The women's team sprint of Cross-Country Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 16 February 2022 in the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre. With 27 pairs competing, the event was won by Victoria Carl and Katharina Hennig from Germany, with Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling from Sweden taking the silver medal and Natalia Nepryaeva and Yulia Stupak from ROC taking bronze.
Format[]
The competition exists out of six laps of in the classical technique, alternating between the two competitors in a team. The two fastest teams in each semifinal advance to the final, as well as the six fastest non-qualifiers. The team with the fastest time in the final is the winner of the event.
Preview[]
Twenty-seven pairs qualified for the event with Sweden as the reigning world champions top favorites for the event after taking gold and silver in the sprint event, though the United States were the defending Olympic champions and also performed very well in the individual event. Norway took bronze in 2018 but Switzerland and Slovenia had also proven to be very strong in the event. Other big teams also included ROC, Finland, and Germany.
Estere Volfa was the youngest competitor at the age of 16, though she was only a few months younger than Lithuanian teammates Ieva Dainyte, who would turn 17 years old a week after the competition, and Egle Savickaite. The only athlete younger than 18 years old was Eduarda Ribera, who competed alongside the most experienced athlete in the field Jaqueline Mourao. The Brazilian skier competed at her eighth Olympic Games at the age of 46, and had competed at every edition of the Olympic Games in summer and winter since 2004. She was almost twelve years older than Maryna Antsybor, who was one of two athletes to make their fourth Olympic appearance, a milestone also achieved by Krista Parmakoski. Laurien van der Graaff, Kerttu Niskanen, and Rosie Brennan were all also born before 1 January 1990, with Jessie Diggins and Maiken Caspersen Falla as the defending medalists.
Summary[]
Semifinals[]
| Semifinal 1 Results | |||||
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| Rank | Team | Time | Info | ||
| 1 |  Germany |
23:02.08 | Q | ||
| 2 |  United States |
23:06.11 | Q | ||
| 3 |  Austria |
23:08.34 | Q | ||
| 4 |  Switzerland |
23:30.86 | Q | ||
| 5 |  China |
23:43.93 | |||
| 6 |  Canada |
24:03.72 | |||
| 7 |  Slovenia |
24:10.14 | |||
| 8 |  Australia |
25:13.42 | |||
| 9 |  Ukraine |
25:46.04 | |||
| 10 |  Croatia |
26:29.23 | |||
| 11 |  Latvia |
26:46.26 | |||
| 12 |  Turkey |
LAP | |||
| - |  Belarus |
DNS | |||
| Semifinal 2 Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Team | Time | Info | ||
| 1 |  ROC |
23:00.47 | Q | ||
| 2 |  Finland |
23:00.82 | Q | ||
| 3 |  Sweden |
23:01.40 | Q | ||
| 4 |  Norway |
23:05.06 | Q | ||
| 5 |  France |
23:26.28 | LL | ||
| 6 |  Poland |
23:32.34 | LL | ||
| 7 |  Italy |
23:47.06 | |||
| 8 |  Czech Republic |
23:55.59 | |||
| 9 |  Estonia |
24:47.51 | |||
| 10 |  Kazakhstan |
24:57.59 | |||
| 11 |  South Korea |
26:55.52 | |||
| 12 |  Brazil |
LAP | |||
| 13 |  Greece |
LAP | |||
| 14 |  Lithuania |
LAP | |||
Final[]
| Final Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Team | Time | Info | ||
| 1 | Germany |
22:09.85 | |||
| 2 | Sweden |
22:10.02 | |||
| 3 | ROC |
22:10.56 | |||
| 4 | Finland |
22:13.71 | |||
| 5 | United States |
22:22.78 | |||
| 6 | Austria |
22:55.25 | |||
| 7 | Switzerland |
23:02.09 | |||
| 8 | Norway |
23:15.28 | |||
| 9 | Poland |
23:48.01 | |||
| 10 | France |
24:04.92 | |||
Results[]
Germany won the gold medal in the team sprint, winning their first Olympic medal in the event since winning gold in 2010. Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl won their second Olympic medals, after they won the silver medal in the relay event a few days prior, with both skiers not having recorded top 5 results before. Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling won their third Olympic medals at their first Olympic appearance, with both Swedish skiers winning medals in the relay as well as the sprint event, where Sundling took gold and Dahlqvist took silver. Yulia Stupak and Natalia Nepryaeva won the bronze medal after both made their Olympic debuts in 2018, and with both winning their fourth Olympic medal. Though both won medals in the relay events in 2022 and in 2018, Stupak won a bronze medal in the women's sprint event in 2018 and Nepryaeva won a silver medal in the skiathlon in 2022. Kerttu Niskanen just missed out on her fourth Olympic medal by three seconds, and Krista Parmakoski stayed on five Olympic medals for the time being. Defending Olympic champion Jessie Diggins and her team mate Rosie Brennan were the only other team within 30 seconds from the winners, with Austria and Switzerland completing the top 7.
| Rank | Nation |
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Germany
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Sweden
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ROC
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| 4 | Finland
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| 5 | United States
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| 6 | Austria
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| 7 | Switzerland
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| 8 | Norway
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| 9 | Poland
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| 10 | France
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| 11 | China
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| 12 | Canada
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| 13 | Italy
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| 14 | Slovenia
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| 15 | Czech Republic
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| 16 | Australia
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| 17 | Estonia
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| 18 | Ukraine
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| 19 | Kazakhstan
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| 20 | Croatia
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| 21 | Latvia
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| 22 | South Korea
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| 23 | Brazil
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| 23 | Greece
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| 23 | Lithuania
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| 23 | Turkey
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| - | Belarus
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| 2022 Winter Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
| Cross-Country Skiing 2022 | |
| ← 2018 | 2026 |
| Men | Women |
| 15 km | 10 km |
| Skiathlon | Skiathlon |
| Sprint | Sprint |
| Team sprint | Team sprint |
| Mass start | Mass start |
| Relay | Relay |