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Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's 30 kilometre classical

The women's 30 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 27 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia at 11:45 PST.[1]

Women's 30 kilometre classical
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Medal ceremony for the event. From left: Marit Bjørgen (silver), Justyna Kowalczyk (gold), Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (bronze)
VenueWhistler Olympic Park
Dates27 February
Competitors55 from 21 nations
Winning time1:30:33.7
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marit Bjørgen  Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen  Finland
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Summary edit

The 30 kilometre has been skated as a mass start event at the World Championships since 2005 and since the 2006 Winter Olympics. Kateřina Neumannová of the Czech Republic was the defending Olympic champion though that event was held in the freestyle technique.[2] She retired after the 2006-07 season and later chaired the organizing committee for the 2009 world championships. Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk, the defending Olympic bronze medallist, was the reigning world champion though that was also in the freestyle technique.[3] The last World Cup event in the 30 km classical took place in Trondheim, Norway on 14 March 2009 and was won by Petra Majdič of Slovenia.[4]

The race was a mass start event where all of the skiers start at the same time.

Results edit

Majdič, the bronze medallist in the sprint event at these games who also won the last event in this format prior to this race, did not participate in the wake of crashing down a bank, into an unprotected 3 m (9.8 ft) deep gorge and landing on ice and rocks, resulting in five broken ribs and a pneumothorax prior to the start of qualifying for the sprint event ten days earlier.[5] This race also matched up the last four world champions in this event (Zavyalova: 2003,[6] Bjørgen: 2005,[7] Kuitunen: 2007,[8] and Kowalczyk: 2009.[3]).

At the 7.1 km mark, the top three leaders were Størmer Steira (who finished eighth), Jatskaja (who finished 19th), and Kalla (who finished sixth). Kowalczyk, the defending world champion, led at the halfway mark, followed by Saarinen and Longa (who finished 12th). Bjørgen, the 2005 world champion in this event, held the lead at the 22.1 km mark, followed by Kowalczyk and Saarinen, who changed skis at the 25 km mark. Kowalczyk's finish over Bjørgen was the closest in Olympic history, edging out Neumannová's 1.4-second win over Russia's Yuliya Chepalova at the previous Olympics in Turin.[9][10]

Kowalczyk is the first woman from Poland to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics and only the second overall, after Wojciech Fortuna's victory in the ski jumping individual large hill event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.[11] Saarinen earned her first and only individual Winter Olympic medal. 2003 World champion Zavylova finished 23rd while 2007 World champion Kuitunen finished 14th.

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
  1 Justyna Kowalczyk   Poland 1:30:33.7 0.0
  5 Marit Bjørgen   Norway 1:30:34.0 +0.3
  2 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen   Finland 1:31:38.7 +1:05.0
4 10 Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle   Germany 1:31:52.9 +1:19.2
5 24 Masako Ishida   Japan 1:31:56.5 +1:22.8
6 3 Charlotte Kalla   Sweden 1:31:57.6 +1:23.9
7 20 Therese Johaug   Norway 1:32:01.3 +1:27.6
8 4 Kristin Størmer Steira   Norway 1:32:04.4 +1:30.7
9 23 Anna Olsson   Sweden 1:33:00.3 +2:26.6
10 22 Karine Laurent Philippot   France 1:33:11.4 +2:37.7
11 6 Marianna Longa   Italy 1:33:19.9 +2:46.2
12 17 Riikka Sarasoja   Finland 1:33:33.2 +2:59.5
13 8 Virpi Kuitunen   Finland 1:33:36.7 +3:03.0
14 35 Aurore Cuinet   France 1:33:58.3 +3:24.6
15 25 Sara Renner   Canada 1:34:04.2 +3:30.5
16 27 Antonella Confortola   Italy 1:34:07.7 +3:34.0
17 26 Stefanie Böhler   Germany 1:34:08.7 +3:35.0
18 36 Oxana Yatskaya   Kazakhstan 1:34:11.0 +3:37.3
19 16 Katrin Zeller   Germany 1:34:18.1 +3:44.4
20 15 Marthe Kristoffersen   Norway 1:34:31.1 +3:57.8
21 38 Tetyana Zavalíy   Ukraine 1:34:32.3 +3:58.6
22 9 Olga Zavyalova   Russia 1:34:46.3 +4:12.6
23 33 Kikkan Randall   United States 1:34:59.0 +4:25.3
24 41 Sylwia Jaśkowiec   Poland 1:34:59.1 +4:25.4
25 30 Krista Lähteenmäki   Finland 1:35:08.4 +4:34.7
26 42 Kateryna Grygorenko   Ukraine 1:35:11.4 +4:37.7
27 11 Kristina Šmigun-Vähi   Estonia 1:35:27.2 +4:53.5
28 54 Paulina Maciuszek   Poland 1:36:31.7 +5:58.0
29 12 Olga Rocheva   Russia 1:37:15.5 +6:41.8
30 55 Madoka Natsumi   Japan 1:37:35.4 +7:01.7
31 32 Li Hongxue   China 1:37:50.4 +7:16.7
32 28 Kateřina Smutná   Austria 1:37:51.3 +7:17.6
33 19 Elena Kolomina   Kazakhstan 1:37:53.0 +7:19.3
34 48 Marina Matrosova   Kazakhstan 1:38:00.6 +7:26.9
35 46 Holly Brooks   United States 1:38:14.5 +7:40.8
36 34 Laura Orgué   Spain 1:38:18.3 +7:44.6
37 14 Olga Schuchkina   Russia 1:38:30.3 +7:56.6
38 29 Alena Sannikova   Belarus 1:38:31.3 +7:57.6
39 37 Eva Nývltová   Czech Republic 1:38:40.1 +8:06.4
40 31 Ivana Janečková   Czech Republic 1:40:13.6 +9:39.9
41 43 Tatjana Mannima   Estonia 1:40:51.3 +10:17.6
42 13 Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina   Kazakhstan 1:41:01.6 +10:27.9
43 51 Lada Nesterenko   Ukraine 1:41:40.1 +11:06.4
44 45 Nastassia Dubarezava   Belarus 1:42:28.1 +11:54.4
45 49 Madeleine Williams   Canada 1:42:33.7 +12:00.0
46 50 Monika Gyorgy   Romania 1:44:03.5 +13:29.8
47 53 Eva Skalníková   Czech Republic 1:44:47.8 +14:04.1
47 Kornelia Marek   Poland DSQ
7 Valentyna Shevchenko   Ukraine DNF
44 Ida Ingemarsdotter   Sweden DNF
39 Cécile Storti   France DNF
40 Morgan Arritola   United States DNF
52 Laurence Rochat   Switzerland DNF
18 Sabina Valbusa   Italy DNS
21 Kamila Rajdlová   Czech Republic DNS

References edit

  1. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics Cross-Country skiing schedule. Archived 2010-08-31 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
  2. ^ 2006 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiing 24 February 2006 women's 30 km freestyle mass start results. Archived 16 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
  3. ^ a b FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 Cross-country skiing 28 February 2009 women's 30 km freestyle mass start results. Archived 31 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
  4. ^ FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Trondheim 14 March 2009 women's 30 km classical mass start results. Archived 8 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Po podelitvi medalj Petra s helikopterjem v bolnišnico".
  6. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 Cross-country skiing 28 February 2003 women's 30 km freestyle results. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 27 February 2010.
  7. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 Cross-country skiing 26 February 2005 women's 30 km classical mass start results. Archived 1 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 27 February 2010.
  8. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 Cross-country skiing 3 March 2007 women's 30 km classical mass start results. Archived 24 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 27 February 2010.
  9. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 27 February 2010 Cross-country skiing women's 30 km classical mass start results. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 28 February 2010.
  10. ^ Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Cross-Country (Nordic) Skiing, Women: 4 x 5-Kilometre Relay". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 251.
  11. ^ Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Ski Jumping: Large Hill Individual". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Pres Limited. p. 264.

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