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.Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 3 November 2009.
The Swedish team of Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg (Olsson since 2008) were the defending Olympic champions when the technique was classical.2006 Winter Olympics women's team sprint classical results. - accessed 3 February 2009. 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.FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 women's team sprint classical results. - accessed 3 November 2009 results. Italy's team of Magda Genuin and Arianna Follis won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 18 January 2009.FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Whistler Olympic Park 18 January 2009 women's team sprint freestyle results. - accessed 3 November 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.FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Rybinsk 24 January 2010 women's team sprint freestyle results. - accessed 24 January 2010.
Results
Semifinals The semifinals took place at 10:45 and 11:10 PST. Rank Heat Bib Country Athlete Time Note 1 1 6 Karine Laurent PhilippotLaure Barthélémy 18:42.2 Q 2 1 1 Magda GenuinArianna Follis 18:43.0 Q 3 1 3 Evi Sachenbacher-StehleClaudia Nystad 18:43.5 Q 4 1 8 Kornelia MarekSylwia Jaśkowiec 18:44.1 q 5 1 4 Irina KhazovaNatalya Korostelyova 18:48.0 q 6 1 2 Riitta-Liisa RoponenRiikka Sarasoja 18:53.8 q 7 1 5 Nobuko FukudaMadoka Natsumi 19:51.7 8 1 9 Kateryna GrygorenkoMaryna Antsybor 19:55.6 9 1 7 Bettina GruberSilvana Bucher 20:04.6 1 2 12 Charlotte KallaAnna Haag 18:35.9 Q 2 2 11 Astrid JacobsenCeline Brun-Lie 18:47.2 Q 3 2 16 Caitlin ComptonKikkan Randall 18:48.9 Q 4 2 14 Daria GaiazovaSara Renner 18:54.9 q 5 2 10 Katja VišnarVesna Fabjan 18:58.9 6 2 15 Oxana YatskayaElena Kolomina 19:33.6 7 2 17 Ekaterina RudakovaOlga Vasiljonok 19:52.3 8 2 13 Triin OjasteKaija Udras 20:02.2 9 2 18 Man DandanLi Hongxue 20:02.7
Final The following are the results of the event.vancouver2010.com: Ladies' Team Sprint Free
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.
Rank Bib Country Athlete Time Deficit 3 Evi Sachenbacher-StehleClaudia Nystad 18:03.7 — 12 Charlotte KallaAnna Haag 18:04.3 +0.6 4 Irina KhazovaNatalya Korostelyova 18:07.7 +4.0 1 Magda GenuinArianna Follis 18:14.2 +10.5 11 Astrid JacobsenCeline Brun-Lie 18:32.8 +29.1 16 Caitlin ComptonKikkan Randall 18:51.6 +47.9 14 Daria GaiazovaSara Renner 18:51.8 +48.1 2 Riitta-Liisa RoponenRiikka Sarasoja 18:56.6 +52.9 8 Kornelia MarekSylwia Jaśkowiec 18:59.1 +55.4 10 6 Karine Laurent PhilippotLaure Barthélémy 19:04.2
References
External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Team Sprint Free (semifinals), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-21. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Team Sprint Free (final), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-21.