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30 kilometres (Classical), Women

Date24 February 1994 — 12:30
StatusOlympic
LocationBirkebeineren Skistadion, Lillehammer
Participants53 from 19 countries
DetailsCourse Length: ?
Height Differential: 166 m
Intermediate 1: 1.7 km
Intermediate 2: 7.8 km
Intermediate 3: 12.0 km
Intermediate 4: 15.0 km
Intermediate 5: 22.8 km
Maximum Climb: 63 m
Total Climbing: 1,064 m

This was the final women’s cross-country event in Lillehammer. The 1993 World Champion was Italy’s Stefania Belmondo but she was not entered in this event. In her absence, the favorites were considered the other medalists from the 1993 Worlds, her teammate Manuela Di Centa, and Russian Lyubov Yegorova. Di Centa already had four medals in Lillehammer and had won the 15 km 11 days previously. Di Centa was fast from the start, leading at every checkpoint. But she never led by much, closely chased throughout by Norway’s Marit Wold, who started only two positions later. In the end they would win the gold and silver medals, Di Centa winning her second gold of the 1994 Winter Olympics. This would be Wold’s only individual Olympic medal in her career, but she would win a bronze in the event at the 1997 World Championships. The bronze medal here went to an old warhorse, Finland’s Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi-Hämäläinen, who had won all three individual events at the 1984 Winter Olympics. This was the seventh, and final, Olympic medal of her career. Yegorova was never a factor. She was eighth at the first checkpoint, and still seventh halfway through, before finishing fifth.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
145Manuela Di CentaITA1-25:41.6Gold
247Marit WoldNOR1-25:57.8Silver
342Marja-Liisa KirvesniemiFIN1-26:13.6Bronze
455Trude DybendahlNOR1-26:52.6
551Lyubov YegorovaRUS1-26:54.8
641Yelena VälbeRUS1-26:57.4
739Inger Helene NybråtenNOR1-27:11.2
843Marjut RoligFIN1-27:51.4
949Svetlana NageykinaRUS1-27:57.2
1054Anita MoenNOR1-28:18.1
1131Antonina OrdinaSWE1-28:39.2
1240Marie-Helene ÖstlundSWE1-28:46.2
136Anna FrithioffSWE1-29:07.2
1446Pirkko MäättäFIN1-29:27.0
1525Merja LahtinenFIN1-29:55.1
1638Małgorzata RuchałaPOL1-30:45.8
1721Guidina Dal SassoITA1-30:47.5
1832Ľubomíra BalážováSVK1-30:58.7
1953Sylvia HoneggerSUI1-31:11.6
2050Iryna Taranenko-TereliaUKR1-31:26.5
2130Yelena VolodinaKAZ1-31:43.1
2224Alena SinkevichBLR1-31:47.8
2352Nataliya MartynovaRUS1-31:59.4
2433Carole StanisièreFRA1-32:17.6
2522Vida VencienėLTU1-32:18.9
2637Fumiko AokiJPN1-32:22.3
2736Nina KemppelUSA1-32:55.3
289Lis FrostSWE1-33:04.1
2929Piret NiglasEST1-33:09.3
3044Gabriella ParuzziITA1-33:28.9
3110Mićhalina MaciuszekPOL1-33:34.2
3248Alžběta HavrančíkováSVK1-33:41.5
332Silke SchwagerSUI1-34:07.4
3427Bernadetta BocekPOL1-34:28.6
3519Cristel VahtraEST1-34:48.6
3634Martina VondrováCZE1-34:50.1
3715Brigitte AlbrechtSUI1-34:55.3
3813Irina NikulchinaBUL1-36:06.3
3912Lucie ChroustovskáCZE1-36:07.8
408Dorcas WonsavageUSA1-36:34.1
4128Barbara MettlerSUI1-36:40.8
424Jana RázlováCZE1-36:40.9
4316Tatiana KutlíkováSVK1-36:41.4
4426Sviatlana KamotskayaBLR1-36:51.0
4511Sumiko YokoyamaJPN1-37:14.7
4618Yelena ChernetsovaKAZ1-38:17.0
477Oksana KotovaKAZ1-38:34.1
4814Ineta KravaleLAT1-38:41.8
4935Laura WilsonUSA1-38:52.6
5017Sylvie Giry-RoussetFRA1-39:26.3
511Suzanne KingUSA1-45:27.9
DNF3Dorota KwaśnyPOL
DNF23Iveta ZelingerováCZE
DNS5Liudmila DidelevaBLR
DNS20Alena PiirainenBLR