Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February 2018 at 18:30 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Norway won the event, with Sweden taking the silver medal and Olympic Athletes from Russia bronze.
Summary
In the first leg, OAR and Norway skied together, with Finland trailing 20 seconds, Sweden 25 seconds after, and Switzerland fifth. In the second leg, Sweden caught up with OAR and they skied together, but Norway dropped half a minute behind and was overtaken by Finland, ten seconds behind the leaders. Switzerland was still fifth, but almost caught up with Norway. In the third leg, Norway caught up with the leaders, Sweden and OAR. Finland was already 40 seconds behind, with other teams seemingly out of medal contention. In the last leg, Anna Nechaevskaya could not match the pace of the leaders, but Krista Pärmäkoski of Finland was not fast enough to make up forty seconds deficit, and OAR became third. At the finish line, Marit Bjørgen was faster than Stina Nilsson, thus winning gold for Norway.In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Kristin Kloster Aasen, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Erik Røste, President of the Norwegian Ski Federation.
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 in either the sprint or distance classification. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list. Countries also received an additional quota 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 the event if it had qualified at least four female athletes, and a country could enter only one team.Competition schedule
All times are.| Date | Time | Event |
| 17 February | 18:30 | Final |
Results
The race was started at 18:30.| Rank | Bib | Country | Time | Deficit |
| 1 | Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Ragnhild Haga Marit Bjørgen | 51:24.3 13:28.9 14:15.9 11:46.7 11:52.8 | ||
| 2 | Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Ebba Andersson Stina Nilsson | 51:26.3 13:50.3 13:26.4 12:11.4 11:58.2 | ||
| 5 | Natalya Nepryayeva Yuliya Belorukova Anastasia Sedova Anna Nechaevskaya | 52:07.6 13:24.5 13:50.5 12:13.4 12:39.2 | ||
| 3 | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Krista Pärmäkoski | 52:26.9 13:44.4 13:40.7 12:45.2 12:16.6 | +1:02.6 | |
| 4 | Sophie Caldwell Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall Jessica Diggins | 52:44.8 14:26.0 13:54.2 12:12.9 12:11.7 | +1:20.5 | |
| 6 | Stefanie Böhler Katharina Hennig Victoria Carl Sandra Ringwald | 53:13.7 14:16.4 13:53.9 12:37.9 12:25.5 | +1:49.4 | |
| 7 | Laurien van der Graaff Nadine Fähndrich Nathalie von Siebenthal Lydia Hiernickel | 53:15.8 13:59.9 13:46.8 12:22.4 13:06.7 | +1:51.5 | |
| 12 | Anamarija Lampič Katja Višnar Alenka Čebašek Vesna Fabjan | 53:55.7 13:28.4 14:47.7 12:22.1 13:17.5 | +2:31.4 | |
| 9 | Anna Comarella Lucia Scardoni Elisa Brocard Ilaria Debertolis | 54:22.0 14:25.2 14:19.9 12:29.2 13:07.7 | +2:57.7 | |
| 10 | 8 | Ewelina Marcisz Justyna Kowalczyk Martyna Galewicz Sylwia Jaśkowiec | 54:30.9 14:23.1 14:13.0 13:14.8 12:40.0 | +3:06.6 |
| 11 | 11 | Kateřina Beroušková Karolína Grohová Petra Nováková Barbora Havlíčková | 55:17.1 14:06.2 14:49.4 12:45.3 13:36.2 | +3:52.8 |
| 12 | 13 | Aurore Jéan Anouk Faivre-Picon Coraline Thomas Hugue Delphine Claudel | 55:50.2 14:37.7 14:43.7 12:52.2 13:36.6 | +4:25.9 |
| 13 | 10 | Dahria Beatty Emily Nishikawa Cendrine Browne Anne-Marie Comeau | 56:14.6 15:00.2 14:35.0 12:53.7 13:45.7 | +4:50.3 |
| 14 | 14 | Anastasia Kirillova Yulia Tikhonova Polina Seronosova Valiantsina Kaminskaya | 57:56.1 15:46.7 14:47.3 13:16.4 14:05.7 | +6:31.8 |