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Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 15 kilometre freestyle mass start

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Women’s 15 kilometre mass start
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueSoldier Hollow
Dates9 February
Competitors60 from 23 nations
Winning time39:54.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stefania Belmondo  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yuliya Chepalova  Russia
← 1998

The Women's 15 kilometre freestyle mass start cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 9 February at Soldier Hollow.

All 60 skiers began at once in a mass start. 2002 was the first time that a mass start was held in the Olympics.

The Race

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This was the first Winter Olympic cross-country event skied entirely as a mass start race. Previously, this event was held at an interval start. It was also the first cross-country event in Salt Lake City, starting shortly before the men raced 30 km. The 2001 World Champion was Bente Skari of Norway elected not to contest this race, even though she had been the dominant female cross-country racer over the past five years.[1]

The early leader in the race was Russian Yuliya Chepalova, but by 9 km, Italy's Stefania Belmondo, the 1999 World Champion in the event, moved ahead, until her pole broke at 10.5 km. She dropped back to 10th place, but trailed the leader, Larisa Lazutina, by only 10 seconds. Belmondo was given a pole by a French official but it was very long, so she struggled for over 500 metres until an Italian coach gave her one of her own poles. She then powered ahead, caught Lazutina and won a narrow victory by 1.8 seconds. Behind them, Czech skier Katerina Neumannová came in for the bronze medal. But Lazutina would not keep her silver medal. After the pursuit race, held six days later, she was found to have tested positive for darpopoietin, an erythropoietin analogue, and was disqualified in late 2003. Neumannová was moved up to silver medal, and Chepalova would get the bronze. Chepalova failed drug tests later in her career, but here Olympic results were left unaffected.[2]

Results

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The race was started at 09:00.[3]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 3 Stefania Belmondo  Italy 39:54.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic 40:01.3 +6.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 Yuliya Chepalova  Russia 40:02.7 +8.3
4 10 Kaisa Varis  Finland 40:04.1 +9.7
5 12 Svetlana Nageykina  Belarus 40:17.9 +23.5
6 7 Gabriella Paruzzi  Italy 40:25.7 +31.3
7 8 Kristina Šmigun  Estonia 40:33.6 +39.2
8 20 Karine Philippot  France 40:38.6 +44.2
9 18 Iryna Terelya  Ukraine 40:39.4 +45.0
10 9 Sabina Valbusa  Italy 40:48.3 +53.9
11 6 Olga Zavyalova  Russia 40:53.3 +58.9
12 14 Evi Sachenbacher  Germany 40:57.6 +1:03.2
13 11 Yelena Burukhina  Russia 41:01.1 +1:06.7
14 5 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen  Norway 41:47.8 +1:53.4
15 34 Natascia Leonardi Cortesi  Switzerland 41:56.3 +2:01.9
16 30 Antonella Confortola  Italy 41:57.8 +2:03.4
17 24 Vera Zyatikova  Belarus 42:04.5 +2:10.1
18 27 Nataliya Zyatikova  Belarus 42:04.5 +2:10.1
19 21 Riitta-Liisa Lassila  Finland 42:14.3 +2:19.9
20 43 Kateřina Hanušová  Czech Republic 42:15.7 +2:21.3
21 15 Valentyna Shevchenko  Ukraine 42:16.0 +2:21.6
22 29 Sumiko Yokoyama  Japan 42:16.2 +2:21.8
23 44 Katrin Šmigun  Estonia 42:25.6 +2:31.2
24 39 Annick Pierrel  France 42:26.7 +2:32.3
25 33 Oxana Yatskaya  Kazakhstan 42:46.0 +2:51.6
26 31 Claudia Nystad  Germany 42:49.5 +2:55.1
27 32 Kanoko Goto  Japan 42:50.4 +2:56.0
28 13 Vibeke Skofterud  Norway 42:50.9 +2:56.5
29 28 Nina Kemppel  United States 42:53.1 +2:58.7
30 37 Anna-Carin Olofsson  Sweden 42:53.8 +2:59.4
31 38 Brigitte Albrecht  Switzerland 42:54.4 +3:00.0
32 35 Nataša Lačen  Slovenia 43:05.0 +3:10.6
33 26 Svetlana Shishkina  Kazakhstan 43:05.1 +3:10.7
34 36 Amanda Fortier  Canada 43:38.7 +3:44.3
35 58 Anke Reschwamm Schulze  Germany 43:53.1 +3:58.7
36 22 Anna Dahlberg  Sweden 43:53.7 +3:59.3
37 41 Jaime Fortier  Canada 43:54.0 +3:59.6
38 25 Elin Ek  Sweden 43:55.3 +4:00.9
39 23 Jenny Karin Olsson  Sweden 43:57.7 +4:03.3
40 49 Nataliya Sviridova-Kalinovskaya  Belarus 44:09.2 +4:14.8
41 46 Helena Erbenová  Czech Republic 44:17.8 +4:23.4
42 42 Midori Furusawa  Japan 44:41.8 +4:47.4
43 50 Barbara Jones  United States 45:04.3 +5:09.9
44 45 Vita Yakymchuk  Ukraine 45:26.7 +5:32.3
45 53 Darya Starostina  Kazakhstan 45:28.8 +5:34.4
46 47 Lee Chae-won  South Korea 45:37.9 +5:43.5
47 56 Hou Yuxia  China 45:42.2 +5:47.8
48 52 Irina Terentjeva  Lithuania 45:45.4 +5:51.0
49 55 Nataliya Isachenko  Kazakhstan 45:51.4 +5:57.0
50 17 Marit Bjørgen  Norway 47:07.4 +7:13.0
51 48 Ilona Bublová  Czech Republic 47:31.8 +7:37.4
52 54 Luan Zhengrong  China 47:43.7 +7:49.3
53 59 Kristina Joder  United States 48:06.0 +8:11.6
54 57 Maja Kezele  Croatia 48:43.1 +8:48.7
16 Maj Helen Sorkmo  Norway Did not finish
19 Annmari Viljanmaa  Finland
40 Nobuko Fukuda  Japan
60 Elena Gorohova  Moldova
51 Margarit Nikolyan  Armenia Disqualified
DSQ 2 Larisa Lazutina  Russia 39:56.2 +1.8

References

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  1. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 15 kilometres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Home 2021".
  3. ^ Final results