Date | 17 February 1992 — 9:45 |
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Status | Olympic |
Location | Les Saisies |
Participants | 52 from 13 countries |
Venue details | Course Length: ? Height Differential: 63 m / 73 m Maximum Climb: 41 m / 54 m Total Climbing: 197 m / 201 m |
The heavy favorite was the Unified Team, which had won the 1991 World Championships as the Soviet Union. They were led by Lyubov Yegorova, who won five medals and three golds in Albertville, and Yelena Välbe, winner of five medals in 1992, with a bronze in every individual event. Their other skiers were Larisa Lazutina, who in her career would win seven Olympic medals and five golds, and Raisa Smetanina, who had first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1976, and had won nine Olympic medals, with four golds. It was a true all-star team. But the race was strangely close. Välbe gave the Unifieds a 22.8 second lead at the first exchange, but Inger Helene Nybråten skied the fastest second leg and moved Norway ahead. But Lazutina took back the lead on the third leg, but Norway was only 2.5 seconds back as the anchor skiers took off. Yegorova was the Unified anchor and she would not be headed, bringing her team home 21.6 seconds ahead of Norway. Italy, which had been runner-up at the 1991 Worlds, and would repeat that finish in 1993, won the bronze medal. Smetanina’s gold medal made her the first Winter Olympian to win 10 medals, and this also made her the first woman to win medals at five Olympic Winter Games.
Pos | Nr | Team | NOC | Time | Split (Pos) | |||
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1 | 1 | Unified Team | ![]() | 59:34.8 | Gold | |||
1-1 | Yelena Välbe | 14:51.2 | 14:51.2 (1) | |||||
1-2 | Raisa Smetanina | 15:15.1 | 30:06.3 (2) | |||||
1-3 | Larisa Lazutina | 15:12.7 | 45:19.0 (1) | |||||
1-4 | Lyubov Yegorova | 14:15.8 | 59:34.8 (1) | |||||
2 | 3 | Norway | ![]() | 59:56.4 | Silver | |||
3-1 | Solveig Pedersen | 15:14.0 | 15:14.0 (2) | |||||
3-2 | Inger Helene Nybråten | 14:43.1 | 29:57.1 (1) | |||||
3-3 | Trude Dybendahl | 15:24.4 | 45:21.5 (2) | |||||
3-4 | Elin Nilsen | 14:34.9 | 59:56.4 (2) | |||||
3 | 2 | Italy | ![]() | 1-00:25.9 | Bronze | |||
2-1 | Bice Vanzetta | 16:01.7 | 16:01.7 (11) | |||||
2-2 | Manuela Di Centa | 14:52.1 | 30:53.8 (4) | |||||
2-3 | Gabriella Paruzzi | 15:23.3 | 46:17.1 (6) | |||||
2-4 | Stefania Belmondo | 14:08.8 | 1-00:25.9 (3) | |||||
4 | 4 | Finland | ![]() | 1-00:52.9 | ||||
4-1 | Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi | 15:49.9 | 15:49.9 (7) | |||||
4-2 | Pirkko Määttä | 15:05.1 | 30:55.0 (5) | |||||
4-3 | Jaana Savolainen | 15:18.0 | 46:13.0 (5) | |||||
4-4 | Marjut Lukkarinen | 14:39.9 | 1-00:52.9 (4) | |||||
5 | 9 | France | ![]() | 1-01:30.7 | ||||
9-1 | Carole Stanisière | 16:02.5 | 16:02.5 (12) | |||||
9-2 | Sylvie Giry-Rousset | 15:41.0 | 31:43.5 (9) | |||||
9-3 | Sophie Villeneuve | 15:22.0 | 47:05.5 (7) | |||||
9-4 | Isabelle Mancini | 14:25.2 | 1-01:30.7 (5) | |||||
6 | 8 | Czechoslovakia | ![]() | 1-01:37.4 | ||||
8-1 | Ľubomíra Balážová | 15:34.8 | 15:34.8 (4) | |||||
8-2 | Kateřina Neumannová | 15:13.0 | 30:47.8 (3) | |||||
8-3 | Alžbeta Havrančíková | 15:17.9 | 46:05.7 (3) | |||||
8-4 | Iveta Zelingerová | 15:31.7 | 1-01:37.4 (6) | |||||
7 | 6 | Sweden | ![]() | 1-01:54.5 | ||||
6-1 | Carina Görlin | 15:44.2 | 15:44.2 (6) | |||||
6-2 | Magdalena Wallin | 15:23.2 | 31:07.4 (8) | |||||
6-3 | Karin Säterkvist | 16:00.3 | 47:07.7 (9) | |||||
6-4 | Marie-Helene Westin | 14:46.8 | 1-01:54.5 (7) | |||||
8 | 5 | Germany | ![]() | 1-02:22.6 | ||||
5-1 | Heike Wezel | 15:59.1 | 15:59.1 (10) | |||||
5-2 | Gabriele Heß | 15:07.0 | 31:06.1 (7) | |||||
5-3 | Simone Opitz | 15:01.5 | 46:07.6 (4) | |||||
5-4 | Ina Kümmel | 16:15.0 | 1-02:22.6 (8) | |||||
9 | 10 | Switzerland | ![]() | 1-02:54.1 | ||||
10-1 | Sylvia Honegger | 15:28.4 | 15:28.4 (3) | |||||
10-2 | Brigitte Albrecht | 15:31.2 | 30:59.6 (6) | |||||
10-3 | Natascia Leonardi | 16:07.4 | 47:07.0 (8) | |||||
10-4 | Elvira Knecht | 15:47.1 | 1-02:54.1 (9) | |||||
10 | 7 | Poland | ![]() | 1-03:23.0 | ||||
7-1 | Małgorzata Ruchała | 15:57.5 | 15:57.5 (9) | |||||
7-2 | Dorota Kwaśny | 15:51.5 | 31:49.0 (11) | |||||
7-3 | Bernadetta Bocek | 15:45.4 | 47:34.4 (10) | |||||
7-4 | Halina Nowak | 15:48.6 | 1-03:23.0 (10) | |||||
11 | 11 | Canada | ![]() | 1-03:38.5 | ||||
11-1 | Angela Schmidt-Foster | 15:54.5 | 15:54.5 (8) | |||||
11-2 | Rhonda DeLong | 15:53.7 | 31:48.2 (10) | |||||
11-3 | Jane Vincent | 16:09.8 | 47:58.0 (12) | |||||
11-4 | Lucy Steele | 15:40.5 | 1-03:38.5 (11) | |||||
12 | 13 | Japan | ![]() | 1-04:09.3 | ||||
13-1 | Miwa Ota | 16:24.7 | 16:24.7 (13) | |||||
13-2 | Fumiko Aoki | 15:26.0 | 31:50.7 (12) | |||||
13-3 | Naomi Hoshikawa | 15:53.5 | 47:44.2 (11) | |||||
13-4 | Yumi Inomata | 16:25.1 | 1-04:09.3 (12) | |||||
13 | 12 | United States | ![]() | 1-04:48.5 | ||||
12-1 | Nancy Fiddler | 15:36.1 | 15:36.1 (5) | |||||
12-2 | Ingrid Butts | 16:32.4 | 32:08.5 (13) | |||||
12-3 | Leslie Thompson | 16:11.9 | 48:20.4 (13) | |||||
12-4 | Betsy Youngman | 16:28.1 | 1-04:48.5 (13) |