Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's 15 kilometre pursuit
| Women's 15 kilometre pursuit at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for cross country
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| Venue | Whistler Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 19 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 68 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 39:58.1 | ||||||||||||
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Marit Bjørgen |
 Norway
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Anna Haag |
 Sweden
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Justyna Kowalczyk |
 Poland
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The women's 7.5 kilometre + 7.5 kilometre double pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 19 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia at 13:00 PST.
The 15 km double pursuit format has been competed at the world championship level since 2005 and at the Winter Olympic level since 2006. Estonia's Kristina Šmigun-Vähi was the defending Olympic champion.Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk was the defending world champion. Kowalczyk also won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 17 January 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 23 January 2010 in Rybinsk, Russia and was won by Kowalczyk.
The pursuit consisted of a 7.5 kilometre section raced in the classical style, followed by a 7.5 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between the sections, each skier takes time (approximately 30 seconds) to change skis and poles in a pit stop.
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