FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 – Women's sprint

Women's sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
Venue	Liberec
Date	24 February 2009
Competitors	97 from 42 nations
Medalists
Arianna Follis   Italy   Kikkan Randall   United States   Pirjo Muranen   Finland

The women's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 was held on 24 February 2009. The Sprint qualifying began at 11:35 CET with finals at 13:30 CET. The defending world champion was Norway's Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, but she was eliminated in the qualification round at these championships. It was the first individual gold medal for Arianna Follis.

Results

Qualification

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	23	Arianna Follis	Italy	2:47.42	—	Q
2	26	Pirjo Muranen	Finland	2:47.92	+0.50	Q
3	10	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden	2:48.57	+1.15	Q
4	18	Marthe Kristoffersen	Norway	2:48.82	+1.40	Q
5	22	Vesna Fabjan	Slovenia	2:49.71	+2.29	Q
6	38	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:50.19	+2.77	Q
7	1	Olga Vasiljonok	Belarus	2:50.50	+3.08	Q
8	41	Claudia Nystad	Germany	2:50.55	+3.13	Q
9	24	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden	2:50.61	+3.19	Q
10	42	Natalya Korostelyova	Russia	2:50.73	+3.31	Q
11	40	Anna Olsson	Sweden	2:50.79	+3.37	Q
12	37	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	2:51.89	+4.47	Q
13	12	Riikka Sarasoja	Finland	2:51.92	+4.50	Q
14	39	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	2:51.97	+4.55	Q
15	6	Kaija Udras	Estonia	2:51.98	+4.56	Q
16	95	Miriam Gössner	Germany	2:51.99	+4.57	Q
17	43	Laure Barthélémy	France	2:52.32	+4.90	Q
18	29	Petra Majdič	Slovenia	2:52.35	+4.93	Q
19	30	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway	2:52.37	+4.95	Q
20	31	Kirsi Perälä	Finland	2:52.46	+5.04	Q
21	17	Manuela Henkel	Germany	2:52.83	+5.41	Q
22	21	Magda Genuin	Italy	2:53.13	+5.71	Q
23	14	Aurore Cuinet	France	2:53.32	+5.90	Q
24	15	Katja Višnar	Slovenia	2:53.36	+5.94	Q
25	34	Riitta-Liisa Roponen	Finland	2:53.37	+5.95	Q
26	25	Nicole Fessel	Germany	2:53.58	+6.16	Q
27	19	Madoka Natsumi	Japan	2:54.06	+6.64	Q
28	4	Daria Gaiazova	Canada	2:54.26	+6.84	Q
29	7	Caroline Weibel	France	2:54.27	+6.85	Q
30	3	Sylwia Jaśkowiec	Poland	2:54.34	+6.92
31	59	Vita Yakymchuk	Ukraine	2:54.38	+6.96
32	8	Elisa Brocard	Italy	2:55.50	+8.08
33	9	Kaili Sirge	Estonia	2:55.54	+8.12
34	20	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Norway	2:55.76	+8.34
35	27	Natalya Naryshkina	Russia	2:56.00	+8.58
36	45	Triin Ojaste	Estonia	2:56.22	+8.80
37	16	Seraina Mischol	Switzerland	2:56.31	+8.89
38	35	Britta Johansson Norgren	Sweden	2:56.33	+8.91
39	32	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Norway	2:56.35	+8.93
39	60	Elizabeth Stephen	USA	2:56.35	+8.93
41	46	Laura Valaas	USA	2:56.71	+9.29
42	2	Viktoria Lopatina	Belarus	2:57.41	+9.99
43	36	Alyona Sidko	Russia	2:57.46	+10.04
44	11	Nobuko Fukuda	Japan	2:57.75	+10.33
45	67	Michito Kashiwabara	Japan	2:57.85	+10.43
46	5	Eva Nývltová	Czech Republic	2:57.92	+10.50
47	49	Maryna Antsybor	Ukraine	2:59.02	+11.60
48	28	Karin Moroder	Italy	2:59.06	+11.64
49	64	Song Bo	China	2:59.26	+11.84
50	57	Helena Erbenová	Czech Republic	2:59.40	+11.98
51	48	Oxana Yatskaya	Kazakhstan	2:59.49	+12.07
52	47	Morgan Smyth	USA	2:59.87	+12.45
53	55	Irina Terentjeva	Lithuania	3:00.51	+13.09
54	13	Perianne Jones	Canada	3:00.52	+13.10
55	52	Dandan Man	China	3:01.14	+13.72
56	56	Katarina Garajova	Slovakia	3:01.69	+14.27
57	54	Yingcui E	China	3:02.19	+14.77
58	50	Esther Bottomley	Australia	3:02.68	+15.26
59	58	Elena Kolomina	Kazakhstan	3:03.02	+15.60
60	62	Nastassia Dubarezava	Belarus	3:03.64	+16.22
61	66	Kateryna Grygorenko	Ukraine	3:03.76	+16.34
62	44	Shayla Swanson	Canada	3:04.14	+16.72
63	61	Tatyana Roshchina	Kazakhstan	3:05.16	+17.74
64	63	Katherine Calder	New Zealand	3:05.29	+17.87
65	53	Barbara Jezeršek	Slovenia	3:05.50	+18.08
66	51	Kornelia Marek	Poland	3:06.23	+18.81
67	72	Teodora Malcheva	Bulgaria	3:08.31	+20.89
68	69	Mónika György	Romania	3:09.38	+21.96
69	68	Dina Ussina	Kazakhstan	3:10.97	+23.55
70	81	Olga Reshetkova	Kyrgyzstan	3:11.68	+24.26
71	73	Lada Nesterenko	Ukraine	3:12.62	+25.20
72	71	Katarina Johansen	Slovakia	3:12.67	+25.25
73	70	Kelime Çetinkaya	Turkey	3:13.79	+26.37
74	75	Antonia Grigorova-Burgova	Bulgaria	3:14.71	+27.29
75	79	Chae-Won Lee	South Korea	3:14.96	+27.54
76	84	Jaquelin Mourao	Brazil	3:17.17	+29.75
77	77	Vedrana Malec	Croatia	3:18.29	+30.87
78	82	Anete Brice	Latvia	3:19.26	+31.84
79	76	Andrea Fancy	New Zealand	3:22.52	+35.10
80	74	Sarah Young	United Kingdom	3:22.94	+35.52
81	90	Vera Viczián	Hungary	3:23.09	+35.67
82	80	Maria Danou	Greece	3:25.51	+38.09
83	88	Rosana Kiroska	Macedonia	3:29.20	+41.78
84	96	Alexandra Camenșcic	Moldova	3:29.22	+41.80
85	78	Fiona Hughes	United Kingdom	3:29.62	+42.20
86	93	Tanja Karišik	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:33.35	+45.93
87	94	Kitti Szoelloesi	Hungary	3:33.88	+46.46
88	92	Julia Zamyatina	Kyrgyzstan	3:39.99	+52.57
89	83	Erdene-Ochiryn Ochirsüren	Mongolia	3:51.81	+1:04.39
90	85	Belma Smrkovic	Serbia	3:52.37	+1:04.95
91	87	Mirlene Picin	Brazil	3:54.56	+1:07.14
92	89	Ana Angelova	Macedonia	3:59.20	+1:11.78
93	86	Otgontsetseg Chinbat	Mongolia	4:11.52	+1:24.10
94	97	Qristine Khachatryan	Armenia	4:20.05	+1:32.63
95	91	Bhuwneshwari Thakur	India	4:58.24	+2:10.82
—	65	Laura Orgué	Spain	DNS
—	33	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia	DSQ

Quarterfinals

Q - Qualified for next round
PF - Photo Finish
LL - Lucky Loser - qualified for next round due to their times

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia		—	Q
2	10	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden			Q
3	11	Natalya Korostelyova	Russia			LL
4	20	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway			LL
5	21	Kirsi Perälä	Finland			23rd
6	30	Caroline Weibel	France			29th

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	4	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden		—	Q
2	7	Kikkan Randall	USA			Q
3	27	Nicole Fessel	Germany			15th
4	17	Miriam Gössner	Germany			19th
5	14	Riikka Sarasoja	Finland			20th
6	24	Aurore Cuinet	France			25th

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	5	Marthe Kristoffersen	Norway		—	Q
2	15	Marit Bjørgen	Norway			Q
3	26	Riitta-Liisa Roponen	Finland			14th
4	6	Vesna Fabjan	Slovenia			16th
5	16	Kaija Udras	Estonia			21st
6	25	Katja Višnar	Slovenia			26th

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	Arianna Follis	Italy		—	Q
2	12	Anna Olsson	Sweden			Q
3	19	Petra Majdič	Slovenia			12th
4	9	Claudia Nystad	Germany			18th
5	22	Manuela Henkel	Germany			24th
6	29	Daria Gaiazova	Canada			28th

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Pirjo Muranen	Finland		—	Q
2	13	Alena Procházková	Slovakia			Q
3	23	Magda Genuin	Italy			13th
4	8	Olga Vasiljonok	Belarus			17th
5	18	Laure Barthélémy	France			22nd
6	28	Madoka Natsumi	Japan			27th

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	7	Kikkan Randall	USA	2:43.2	—	QA
2	1	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia	2:43.7	+0.5	QA
3	10	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden	2:43.7	+0.5	QA LL
5	15	Marit Bjørgen	Norway	2:47.0	+3.8	QB
6	4	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden	2:47.3	+4.1	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	Arianna Follis	Italy	2:44.2	—	QA
2	3	Pirjo Muranen	Finland	2:44.6	+0.4	QA
3	12	Anna Olsson	Sweden	2:45.1	+0.9	QA LL
4	5	Marthe Kristoffersen	Norway	2:46.2	+2.0	QB
5	13	Alena Procházková	Slovakia	2:49.5	+5.3	QB
6	11	Natalya Korostelyova	Russia	2:51.8	+7.6	QB

Finals

Final A

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
	2	Arianna Follis	Italy		—	1st
	7	Kikkan Randall	USA			2nd
	3	Pirjo Muranen	Finland			3rd
4	10	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Sweden			4th
5	12	Anna Olsson	Sweden			5th
—	1	Natalya Matveyeva	Russia	DSQ

Final B

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	4	Charlotte Kalla	Sweden		—	6th
2	13	Alena Procházková	Slovakia			7th
3	5	Marthe Kristoffersen	Norway			8th
4	15	Marit Bjørgen	Norway			9th
5	11	Natalya Korostelyova	Russia			10th
6	20	Celine Brun-Lie	Norway			11th

External links

• Qualification results
• Final results