title: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
text: # Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
  
  The women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 15 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Sweden won the event. This became the first gold medal in the women's relay for Sweden since the 1960 Winter Olympics. Finland won the silver medals, and Germany finished third.
  
  Gold medals won in this event featured a fragment from the Chelyabinsk meteor, to commemorate the first anniversary of the meteor strike.
  
  ## Results
  
  The race was started at 14:00.
  
  In November 2017, Yuliya Ivanova was disqualified from the event meaning that the whole Russian team was also disqualified. In September 2018, Marina Piller was disqualified for doping, and all her 2014 Olympic results were annulled, including the result of the Italian relay team.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Nation | Time | Deficit |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 2 | Sweden Ida Ingemarsdotter Emma Wikén Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla | 53:02.7 14:09.8 14:02.3 12:40.2 12:10.4 | |
  | | 5 | Finland Anne Kyllönen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen Krista Lähteenmäki | 53:03.2 14:21.2 13:51.3 12:14.1 12:36.6 | +0.5 |
  | | 7 | Germany Nicole Fessel Stefanie Böhler Claudia Nystad Denise Herrmann | 53:03.6 14:13.4 13:59.9 12:19.1 12:31.2 | +0.9 |
  | 4 | 6 | France Aurore Jéan Célia Aymonier Anouk Faivre-Picon Coraline Hugue | 53:47.7 14:12.1 14:13.8 12:34.5 12:47.3 | +45.0 |
  | 5 | 1 | Norway Heidi Weng Therese Johaug Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Marit Bjørgen | 53:56.3 14:12.0 14:13.5 12:34.5 12:56.3 | +53.6 |
  | 6 | 9 | Poland Kornelia Kubińska Justyna Kowalczyk Sylwia Jaśkowiec Paulina Maciuszek | 54:38.9 14:37.4 13:47.7 12:34.2 13:39.6 | +1:36.2 |
  | 7 | 4 | United States Kikkan Randall Sadie Bjornsen Liz Stephen Jessie Diggins | 55:33.4 14:45.2 14:31.8 12:44.2 13:32.2 | +2:30.7 |
  | 8 | 12 | Czech Republic Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová Karolina Grohová Petra Novaková Klara Moravcová | 56:29.8 14:06.1 15:25.3 13:06.4 13:52.0 | +3:27.1 |
  | 9 | 13 | Slovenia Alenka Čebašek Katja Višnar Barbara Jezeršek Vesna Fabjan | 56:37.0 14:18.2 15:39.1 12:56.1 13:43.6 | +3:34.3 |
  | 10 | 10 | Ukraine Tetyana Antypenko Valentyna Shevchenko Maryna Antsybor Kateryna Grygorenko | 56:56.1 15:10.6 14:55.4 13:01.7 13:48.4 | +3:53.4 |
  | 11 | 11 | Austria Kateřina Smutná Nathalie Schwarz Teresa Stadlober Veronika Mayerhofer | 57:04.7 14:20.3 15:36.8 13:08.7 13:58.9 | +4:02.0 |
  | 12 | 14 | Canada Perianne Jones Daria Gaiazova Emily Nishikawa Brittany Webster | 59:13.6 15:50.9 15:09.5 13:27.3 14:45.9 | +6:10.9 |
  | DSQ | 3 | Russia Yuliya Ivanova Olga Kuzyukova Natalya Zhukova Yuliya Chekalyova | 54:06.3 14:05.5 14:37.2 12:34.9 12:48.7 | +1:03.6 |
  | DSQ | 8 | Italy Virginia De Martin Topranin Elisa Brocard Marina Piller Ilaria Debertolis | 55:19.9 14:26.9 14:49.4 12:42.9 13:20.7 | +2:17.2 |
  
  ## Flower and medal ceremonies
  
  Immediately after the race a flower ceremony was held at the ski stadium, where the medalist received flowers on the podium. The next day the medal ceremony was held in Sochi, where the gold medals was handed out by International Olympic Committee member Gunilla Lindberg and flowers handed out by International Ski Federation Cross-Country Committee chairman Vegard Ulvang, after which the Swedish national anthem was played for the gold medal team on the podium.
  
  