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Sprint (Classical), Women

Date17 February 2010
StatusOlympic
LocationWhistler Olympic Park, Whistler
Participants54 from 27 countries
FormatFinal standings based on time achieved in last round competed in.
DetailsCourse Length: 1,430 m
Height Differential: 25 m
Maximum Climb: 25 m
Total Climbing: 44 m

Some of the drama happened prior to the event itself when one of the favored skiers Petra Majdič (SLO), runner-up at the 2007 World Championships in the sprint, fell going down a bank and landed on some rocks on the morning of the event, suffering four broken ribs to put her entry in doubt. Nevertheless she competed, finishing 19th in the qualification heats, and then advancing to the final via the elimination rounds, albeit as a fastest loser from the semi-finals. The fastest qualifier was Marit Bjørgen (NOR) who had been favored to win gold medals at Torino in 2006 but had ended up with none. Here she qualified for the final, winning her elimination round heats with relative ease. The final itself started as a close contest between Bjørgen and Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) with Bjørgen pulling away in the last quarter of the course to finally win her first Olympic gold medal. A remarkable race by Majdič saw her win the bronze medal from Anna Dahlberg-Olsson (SWE), although Majdič was in such pain that she had difficulty walking after the race. This was the first ever medal for Slovenia in cross-country skiing. The 2009 World Sprint Champion, Arianna Follis of Italy, was in Vancouver but did not contest this event, as she specializes in freestyle and the sprint was held classically. Bjørgen was the star of women’s cross-coutnry in Vancouver, winning three gold medals and five medals in all. Because of her injuries, Majdič did not compete further in Vancouver.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCQualifyingQFSFFinal
1Marit BjørgenNOR3:38.05 (1)3:35.4 (1 h1)3:39.3 (1 h1)3:39.2 (1)Gold
2Justyna KowalczykPOL3:43.35 (5)3:38.8 (1 h3)3:38.0 (1 h2)3:40.3 (2)Silver
3Petra MajdičSLO3:47.84 (19)3:40.2 (1 h4)3:41.2 (4 h2)3:41.0 (3)Bronze
4Anna OlssonSWE3:41.95 (3)3:36.5 (1 h5)3:38.7 (2 h2)3:41.7 (4)
5Magda GenuinITA3:42.18 (4)3:41.9 (1 h2)3:42.2 (2 h1)3:49.1 (5)
6Celine Brun-LieNOR3:44.71 (8)3:39.7 (3 h5)3:40.1 (3 h2)3:51.5 (6)
7Astrid Uhrenholdt JacobsenNOR3:45.01 (11)3:39.0 (2 h1)3:44.2 (3 h1)
8Kikkan RandallUSA3:44.97 (10)3:39.4 (3 h1)3:45.9 (4 h1)
9Virpi KuitunenFIN3:43.72 (6)3:39.9 (2 h3)3:46.4 (5 h1)
10Magdalena PajalaSWE3:45.50 (13)3:37.7 (2 h5)3:45.0 (5 h2)
11Katerina SmutnaAUT3:45.03 (12)3:40.5 (2 h4)3:45.1 (6 h2)
12Nataliya KorostelyovaRUS3:45.56 (14)3:42.9 (2 h2)3:48.1 (6 h1)
13Aino-Kaisa SaarinenFIN3:38.82 (2)3:40.7 (3 h4)
14Katrin ZellerGER3:48.63 (24)3:43.0 (3 h2)
15Ida IngemarsdotterSWE3:49.11 (25)3:40.0 (3 h3)
16Katja VišnarSLO3:44.10 (7)3:43.5 (4 h2)
17Nicole FesselGER3:44.79 (9)3:41.2 (4 h4)
18Alena ProcházkováSVK3:46.16 (16)3:40.1 (4 h3)
19Kirsi PeräläFIN3:48.08 (20)3:39.7 (4 h1)
20Maiken Caspersen FallaNOR3:50.23 (28)3:41.6 (4 h5)
21Pirjo MuranenFIN3:46.04 (15)3:41.7 (5 h3)
22Dasha GaiazovaCAN3:46.97 (17)3:44.4 (5 h2)
23Vesna FabjanSLO3:48.40 (21)3:43.7 (5 h1)
24Aurore CuinetFRA3:48.52 (23)3:48.7 (5 h5)
25Hanna KolbGER3:50.29 (29)3:41.6 (5 h4)
26Chandra CrawfordCAN3:47.25 (18)3:50.0 (6 h5)
27Madoka NatsumiJPN3:48.48 (22)3:42.6 (6 h4)
28Yevgeniya ShapovalovaRUS3:49.52 (26)3:43.2 (6 h3)
29Hanna FalkSWE3:49.94 (27)4:22.5 (6 h2)
30Doris TrachselSUI3:50.85 (30)3:44.7 (6 h1)
31Kaija UdrasEST3:51.05 (31)
32Oksana YatskayaKAZ3:51.27 (32)
33Eva NývltováCZE3:51.37 (33)
34Sara RennerCAN3:51.79 (34)
35Yelena TuryshevaRUS3:51.99 (35)
36Yelena KolominaKAZ3:52.12 (36)
37Triin OjasteEST3:52.31 (37)
38Holly BrooksUSA3:52.51 (38)
39Karin MoroderITA3:53.74 (39)
40Olga RochevaRUS3:53.87 (40)
41Perianne JonesCAN3:54.27 (41)
42Nastassia DubarezavaBLR3:56.87 (42)
43Elisa BrocardITA3:58.27 (43)
44Monika GyorgyROU3:58.32 (44)
45Yelena AntonovaKAZ4:01.35 (45)
46Volha VasilionakBLR4:01.73 (46)
47Katie CalderNZL4:03.11 (47)
48Marina MatrosovaKAZ4:03.14 (48)
49Irina TerentjevaLTU4:04.47 (49)
50Esther BottomleyAUS4:05.12 (50)
51Man DandanCHN4:08.55 (51)
52Nina BroznićCRO4:15.31 (52)
53Kelime ÇetinkayaTUR4:22.32 (53)
54Olga ReshetkovaKGZ4:32.96 (54)

Qualifying Round

Date17 February 2010 — 10:15
FormatTop 30 finishers advance to quarter-finals.
PosCompetitorNOCTime
1Marit BjørgenNOR3:38.05Q
2Aino-Kaisa SaarinenFIN3:38.82Q
3Anna OlssonSWE3:41.95Q
4Magda GenuinITA3:42.18Q
5Justyna KowalczykPOL3:43.35Q
6Virpi KuitunenFIN3:43.72Q
7Katja VišnarSLO3:44.10Q
8Celine Brun-LieNOR3:44.71Q
9Nicole FesselGER3:44.79Q
10Kikkan RandallUSA3:44.97Q
11Astrid Uhrenholdt JacobsenNOR3:45.01Q
12Katerina SmutnaAUT3:45.03Q
13Magdalena PajalaSWE3:45.50Q
14Nataliya KorostelyovaRUS3:45.56Q
15Pirjo MuranenFIN3:46.04Q
16Alena ProcházkováSVK3:46.16Q
17Dasha GaiazovaCAN3:46.97Q
18Chandra CrawfordCAN3:47.25Q
19Petra MajdičSLO3:47.84Q
20Kirsi PeräläFIN3:48.08Q
21Vesna FabjanSLO3:48.40Q
22Madoka NatsumiJPN3:48.48Q
23Aurore CuinetFRA3:48.52Q
24Katrin ZellerGER3:48.63Q
25Ida IngemarsdotterSWE3:49.11Q
26Yevgeniya ShapovalovaRUS3:49.52Q
27Hanna FalkSWE3:49.94Q
28Maiken Caspersen FallaNOR3:50.23Q
29Hanna KolbGER3:50.29Q
30Doris TrachselSUI3:50.85Q
31Kaija UdrasEST3:51.05
32Oksana YatskayaKAZ3:51.27
33Eva NývltováCZE3:51.37
34Sara RennerCAN3:51.79
35Yelena TuryshevaRUS3:51.99
36Yelena KolominaKAZ3:52.12
37Triin OjasteEST3:52.31
38Holly BrooksUSA3:52.51
39Karin MoroderITA3:53.74
40Olga RochevaRUS3:53.87
41Perianne JonesCAN3:54.27
42Nastassia DubarezavaBLR3:56.87
43Elisa BrocardITA3:58.27
44Monika GyorgyROU3:58.32
45Yelena AntonovaKAZ4:01.35
46Volha VasilionakBLR4:01.73
47Katie CalderNZL4:03.11
48Marina MatrosovaKAZ4:03.14
49Irina TerentjevaLTU4:04.47
50Esther BottomleyAUS4:05.12
51Man DandanCHN4:08.55
52Nina BroznićCRO4:15.31
53Kelime ÇetinkayaTUR4:22.32
54Olga ReshetkovaKGZ4:32.96

Quarter-Finals

Date17 February 2010 — 12:30
FormatTop 2 finishers in each heat, and next two fastest times, advance to semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time12:30
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
11Marit BjørgenNOR3:35.4Q
211Astrid Uhrenholdt JacobsenNOR3:39.0Q
310Kikkan RandallUSA3:39.4q
420Kirsi PeräläFIN3:39.7
521Vesna FabjanSLO3:43.7
630Doris TrachselSUI3:44.7

Heat #2

Time12:35
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
14Magda GenuinITA3:41.9Q
214Nataliya KorostelyovaRUS3:42.9Q
324Katrin ZellerGER3:43.0
47Katja VišnarSLO3:43.5
517Dasha GaiazovaCAN3:44.4
627Hanna FalkSWE4:22.5

Heat #3

Time12:41
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
15Justyna KowalczykPOL3:38.8Q
26Virpi KuitunenFIN3:39.9Q
325Ida IngemarsdotterSWE3:40.0
416Alena ProcházkováSVK3:40.1
515Pirjo MuranenFIN3:41.7
626Yevgeniya ShapovalovaRUS3:43.2

Heat #4

Time12:46
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
119Petra MajdičSLO3:40.2Q
212Katerina SmutnaAUT3:40.5Q
32Aino-Kaisa SaarinenFIN3:40.7
49Nicole FesselGER3:41.2
529Hanna KolbGER3:41.6
622Madoka NatsumiJPN3:42.6

Heat #5

Time12:52
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
13Anna OlssonSWE3:36.5Q
213Magdalena PajalaSWE3:37.7Q
38Celine Brun-LieNOR3:39.7q
428Maiken Caspersen FallaNOR3:41.6
523Aurore CuinetFRA3:48.7
618Chandra CrawfordCAN3:50.0

Semi-Finals

Date17 February 2010 — 13:26
FormatTop 2 finishers in each heat, and next two fastest times, advance to final.

Heat #1

Time13:26
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
11Marit BjørgenNOR3:39.3Q
24Magda GenuinITA3:42.2Q
311Astrid Uhrenholdt JacobsenNOR3:44.2
410Kikkan RandallUSA3:45.9
56Virpi KuitunenFIN3:46.4
614Nataliya KorostelyovaRUS3:48.1

Heat #2

Time13:32
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
15Justyna KowalczykPOL3:38.0Q
23Anna OlssonSWE3:38.7Q
38Celine Brun-LieNOR3:40.1q
419Petra MajdičSLO3:41.2q
513Magdalena PajalaSWE3:45.0
612Katerina SmutnaAUT3:45.1

Final Round

Date17 February 2010 — 14:02
PosCompetitorNOCTime
1Marit BjørgenNOR3:39.2
2Justyna KowalczykPOL3:40.3
3Petra MajdičSLO3:41.0
4Anna OlssonSWE3:41.7
5Magda GenuinITA3:49.1
6Celine Brun-LieNOR3:51.5