds from each other.
Qualification
Results Semifinals Rank Heat Bib Country Athletes Time Notes 1 1 4 Katharina HennigVictoria Carl 23:02.08 Q 2 1 1 Rosie BrennanJessie Diggins 23:06.11 Q 3 1 5 Teresa StadloberLisa Unterweger 23:08.34 Q 4 1 2 Laurien van der GraaffNadine Fähndrich 23:30.86 Q 5 1 7 Chi ChunxueLi Xin 23:43.93 6 1 6 Katherine Stewart-JonesDahria Beatty 24:03.72 7 1 3 Eva UrevcAnamarija Lampič 24:10.14 8 1 11 Jessica YeatonCasey Wright 25:13.42 9 1 8 Yuliya KrolMaryna Antsybor 25:46.04 10 1 10 Tena HadžićVedrana Malec 26:29.23 11 1 13 Kitija AuziņaEstere Volfa 26:46.26 12 1 12 Ayşenur DumanÖzlem Ceren Dursun 1 9 Anastasia KirillovaHanna Karaliova 1 2 14 Yuliya StupakNatalya Nepryayeva 23:00.47 Q 2 2 16 Kerttu NiskanenKrista Pärmäkoski 23:00.82 Q 3 2 15 Maja DahlqvistJonna Sundling 23:01.40 Q 4 2 17 Tiril Udnes WengMaiken Caspersen Falla 23:05.06 Q 5 2 21 Mélissa GalLéna Quintin 23:26.28 LL 6 2 20 Izabela MarciszMonika Skinder 23:32.34 LL 7 2 19 Caterina GanzLucia Scardoni 23:47.06 8 2 18 Kateřina JanatováPetra Hynčicová 23:55.59 9 2 23 Mariel Merlii PullesKeidy Kaasiku 24:47.51 10 2 22 Nadezhda StepashkinaKseniya Shalygina 24:57.59 11 2 24 Han Da-somLee Eui-jin 26:55.52 12 2 26 Jaqueline MourãoEduarda Ribera 13 2 25 Maria NtanouNefeli Tita 14 2 27 Eglė SavickaitėIeva Dainytė
Final Rank Bib Country Athletes Time Deficit 4 Katharina HennigVictoria Carl 22:09.85 — 15 Maja DahlqvistJonna Sundling 22:10.02 +0.17 14 Yuliya StupakNatalya Nepryayeva 22:10.56 +0.71 4 16 Kerttu NiskanenKrista Pärmäkoski 22:13.71 +3.86 5 1 Rosie BrennanJessie Diggins 22:22.78 +12.93 6 5 Teresa StadloberLisa Unterweger 22:55.25 +45.40 7 2 Laurien van der GraaffNadine Fähndrich 23:02.09 +52.24 8 17 Tiril Udnes WengMaiken Caspersen Falla 23:15.28 9 20 Izabela MarciszMonika Skinder 23:48.01 10 21 Mélissa GalLéna Quintin 24:04.92
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