FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 – Women's sprint explained

Event:	Women's sprint
Championship:	FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
Venue:	Liberec
Date:	24 February 2009
Competitors:	97
Nations:	42
Gold:	Arianna Follis
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Kikkan Randall
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Pirjo Muranen
Bronzenoc:	FIN
Prev:	2007
Next:	2011

The women's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 was held on 24 February 2009.^[1] The Sprint qualifying began at 11:35 CET with finals at 13:30 CET. The defending world champion was Norway's Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen,^[2] but she was eliminated in the qualification round at these championships. It was the first individual gold medal for Arianna Follis.

Results

Qualification

Rank	Bib	Time	Deficit	Note
1	23	2:47.42	—	Q
2	26	2:47.92	+0.50	Q
3	10	2:48.57	+1.15	Q
4	18	2:48.82	+1.40	Q
5	22	2:49.71	+2.29	Q
6	38	2:50.19	+2.77	Q
7	1	2:50.50	+3.08	Q
8	41	2:50.55	+3.13	Q
9	24	2:50.61	+3.19	Q
10	42	2:50.73	+3.31	Q
11	40	2:50.79	+3.37	Q
12	37	2:51.89	+4.47	Q
13	12	2:51.92	+4.50	Q
14	39	2:51.97	+4.55	Q
15	6	2:51.98	+4.56	Q
16	95	2:51.99	+4.57	Q
17	43	2:52.32	+4.90	Q
18	29	2:52.35	+4.93	Q
19	30	2:52.37	+4.95	Q
20	31	2:52.46	+5.04	Q
21	17	2:52.83	+5.41	Q
22	21	2:53.13	+5.71	Q
23	14	2:53.32	+5.90	Q
24	15	2:53.36	+5.94	Q
25	34	2:53.37	+5.95	Q
26	25	2:53.58	+6.16	Q
27	19	2:54.06	+6.64	Q
28	4	2:54.26	+6.84	Q
29	7	2:54.27	+6.85	Q
30	3	2:54.34	+6.92
31	59	2:54.38	+6.96
32	8	2:55.50	+8.08
33	9	2:55.54	+8.12
34	20	2:55.76	+8.34
35	27	2:56.00	+8.58
36	45	2:56.22	+8.80
37	16	2:56.31	+8.89
38	35	2:56.33	+8.91
39	32	2:56.35	+8.93
39	60	2:56.35	+8.93
41	46	2:56.71	+9.29
42	2	2:57.41	+9.99
43	36	2:57.46	+10.04
44	11	2:57.75	+10.33
45	67	2:57.85	+10.43
46	5	2:57.92	+10.50
47	49	2:59.02	+11.60
48	28	2:59.06	+11.64
49	64	2:59.26	+11.84
50	57	2:59.40	+11.98
51	48	2:59.49	+12.07
52	47	2:59.87	+12.45
53	55	3:00.51	+13.09
54	13	3:00.52	+13.10
55	52	3:01.14	+13.72
56	56	3:01.69	+14.27
57	54	3:02.19	+14.77
58	50	3:02.68	+15.26
59	58	3:03.02	+15.60
60	62	3:03.64	+16.22
61	66	3:03.76	+16.34
62	44	3:04.14	+16.72
63	61	3:05.16	+17.74
64	63	3:05.29	+17.87
65	53	3:05.50	+18.08
66	51	3:06.23	+18.81
67	72	3:08.31	+20.89
68	69	3:09.38	+21.96
69	68	3:10.97	+23.55
70	81	3:11.68	+24.26
71	73	3:12.62	+25.20
72	71	3:12.67	+25.25
73	70	3:13.79	+26.37
74	75	3:14.71	+27.29
75	79	3:14.96	+27.54
76	84	3:17.17	+29.75
77	77	3:18.29	+30.87
78	82	3:19.26	+31.84
79	76	3:22.52	+35.10
80	74	3:22.94	+35.52
81	90	3:23.09	+35.67
82	80	3:25.51	+38.09
83	88	3:29.20	+41.78
84	96	3:29.22	+41.80
85	78	3:29.62	+42.20
86	93	3:33.35	+45.93
87	94	3:33.88	+46.46
88	92	3:39.99	+52.57
89	83	3:51.81	+1:04.39
90	85	3:52.37	+1:04.95
91	87	3:54.56	+1:07.14
92	89	3:59.20	+1:11.78
93	86	4:11.52	+1:24.10
94	97	4:20.05	+1:32.63
95	91	4:58.24	+2:10.82
	65
	33

Quarterfinals

Q - Qualified for next round
PF - Photo Finish
LL - Lucky Loser - qualified for next round due to their times

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	1	—	Q
2	10		Q
3	11		LL
4	20		LL
5	21		23rd
6	30		29th

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	4	—	Q
2	7		Q
3	27		15th
4	17		19th
5	14		20th
6	24		25th

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	5	—	Q
2	15		Q
3	26		14th
4	6		16th
5	16		21st
6	25		26th

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	2	—	Q
2	12		Q
3	19		12th
4	9		18th
5	22		24th
6	29		28th

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	3	—	Q
2	13		Q
3	23		13th
4	8		17th
5	18		22nd
6	28		27th

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	7		2:43.2	—	QA
2	1		2:43.7	+0.5	QA
3	10		2:43.7	+0.5	QA LL
20		2:46.7	+3.5	QB
5	15		2:47.0	+3.8	QB
6	4		2:47.3	+4.1	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	2:44.2	—	QA
2	3	2:44.6	+0.4	QA
3	12	2:45.1	+0.9	QA LL
4	5	2:46.2	+2.0	QB
5	13	2:49.5	+5.3	QB
6	11	2:51.8	+7.6	QB

Finals

Final A

Seed	Deficit	Note
2	—	1st
7		2nd
3		3rd
10		4th
12		5th
1

Final B

Rank	Seed	Deficit	Note
1	4	—	6th
2	13		7th
3	5		8th
	15		9th
	11		10th
	20		11th

References

http://www.liberec2009.com/_data/files/File/Timetable_2008_24_09.pdf 24 September 2008 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 detailed schedule
Web site: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 Ladies' Sprint Classical Results . FIS-Ski.com . 7 February 2018 .