Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 15 kilometre classical

Women's 15 kilometre classical
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Women's 15 kilometre classical; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Snow Harp
Dates	8 February 1998
Competitors	65 from 24 nations
Winning time	46:55.4
Medalists
	← 1994 2002 →

The women's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, was held on 8 February at Snow Harp.^[1]

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. The defending Olympic champion was the Italian Manuela Di Centa, who won in Lillehammer, then in freestyle technique.

Results

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Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	29	Olga Danilova	Russia	46:55.4
	20	Larisa Lazutina	Russia	47:01.0	+5.6
	31	Anita Moen-Guidon	Norway	47:52.6	+57.2
4	23	Iryna Terelya	Ukraine	48:10.2	+1:14.8
5	33	Marit Mikkelsplass	Norway	48:12.5	+1:17.1
6	16	Bente Martinsen	Norway	48:19.0	+1:23.6
6	21	Trude Dybendahl Hartz	Norway	48:19.0	+1:23.6
8	26	Stefania Belmondo	Italy	48:57.7	+2:02.3
9	19	Kateřina Neumannová	Czech Republic	49:01.9	+2:06.5
10	50	Jaroslava Bukvajová	Slovakia	49:02.0	+2:06.6
11	17	Valentyna Shevchenko	Ukraine	49:12.9	+2:17.5
12	39	Tuulikki Pyykkönen	Finland	49:13.5	+2:18.1
13	53	Katrin Šmigun	Estonia	49:18.9	+2:23.5
14	34	Gabriella Paruzzi	Italy	49:20.7	+2:25.3
15	44	Yelena Sinkevitch	Belarus	49:20.8	+2:25.4
16	27	Svetlana Nageykina	Russia	49:22.5	+2:27.1
17	18	Yelena Välbe	Russia	49:25.9	+2:30.5
18	22	Satu Salonen	Finland	49:27.6	+2:32.2
19	25	Antonina Ordina	Sweden	50:12.6	+3:17.2
20	4	Svetlana Deshevykh	Kazakhstan	50:28.0	+3:32.6
21	49	Constanze Blum	Germany	50:30.3	+3:34.9
22	30	Sylvia Honegger	Switzerland	50:31.9	+3:36.5
23	9	Maryna Pestryakova	Ukraine	50:45.6	+3:50.2
24	10	Sumiko Yokoyama	Japan	50:55.3	+3:59.9
25	2	Karin Säterkvist	Sweden	51:02.6	+4:07.2
26	24	Renate Roider	Austria	51:07.0	+4:11.6
27	67	Antonella Confortola	Italy	51:07.6	+4:12.2
28	1	Sigrid Wille	Germany	51:19.3	+4:23.9
29	7	Jana Šaldová	Czech Republic	51:33.8	+4:38.4
30	56	Karin Moroder	Italy	51:36.1	+4:40.7
31	64	Milla Jauho	Finland	51:38.6	+4:43.2
32	15	Oxana Yatskaya	Kazakhstan	51:39.7	+4:44.3
33	5	Bernadeta Piatrowska	Poland	51:40.7	+4:45.3
34	45	Kumiko Yokoyama	Japan	51:48.7	+4:53.3
35	38	Elin Ek	Sweden	51:51.0	+4:55.6
36	66	Manuela Henkel	Germany	51:53.4	+4:58.0
37	55	Fumiko Aoki	Japan	51:53.7	+4:58.3
38	40	Anke Reschwamm Schulze	Germany	51:54.0	+4:58.6
39	48	Svetlana Kamotskaya	Belarus	51:59.0	+5:03.6
40	6	Õnne Kurg	Estonia	52:08.3	+5:12.9
41	8	Kati Sundqvist	Finland	52:14.1	+5:18.7
42	11	Yekaterina Antonyuk	Belarus	52:24.5	+5:29.1
43	68	Irina Skripnik	Belarus	52:26.2	+5:30.8
44	57	Iveta Zelingerová	Czech Republic	52:26.3	+5:30.9
45	37	Annick Vaxelaire-Pierrel	France	52:30.1	+5:34.7
46	62	Cristel Vahtra	Estonia	52:32.7	+5:37.3
47	14	Kerrin Petty	United States	52:45.3	+5:49.9
48	35	Suzanne King	United States	52:58.9	+6:03.5
49	47	Svetlana Shishkina	Kazakhstan	53:13.7	+6:18.3
50	52	Dorota Kwasna	Poland	53:42.6	+6:47.2
51	43	Luan Zhengrong	China	53:48.4	+6:53.0
52	12	Nina Kemppel	United States	53:57.2	+7:01.8
53	58	Laura Wilson	United States	54:10.4	+7:15.0
54	69	Emiko Sato	Japan	54:11.1	+7:15.7
55	13	Guo Dongling	China	54:50.6	+7:55.2
56	42	Monica Lăzăruț	Romania	55:18.2	+8:22.8
57	61	Elena Antonova	Kazakhstan	55:34.0	+8:38.6
58	60	Eliza Surdyka	Poland	55:37.5	+8:42.1
59	3	Milaine Theriault	Canada	55:38.2	+8:42.8
60	28	Beckie Scott	Canada	55:43.7	+8:48.3
61	65	Inara Rudko	Latvia	56:07.8	+9:12.4
62	59	Marie-Odile Raymond	Canada	56:53.3	+9:57.9
63	54	Irina Nikulchina	Bulgaria	57:07.2	+10:11.8
64	51	Kazimiera Strolienė	Lithuania	59:48.3	+12:52.9
	46	Elena Gayasova	Ukraine	Disqualified
	32	Maria Theurl	Austria	Did not start
	36	Natascia Leonardi	Switzerland
	41	Jaime Fortier	Canada
	63	Anette Fanqvist	Sweden