FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Women's team sprint
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The Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 was held on 2 March 2011. Sprint qualifying at 12:00 CET with finals at 14:15 CET. The defending world champions were Finland's Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen while the defending Olympic champions were Germany's Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad.[1][2] Kuitunen retired after the 2009-10 season.
| Women's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Holmenkollen National Arena | |||||||||
| Date | 2 March 2011 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Teams | 16 | |||||||||
| Winning time | 19:25.0 | |||||||||
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Results
Semifinals
- Semifinal 1
| Rank | Heat | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Note |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 |  Slovenia | Katja Višnar Petra Majdič | 19:58.6 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 2 |  Norway | Maiken Caspersen Falla Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen | 19:59.6 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 3 |  Sweden | Ida Ingemarsdotter Charlotte Kalla | 20:00.2 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 |  Canada | Perianne Jones Daria Gaiazova | 20:36.9 | q |
| 5 | 1 | 4 |  Japan | Masako Ishida Madoka Natsumi | 20:41.0 | q |
| 6 | 1 | 7 |  Czech Republic | Eva Nývltová Ivana Janečková | 21:08.1 | out |
| 7 | 1 | 6 |  Kazakhstan | Oxana Yatskaya Tatyana Roshchina | 21:16.9 | out |
| 8 | 1 | 8 |  Ukraine | Zoya Zaviedieieva Vita Yakymchuk | 22:45.7 | out |
- Semifinal 2
| Rank | Heat | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Note |
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| 1 | 2 | 9 |  Finland | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Krista Lähteenmäki | 20:04.0 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 10 |  Italy | Arianna Follis Marianna Longa | 20:04.0 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 12 |  United States | Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall | 20:31.9 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 11 |  Germany | Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel | 20:33.9 | q |
| 5 | 2 | 13 |  Russia | Anastasia Dotsenko Yuliya Ivanova | 20:48.6 | q |
| 6 | 2 | 14 |  Estonia | Piret Pormeister Triin Ojaste | 20:55.6 | out |
| 7 | 2 | 16 |  Lithuania | Lina Kreivenaitė Ingrida Ardišauskaitė | 22:50.2 | out |
| 8 | 2 | 15 |  United Kingdom | Rosamund Musgrave Sarah Young | 23:31.8 | out |
Final
| Rank | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Deficit |
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 | 3 | Sweden | Ida Ingemarsdotter Charlotte Kalla | 19:25.0 | |
 | 9 | Finland | Aino Kaisa Saarinen Krista Lähteenmäki | 19:28.3 | +3.3 |
 | 2 | Norway | Maiken Caspersen Falla Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen | 19:29.1 | +4.1 |
| 4 | 10 | Italy | Arianna Follis Marianna Longa | 19:40.1 | +15.1 |
| 5 | 1 | Slovenia | Katja Višnar Petra Majdič | 19:43.5 | +18.5 |
| 6 | 5 | Canada | Perianne Jones Daria Gaiazova | 20:11.9 | +46.9 |
| 7 | 11 | Germany | Stefanie Böhler Nicole Fessel | 20:12.8 | +47.8 |
| 8 | 4 | Japan | Masako Ishida Madoka Natsumi | 20:19.1 | +54.1 |
| 9 | 12 | United States | Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall | 20:21.5 | +56.5 |
| 10 | 13 | Russia | Anastasia Dotsenko Yuliya Ivanova | 20:23.3 | +58.3 |