Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Alpensia Cross-Country Centre |
Dates | 17 February |
Competitors | 56 from 14 nations |
Winning time | 51:24.3 |
Medalists | |
Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Distance | ||
Freestyle | men | women |
Skiathlon | men | women |
Classical | men | women |
Relay | men | women |
Sprint | ||
Individual | men | women |
Team | men | women |
The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February 2018 at 18:30 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1][2] Norway won the event, with Sweden taking the silver medal and Olympic Athletes from Russia bronze.
In the first leg, Russia (Natalia Nepryaeva), Sweden (Anna Haag), and Norway (Ingvild Flugstad Østberg) skied together, with Finland (Aino-Kaisa Saarinen) trailing 20 seconds, and Switzerland fifth. In the second leg, Russia (Yulia Belorukova) and Sweden (Charlotte Kalla) still skied together, but Norway (Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen) dropped half a minute behind and was taken over by Finland (Kerttu Niskanen) which was ten seconds behind the leaders. Switzerland (Nadine Fähndrich) was still fifth, but almost catched up with Norway.
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 in either the sprint or distance classification. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) 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 the event if it had qualified at least four female athletes, and a country could enter only one team.[3]
Competition schedule
All times are (UTC+9).
Date | Time | Event |
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17 February | 18:30 | Final |
Results
The race was started at 18:30.[4]
References
- ^ "Schedule". Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Start list
- ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Cross-country skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 13 April 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Final results