| Date | 19 February 2002 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Soldier Hollow, Wasatch Mountain State Park | |
| Participants | 58 from 24 countries | |
| Format | Final standings based on time achieved in last round competed in. | |
| Details | Course Length: 1,480 m Height Differential: 32 m Maximum Climb: 14 m Total Climbing: 50 m | |
The sprint event was new to the Olympic Program in 2002, having first been contested at the 2001 World Championships. It consisted of approximately a 1,500 metre course, with a qualifying round in which the 16 fastest skiers advanced to match racing. Match racing began with four quarter-finals of four racers each, with the top two races in each heat advancing in each round, to get to a final of four racers. The qualifying round was led by Czech Kateřina Neumannová, the World Cup leader in the event in 2001-02, with Russian Yuliya Chepalova in second. Chepalova had won an Olympic individual medal, the 30 km in 1998, but had now elected to contest the sprint as well. Neumannová surprisingly went out in the quarter-final, while Chepalova advanced to the final, which seemingly offered little competition, as the other finalists had no sprint reputation. Chepalova was expected to win and she did so fairly easily, defeating Germany’s Evi Sachenbacher, who had qualified third, by 1.6 seconds, a big margin in a sprint.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Qualifying | QF | SF | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuliya Chepalova |  RUS | 3:13.03 (2) | 3:14.9 (2 h3) | 3:18.2 (1 h2) | 3:10.6 (1 h2) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Evi Sachenbacher |  GER | 3:13.81 (3) | 3:40.2 (1 h4) | 3:18.5 (2 h2) | 3:12.2 (2 h2) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Anita Moen |  NOR | 3:14.13 (4) | 3:15.9 (2 h2) | 3:23.8 (1 h1) | 3:12.7 (3 h2) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Claudia Künzel | GER | 3:16.41 (9) | 3:15.1 (1 h1) | 3:24.5 (2 h1) | 3:13.3 (4 h2) | |||
| 5 | Beckie Scott |  CAN | 3:14.62 (5) | 3:15.8 (1 h2) | 3:25.4 (4 h1) | 3:24.9 (1 h1) | |||
| 6 | Maj Helen Sorkmo | NOR | 3:17.10 (11) | 3:44.2 (3 h4) | 3:19.4 (3 h2) | 3:25.5 (2 h1) | |||
| 7 | Andreja Mali |  SLO | 3:15.75 (7) | 3:14.8 (1 h3) | 3:19.8 (4 h2) | 3:25.9 (3 h1) | |||
| 8 | Gabriella Paruzzi |  ITA | 3:16.11 (8) | 3:16.2 (2 h1) | 3:25.3 (3 h1) | 3:26.1 (4 h1) | |||
| 9 | Sara Renner | CAN | 3:18.07 (14) | 3:42.4 (2 h4) | 3:20.0 (5 h2) | – | |||
| 10 | Anke Reschwamm | GER | 3:17.45 (13) | 3:15.9 (3 h2) | – | – | |||
| 11 | Lyubov Yegorova | RUS | 3:18.46 (15) | 3:16.0 (3 h3) | – | – | |||
| 12 | Madoka Natsumi |  JPN | 3:18.78 (16) | 3:17.5 (3 h1) | – | – | |||
| 13 | Kateřina Neumannová |  CZE | 3:12.76 (1) | 3:18.9 (4 h1) | – | – | |||
| 14 | Elina Pienimäki |  FIN | 3:14.79 (6) | 4:01.5 (4 h4) | – | – | |||
| 15 | Manuela Henkel | GER | 3:16.89 (10) | 3:16.3 (4 h3) | – | – | |||
| 16 | Yelena Burukhina | RUS | 3:17.26 (12) | 3:19.3 (4 h2) | – | – | |||
| 17 | Sabina Valbusa | ITA | 3:19.22 (17) | – | – | – | |||
| 18 | Kati Sundqvist | FIN | 3:19.23 (18) | – | – | – | |||
| 19 | Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen | NOR | 3:19.79 (19) | – | – | – | |||
| 20 | Nina Gavrylyuk | RUS | 3:20.02 (20) | – | – | – | |||
| 21 | Vibeke Skofterud | NOR | 3:20.21 (21) | – | – | – | |||
| 22 | Magda Genuin | ITA | 3:20.28 (22) | – | – | – | |||
| 23 | Kaisa Varis | FIN | 3:20.52 (23) | – | – | – | |||
| 24 | Viktoryia Lapatsina |  BLR | 3:20.59 (24) | – | – | – | |||
| 25 | Kristina Šmigun |  EST | 3:20.94 (25) | – | – | – | |||
| 26 | Karin Moroder | ITA | 3:21.92 (26) | – | – | – | |||
| 27 | Andrea Huber |  SUI | 3:22.18 (27) | – | – | – | |||
| 28 | Lina Andersson |  SWE | 3:22.65 (28) | – | – | – | |||
| 29 | Iryna Terelia |  UKR | 3:23.47 (29) | – | – | – | |||
| 30 | Jaime Fortier | CAN | 3:23.98 (30) | – | – | – | |||
| 31 | Milaine Thériault | CAN | 3:24.41 (31) | – | – | – | |||
| 32 | Nataša Lačen | SLO | 3:24.90 (32) | – | – | – | |||
| 33 | Anna Dahlberg | SWE | 3:25.32 (33) | – | – | – | |||
| 34 | Teja Gregorin | SLO | 3:25.64 (34) | – | – | – | |||
| 35 | Elin Ek | SWE | 3:25.93 (35) | – | – | – | |||
| 36 | Riitta-Liisa Lassila | FIN | 3:27.16 (36) | – | – | – | |||
| 37 | Anna-Carin Olofsson | SWE | 3:28.07 (37) | – | – | – | |||
| 38 | Tessa Benoit |  USA | 3:28.35 (38) | – | – | – | |||
| 39 | Nobuko Fukuda | JPN | 3:28.38 (39) | – | – | – | |||
| 40 | Hou Yuxia |  CHN | 3:28.71 (40) | – | – | – | |||
| 41 | Vita Yakymchuk | UKR | 3:28.94 (41) | – | – | – | |||
| 42 | Helena Balatková | CZE | 3:29.23 (42) | – | – | – | |||
| 43 | Ilona Bublová | CZE | 3:29.35 (43) | – | – | – | |||
| 44 | Kikkan Randall | USA | 3:30.27 (44) | – | – | – | |||
| 45 | Natallia Svirydova-Kalinovskaya | BLR | 3:31.83 (45) | – | – | – | |||
| 46 | Aelin Peterson | USA | 3:34.05 (46) | – | – | – | |||
| 47 | Tomomi Otaka | JPN | 3:34.14 (47) | – | – | – | |||
| =48 | Kristina Joder | USA | 3:34.18 (=48) | – | – | – | |||
| =48 | Irina Terentjeva |  LTU | 3:34.18 (=48) | – | – | – | |||
| 50 | Luan Zhengrong | CHN | 3:35.21 (50) | – | – | – | |||
| 51 | Nataliya Isachenko |  KAZ | 3:39.09 (51) | – | – | – | |||
| 52 | Lee Chae-Won |  KOR | 3:41.06 (52) | – | – | – | |||
| 53 | Darya Starostina | KAZ | 3:41.69 (53) | – | – | – | |||
| 54 | Zsófia Gottschall |  HUN | 3:42.98 (54) | – | – | – | |||
| 55 | Elena Gorohova |  MDA | 3:43.82 (55) | – | – | – | |||
| 56 | Kelime Aydın |  TUR | 4:00.50 (56) | – | – | – | |||
| 57 | Katerina Balkaba |  GRE | 4:06.99 (57) | – | – | – | |||
| 58 | Margarita Nikolyan |  ARM | 4:13.55 (58) | – | – | – |
| Date | 19 February 2002 — 9:00 |
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| Format | Top 16 finishers advance to quarter-finals. |
| Date | 19 February 2002 — 12:30 |
|---|---|
| Format | Top 2 finishers in each heat advance to semi-finals. |
| Time | 12:30 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claudia Künzel | GER | 3:15.1 | ||
| 2 | Gabriella Paruzzi | ITA | 3:16.2 | ||
| 3 | Madoka Natsumi | JPN | 3:17.5 | ||
| 4 | Kateřina Neumannová | CZE | 3:18.9 |
| Time | 12:35 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckie Scott | CAN | 3:15.8 | ||
| 2 | Anita Moen | NOR | 3:15.9 | ||
| 3 | Anke Reschwamm | GER | 3:15.9 | ||
| 4 | Yelena Burukhina | RUS | 3:19.3 |
| Time | 12:40 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreja Mali | SLO | 3:14.8 | ||
| 2 | Yuliya Chepalova | RUS | 3:14.9 | ||
| 3 | Lyubov Yegorova | RUS | 3:16.0 | ||
| 4 | Manuela Henkel | GER | 3:16.3 |
| Time | 12:45 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evi Sachenbacher | GER | 3:40.2 | ||
| 2 | Sara Renner | CAN | 3:42.4 | ||
| 3 | Maj Helen Sorkmo | NOR | 3:44.2 | 1 | |
| 4 | Elina Pienimäki | FIN | 4:01.5 |
| Date | 19 February 2002 — 13:20 |
|---|---|
| Format | Top 2 finishers in each heat advance to final. Next two finishers advance to B final. |
| Time | 13:20 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anita Moen | NOR | 3:23.8 | ||
| 2 | Claudia Künzel | GER | 3:24.5 | ||
| 3 | Gabriella Paruzzi | ITA | 3:25.3 | ||
| 4 | Beckie Scott | CAN | 3:25.4 |
| Time | 13:25 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuliya Chepalova | RUS | 3:18.2 | ||
| 2 | Evi Sachenbacher | GER | 3:18.5 | ||
| 3 | Maj Helen Sorkmo | NOR | 3:19.4 | ||
| 4 | Andreja Mali | SLO | 3:19.8 | ||
| 5 | Sara Renner | CAN | 3:20.0 |
| Date | 19 February 2002 — 13:57 |
|---|
| Time | 13:50 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckie Scott | CAN | 3:24.9 | ||
| 2 | Maj Helen Sorkmo | NOR | 3:25.5 | ||
| 3 | Andreja Mali | SLO | 3:25.9 | ||
| 4 | Gabriella Paruzzi | ITA | 3:26.1 |
| Time | 13:57 |
|---|
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuliya Chepalova | RUS | 3:10.6 | ||
| 2 | Evi Sachenbacher | GER | 3:12.2 | ||
| 3 | Anita Moen | NOR | 3:12.7 | ||
| 4 | Claudia Künzel | GER | 3:13.3 |
