Cross-Country Skiing 2022/Women's skiathlon

Women's skiathlon
General information
Sport	Cross-Country Skiing 2022
Date	5 February 2022
Competitors	65 athletes
Venue	Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Charlotte Kalla
Silver	Marit Bjoergen
Bronze	Krista Parmakoski
Conditions
Temperature	-12°C / 10.4°F
Length	15340 metres
Height	57 metres
Medalists
	Therese Johaug
	Natalia Nepryaeva
	Teresa Stadlober

The women's skiathlon of Cross-Country Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February 2022 in the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre. With 65 athletes competing, the event was won by Therese Johaug from Norway, with Natalia Nepryaeva from ROC taking the silver medal and Teresa Stadlober from Austria taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of four rounds of 3.75 kilometres, of which the first two laps in the free technique and the last half in the classical technique. The athletes started simultaneously, with the competitor with the fastest time after 15 kilometres winning the event.

Preview

Sixty-five athletes qualified for the event with Therese Johaug as the reigning world champion and Natalia Nepryaeva as the leader of the World Cup. Johaug won the most recent edition of the world championships over half a minute ahead of the strong Swedish team of Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson, and Charlotte Kalla. Krista Parmakoski was the defending bronze medalist, with Katharina Hennig, Jessie Diggins, Kerttu Niskanen, and Tatiana Sorina as some of the other big seeds in the field.

The twin sisters Kaidy Kaasiku and Keidy Kaasiku were the youngest competitors in the field and were four months younger than Helene Marie Fossesholm, with Yilamujiang Dinigeer and Nadja Kalin also having been born in the 21st century. On the other end of the line, Masako Ishida was the most experienced athlete in the field, making her fifth Olympic appearance at the age of 41. The Japanese was a year older than Lee Chae-won, who made her sixth appearance at the Olympic Games. Ishida was also seven years older than Charlotte Kalla, Maryna Antsybor, and Anne Kylloenen, with the first two also following in the number of Olympic appearances with four. Two defending medalists came to compete again in 2022, with only 2018 silver medalist Marit Bjoergen missing out.

Results

Therese Johaug won her fourth Olympic medal after she won a gold medal in the women's relay in 2010, a silver medal in the mass start in 2014 and a bronze medal in the 10 kilometres in 2014. Natalie Nepryaeva also became a repeat Olympic medalist after she won a bronze medal in the women's relay in 2018, while Teresa Stadlober became the first Austrian medalist in cross-country skiing since Mikhail Botwinov won a bronze medal in the mass start in 2006. Kerttu Niskanen just missed out on her third Olympic medal by five seconds, followed by Frida Karlsson as best-ranked debutante in the top 5. Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins and 2018 bronze medalist Krista Parmakoski completed the top 7 within a minute from the Norwegian champion.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Therese Johaug	Norway	44:13.7
	Natalia Nepryaeva	ROC	44:43.9
	Teresa Stadlober	Austria	44:44.2
4	Kerttu Niskanen	Finland	44:49.8
5	Frida Karlsson	Sweden	44:56.2
6	Jessie Diggins	United States	45:04.2
7	Krista Parmakoski	Finland	45:12.1
8	Anastasia Rygalina	ROC	45:30.9
9	Delphine Claudel	France	45:31.5
10	Ebba Andersson	Sweden	45:41.3
11	Tatiana Sorina	ROC	46:31.3
12	Johanna Matintalo	Finland	46:36.5
13	Katherine Sauerbrey	Germany	46:37.5
14	Rosie Brennan	United States	47:05.4
15	Katharina Hennig	Germany	47:11.8
16	Izabela Marcisz	Poland	47:30.7
17	Sofie Krehl	Germany	47:41.6
18	Helene Marie Fossesholm	Norway	47:49.0
19	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden	47:53.8
20	Cendrine Browne	Canada	47:58.1
21	Nadja Kaelin	Switzerland	47:59.8
22	Anne Kylloenen	Finland	48:10.0
23	Katherine Stewart-Jones	Canada	48:17.3
24	Yulia Stupak	ROC	48:27.5
25	Pia Fink	Germany	48:29.6
26	Petra Hyncicova	Czech Republic	48:40.8
27	Masako Ishida	Japan	48:44.7
28	Dahra Beatty	Canada	48:52.0
29	Ragnhild Haga	Norway	48:52.5
30	Petra Novakova	Czech Republic	48:52.7
31	Jessica Yeaton	Australi	48:54.0
32	Lydia Hiernickel	Switzerland	48:59.0
33	Li Xin	China	49:07.7
34	Chi Chunxue	China	49:08.3
35	Masae Tsuchiya	Japan	49:13.6
36	Martina Di Centa	Italy	49:22.8
37	Anna Comarella	Italy	49:27.8
38	Coralie Bentz	France	49:34.4
39	Keidy Kaasiku	Estonia	49:40.7
40	Hailey Swirbul	United States	49:42.5
41	Cristina Pittin	Italy	49:48.6
42	Caterina Ganz	Italy	49:53.9
43	Yilamujiang Dinigeer	China	50:10.7
44	Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt	Canada	50:11.7
45	Moa Olsson	Sweden	50:12.8
46	Jialin Bayani	China	50:20.2
47	Carola Vila Obiols	Andorra	50:28.8
48	Kseniya Shalygina	Kazakhstan	50:37.7
49	Angelina Shuryga	Kazakhstan	50:55.3
50	Chika Kobayashi	Japan	50:55.4
51	Valeriya Tyuleneva	Kazakhstan	51:30.8
52	Miki Kodama	Japan	51:48.3
53	Julia Kern	United States	52:05.5
54	Kaidy Kaasiku	Estonia	52:12.6
55	Neza Zerjav	Slovenia	52:33.1
56	Maryna Antsybor	Ukraine	52:54.0
57	Nina Riedener	Liechtenstein	52:55.1
58	Nadezhda Stepashkina	Kazakhstan	53:35.3
59	Magdalena Kobielusz	Poland	54:12.0
60	Viktoriia Olekh	Ukraine	54:55.7
61	Lee Chae-won	South Korea	55:52.6
62	Yuliia Krol	Ukraine	57:04.4
-	Daria Rublova	Ukraine	LAP
-	Han Da-som	South Korea	DNF
-	Patricija Eiduka	Latvia	DNS