FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Women's team sprint

Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Venue	Holmenkollen National Arena
Date	2 March 2011
Competitors	32 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Winning time	19:25.0
Medalists
Ida Ingemarsdotter Charlotte Kalla    Sweden   Aino Kaisa Saarinen Krista Lähteenmäki    Finland   Maiken Caspersen Falla Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen    Norway

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Women's team sprint

The Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 was held on 2 March 2011. Sprint qualifying at 12:00 CET with finals at 14:15 CET. The defending world champions were Finland's Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen while the defending Olympic champions were Germany's Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad.^[1][2] Kuitunen retired after the 2009-10 season.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Note
1	1	1	Slovenia	Katja Višnar Petra Majdič	19:58.6	Q
2	1	2	Norway	Maiken Caspersen Falla Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	19:59.6	Q
3	1	3	Sweden	Ida Ingemarsdotter Charlotte Kalla	20:00.2	Q
4	1	5	Canada	Perianne Jones Daria Gaiazova	20:36.9	q
5	1	4	Japan	Masako Ishida Madoka Natsumi	20:41.0	q
6	1	7	Czech Republic	Eva Nývltová Ivana Janečková	21:08.1	out
7	1	6	Kazakhstan	Oxana Yatskaya Tatyana Roshchina	21:16.9	out
8	1	8	Ukraine	Zoya Zaviedieieva Vita Yakymchuk	22:45.7	out

Semifinal 2

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Note
1	2	9	Finland	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Krista Lähteenmäki	20:04.0	Q
2	2	10	Italy	Arianna Follis Marianna Longa	20:04.0	Q
3	2	12	United States	Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall	20:31.9	Q
4	2	11	Germany	Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel	20:33.9	q
5	2	13	Russia	Anastasia Dotsenko Yuliya Ivanova	20:48.6	q
6	2	14	Estonia	Piret Pormeister Triin Ojaste	20:55.6	out
7	2	16	Lithuania	Lina Kreivenaitė Ingrida Ardišauskaitė	22:50.2	out
8	2	15	United Kingdom	Rosamund Musgrave Sarah Young	23:31.8	out

Final

Rank	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Deficit
	3	Sweden	Ida Ingemarsdotter Charlotte Kalla	19:25.0
	9	Finland	Aino Kaisa Saarinen Krista Lähteenmäki	19:28.3	+3.3
	2	Norway	Maiken Caspersen Falla Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	19:29.1	+4.1
4	10	Italy	Arianna Follis Marianna Longa	19:40.1	+15.1
5	1	Slovenia	Katja Višnar Petra Majdič	19:43.5	+18.5
6	5	Canada	Perianne Jones Daria Gaiazova	20:11.9	+46.9
7	11	Germany	Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel	20:12.8	+47.8
8	4	Japan	Masako Ishida Madoka Natsumi	20:19.1	+54.1
9	12	United States	Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall	20:21.5	+56.5
10	13	Russia	Anastasia Dotsenko Yuliya Ivanova	20:23.3	+58.3

References

1. "FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 women's team sprint final results" (PDF). FIS-Ski.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
2. 2010 Winter Olympics 22 February 2010 Cross-country skiing women's team sprint results. Archived 7 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 24 June 2010.