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Sprint (Freestyle), Women

Date	22 February 2006
Status	Olympic
Location	Stadio del Trampolino, Pragelato Plan
Participants	66 from 28 countries
Format	Final standings based on time achieved in last round competed in.
Details	Course Length: 1,145 m Height Differential: 16 m Maximum Climb: 16 m Total Climbing: 37 m

This was the second Olympic sprint competition, as it was first held in 2002 at Salt Lake City. The format was slightly different, however, In 2002, 16 skiiers qualified for four quarter-finals of four skiers each. But in Torino, 30 skiiers advanced to five quarter-finals of six racers, with two advancing in each quarter to two semi-finals of five skiers. The final was again contested by four skiers, two advancing from each semi. The qualifying was led by Canadian Beckie Scott. In the quarter-finals, the big news was the failure of the defending champion, Yuliya Chepalova, and the 2005 World Champion, Swede Emelie Öhrstig, who both failed to advance. The final consisted of Scott, German Claudia Künzel, runner-up at the 2003 Worlds, and fourth at the 2002 Winter Olympics; Russian Alyona Sidko, who had won a bronze in team sprint at the 2005 Worlds; and Candian Chandra Crawford, who had only moved up to the senior international level in 2006. But in the final, Crawford moved ahead early and won relatively easily for the sprint, with Künzel taking silver and Sidko the bronze.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Qualifying	QF	SF	Final
1	–	Chandra Crawford	CAN	2:15.06 (8)	2:14.2 (1 h5)	2:13.4 (1 h2)	2:12.3 (1 h2)	Gold
2	–	Claudia Nystad	GER	2:13.64 (4)	2:15.5 (1 h2)	2:15.5 (1 h1)	2:13.0 (2 h2)	Silver
3	–	Alyona Sidko	RUS	2:14.54 (5)	2:17.7 (1 h3)	2:15.1 (2 h2)	2:13.2 (3 h2)	Bronze
4	–	Beckie Scott	CAN	2:12.45 (1)	2:16.6 (1 h1)	2:15.8 (2 h1)	2:14.7 (4 h2)
5	–	Virpi Kuitunen	FIN	2:14.83 (7)	2:16.2 (2 h2)	2:16.3 (3 h1)	2:18.1 (1 h1)
6	–	Ella Gjømle	NOR	2:16.02 (13)	2:15.7 (2 h5)	2:16.4 (4 h2)	2:18.2 (2 h1)
7	–	Arianna Follis	ITA	2:12.90 (2)	2:14.7 (2 h4)	2:16.2 (3 h2)	2:20.3 (3 h1)
8	–	Petra Majdič	SLO	2:14.62 (6)	2:17.7 (2 h3)	2:18.7 (4 h1)	2:21.5 (4 h1)
9	–	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:15.63 (10)	2:17.8 (2 h1)	2:19.1 (5 h1)	–
10	–	Anna Dahlberg	SWE	2:15.91 (12)	2:14.3 (1 h4)	2:18.9 (5 h2)	–
11	–	Lina Andersson	SWE	2:13.29 (3)	2:16.0 (3 h5)	–	–
12	–	Manuela Henkel	GER	2:16.04 (14)	2:16.4 (3 h2)	–	–
13	–	Britta Norgren	SWE	2:16.43 (19)	2:15.0 (3 h4)	–	–
14	–	Olga Rocheva	RUS	2:16.43 (20)	2:18.4 (3 h1)	–	–
15	–	Laurence Rochat	SUI	2:17.73 (26)	2:18.9 (3 h3)	–	–
16	–	Sara Renner	CAN	2:15.37 (9)	2:15.6 (4 h4)	–	–
17	–	Madoka Natsumi	JPN	2:16.30 (15)	2:19.9 (4 h3)	–	–
18	–	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	2:16.38 (17)	2:16.8 (4 h2)	–	–
19	–	Magda Genuin	ITA	2:16.41 (18)	2:17.9 (4 h5)	–	–
20	–	Stefanie Böhler	GER	2:18.14 (30)	2:18.5 (4 h1)	–	–
21	–	Viktoryia Lopatina	BLR	2:16.36 (16)	2:24.8 (5 h3)	–	–
22	–	Emelie Öhrstig	SWE	2:16.75 (21)	2:19.9 (5 h1)	–	–
23	–	Alena Procházková	SVK	2:17.75 (27)	2:17.9 (5 h2)	–	–
24	–	Nobuko Fukuda	JPN	2:17.82 (28)	2:18.2 (5 h5)	–	–
25	–	Volha Vasilionak	BLR	2:18.12 (29)	2:16.6 (5 h4)	–	–
26	–	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	FIN	2:15.75 (11)	2:20.7 (6 h1)	–	–
27	–	Yuliya Chepalova	RUS	2:16.90 (22)	2:16.6 (6 h4)	–	–
28	–	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	NOR	2:17.17 (23)	2:19.1 (6 h5)	–	–
29	–	Kati Venäläinen	FIN	2:17.29 (24)	2:18.1 (6 h2)	–	–
30	–	Nataliya Matveyeva	RUS	2:17.73 (25)	2:31.4 (6 h3)	–	–
31	–	Nicole Fessel	GER	2:18.35 (31)	–	–	–
32	–	Seraina Mischol	SUI	2:18.83 (32)	–	–	–
33	–	Barbara Moriggl	ITA	2:19.12 (33)	–	–	–
34	–	Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb	FRA	2:19.28 (34)	–	–	–
35	–	Wendy Wagner	USA	2:19.71 (35)	–	–	–
36	–	Vita Yakymchuk	UKR	2:19.92 (36)	–	–	–
37	–	Irina Terentjeva	LTU	2:20.08 (37)	–	–	–
=38	–	Yelena Kolomina	KAZ	2:20.28 (=38)	–	–	–
=38	–	Lindsay Williams	USA	2:20.28 (=38)	–	–	–
40	–	Vesna Fabjan	SLO	2:20.34 (40)	–	–	–
41	–	Tatjana Mannima	EST	2:20.44 (41)	–	–	–
42	–	Elina Hietamäki	FIN	2:20.49 (42)	–	–	–
43	–	Maryna Malets	UKR	2:20.79 (43)	–	–	–
44	–	Justyna Kowalczyk	POL	2:21.19 (44)	–	–	–
45	–	Nataliya Isachenko	KAZ	2:21.22 (45)	–	–	–
46	–	Oksana Yatskaya	KAZ	2:22.12 (46)	–	–	–
=47	–	Émilie Vina	FRA	2:22.42 (=47)	–	–	–
=47	–	Kaili Sirge	EST	2:22.42 (=47)	–	–	–
49	–	Amanda Ammar	CAN	2:22.78 (49)	–	–	–
50	–	Eva Nývltová	CZE	2:22.86 (50)	–	–	–
51	–	Katsiaryna Rudakova-Bulavka	BLR	2:23.19 (51)	–	–	–
52	–	Esther Bottomley	AUS	2:23.55 (52)	–	–	–
53	–	Katarína Garajová	SVK	2:23.98 (53)	–	–	–
54	–	Piret Pormeister	EST	2:24.67 (54)	–	–	–
55	–	Élodie Bourgeois-Pin	FRA	2:24.77 (55)	–	–	–
56	–	Man Dandan	CHN	2:25.16 (56)	–	–	–
57	–	Song Bo	CHN	2:27.07 (57)	–	–	–
58	–	Maja Kezele	CRO	2:27.16 (58)	–	–	–
59	–	Monika Gyorgy	ROU	2:27.53 (59)	–	–	–
60	–	Darya Starostina	KAZ	2:27.58 (60)	–	–	–
61	–	Jia Yuping	CHN	2:30.03 (61)	–	–	–
62	–	Elena Gorohova	MDA	2:31.61 (62)	–	–	–
63	–	Kelime Aydın	TUR	2:33.33 (63)	–	–	–
64	–	Lee Chae-Won	KOR	2:35.47 (64)	–	–	–
65	–	Liu Liming	CHN	2:35.76 (65)	–	–	–
66	–	Panagiota Tsakiri	GRE	2:43.28 (66)	–	–	–

Qualifying Round

Date	22 February 2006 — 10:00
Format	Top 30 finishers advance to quarter-finals.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	Beckie Scott	CAN	2:12.45	Q
2	Arianna Follis	ITA	2:12.90	Q
3	Lina Andersson	SWE	2:13.29	Q
4	Claudia Nystad	GER	2:13.64	Q
5	Alyona Sidko	RUS	2:14.54	Q
6	Petra Majdič	SLO	2:14.62	Q
7	Virpi Kuitunen	FIN	2:14.83	Q
8	Chandra Crawford	CAN	2:15.06	Q
9	Sara Renner	CAN	2:15.37	Q
10	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:15.63	Q
11	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	FIN	2:15.75	Q
12	Anna Dahlberg	SWE	2:15.91	Q
13	Ella Gjømle	NOR	2:16.02	Q
14	Manuela Henkel	GER	2:16.04	Q
15	Madoka Natsumi	JPN	2:16.30	Q
16	Viktoryia Lopatina	BLR	2:16.36	Q
17	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	2:16.38	Q
18	Magda Genuin	ITA	2:16.41	Q
19	Britta Norgren	SWE	2:16.43	Q
20	Olga Rocheva	RUS	2:16.43	Q
21	Emelie Öhrstig	SWE	2:16.75	Q
22	Yuliya Chepalova	RUS	2:16.90	Q
23	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	NOR	2:17.17	Q
24	Kati Venäläinen	FIN	2:17.29	Q
25	Nataliya Matveyeva	RUS	2:17.73	Q
26	Laurence Rochat	SUI	2:17.73	Q
27	Alena Procházková	SVK	2:17.75	Q
28	Nobuko Fukuda	JPN	2:17.82	Q
29	Volha Vasilionak	BLR	2:18.12	Q
30	Stefanie Böhler	GER	2:18.14	Q
31	Nicole Fessel	GER	2:18.35
32	Seraina Mischol	SUI	2:18.83
33	Barbara Moriggl	ITA	2:19.12
34	Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb	FRA	2:19.28
35	Wendy Wagner	USA	2:19.71
36	Vita Yakymchuk	UKR	2:19.92
37	Irina Terentjeva	LTU	2:20.08
=38	Yelena Kolomina	KAZ	2:20.28
=38	Lindsay Williams	USA	2:20.28
40	Vesna Fabjan	SLO	2:20.34
41	Tatjana Mannima	EST	2:20.44
42	Elina Hietamäki	FIN	2:20.49
43	Maryna Malets	UKR	2:20.79
44	Justyna Kowalczyk	POL	2:21.19
45	Nataliya Isachenko	KAZ	2:21.22
46	Oksana Yatskaya	KAZ	2:22.12
=47	Émilie Vina	FRA	2:22.42
=47	Kaili Sirge	EST	2:22.42
49	Amanda Ammar	CAN	2:22.78
50	Eva Nývltová	CZE	2:22.86
51	Katsiaryna Rudakova-Bulavka	BLR	2:23.19
52	Esther Bottomley	AUS	2:23.55
53	Katarína Garajová	SVK	2:23.98
54	Piret Pormeister	EST	2:24.67
55	Élodie Bourgeois-Pin	FRA	2:24.77
56	Man Dandan	CHN	2:25.16
57	Song Bo	CHN	2:27.07
58	Maja Kezele	CRO	2:27.16
59	Monika Gyorgy	ROU	2:27.53
60	Darya Starostina	KAZ	2:27.58
61	Jia Yuping	CHN	2:30.03
62	Elena Gorohova	MDA	2:31.61
63	Kelime Aydın	TUR	2:33.33
64	Lee Chae-Won	KOR	2:35.47
65	Liu Liming	CHN	2:35.76
66	Panagiota Tsakiri	GRE	2:43.28

Quarter-Finals

Date	22 February 2006 — 12:30
Format	Top 2 finishers in each heat advance to semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time	12:30

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	1	Beckie Scott	CAN	2:16.6	Q
2	10	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:17.8	Q
3	20	Olga Rocheva	RUS	2:18.4
4	30	Stefanie Böhler	GER	2:18.5
5	21	Emelie Öhrstig	SWE	2:19.9
6	11	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	FIN	2:20.7

Heat #2

Time	12:35

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	4	Claudia Nystad	GER	2:15.5	Q
2	7	Virpi Kuitunen	FIN	2:16.2	Q
3	14	Manuela Henkel	GER	2:16.4
4	17	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	2:16.8
5	27	Alena Procházková	SVK	2:17.9
6	24	Kati Venäläinen	FIN	2:18.1

Heat #3

Time	12:40

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	5	Alyona Sidko	RUS	2:17.7	Q
2	6	Petra Majdič	SLO	2:17.7	Q
3	26	Laurence Rochat	SUI	2:18.9
4	15	Madoka Natsumi	JPN	2:19.9
5	16	Viktoryia Lopatina	BLR	2:24.8
6	25	Nataliya Matveyeva	RUS	2:31.4

Heat #4

Time	12:45

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	12	Anna Dahlberg	SWE	2:14.3	Q
2	2	Arianna Follis	ITA	2:14.7	Q
3	19	Britta Norgren	SWE	2:15.0
4	9	Sara Renner	CAN	2:15.6
5	29	Volha Vasilionak	BLR	2:16.6
6	22	Yuliya Chepalova	RUS	2:16.6

Heat #5

Time	12:50

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	8	Chandra Crawford	CAN	2:14.2	Q
2	13	Ella Gjømle	NOR	2:15.7	Q
3	3	Lina Andersson	SWE	2:16.0
4	18	Magda Genuin	ITA	2:17.9
5	28	Nobuko Fukuda	JPN	2:18.2
6	23	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	NOR	2:19.1

Semi-Finals

Date	22 February 2006 — 13:20
Format	Top 2 finishers in each heat advance to final. Next two finishers advance to B final.

Heat #1

Time	13:20

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	4	Claudia Nystad	GER	2:15.5	Q
2	1	Beckie Scott	CAN	2:15.8	Q
3	7	Virpi Kuitunen	FIN	2:16.3	QB
4	6	Petra Majdič	SLO	2:18.7	QB
5	10	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:19.1

Heat #2

Time	13:25

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	8	Chandra Crawford	CAN	2:13.4	Q
2	5	Alyona Sidko	RUS	2:15.1	Q
3	2	Arianna Follis	ITA	2:16.2	QB
4	13	Ella Gjømle	NOR	2:16.4	QB
5	12	Anna Dahlberg	SWE	2:18.9

Final Round

Date	22 February 2006 — 13:40

Final B

Time	13:40

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	8	Virpi Kuitunen	FIN	2:18.1
2	4	Ella Gjømle	NOR	2:18.2
3	5	Arianna Follis	ITA	2:20.3
4	1	Petra Majdič	SLO	2:21.5

Final A

Time	13:45

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	7	Chandra Crawford	CAN	2:12.3
2	13	Claudia Nystad	GER	2:13.0
3	2	Alyona Sidko	RUS	2:13.2
4	6	Beckie Scott	CAN	2:14.7