FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 – Women's team sprint

Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017
Location	Lahti, Finland
Date	26 February
Competitors	34 from 17 nations
Teams	17
Winning time	20:20.5
Medalists
Heidi Weng Maiken Caspersen Falla    Norway   Yuliya Belorukova Natalya Matveyeva    Russia   Sadie Bjornsen Jessie Diggins    United States

The Women's team sprint event of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 was held on 26 February 2017.^[1][2]

Results

Semifinals

The semifinals were started at 11:30.

Semifinal A

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Deficit	Note
1	A	1	Norway	Heidi Weng Maiken Caspersen Falla	20:10.7	—	Q
2	A	3	Finland	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen	20:13.8	+3.1	Q
3	A	2	Switzerland	Nadine Fähndrich Laurien van der Graaff	20:23.6	+12.9	q
4	A	5	Italy	Ilaria Debertolis Lucia Scardoni	20:34.5	+23.8	q
5	A	4	Slovenia	Katja Višnar Anamarija Lampič	20:43.4	+32.7	q
6	A	7	Czech Republic	Karolína Grohová Sandra Schützová	21:26.3	+1:15.6	out
7	A	6	Canada	Cendrine Browne Dahria Beatty	21:35.6	+1:24.9	out
8	A	8	Ukraine	Tetyana Antypenko Yuliya Krol	22:04.4	+1:53.7	out
9	A	9	Australia	Jessica Yeaton Katerina Paul	23:11.9	+3:01.2	out

Semifinal B

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Deficit	Note
1	B	11	Sweden	Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson	20:29.2	—	Q
2	B	12	Germany	Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel	20:29.6	+0.4	Q
3	B	10	United States	Sadie Bjornsen Jessie Diggins	20:30.6	+1.4	q
4	B	13	Russia	Yuliya Belorukova Natalya Matveyeva	20:33.6	+4.4	q
5	B	14	Poland	Ewelina Marcisz Justyna Kowalczyk	21:00.2	+31.0	q
6	B	15	Belarus	Polina Seronosova Yulia Tikhonova	21:06.8	+37.6	out
7	B	17	Kazakhstan	Anna Stoyan Anna Shevchenko	21:39.3	+ 1:10.1	out
8	B	16	Austria	Lisa Unterweger Anna Roswitha Seebacher	22:07.7	+ 1:38.5	out

Final

The final was started at 13:30.^[3][4]

Rank	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Deficit
	1	Norway	Heidi Weng Maiken Caspersen Falla	20:20.5	—
	13	Russia	Yuliya Belorukova Natalya Matveyeva	20:26.1	+5.6
	10	United States	Sadie Bjornsen Jessie Diggins	20:38.9	+18.4
4	11	Sweden	Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson	20:39.1	+18.6
5	3	Finland	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen	20:43.5	+23.0
6	12	Germany	Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel	20:50.0	+29.5
7	2	Switzerland	Nadine Fähndrich Laurien van der Graaff	21:02.4	+41.9
8	4	Slovenia	Katja Višnar Anamarija Lampič	21:09.0	+48.5
9	14	Poland	Ewelina Marcisz Justyna Kowalczyk	21:09.5	+49.0
10	5	Italy	Ilaria Debertolis Lucia Scardoni	21:25.7	+1:05.2

References

1. "Competition schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
2. Start list
3. Final start list
4. Final results