Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint


The women's team sprint cross-country skiing competition in the freestyle technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 22 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia.
The Swedish team of Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg were the defending Olympic champions when the technique was classical. The defending world champions were the Finnish duo of Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, the defending Olympic bronze medalists, when the technique was also classical. Italy's team of Magda Genuin and Arianna Follis won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 18 January 2009. The last World Cup event in this format prior to the 2010 Games took place in Rybinsk, Russia on 24 January 2010 and was won by the German team of Stefanie Böhler and Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle.

Results

Semifinals

The semifinals took place at 10:45 and 11:10 PST.
RankHeatBibCountryAthleteTimeNote
116Karine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
18:42.2Q
211Magda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:43.0Q
313Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:43.5Q
418Kornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:44.1q
514Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:48.0q
612Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:53.8q
715Nobuko Fukuda
Madoka Natsumi
19:51.7
819Kateryna Grygorenko
Maryna Antsybor
19:55.6
917Bettina Gruber
Silvana Bucher
20:04.6
1212Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:35.9Q
2211Astrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:47.2Q
3216Caitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:48.9Q
4214Daria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:54.9q
5210Katja Višnar
Vesna Fabjan
18:58.9
6215Oxana Jatskaja
Elena Kolomina
19:33.6
7217Ekaterina Rudakova
Olga Vasiljonok
19:52.3
8213Triin Ojaste
Kaija Udras
20:02.2
9218Man Dandan
Li Hongxue
20:02.7

Final

The following are the results of the event.
Defending Olympic champion Sweden won silver under a different team. Finland, the defending world champions, finished a disappointing eighth under a different team. Test event winners Italy finished fourth with the same team members. Germany, the last winners prior to the Olympics in this event, won gold with Nystad replacing Böhler.
RankBibCountryAthleteTimeDeficit
3Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
18:03.7+0.0
12Charlotte Kalla
Anna Haag
18:04.3+0.6
4Irina Khazova
Natalya Korostelyova
18:07.7+4.0
1Magda Genuin
Arianna Follis
18:14.2+10.5
11Astrid Jacobsen
Celine Brun-Lie
18:32.8+29.1
16Caitlin Compton
Kikkan Randall
18:51.6+47.9
14Daria Gaiazova
Sara Renner
18:51.8+48.1
2Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
18:56.6+52.9
8Kornelia Marek
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
18:59.1+55.4
106Karine Laurent Philippot
Laure Barthélémy
19:04.2