Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 30 kilometre freestyle


The women's 30 kilometre mass start freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 22 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Three Norwegian athletes, Marit Bjørgen, Therese Johaug, and Kristin Størmer Steira, took the lead from 1 km on and skied in the group, never being threatened by other competitors. At the finish line, Bjørgen won gold, Johaug finished second, and Størmer Steira was third. This is the first gold for Norway in women's 30 km race, and the first clean sweep in Olympic cross country skiing since 1992. For Bjørgen, this was the sixth Winter Olympic gold medal, which, together with Lidiya Skoblikova and Lyubov Yegorova, made her a woman with the largest number of Winter Olympics gold medals won. Størmer Steira won her first individual Olympic medal. The defending 2010 champion Justyna Kowalczyk did not finish.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points will be allowed to compete in both or one of the event. An athlete with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points will be allowed to compete in the sprint event and 10 km for women or 15 km for men provided their distance points do not exceed 300 FIS points. NOC's who do not have any athlete meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex in only 10 km classical event for women or 15 km classical event for men. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on January 20, 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Results

The race started at 10:30.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
2Marit Bjørgen1:11:05.2—
1Therese Johaug1:11:07.8+2.6
10Kristin Størmer Steira1:11:28.8+23.6
5Kerttu Niskanen1:12:26.9+1:21.7
131:12:27.1+1:21.9
20Aurore Jéan1:12:27.5+1:22.3
21Coraline Hugue1:12:29.5+1:24.3
25Emma Wikén1:12:31.6+1:26.4
31Seraina Boner1:12:35.0+1:29.8
1037Laura Orgué1:12:37.3+1:32.1
1124Anna Haag1:12:40.1+1:34.9
1215Katrin Zeller1:12:41.4+1:36.2
1334Elisa Brocard1:12:42.0+1:36.8
1428Valentina Shevchenko1:12:42.6+1:37.4
1529Natalya Zhukova1:12:56.7+1:51.5
1630Debora Agreiter1:12:58.5+1:53.3
1726Anouk Faivre Picon1:13:29.4+2:24.2
187Krista Lähteenmäki1:13:37.6+2:32.4
194Heidi Weng1:13:46.1+2:40.9
2033Teresa Stadlober1:13:50.1+2:44.9
219Aino-Kaisa Saarinen1:13:52.5+2:47.3
2248Li Hongxue1:14:01.5+2:56.3
2312Masako Ishida1:14:09.0+3:03.8
2411Liz Stephen1:14:11.8+3:06.6
2527Marina Piller1:14:44.7+3:39.5
2619Riitta-Liisa Roponen1:14:51.6+3:46.4
2732Holly Brooks1:14:58.3+3:53.1
2816Kikkan Randall1:15:10.7+4:05.5
2922Irina Khazova1:15:19.2+4:14.0
DSQ22Yuliya Ivanova1:15:22.1+4:16.9
3135Barbara Jezeršek1:15:35.8+4:30.6
DSQ8Yuliya Chekalyova1:15:46.6+4:41.4
3344Sylwia Jaśkowiec1:15:47.6+4:42.4
346Charlotte Kalla1:16:18.5+5:13.3
3541Maryna Antsybor1:16:22.7+5:17.5
3652Lee Chae-won1:16:38.2+5:33.0
3740Petra Novaková1:17:49.6+6:44.4
3849Kateryna Grygorenko1:17:53.0+6:47.8
3918Sara Lindborg1:18:03.9+6:58.7
4014Jessica Diggins1:18:13.0+7:07.8
4139Paulina Maciuszek1:18:44.7+7:39.5
4238Alena Sannikova1:18:46.3+7:41.1
4353Kornelia Kubińska1:19:57.7+8:52.5
4436Ilaria Debertolis1:20:22.2+9:17.0
4530Klara Moravcová1:20:56.4+9:51.2
4654Brittany Webster1:21:05.5+10:00.3
4746Emily Nishikawa1:21:38.6+10:33.4
4843Elena Kolomina1:21:50.0+10:44.8
4942Amanda Ammar1:22:03.7+10:58.5
5047Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova1:23:05.6+12:00.4
5145Tatyana Ossipova1:23:52.6+12:47.4
5251Heidi Widmer1:24:11.5+13:06.3
5356Vedrana Malec1:24:13.4+13:08.2
5457Aimee Watson1:34:00.1+22:54.9
3Justyna Kowalczyk
23Nicole Fessel
55Teodora Malcheva