Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
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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 at the
2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...
was held on 17 February 2018 at 18:30 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in
Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...
,
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
. Norway won the event, with Sweden taking the silver medal and Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) bronze.


Summary

In the first leg, OAR (
Natalya Nepryayeva Natalya Mikhaylovna Nepryayeva (russian: Наталья Михайловна Непряева; born 6 September 1995) is a Russian cross-country skier. She participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team ...
) and Norway (
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (born 9 November 1990) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2008. Career She won her first competition in the sprint event in the Tour de Ski on 31 December 2013. Her previous best individual World ...
) skied together, with Finland (
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (born 1 February 1979) is a retired Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 1998 and 2018. With 354 individual World Cup starts, Saarinen is the current record holder for both men and women, with St ...
) trailing 20 seconds, Sweden (
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) 25 seconds after, and Switzerland fifth. In the second leg, Sweden (
Charlotte Kalla Marina Charlotte Kalla (born 22 July 1987 in Tärendö) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing at international level since the 2003–04 season. Kalla is a three-time Olympian, winning her first Olympic gold medal at the 2010 Wi ...
) caught up with OAR (
Yuliya Belorukova Yuliya Sergeyevna Stupak (russian: Юлия Сергеевна Ступак, née Belorukova; born 21 January 1995) is a Russian cross-country skier who competes internationally with the Russian national team. She competed at the FIS Nordic Wor ...
) and they skied together, but Norway (
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (born 22 January 1987) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She skis with the IL Heming club in Oslo, near Holmenkollen. Her greatest achievement is winning the ...
) dropped half a minute behind and was overtaken by Finland (
Kerttu Niskanen Kerttu Elina Niskanen (born 13 June 1988) is a Finnish cross-country skier. She is a four-time Olympic medalist. Career At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, her first senior WCH, Niskanen finished eighth in the 10 km classica ...
), ten seconds behind the leaders. Switzerland ( Nadine Fähndrich) was still fifth, but almost caught up with Norway. In the third leg, Norway (
Ragnhild Haga Ragnhild or Ragnhildr is a Nordic feminine given name, and may refer to: People *Ragnhild (saint) (), Swedish saint * Ragnhildr, mother of Harald I of Norway * Ragnhildr ''in ríka'', daughter of Eric of Jutland, wife to Harald Fairhair and mothe ...
) caught up with the leaders, Sweden ( Ebba Andersson) and OAR ( Anastasia Sedova). Finland was already 40 seconds behind, with other teams seemingly out of medal contention. In the last leg,
Anna Nechaevskaya Anna Alexandrovna Nechaevskaya (russian: Анна Александровна Нечаевская, born 21 August 1991) is a Russian cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometre freestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics The 20 ...
could not match the pace of the leaders, but
Krista Pärmäkoski Krista Pärmäkoski (née Lähteenmäki; born 12 December 1990) is a Finnish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2007. Among other career achievements, she is a five-time Olympic medalist. Career At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Pärmä ...
of Finland was not fast enough to make up forty seconds deficit, and OAR became third. At the finish line,
Marit Bjørgen Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 114 individual victories. Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country W ...
was faster than Stina Nilsson, thus winning gold for Norway. In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by
Kristin Kloster Aasen Kristin Kloster Aasen (born 4 January 1961) is the former first vice president of Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports from 2015 to 2019. She was the president of the Norwegian Equestrian Federation from 2003 to ...
, member of the
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, accompanied by
Erik Røste Erik Røste (born 30 April 1960) is a Norwegian skiing coach, official and businessperson. He was born in Gjøvik and finished his secondary education there in 1979. He took his degree at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He was hired as a ...
, President of the
Norwegian Ski Federation The Norwegian Ski Federation ( no, Norges Skiforbund) is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and is the national representative of the International Ski Federation. Founded on 21 February 1908, it covers the skiing disciplines of alpine, cross-countr ...
.


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.


Competition schedule

All times are (
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Results

The race was started at 18:30.Final results
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References

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