Cross-Country Skiing 2022/Women's sprint

Women's sprint
General information
Sport	Cross-Country Skiing 2022
Date	8 February 2022
Competitors	91 athletes
Venue	Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Stina Nilsson
Silver	Maiken Caspersen Falla
Bronze	Krista Parmakoski
Conditions
Length	1461 metres
Height	47 metres
Medalists
	Jonna Sundling
	Maja Dahlqvist
	Jessie Diggins

The women's sprint of Cross-Country Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February 2022 in the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre. With 91 athletes competing, the event was won by Jonna Sundling from Sweden, with Maja Dahlqvist from Sweden taking the silver medal and Jessie Diggins from United States taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of a single lap in the free technique. The competition consists of four different phases, with all competitors setting a time in the qualification. The 30 athletes with the best time advance, after which the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final are head-to-head races between six athletes, with the first two advancing to the next round. The athlete with the fastest time in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Ninety-one athletes qualified for the event with Maja Dahlqvist as the leader of the World Cup standings and one of the twenty-three seeded athletes. Jonna Sundling was the reigning world champion, though that was in the classic style, when she finished ahead of Maiken Caspersen Falla and Anamarija Lampic. From the medalists of the 2019 world championships and the defending Olympic medalists, only Falla competed in Beijing, with the 2018 Olympic champion having switched to biathlon. Jessie Diggins, Nadine Faehndrich, Mathilde Myhrvold, and Tiril Udnes Weng were also ranked high in the most recent World Cup standings and could be considered as some of the outsiders for the medals.

The Baltic competitors from Latvia and Lithuania were some of the youngest in the field, with Estere Volfa and Ieva Dainyte competing at the age of 16, followed by Egle Savickaite having turned 17 years old. Latvian Samanta Krampe was also among the youngest athletes in the field, though Tena Hadzic, Nahiara Diaz Gonzalez, and Eduarda Ribera were younger. On the other end of the scale, Jaqueline Mourao made her eighth Olympic appearance in summers and winters since 2004 at the age of 46, and was six years older than Lee Chae-won, who competed in her sixth Olympic Games since having made her debut in 2002. Alena Prochazkova, Maryna Antsybor, Laurien van der Graaff, and Valentyna Kaminska were also some of the most experienced in the field with fifty-nine debutantes.

Summary

Qualification

Qualification Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Jonna Sundling	3:09.03
2		Rosie Brennan	3:14.83
3		Nadine Faehndrich	3:15.65
4		Yulia Stupak	3:17.01
5		Jessie Diggins	3:17.72
6		Maja Dahlqvist	3:18.05
7		Tiril Udnes Weng	3:18.17
8		Sofia Krehl	3:18.93
9		Anna Dyvik	3:19.15
10		Victoria Carl	3:19.89
11		Emma Ribom	3:19.99
12		Veronika Stepanova	3:20.41
13		Jasmin Kahara	3:20.43
14		Julia Kern	3:20.69
15		Katerina Janatova	3:20.80
16		Maiken Caspersen Falla	3:20.86
17		Alina Meier	3:20.88
18		Jasmi Joensuu	3:21.05
19		Mathilde Myhrvold	3:21.24
20		Natalia Nepryaeva	3:21.76
21		Pia Fink	3:22.09
22		Tereza Beranova	3:22.20
23		Lotta Udnes Weng	3:22.26
24		Katri Lylynpera	3:22.62
25		Greta Laurent	3:22.84
26		Anamarija Lampic	3:22.93
27		Laurien van der Graaff	3:23.03
28		Dahria Beatty	3:23.54
29		Lucia Scardoni	3:23.61
30		Caterina Ganz	3:24.13
31		Lena Quintin	3:24.19
32		Patricija Eiduka	3:24.32
33		Petra Hyncicova	3:24.51
34		Lisa Unterweger	3:24.83
35		Cendrine Browne	3:24.85
36		Ma Qinghua	3:25.05
37		Coletta Rydzek	3:25.09
38		Chi Chunxue	3:25.31
39		Izabela Marcisz	3:25.62
40		Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt	3:25.92
41		Mariel Merlii Pulles	3:27.71
42		Monika Skinder	3:27.93
43		Hannah Halvorsen	3:29.13
44		Zuzana Holikova	3:29.63
45		Hristina Matsokina	3:29.64
46		Eva Urevc	3:30.43
47		Cristina Pittin	3:30.64
48		Kaidy Kaasiku	3:31.54
49		Anja Weber	3:31.60
50		Weronika Kaleta	3:32.28
51		Nadezhda Stepashkina	3:32.56
52		Jessica Yeaton	3:32.85
53		Vedrana Malec	3:33.12
54		Maryna Antsybor	3:33.80
55		Anita Klemencic	3:34.12
56		Yilamujiang Dinigeer	3:34.55
57		Barbora Klementova	3:34.87
58		Laura Leclair	3:35.31
59		Anja Mandeljc	3:35.90
60		Angelina Shuryga	3:35.93
61		Karen Chanloung	3:36.00
62		Keidy Kaasiku	3:36.82
63		Alena Prochazkova	3:36.84
64		Aveli Uustalu	3:37.10
65		Casey Wright	3:39.22
66		Jialin Bayani	3:39.27
67		Kseniya Shalygina	3:41.55
68		Irina Bykova	3:42.70
69		Viktoriia Olekh	3:42.78
70		Valentyna Kaminska	3:44.10
71		Tena Hadzic	3:45.60
72		Kristina Sivokova	3:46.25
73		Samanta Krampe	3:46.66
74		Kristrun Gudnadottir	3:49.59
75		Han Da-som	3:51.34
76		Kitija Auzina	3:51.60
77		Lee Eui-jin	3:52.05
78		Timea Lorincz	3:55.15
79		Enkhtuul Ariunsanaa	3:58.25
80		Katya Galstyan	4:00.48
81		Estere Volfa	4:03.36
82		Egle Savickaite	4:03.60
83		Nahiara Diaz Gonzalez	4:05.46
84		Jaqueline Mourao	4:05.60
85		Aysenur Duman	4:08.47
86		Ieva Dainyte	4:10.99
87		Nefeli Tita	4:14.48
88		Eduarda Ribera	4:14.53
89		Maria Ntanou	4:19.66
90		Sanja Kusmuk	4:27.99
-		Lee Chae-won	DNS

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Jonna Sundling	3:15.48	Q
2		Rosie Brennan	3:17.90	Q
3		Anamarija Lampic	3:18.60	LL
4		Yulia Stupak	3:18.65
5		Dahria Beatty	3:18.73
6		Caterina Ganz	3:24.04

Quarterfinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Maja Dahlqvist	3:21.03	Q
2		Tiril Udnes Weng	3:21.31	Q
3		Natalia Nepryaeva	3:21.34
4		Tereza Beranova	3:22.59
5		Laurien van der Graaff	3:24.32
6		Greta Laurent	3:26.96

Quarterfinal 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Nadine Faehndrich	3:16.51	Q
2		Maiken Caspersen Falla	3:16.88	Q
3		Victoria Carl	3:18.26	LL
4		Anna Dyvik	3:19.00
5		Katri Lylynpera	3:24.29
6		Lucia Scardoni	3:27.07

Quarterfinal 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Jessie Diggins	3:16.30	Q
2		Emma Ribom	3:18.44	Q
3		Pia Fink	3:19.72
4		Katerina Janatova	3:20.12
5		Lotta Udnes Weng	3:21.21
6		Jasmi Joensuu	3:49.93

Quarterfinal 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Veronika Stepanova	3:18.09	Q
2		Sofie Krehl	3:18.37	Q
3		Alina Meier	3:21.12
4		Julie Kern	3:21.68
5		Mathilde Myhrvold	3:24.62
6		Jasmin Kahara	3:30.52

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Jonna Sundling	3:11.94	Q
2		Nadine Faehndrich	3:12.61	Q
3		Maja Dahlqvist	3:12.94	LL
4		Rosie Brennan	3:13.29	LL
5		Tiril Udnes Weng	3:14.29
6		Anamarija Lampic	3:19.26

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Emma Ribom	3:15.22	Q
2		Jessie Diggins	3:15.63	Q
3		Veronika Stepanova	3:16.22
4		Maiken Caspersen Falla	3:16.41
5		Victoria Carl	3:16.83
6		Sofie Krehl	3:21.32

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Jonna Sundling	3:09.68
2		Maja Dahlqvist	3:12.56
3		Jessie Diggins	3:12.84
4		Rosie Brennan	3:14.17
5		Nadine Faehndrich	3:16.89
6		Emma Ribom	3:20.79

Results

Jonna Sundling won an Olympic title at her very first Olympic appearance, becoming the second Swedish Olympic champion in the event, after Charlotte Kalla won the event in 2018. Maja Dahlqvist finished as second Swedish skier on the podium after a close sprint with 2018 team sprint gold medalist Jessie Diggins, with her compatriot Rosie Brennan just outside of the medals. Nadine Faehndrich recorded her second top 5 result at the Olympic Games after a fourth place in the team sprint in 2018 with Emma Ribom completing the lineup of the final. Veronika Stepanova just missed out on the final by finishing third in her semifinal and finished as the fourth debutante in the top 7 of the final classification.

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Jonna Sundling	Sweden
	Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden
	Jessie Diggins	United States
4	Rosie Brennan	United States
5	Nadine Faehndrich	Switzerland
6	Emma Ribom	Sweden
7	Veronika Stepanova	ROC
8	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway
9	Tiril Udnes Weng	Norway
10	Victoria Carl	Germany
11	Sofie Krehl	Germany
12	Anamarija Lampic	Slovenia
13	Alina Meier	Switzerland
14	Natalia Nepryaeva	ROC
15	Pia Fink	Germany
16	Yulia Stupak	ROC
17	Anna Dyvik	Sweden
18	Julia Kern	United States
19	Katerina Janatova	Czech Republic
20	Tereza Beranova	Czech Republic
21	Mathilde Myhrvold	Norway
22	Lotta Udnes Weng	Norway
23	Katri Lylynpera	Finland
24	Laurien van der Graaff	Switzerland
25	Dahria Beatty	Canada
26	Jasmin Kahara	Finland
27	Jasmi Joensuu	Finland
28	Greta Laurent	Italy
29	Lucia Scardoni	Italy
30	Caterina Ganz	Italy
31	Lena Quintin	France
32	Patricija Eiduka	Latvia
33	Petra Hyncicova	Czech Republic
34	Lisa Unterweger	Austria
35	Cendrine Browne	Canada
36	Ma Qinghua	China
37	Coletta Rydzek	Germany
38	Chi Chunxue	China
39	Izabela Marcisz	Poland
40	Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt	Canada
41	Mariel Marlii Pulles	Estonia
42	Monika Skinder	Poland
43	Hannah Halvorsen	United States
44	Zuzana Holikova	Czech Republic
45	Hristina Matsokina	ROC
46	Eva Urevc	Slovenia
47	Cristina Pittin	Italy
48	Kaidy Kaasiku	Estonia
49	Anja Weber	Switzerland
50	Weronika Kaleta	Poland
51	Nadezhda Stepashkina	Kazakhstan
52	Jessica Yeaton	Australia
53	Vedrana Malec	Croatia
54	Maryna Antsybor	Ukraine
55	Anita Klemencic	Slovenia
56	Yilamujiang Dinigeer	China
57	Barbora Klementova	Slovakia
58	Laura Leclair	Canada
59	Anja Mandeljc	Slovenia
60	Angelina Shuryga	Kazakhstan
61	Karen Chanloung	Thailand
62	Keidy Kaasiku	Estonia
63	Alena Prochazkova	Slovakia
64	Aveli Uustalu	Estonia
65	Casey Wright	Australia
66	Jialin Bayani	China
67	Kseniya Shalygina	Kazakhstan
68	Irina Bykova	Kazakhstan
69	Viktoriia Olekh	Ukraine
70	Valentyna Kaminska	Ukraine
71	Tena Hadzic	Croatia
72	Kristina Sivokova	Slovakia
73	Samanta Krampe	Latvia
74	Kristrun Gudnadottir	Iceland
75	Han Da-som	South Korea
76	Kitija Auzina	Latvia
77	Lee Eui-jin	South Korea
78	Timea Lorincz	Romania
79	Enkhtuul Ariunsanaa	Mongolia
80	Katya Galstyan	Armenia
81	Estere Volfa	Latvia
82	Egle Savickaite	Lithuania
83	Nahiara Diaz Gonzalez	Argentina
84	Jaqueline Mourao	Brazil
85	Aysenur Duman	Turkey
86	Ieva Dainyte	Lithuania
87	Nefeli Tita	Greece
88	Eduarda Ribera	Brazil
89	Maria Ntanou	Greece
90	Sanja Kusmuk	Bosnia and Herzegovina
-	Lee Chae-won	South Korea