FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Venue	Holmenkollen National Arena
Date	2 March 2011
Competitors	32 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Winning time	19:25.0
Medalists
Vibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen    Norway   Ida Ingemarsdotter Anna Haag Britta Johansson Norgren Charlotte Kalla    Sweden   Pirjo Muranen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Krista Lähteenmäki    Finland

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 Oslo, Norway
Cross-country skiing
Individual
Sprint	men	women
Interval start	15 km men	10 km women
Pursuit	30 km men	15 km women
Mass start	50 km men	30 km women
Team
Team sprint	men	women
Relay	4×10 km men	4×5 km women
Nordic combined
Normal hill	Individual	Team
Large hill	Individual	Team
Ski jumping
Men
Normal hill	Individual	Team
Large hill	Individual	Team
Women
Normal hill	Individual

The Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 was held on 3 March 2011 at 14:00 CET. The defending world champions were the Finnish team of Pirjo Muranen, Virpi Kuitunen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen while the defending Olympic champions were the Norwegian team of Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira and Marit Bjørgen.^[1][2] Kuitunen retired after the 2009-10 season.

Results

Rank	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Deficit
01 !	1	Norway	Vibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	53:30.0 13:58.8 13:47.7 12:58.3 12:45.2
02 !	5	Sweden	Ida Ingemarsdotter Anna Haag Britta Johansson Norgren Charlotte Kalla	54:06.1 13:49.3 14:05.9 13:24.3 12:46.6	+36.1
03 !	3	Finland	Pirjo Muranen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Krista Lähteenmäki	54:29.8 13:56.6 14:03.6 13:20.3 13:09.3	+59.8
4	4	Italy	Marianna Longa Antonella Confortola Wyatt Silvia Rupil Arianna Follis	54:56.1 13:47.9 14:56.3 13:18.7 12:53.2	+1:26.1
5	2	Germany	Stefanie Böhler Katrin Zeller Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Nicole Fessel	55:11.8 14:20.9 14:08.5 13:23.5 13:18.9	+1:41.8
6	7	Russia	Valentina Novikova Alija Iksanova Yulia Tchekaleva Olga Mikhailova	55:45.4 14:26.6 14:50.4 12:56.6 13:31.8	+2:15.4
7	12	Slovenia	Anja Eržen Petra Majdic Vesna Fabjan Barbara Jezeršek	55:53.0 14:45.9 13:41.7 13:43.2 13:42.2	+2:23.0
8	14	Poland	Ewelina Marcisz Justyna Kowalczyk Paulina Maciuszek Agnieszka Szymańczak	56:19.2 14:52.7 13:34.7 13:46.0 14:05.8	+2:49.2
9	10	United States	Kikkan Randall Holly Brooks Elizabeth Stephen Jessica Diggins	56:24.7 14:28.1 14:55.8 13:35.2 13:25.6	+2:54.7
10	8	Japan	Madoka Natsumi Masako Ishida Yuki Kobayashi Michito Kashiwabara	56:25.8 14:28.8 14:13.5 13:46.9 13:56.6	+2:55.8
11	9	Kazakhstan	Elena Kolomina Oxana Jatskaja Tatjana Roshina Svetlana Malakhova-Shishkina	56:31.2 14:14.5 14:30.0 14:21.5 13:25.2	+3:01.2
12	11	Ukraine	Kateryna Grygorenko Lada Nesterenko Valentina Shevchenko Maryna Antsybor	56:52.6 14:46.2 15:17.1 13:14.7 13:34.6	+3:22.6
13	6	France	Aurore Jéan Laure Barthélémy Célia Bourgeois Emilie Vina	56:53.2 15:15.0 14:45.3 13:18.2 13:34.7	+3:23.2
14	13	Canada	Daria Gaiazova Perianne Jones Chandra Crawford Brooke Gosling	58:19.2 14:37.6 15:11.7 13:59.3 14:30.6	+4:49.2

See also

• 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships – Women's relay

References