Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint

Women’s sprint at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing
Venue	Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center, Zhangjiakou
Date	8 February
Competitors	90 from 34 nations
Medalists
Jonna Sundling  Sweden Maja Dahlqvist  Sweden Jessie Diggins  United States
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Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Distance
Classical	men	women
Skiathlon	men	women
Freestyle	men	women
Relay	men	women
Sprint
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women
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The women’s sprint competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou.^[1] Jonna Sundling of Sweden became the Olympic champion. Her compatriot, Maja Dahlqvist, won the silver medal, and Jessie Diggins of the United States the bronze. For Sundling and Dahlquist, this was the first Olympic medal, and for Diggins, the first individual Olympic medal.

Summary[]

The 2018 champion, Stina Nilsson, switched to biathlon and was not available to defend her title. The silver medalist, Maiken Caspersen Falla, and the bronze medalist, Yuliya Stupak, qualified for the Olympics. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics was Natalya Nepryayeva, and the sprint leader was Dahlqvist. Sundling was the 2021 World Champion in individual sprint.

The medals for the competition were presented by Pál Schmitt, IOC Member, Olympian, and 1 Gold, 2 Gold, Hungary; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by , FIG Council Member; Sweden.

Qualification[]

Results[]

Qualifying[]

The qualifying was held at 16:00.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	8	Jonna Sundling	Sweden	3:09.03		Q
2	6	Rosie Brennan	United States	3:14.83	+5.80	Q
3	20	Nadine Fähndrich	Switzerland	3:15.65	+6.62	Q
4	40	Yuliya Stupak	ROC	3:17.01	+7.98	Q
5	18	Jessie Diggins	United States	3:17.72	+8.69	Q
6	4	Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden	3:18.05	+9.02	Q
7	16	Tiril Udnes Weng	Norway	3:18.17	+9.14	Q
8	41	Sofie Krehl	Germany	3:18.93	+9.90	Q
9	10	Anna Dyvik	Sweden	3:19.15	+10.12	Q
10	39	Victoria Carl	Germany	3:19.89	+10.86	Q
11	2	Emma Ribom	Sweden	3:19.99	+10.96	Q
12	51	Veronika Stepanova	ROC	3:20.41	+11.38	Q
13	29		Finland	3:20.43	+11.40	Q
14	30	Julia Kern	United States	3:20.69	+11.66	Q
15	46		Czech Republic	3:20.80	+11.77	Q
16	14	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:20.86	+11.83	Q
17	33		Switzerland	3:20.88	+11.85	Q
18	36	Jasmi Joensuu	Finland	3:21.05	+12.02	Q
19	22	Mathilde Myhrvold	Norway	3:21.24	+12.21	Q
20	12	Natalya Nepryayeva	ROC	3:21.76	+12.73	Q
21	25	Pia Fink	Germany	3:22.09	+13.06	Q
22	43		Czech Republic	3:22.20	+13.17	Q
23	32	Lotta Udnes Weng	Norway	3:22.26	+13.23	Q
24	44	Katri Lylynperä	Finland	3:22.62	+13.59	Q
25	26	Greta Laurent	Italy	3:22.84	+13.81	Q
26	24	Anamarija Lampič	Slovenia	3:22.93	+13.90	Q
27	34	Laurien van der Graaff	Switzerland	3:23.03	+14.00	Q
28	11	Dahria Beatty	Canada	3:23.54	+14.51	Q
29	45	Lucia Scardoni	Italy	3:23.61	+14.58	Q
30	37	Caterina Ganz	Italy	3:24.13	+15.10	Q
31	42		France	3:24.19	+15.16
32	31	Patrīcija Eiduka	Latvia	3:24.32	+15.29
33	21	Petra Hynčicová	Czech Republic	3:24.51	+15.48
34	27	Lisa Unterweger	Austria	3:24.83	+15.80
35	50	Cendrine Browne	Canada	3:24.85	+15.82
36	9		China	3:25.05	+16.02
37	38	Coletta Rydzek	Germany	3:25.09	+16.06
38	13	Chi Chunxue	China	3:25.31	+16.28
39	1	Izabela Marcisz	Poland	3:25.62	+16.59
40	68	Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt	Canada	3:25.92	+16.89
41	48		Estonia	3:27.71	+18.68
42	17	Monika Skinder	Poland	3:27.93	+18.90
43	19		United States	3:29.13	+20.10
44	15		Czech Republic	3:29.63	+20.60
45	35		ROC	3:29.64	+20.61
46	28	Eva Urevc	Slovenia	3:30.43	+21.40
47	47		Italy	3:30.64	+21.61
48	52		Estonia	3:31.54	+22.51
49	49		Switzerland	3:31.60	+22.57
50	3		Poland	3:32.28	+23.25
51	64		Kazakhstan	3:32.56	+23.53
52	66	Jessica Yeaton	Australia	3:32.85	+23.82
53	54	Vedrana Malec	Croatia	3:33.12	+24.09
54	67	Maryna Antsybor	Ukraine	3:33.80	+24.77
55	53		Slovenia	3:34.12	+25.09
56	23	Dinigeer Yilamujiang	China	3:34.55	+25.52
57	65	Barbora Klementová	Slovakia	3:34.87	+25.84
58	61	Laura Leclair	Canada	3:35.31	+26.28
59	57		Slovenia	3:35.90	+26.87
60	62		Kazakhstan	3:35.93	+26.90
61	70	Karen Chanloung	Thailand	3:36.00	+26.97
62	55		Estonia	3:36.82	+27.79
63	5	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	3:36.84	+27.81
64	59		Estonia	3:37.10	+28.07
65	60	Casey Wright	Australia	3:39.22	+30.19
66	7		China	3:39.27	+30.24
67	56		Kazakhstan	3:41.55	+32.52
68	58	Irina Bykova	Kazakhstan	3:42.70	+33.67
69	69	Viktoriya Olekh	Ukraine	3:42.78	+33.75
70	63	Valiantsina Kaminskaya	Ukraine	3:44.10	+35.07
71	72		Croatia	3:45.60	+36.57
72	73		Slovakia	3:46.25	+37.22
73	75		Latvia	3:46.66	+37.63
74	71		Iceland	3:49.59	+40.56
75	79		South Korea	3:51.34	+42.31
76	74		Latvia	3:51.60	+42.57
77	81		South Korea	3:52.05	+43.02
78	77	Tímea Lőrincz	Romania	3:55.15	+46.12
79	84		Mongolia	3:58.25	+49.22
80	89	Katya Galstyan	Armenia	4:00.48	+51.45
81	85		Latvia	4:03.36	+54.33
82	78	Eglė Savickaitė	Lithuania	4:03.60	+54.57
83	76		Argentina	4:05.46	+56.43
84	87	Jaqueline Mourão	Brazil	4:05.60	+56.57
85	80	Ayşenur Duman	Turkey	4:08.47	+59.44
86	86	Ieva Dainytė	Lithuania	4:10.99	+1:01.96
87	88		Greece	4:14.48	+1:05.45
88	90		Brazil	4:14.53	+1:05.50
89	83	Maria Ntanou	Greece	4:19.66	+1:10.63
90	91		Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:27.99	+1:18.96
	82	Lee Chae-won	South Korea	Did not start

Quarterfinals[]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	1	Jonna Sundling	Sweden	3:15.48		Q
2	2	Rosie Brennan	United States	3:17.90	+2.42	Q
3	26	Anamarija Lampič	Slovenia	3:18.60	+3.12	LL
4	4	Yuliya Stupak	ROC	3:18.65	+3.17
5	28	Dahria Beatty	Canada	3:18.73	+3.25
6	30	Caterina Ganz	Italy	3:24.04	+8.56

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	6	Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden	3:21.03		Q
2	7	Tiril Udnes Weng	Norway	3:21.31	+0.28	Q
3	20	Natalya Nepryayeva	ROC	3:21.34	+0.31
4	22		Czech Republic	3:22.59	+1.56
5	27	Laurien van der Graaff	Switzerland	3:24.32	+3.29
6	25	Greta Laurent	Italy	3:26.96	+5.93

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	3	Nadine Fähndrich	Switzerland	3:16.51		Q
2	16	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:16.88	+0.37	Q
3	10	Victoria Carl	Germany	3:18.26	+1.75	LL
4	9	Anna Dyvik	Sweden	3:19.00	+2.49
5	24	Katri Lylynperä	Finland	3:24.29	+7.78
6	29	Lucia Scardoni	Italy	3:27.07	+10.56

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	5	Jessie Diggins	United States	3:16.30		Q
2	11	Emma Ribom	Sweden	3:18.44	+2.14	Q
3	21	Pia Fink	Germany	3:19.72	+3.42
4	15		Czech Republic	3:20.12	+3.82
5	23	Lotta Udnes Weng	Norway	3:21.21	+4.91
6	18	Jasmi Joensuu	Finland	3:49.93	+33.63

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	12	Veronika Stepanova	ROC	3:18.09		Q
2	8	Sofie Krehl	Germany	3:18.37	+0.28	Q
3	17		Switzerland	3:21.12	+3.03
4	14	Julia Kern	United States	3:21.68	+3.59
5	19	Mathilde Myhrvold	Norway	3:24.62	+6.53
6	13		Finland	3:30.52	+12.43

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	1	Jonna Sundling	Sweden	3:11.94		Q
2	3	Nadine Fähndrich	Switzerland	3:12.61	+0.67	Q
3	6	Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden	3:12.94	+1.00	LL
4	2	Rosie Brennan	United States	3:13.29	+1.35	LL
5	7	Tiril Udnes Weng	Norway	3:14.29	+2.35
6	26	Anamarija Lampič	Slovenia	3:19.26	+7.32

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	11	Emma Ribom	Sweden	3:15.22		Q
2	5	Jessie Diggins	United States	3:15.63	+0.41	Q
3	12	Veronika Stepanova	ROC	3:16.22	+1.00
4	16	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	3:16.41	+1.19
5	10	Victoria Carl	Germany	3:16.83	+1.61
6	8	Sofie Krehl	Germany	3:21.32	+6.10

Final[]

The final was held at 19:59.^[3]

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Notes
	1	Jonna Sundling	Sweden	3:09.68
	6	Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden	3:12.56	+2.88
	5	Jessie Diggins	United States	3:12.84	+3.16
4	2	Rosie Brennan	United States	3:14.17	+4.49
5	3	Nadine Fähndrich	Switzerland	3:16.89	+7.21
6	11	Emma Ribom	Sweden	3:20.79	+11.11

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