Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's 15 km Free

Women's 15km Free at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Paralympic cross-country skiing
Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates	9 & 10 March

Women's 15 km (standing) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	12 from 7 nations
Medalists
Helene Ripa  Sweden Iuliia Batenkova  Ukraine Anna Milenina  Russia

Women's 12 km (sitting) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	17 from 8 nations
Medalists
Lyudmyla Pavlenko  Ukraine Oksana Masters  United States Svetlana Konovalova  Russia

Women's 15 km (visually impaired) at the XI Paralympic Winter Games
Competitors	4 from 3 nations
Medalists
Elena Remizova Guide: Natalia Yakimova  Russia Mikhalina Lysova Guide: Alexey Ivanov  Russia Yadviha Skorabahataya Guide: Iryna Nafranovich  Belarus

The women's 15 km Free competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi. The sitting 12 km competition took place on 9 March 2014 and the standing and visually impaired competition took place on 10 March 2014.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Russia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)*	1	1	2	4
2	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	0	2
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
4	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
5	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

Standing

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Real Time	Result	Difference
	108	Helene Ripa	Sweden	54:09.1	49:49.2	-
	110	Iuliia Batenkova	Ukraine	55:25.7	49:53.1	+3.9
	109	Anna Milenina	Russia	56:32.6	51:27.3	+1:38.1
4	107	Larysa Varona	Belarus	56:54.2	51:46.9	+1:57.7
5	112	Alena Kaufman	Russia	57:18.9	52:09.4	+2:20.2
6	111	Oleksandra Kononova	Ukraine	59:08.5	53:49.1	+3:59.9
7	102	Marie Karlsen	Norway	1:02:10.0	55:57.0	+6:07.8
8	105	Yurika Abe	Japan	1:02:14.9	56:01.4	+6:12.2
9	106	Liudmyla Liashenko	Ukraine	1:04:18.0	58:30.8	+8:41.6
10	103	Brittany Hudak	Canada	1:05:0.18	59:10.6	+9:21.4
11	101	Kateryna Pavlenko	Ukraine	1:14:10.7	1:07:30.1	+17:40.9
	104	Anne Karen Olsen	Norway	DNF

Sitting (12km)

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Real Time	Result	Difference
	114	Lyudmyla Pavlenko	Ukraine	41:23.3	38:54.3	-
	110	Oksana Masters	United States	39:16.0	39:16.0	+21.7
	113	Svetlana Konovalova	Russia	39:49.8	39:49.8	+55.5
4	117	Mariann Marthinsen	Norway	40:00.8	40:00.8	+1:06.5
5	107	Tatyana McFadden	United States	43:13.8	40:38.2	+1:43.9
6	108	Liudmila Vauchok	Belarus	43:32.9	40:56.1	+2:01.8
7	102	Monica Bascio	United States	44:36.8	41:56.2	+3:01.9
8	112	Anja Wicker	Germany	47:05.6	42:23.0	+3:28.7
9	105	Natalia Kocherova	Russia	42:24.6	42:24.6	+3:30.3
10	115	Francesca Porcellato	Italy	49:50.0	42:51.4	+3:57.1
11	106	Valiantsina Shyts	Belarus	47:44.3	42:57.9	+4:03.6
12	103	Birgit Skarstein	Norway	46:22.8	43:35.8	+4:41.5
13	111	Colette Bourgonje	Canada	50:58.5	43:50.3	+4:56.0
14	104	Akzhana Abdikarimova	Russia	48:47.1	43:54.4	+5:00.1
15	109	Nadezda Andreeva	Russia	44:25.9	44:25.9	+5:31.6
16	101	Beth Requist	United States	49:27.1	46:29.1	+7:34.8
DNF	116	Andrea Eskau	Germany

Visually impaired

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Real Time	Result	Difference
	134	Elena Remizova Guide: Natalia Yakimova	Russia	50:10.4	49:10.2	-
	133	Mikhalina Lysova Guide: Alexey Ivanov	Russia	51:49.7	50:47.5	+1:37.3
	132	Yadviha Skorabahataya Guide: Iryna Nafranovich	Belarus	56:54.8	55:46.5	+6:36.3
4	131	Margarita Gorbounova Guide: Andrea Bundon	Canada	1:04:43.9	1:04:43.9	+15:33.7

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics