Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint explained

Event:	Women's sprint
Games:	2006 Winter
Venue:	Pragelato
Dates:	February 22
Competitors:	66
Nations:	28
Gold:	Chandra Crawford
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Claudia Künzel
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Alyona Sidko
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The Women's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 22 February, at Pragelato.^[1]

Emilie Öhrstig was the defending World Champion, but she won in the classical style, and the last free style sprint in the World Championships (in 2003) was won by Marit Bjørgen. Yuliya Chepalova is defending Olympic champion. The most recent freestyle sprint event in the World Cup, however, was won by the Russian Alyona Sidko at 30 December 2005.

Results

Qualifying

Sixty-six skiers completed the 1.1 kilometre course in the qualifying portion of the event, with the top thirty advancing to the quarterfinals.^[2]

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1		2:12.45	Q
2		2:12.90	Q
3		2:13.29	Q
4		2:13.64	Q
5		2:14.54	Q
6		2:14.62	Q
7		2:14.83	Q
8		2:15.06	Q
9		2:15.37	Q
10		2:15.63	Q
11		2:15.75	Q
12		2:15.91	Q
13		2:16.02	Q
14		2:16.04	Q
15		2:16.30	Q
16		2:16.36	Q
17		2:16.38	Q
18		2:16.41	Q
19		2:16.43	Q
20		2:16.43	Q
21		2:16.75	Q
22		2:16.90	Q
23		2:17.17	Q
24		2:17.29	Q
25		2:17.73	Q
26		2:17.73	Q
27		2:17.75	Q
28		2:17.82	Q
29		2:18.12	Q
30		2:18.14	Q
31		2:18.35
32		2:18.83
33	Barbara Moriggl	2:19.12
34		2:19.28
35		2:19.71
36		2:19.92
37		2:20.08
38		2:20.28
38		2:20.28
40		2:20.34
41		2:20.44
42		2:20.49
43		2:20.79
44		2:21.19
45		2:21.22
46		2:22.12
47		2:22.42
48		2:22.42
49		2:22.78
50		2:22.86
51		2:23.19
52		2:23.55
53		2:23.98
54		2:24.67
55		2:24.77
56		2:25.16
57		2:27.07
58		2:27.16
59		2:27.53
60		2:27.58
61		2:30.03
62		2:31.61
63		2:33.33
64		2:35.47
65		2:35.76
66		2:43.28

Quarterfinals

There were five quarterfinal races, each with six skiers. The top two in each heat advanced to the semifinals.^[2]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	1	2:16.6	Q
2	10	2:17.8	Q
3	20	2:18.4
4	30	2:18.5
5	21	2:19.9
6	11	2:20.7

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	4	2:15.5	Q
2	7	2:16.2	Q
3	14	2:16.4
4	17	2:16.8
5	27	2:17.9
6	24	2:18.1

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	5	2:17.7	Q
2	6	2:17.7	Q
3	26	2:18.9
4	15	2:19.9
5	16	2:24.8
6	25	2:31.4

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	12	2:14.3	Q
2	2	2:14.7	Q
3	19	2:15.0
4	9	2:15.6
5	29	2:16.6
6	22	2:16.6

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	8	2:14.2	Q
2	13	2:15.7	Q
3	3	2:16.0
4	18	2:17.9
5	28	2:18.2
6	23	2:19.1

Semifinals

There were two semifinal races, each with five skiers. The top two in each semifinal advanced to the A Final, to compete for the top four places, while the third and fourth-placed finishers advanced to the B Final, for places five through eight.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	4	2:15.5	Q
2	1	2:15.8	Q
3	7	2:16.3
4	6	2:18.7
5	10	2:19.1

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Result	Notes
1	8	2:13.4	Q
2	5	2:15.1	Q
3	2	2:16.2
4	13	2:16.4
5	12	2:18.9

Finals

Chandra Crawford finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Claudia Künzel to win the Olympic gold medal in the women's cross-country sprint.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Seed	Result
	8	2:12.3
	4	2:13.0
	5	2:13.2
4	1	2:14.7

Final B

Rank	Seed	Result
5	7	2:18.1
6	13	2:18.2
7	2	2:20.3
8	6	2:21.5

Notes and References

Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 2006 Turin Winter Games: Women's Sprint . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182757/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/2006/CCS/womens-sprint.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 21 February 2018 . sports-reference.com.
Web site: Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing . https://web.archive.org/web/20120612013304/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2006/Results/CrosscountrySki.pdf . dead . 2012-06-12 . Torino Organizing Committee . LA84 Foundation . March 2009 . Jun 17, 2009 .