Charlotte Kalla of Sweden captured victory in the first Cross-Country race over 10 km Free. She occupied front positions the whole race and was first in the finish with time of 24:58.4 sec. Kristina Smigun-Vaehi (EST) made an outstanding comeback and took silver with a time gap os 6.6 sec. Marit Bjoergen of Norway broke bad luck of bog events and captured bronze medal having lost on Kalla 15.9 sec.
For the 22-year-old Kalla, native from the Gällivare region, it was the first ever Olympic start and she won for Sweden the first female gold medal since the Olympics in 1968. She took the race like a World Cup race and her tactic went totally out: "I tried to focus on my plan that I set up yesterday and take it as a World Cup competition and do everything as similar as possible. I tried to not focus so much on the time. Just doing my own race, because I couldn't do anything about the others."
Kristina Smigun-Vähi took her third Olympic medal and was very satisfied with her race after making her comeback at the beginning of this season. ""I am extremely happy. I feel that I am blessed to be here. I am so glad that I get the opportunity to start." Also Marit Bjoergen got her third Olympic medal.
Official Results 10 km F Ladies
