The women's 10 kilometre classical competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou. Therese Johaug of Norway became the Olympic champion, Kerttu Niskanen of Finland won the silver medal, and Krista Pärmäkoski, also of Finland, won bronze.
Summary The 10 km distance event alternates between the Olympics, and in 2018 it was the freestyle event. The 2018 champion, Ragnhild Haga, qualified for the Olympics, but was not selected for the event. The silver medalist, Charlotte Kalla, qualified. The bronze medal in 2018 was split between Marit Bjørgen and Krista Pärmäkoski. Bjørgen since retired from international competitions, while Pärmäkoski qualified for the 2022 Olympics. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics was Natalya Nepryayeva, and the distance leader was Frida Karlsson. Therese Johaug is the 2021 World Champion in 10 km freestyle.
The only skier able to offer any competition to Johaug was Kerttu Niskanen, who started 2 minutes behind Johaug and sometimes was leading, but at the finish lost by 0.4 seconds to Johaug and came in second. Pärmäkoski was third, 0.1 seconds ahead of late starter Nepryayeva.
Qualification
Results The race was started at 15:00.
Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 36 Therese Johaug 28:06.3 40 Kerttu Niskanen 28:06.7 38 Krista Pärmäkoski 28:37.8 4 60 Natalya Nepryayeva 28:37.9 5 32 Katharina Hennig 28:49.7 6 56 Ebba Andersson 28:57.2 7 52 Yuliya Stupak 29:03.8 8 34 Jessie Diggins 29:15.1 +1:08.8 9 54 Teresa Stadlober 29:16.9 +1:10.6 10 42 Tatiana Sorina 29:17.4 +1:11.1 11 22 Katherine Sauerbrey 29:27.2 +1:20.9 12 58 Frida Karlsson 29:28.0 +1:21.7 13 44 Rosie Brennan 29:28.6 +1:22.3 14 50 Johanna Matintalo 29:31.2 +1:24.9 15 9 Liliya Vasilyeva 29:32.4 +1:26.1 16 28 Anne Kyllönen 29:42.6 +1:36.3 17 30 Anamarija Lampič 29:55.0 +1:48.7 18 10 Dahria Beatty 30:00.2 +1:53.9 19 26 Emma Ribom 30:05.8 +1:59.5 20 48 Charlotte Kalla 30:07.6 +2:01.3 21 46 Tiril Udnes Weng 30:22.6 +2:16.3 22 29 Nadine Fähndrich 30:23.8 +2:17.5 23 15 Patrīcija Eiduka 30:34.7 +2:28.4 24 5 Novie McCabe 30:34.9 +2:28.6 25 25 Lotta Udnes Weng 30:37.0 +2:30.7 26 19 Anna Comarella 30:45.0 +2:38.7 27 21 Masako Ishida 30:50.6 +2:44.3 28 8 Antonia Fräbel 30:51.4 +2:45.1 29 12 Izabela Marcisz 30:54.6 +2:48.3 30 11 Petra Nováková 31:00.7 +2:54.4 31 59 Lisa Unterweger 31:02.1 +2:55.8 32 27 Hailey Swirbul 31:05.3 +2:59.0 33 23 Laura Gimmler 31:05.6 +2:59.3 34 6 Kateřina Janatová 31:07.2 +3:00.9 35 53 Caterina Ganz 31:08.1 +3:01.8 36 24 Katherine Stewart-Jones 31:08.6 +3:02.3 37 51 Martina Di Centa 31:08.8 +3:02.5 38 14 Lucia Scardoni 31:09.5 +3:03.2 39 18 Chi Chunxue 31:10.6 +3:04.3 40 20 Coralie Bentz 31:17.6 +3:11.3 41 37 Mélissa Gal 31:25.7 +3:19.4 42 47 Petra Hynčicová 31:28.0 +3:21.7 43 13 Nadja Kälin 31:29.7 +3:23.4 44 39 Mathilde Myhrvold 31:36.0 +3:29.7 45 4 Li Xin 31:36.9 +3:30.6 46 3 Masae Tsuchiya 31:41.5 +3:35.2 47 31 Carola Vila 31:45.0 +3:38.7 48 2 Cendrine Browne 31:47.9 +3:41.6 49 55 Monika Skinder 31:49.9 +3:43.6 50 64 Ma Qinghua 31:52.3 +3:46.0 51 35 Jessica Yeaton 31:54.6 +3:48.3 52 45 Angelina Shuryga 32:08.8 +4:02.5 53 43 Kseniya Shalygina 32:09.9 +4:03.6 54 49 Chika Kobayashi 32:10.0 +4:03.7 55 7 Anja Weber 32:13.4 +4:07.1 56 17 Dinigeer Yilamujiang 32:23.8 +4:17.5 57 71 Nadezhda Stepashkina 32:27.2 +4:20.9 58 57 Maryna Antsybor 32:36.5 +4:30.2 59 1 Valeriya Tyuleneva 32:52.1 +4:45.8 60 65 Keidy Kaasiku 32:55.4 +4:49.1 61 79 Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt 33:01.1 +4:54.8 62 67 Anita Klemenčič 33:09.3 +5:03.0 63 84 Karen Chanloung 33:14.0 +5:07.7 64 81 Karolina Kukuczka 33:16.6 +5:10.3 65 16 Alena Procházková 33:18.2 +5:11.9 66 63 Anja Mandeljc 33:19.5 +5:13.2 67 80 Casey Wright 33:21.1 +5:14.8 68 73 Kitija Auziņa 33:26.3 +5:20.0 69 75 Nina Riedener 33:49.0 +5:42.7 70 33 Kaidy Kaasiku 33:50.7 +5:44.4 71 77 Neža Žerjav 33:56.8 +5:50.5 72 70 Lee Eui-jin 34:07.9 +6:01.6 73 62 Vedrana Malec 34:31.6 +6:25.3 74 87 Katya Galstyan 34:37.5 +6:31.2 75 66 Lee Chae-won 34:45.5 +6:39.2 76 68 Viktoriya Olekh 34:58.1 +6:51.8 77 82 Barbora Klementová 34:59.2 +6:52.9 78 76 Magdalena Kobielusz 35:40.3 +7:34.0 79 69 Aveli Uustalu 35:46.2 +7:39.9 80 88 Kristína Sivoková 36:12.6 +8:06.3 81 91 Jaqueline Mourão 36:14.6 +8:08.3 82 74 Tena Hadžić 36:27.5 +8:21.2 83 92 Estere Volfa 36:36.9 +8:30.6 84 96 Ariunsanaagiin Enkhtuul 37:02.5 +8:56.2 85 61 Tímea Lőrincz 37:15.3 +9:09.0 86 78 Ayşenur Duman 37:36.7 +9:30.4 87 72 Maria Ntanou 37:39.4 +9:33.1 88 94 Eglė Savickaitė 38:26.5 +10:20.2 89 93 Eduarda Ribera 38:58.7 +10:52.4 90 98 Ieva Dainytė 39:07.4 +11:01.1 91 85 Özlem Ceren Dursun 39:17.6 +11:11.3 92 89 Samanta Krampe 39:34.2 +11:27.9 93 95 Angelina Muradyan 39:43.4 +11:37.1 94 90 Ana Cvetanovska 39:57.7 +11:51.4 95 86 Nahiara Díaz 40:30.8 +12:24.5 96 97 Sára Pónya 41:13.6 +13:07.3 97 83 Nefeli Tita 42:12.1 +14:05.8 DSQ 41 Valiantsina Kaminskaya 35:42.7 +7:36.4
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