Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1] The twelve events took place between 10 and 25 February 2018.

Cross-country skiing at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre
Dates	10–25 February 2018
No. of events	12 (6 men, 6 women)
Competitors	313 from 65 nations
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Qualification

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A maximum of 310 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 20 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 12 men or 12 women. There were two qualification standards for the games: an A standard and a B standard.^[2]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all twelve events.^[3]

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Event
10 February	16:15	Women's skiathlon
11 February	15:15	Men's skiathlon
13 February	17:30	Men's & women's individual sprint qualification classical
13 February	20:00	Men's & women's individual sprint finals classical
15 February	15:30	Women's 10 km freestyle
16 February	15:00	Men's 15 km freestyle
17 February	18:30	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
18 February	15:15	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
21 February	17:00	Women's team sprint freestyle
21 February	19:00	Men's team sprint freestyle
24 February	14:00	Men's 50 km mass start classical
25 February	15:15	Women's 30 km mass start classical

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	7	4	3	14
2	Sweden	2	3	1	6
3	Finland	1	1	2	4
4	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
6	Olympic Athletes from Russia	0	3	5	8
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
8	France	0	0	2	2
Totals (8 entries)		12	12	13	37

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km freestyle[4] details	Dario Cologna  Switzerland	33:43.9	Simen Hegstad Krüger  Norway	34:02.2	Denis Spitsov  Olympic Athletes from Russia	34:06.9
30 km skiathlon[5] details	Simen Hegstad Krüger  Norway	1:16:20.0	Martin Johnsrud Sundby  Norway	1:16:28.0	Hans Christer Holund  Norway	1:16:29.9
50 km classical[6] details	Iivo Niskanen  Finland	2:08:22.1	Alexander Bolshunov  Olympic Athletes from Russia	2:08:40.8	Andrey Larkov  Olympic Athletes from Russia	2:10:59.6
4 × 10 km relay[7] details	Norway Didrik Tønseth Martin Johnsrud Sundby Simen Hegstad Krüger Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	1:33:04.9	Olympic Athletes from Russia Andrey Larkov Alexander Bolshunov Aleksey Chervotkin Denis Spitsov	1:33:14.3	France Jean-Marc Gaillard Maurice Manificat Clément Parisse Adrien Backscheider	1:33:41.8
Sprint classical[8] details	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo  Norway	3:05.75	Federico Pellegrino  Italy	3:07.09	Alexander Bolshunov  Olympic Athletes from Russia	3:07.11
Team sprint freestyle[9] details	Norway Martin Johnsrud Sundby Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	15:56.26	Olympic Athletes from Russia Denis Spitsov Alexander Bolshunov	15:57.97	France Maurice Manificat Richard Jouve	15:58.28

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km freestyle[10] details	Ragnhild Haga  Norway	25:00.5	Charlotte Kalla  Sweden	25:20.8	Marit Bjørgen  Norway Krista Pärmäkoski  Finland	25:32.4
15 km skiathlon[11] details	Charlotte Kalla  Sweden	40:44.9	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	40:52.7	Krista Pärmäkoski  Finland	40:55.0
30 km classical[12] details	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	1:22:17.6	Krista Pärmäkoski  Finland	1:24:07.1	Stina Nilsson  Sweden	1:24:16.5
4 × 5 km relay[13] details	Norway Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Ragnhild Haga Marit Bjørgen	51:24.3	Sweden Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Ebba Andersson Stina Nilsson	51:26.3	Olympic Athletes from Russia Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Belorukova Anastasia Sedova Anna Nechaevskaya	52:07.6
Sprint classical[14] details	Stina Nilsson  Sweden	3:03.84	Maiken Caspersen Falla  Norway	3:06.87	Yulia Belorukova  Olympic Athletes from Russia	3:07.21
Team sprint freestyle[15] details	United States Kikkan Randall Jessie Diggins	15:56.47	Sweden Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson	15:56.66	Norway Marit Bjørgen Maiken Caspersen Falla	15:59.44

Participating nations

A total of 313 athletes from 65 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate^[16] (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).

•  Andorra (1)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Australia (6)
•  Austria (7)
•  Belarus (9)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (3)
•  Canada (11)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (4)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Croatia (4)
•  Czech Republic (10)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Estonia (7)
•  Finland (19)
•  France (13)
•  Germany (16)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (1)
•  Iran (2)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (15)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (7)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Lithuania (3)
•  Macedonia (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Montenegro (1)
•  Morocco (1)
•  North Korea (3)
•  Norway (20)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (12)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (3)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Slovakia (5)
•  Slovenia (8)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (20)
•  Switzerland (13)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Togo (1)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Turkey (3)
•  Ukraine (4)
•  United States (20)