# Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 19 February at Soldier Hollow.
At Nagano in 1998, the Russians won over the Norwegians, and would have been overwhelming favorites at Salt Lake City but this time were forced to scratch due to positive drug tests from Larissa Lazutina and Olga Danilova.

## Race summary

In Russia's absence, Germany took an early lead in the first leg. Switzerland, Slovenia, and Norway trailed after Germany the first leg. Norway went ahead on the second leg, 2.7 seconds ahead of Germany, as they both distanced themselves from Switzerland, which was third. Norway stayed ahead by the third and final exchange, nine seconds over Germany, and another seven seconds ahead of Switzerland. On the anchor leg, Germany's Evi Sachenbacher caught Norway's anchor, Anita Moen, and pulled ahead 100 metres from the finish line to win the gold medal for Germany. Switzerland won the bronze medal.

## Results

Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 5 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.
The race was started at 12:30.
| Rank | Bib | Team | Time [min:s] | Deficit |
| | 4 | Germany Manuela Henkel Viola Bauer Claudia Künzel Evi Sachenbacher | 49:30.6 13:01.8 12:58.0 11:47.7 11:43.1 | |
| | 2 | Norway Marit Bjørgen Bente Skari Hilde G. Pedersen Anita Moen | 49:31.9 13:15.9 12:41.2 11:41.0 11:53.8 | +1.3 |
| | 7 | Switzerland Andrea Huber Laurence Rochat Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan Natascia Leonardi Cortesi | 50:03.6 13:08.2 13:02.7 11:43.3 12:09.4 | +33.0 |
| 4 | 8 | Czech Republic Helena Balatková Kamila Rajdlová Kateřina Neumannová Kateřina Hanušová | 50:35.2 13:33.6 13:24.6 11:26.4 12:10.6 | +1:04.6 |
| 5 | 13 | Belarus Yelena Kalugina Svetlana Nageykina Vera Zyatikova Nataliya Zyatikova | 50:37.9 13:45.1 12:47.9 12:11.1 11:53.8 | +1:07.3 |
| 6 | 3 | Italy Marianna Longa Gabriella Paruzzi Sabina Valbusa Stefania Belmondo | 50:38.6 14:14.2 13:13.2 11:41.3 11:29.9 | +1:08.0 |
| 7 | 15 | Finland Kati Sundqvist Satu Salonen Riitta-Liisa Lassila Kaisa Varis | 50:45.5 13:48.5 12:44.8 12:09.3 12:02.9 | +1:14.9 |
| 8 | 6 | Canada Sara Renner Milaine Thériault Amanda Fortier Beckie Scott | 50:49.6 13:19.8 13:39.7 12:10.7 11:39.4 | +1:19.0 |
| 9 | 10 | Slovenia Petra Majdič Teja Gregorin Andreja Mali Nataša Lačen | 51:19.6 13:12.7 14:04.2 11:50.5 12:12.2 | +1:49.0 |
| 10 | 12 | Japan Kanoko Goto Madoka Natsumi Nobuko Fukuda Sumiko Yokoyama | 51:35.7 13:35.7 13:22.9 12:27.4 12:09.7 | +2:05.1 |
| 11 | 14 | Kazakhstan Svetlana Deshevykh Yelena Antonova Oksana Yatskaya Svetlana Shishkina | 51:52.2 13:53.9 13:23.2 12:04.0 12:31.1 | +2:21.6 |
| 12 | 5 | Sweden Lina Andersson Elin Ek Jenny Olsson Anna Dahlberg | 52:40.4 14:09.6 13:37.0 12:11.5 12:42.3 | +3:09.8 |
| 13 | 11 | United States Wendy Wagner Nina Kemppel Barbara Jones Aelin Peterson | 53:23.4 14:03.4 13:49.9 12:35.2 12:54.9 | +3:52.8 |
| | 1 | Russia Olga Danilova Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk Yuliya Chepalova | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 9 | Ukraine Olena Rodina Valentyna Shevchenko Olena Zubrilova Iryna Terelya | Did not start | Did not start |