Cross-Country Skiing 2022/Women's 10 km

Women's 10 km
General information
Sport	Cross-Country Skiing 2022
Date	10 February 2022
Competitors	98 athletes
Venue	Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Ragnhild Haga
Silver	Charlotte Kalla
Bronze	Marit Bjoergen Krista Parmakoski
Conditions
Temperature	-5°C / 23°F
Length	9872 metres
Height	57 metres
Medalists
	Therese Johaug
	Kerttu Niskanen
	Krista Parmakoski

The women's 10 km of Cross-Country Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February 2022 in the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre. With 98 athletes competing, the event was won by Therese Johaug from Norway, with Kerttu Niskanen from Finland taking the silver medal and Krista Parmakoski from Finland taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two rounds of 5.0 kilometres in the classic technique. The athletes started 30 seconds from each other. The competitor with the fastest time after 10 kilometres is the winner.

Preview

Ninety-eight athletes qualified for the event with Natalia Nepryaeva as the leader of the World Cup standings and one of the big names in the field, though the Swedish and Norwegian athletes Frida Karlsson, Therese Johaug, and Ebba Andersson shined in distanced events. Krista Parmakoski won an Olympic bronze medal in 2018, behind Charlotte Kalla, and other big seeds also included Teresa Stadlober, Yulia Stupak, Johanna Matintalo, and Rosie Brennan.

Estere Volfa was the youngest athlete in the field, making her Olympic debut at the age of 16, as she was a few months younger than Ieva Dainyte, followed by 5 competitors born in 2004. Jaqueline Mourao was the most experienced in the field, having made her Olympic debut in Athens in 2004, when Volfa, Dainyte, and Egle Savickaite had not been born yet. The Brazilian Mourao was to make her eighth Olympic appearance at the age of 46, and was five years older than five-time Olympian Masako Ishida and six years older than six-time Olympian Lee Chae-won. Alena Prochazkova was the only other athletes with five or more Olympic appearances, having made her Olympic debut in 2006.

Results

Therese Johaug won her second Olympic title in Beijing after she also won the gold medal in the skiathlon, and she won her fifth Olympic medal in total, after medals in 2010 and 2014. Kerttu Niskanen won her third Olympic silver medal in her career, after having won the same medal in the team sprint in 2014 and the relay in 2014. Krista Parmakoski won her second consecutive medal in the event after she also won the bronze medal in 2018 and she won her fifth Olympic medal in total. Natalia Nepryaeva just missed out on her second Olympic medal in Beijing by a tenth of a second, after she won the silver medal in the skiathlon a few days prior, while Katharina Hennig recorded her best result in her sixth Olympic start, with 2018 relay medalists Ebba Andersson and Yulia Stupak behind her. 2018 team sprint champion Jessie Diggins and skiathlon bronze medalist Teresa Stadlober completed the top 9, just ahead of the best debutante in the event Tatiana Sorina.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Therese Johaug	Norway	28:06.3
	Kerttu Niskanen	Finland	28:06.7
	Krista Parmakoski	Finland	28:37.8
4	Natalia Nepryaeva	ROC	28:37.9
5	Katharina Hennig	Germany	28:49.7
6	Ebba Andersson	Sweden	28:57.2
7	Yulia Stupak	ROC	29:03.8
8	Jessie Diggins	United States	29:15.1
9	Teresa Stadlober	Austria	29:16.9
10	Tatiana Sorina	ROC	29:17.4
11	Katherine Sauerbrey	Germany	29:27.2
12	Frida Karlsson	Sweden	29:28.0
13	Rosie Brennan	United Stastes	29:28.6
14	Johanna Matintalo	Finland	29:31.2
15	Lilia Vasileva	ROC	29:32.4
16	Anne Kylloenen	Finland	29:42.6
17	Anamarija Lampic	Slovenia	29:55.0
18	Dahria Beatty	Canada	30:00.2
19	Emma Ribom	Sweden	30:05.8
20	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden	30:07.6
21	Tiril Udnes Weng	Norway	30:22.6
22	Nadine Faehndrich	Switzerland	30:23.8
23	Patricija Eiduka	Latvia	30:34.7
24	Novie McCabe	United States	30:34.9
25	Lotta Udnes Weng	Norway	30:37.0
26	Anna Comarella	Italy	30:45.0
27	Masako Ishida	Japan	30:50.6
28	Antonia Fraebel	Germany	30:51.4
29	Izabela Marcisz	Poland	30:54.6
30	Petra Novakova	Czech Republic	31:00.7
31	Lisa Unterweger	Austria	31:02.1
32	Hailey Swirbul	United States	31:05.3
33	Laura Gimmler	Germany	31:05.6
34	Katerina Janatova	Czech Republic	31:07.2
35	Caterina Ganz	Italy	31:08.1
36	Katherine Stewart-Jones	Canada	31:08.6
37	Martina Di Centa	Italy	31:08.8
38	Lucia Scardoni	Italy	31:09.5
39	Chi Chunxue	China	31:10.6
40	Coralie Bentz	France	31:17.6
41	Melissa Gal	France	31:25.7
42	Petra Hyncicova	Czech Republic	31:28.0
43	Nadja Kaelin	Switzerland	31:29.7
44	Mathilde Myhrvold	Norway	31:36.0
45	Li Xin	China	31:36.9
46	Masae Tsuchiya	Japan	31:41.5
47	Carola Vila Obiols	Andorra	31:45.0
48	Cendrine Browne	Canada	31:47.9
49	Monika Skinder	Poland	31:49.9
50	Ma Qinghua	China	31:52.3
51	Jessica Yeaton	Australia	31:54.6
52	Angelina Shuryga	Kazakhstan	32:08.8
53	Kseniya Shalygina	Kazakhstan	32:09.9
54	Chika Kobayashi	Japan	32:10.0
55	Anja Weber	Switzerland	32:13.4
56	Yilamujiang Dinigeer	China	32:23.8
57	Nadezhda Stepashkina	Kazakhstan	32:27.2
58	Maryna Antsybor	Kazakhstan	32:36.5
59	Valeriya Tyuleneva	Kazakhstan	32:52.1
60	Keidy Kaasiku	Estonia	32:55.4
61	Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt	Canada	33:01.1
62	Anita Klemencic	Slovenia	33:09.3
63	Karen Chanloung	Thailand	33:14.0
64	Karolina Kukuczka	Poland	33:16.6
65	Alena Prochazkova	Slovakia	33:18.2
66	Anja Mandeljc	Slovenia	33:19.5
67	Casey Wright	Australia	33:21.1
68	Kitija Auzina	Latvia	33:26.3
69	Nina Riedener	Liechtenstein	33:49.0
70	Kaidy Kaasiku	Estonia	33:50.7
71	Neza Zerjav	Slovenia	33:56.8
72	Lee Eui-jin	South Korea	34:07.9
73	Vedrana Malec	Croatia	34:31.6
74	Katya Galstyan	Armenia	34:37.5
75	Lee Chae-won	South Korea	34:45.5
76	Viktoriia Olekh	Ukraine	34:58.1
77	Barbora Klementova	Slovakia	34:59.2
78	Magdalena Kobielusz	Poland	35:40.3
79	Valentyna Kaminska	Ukraine	35:42.7
80	Aveli Uustalu	Estonia	35:46.2
81	Kristina Sivokova	Slovakia	36:12.6
82	Jaqueline Mourao	Brazil	36:14.6
83	Tena Hadzic	Croatia	36:27.5
84	Estere Volfa	Latvia	36:36.9
85	Enkhtuul Ariunsanaa	Mongolia	37:02.5
86	Timea Lorincz	Romania	37:15.3
87	Aysenur Duman	Turkey	37:36.7
88	Maria Ntanou	Greece	37:39.4
89	Egle Savickaite	Lithuania	38:26.5
90	Eduarda Ribera	Brazil	38:58.7
91	Ieva Dainyte	Lithuania	39:07.4
92	Ozlem Ceren Dursun	Turkey	39:17.6
93	Samanta Krampe	Latvia	39:34.2
94	Angelina Muradyan	Armenia	39:43.4
95	Ana Cvetanovska	North Macedonia	39:57.7
96	Nahiara Diaz Gonzalez	Argentina	40:30.8
97	Sara Ponya	Hungary	41:13.6
98	Nefeli Tita	Greece	42:12.1