Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay explained

Event:	Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
Games:	2014 Winter
Venue:	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Dates:	15 February
Competitors:	56
Nations:	14
Teams:	14
Gold:	Ida Ingemarsdotter Emma Wikén Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Anne Kyllönen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen Krista Lähteenmäki
Silvernoc:	FIN
Bronze:	Nicole Fessel Stefanie Böhler Claudia Nystad Denise Herrmann
Bronzenoc:	GER
Win Value:	53:02.7
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 15 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex.^[1] Sweden won the event. This became the first gold medal in the women's relay for Sweden since the 1960 Winter Olympics. Finland won the silver medals, and Germany finished third.

Gold medals won in this event featured a fragment from the Chelyabinsk meteor, to commemorate the first anniversary of the meteor strike.^[2]

Results

The race was started at 14:00.^[3]

In November 2017, Yuliya Ivanova was disqualified from the event meaning that the whole Russian team was also disqualified.^[4] In September 2018, Marina Piller was disqualified for doping, and all her 2014 Olympic results were annulled, including the result of the Italian relay team.^[5]

Rank	Bib	Time	Deficit
	2	53:02.7 14:09.8 14:02.3 12:40.2 12:10.4
	5	53:03.2 14:21.2 13:51.3 12:14.1 12:36.6
	7	53:03.6 14:13.4 13:59.9 12:19.1 12:31.2
4	6	53:47.7 14:12.1 14:13.8 12:34.5 12:47.3
5	1	53:56.3 14:12.0 14:13.5 12:34.5 12:56.3
6	9	54:38.9 14:37.4 13:47.7 12:34.2 13:39.6	+1:36.2
7	4	55:33.4 14:45.2 14:31.8 12:44.2 13:32.2	+2:30.7
8	12	56:29.8 14:06.1 15:25.3 13:06.4 13:52.0	+3:27.1
9	13	56:37.0 14:18.2 15:39.1 12:56.1 13:43.6	+3:34.3
10	10	56:56.1 15:10.6 14:55.4 13:01.7 13:48.4	+3:53.4
11	11	57:04.7 14:20.3 15:36.8 13:08.7 13:58.9	+4:02.0
12	14	59:13.6 15:50.9 15:09.5 13:27.3 14:45.9	+6:10.9
DSQ	3	~~54:06.3~~ 14:05.5 14:37.2 12:34.9 12:48.7	~~+1:03.6~~
DSQ	8	~~55:19.9~~ 14:26.9 14:49.4 12:42.9 13:20.7	~~+2:17.2~~

Flower and medal ceremonies

Immediately after the race a flower ceremony was held at the ski stadium, where the medalist received flowers on the podium. The next day the medal ceremony was held in Sochi, where the gold medals was handed out by International Olympic Committee member Gunilla Lindberg and flowers handed out by International Ski Federation Cross-Country Committee chairman Vegard Ulvang, after which the Swedish national anthem was played for the gold medal team on the podium.

Notes and References

Web site: Cross-country Skiing Schedule and Results . . 11 January 2014 . 20 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140320035515/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/cross-country-schedule-and-results . dead .
News: Select gold medals at Sochi Olympics will include meteorite fragments to commemorate Russian meteor strike . NYDailyNews.com . Bernie . Augustine . New York Daily News . 25 July 2013 .
Web site: Final Results . 2014-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219190621/http://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/CC/3061/2014CC3061RL.pdf . 2014-02-19 . dead .
Web site: IOC sanctions four Russian athletes and closes one case as part of Oswald Commission findings. 14 July 2021.
Web site: Marina Piller at the Olympics . Olympian Database.