Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint


The women's team sprint freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 February 2018 at 19:00 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event consisted of 6 by 1.25km sprints alternating between 2 teammates. Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins won the event, making this the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in women's cross-country skiing. It was also the first ever Olympic gold medal for the United States in cross-country skiing. Charlotte Kalla and Stina Nilsson came second, and the defending champion Marit Bjørgen, skiing in pair with Maiken Caspersen Falla, won the bronze medal.

Qualification

A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list. Countries also received an additional quota if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of one team for the sprint consisting of two athletes.

Results

Semifinals

Final

The final was started at 19:00.
RankBibCountryAthletesTimeDeficit
14Kikkan Randall
Jessica Diggins
15:56.47
12Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
15:56.66
1Marit Bjørgen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
15:59.44
3Nadine Fähndrich
Laurien van der Graaff
16:17.79+21.32
13Mari Laukkanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
16:19.18+22.71
5Alenka Čebašek
Anamarija Lampič
16:28.24+31.77
18Justyna Kowalczyk
Sylwia Jaśkowiec
16:32.48+36.01
17Aurore Jéan
Coraline Thomas Hugue
16:32.49+36.02
15Natalya Nepryayeva
Yuliya Belorukova
16:41.76+45.29
102Nicole Fessel
Sandra Ringwald
17:06.57