The women's freestyle sprint

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

competition in the free technique at the

2014 Sochi Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

took place on 11 February at

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Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points (the A standard) will be allowed to compete in both or one of the event (sprint/distance). 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 (known as the basic quota) 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 20 January 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Results

: Q — qualified for next round : LL — lucky loser : PF — photo finish In November 2017,

Yevgeniya Shapovalova Yevgeniya Anatolyevna Shapovalova (russian: Евгения Анатольевна Шаповалова; born 15 June 1986 in Nizhny Tagil) is a Russian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2006. Career At the 2010 Winter Olympics, sh ...

, and later

Natalya Matveyeva Natalya Konstantinovna Matveyeva (russian: Ната́лья Константи́новна Матве́ева; born 23 May 1986) is a Russian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2004. Matveyeva skis for Dynamo Moscow. She has a tota ...

and Anastasia Dotsenko were disqualified from the event. In January 2018, Shapovalova and Matveyeva successfully appealed against the lifetime ban as well as decision to disqualify them from Sochi Olympics at the court of arbitration for sport. The disqualification of Dotsenko was upheld.

Qualifying

Quarterfinals

;Quarterfinal 1 ;Quarterfinal 2 ;Quarterfinal 3 ;Quarterfinal 4 ;Quarterfinal 5

Semifinals

;Semifinal 1 ;Semifinal 2

Final

The final was held at 17:29.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics - Women's sprint Women's cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Women's individual sprint cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics