This page contains a chronological summary of major events from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Calendar
Day 0 – Thursday 6 February
Twelve new events were added for the games.[1] For this reason competition started a day before the opening ceremony. This marks the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics that competitions were held before the opening ceremony.[2]
- In the team trophy competition, the men's short and the pairs short were held. The Russians led the day with 19 points, with Evgeni Plushenko's nine points in the men's short, and Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov's ten points in the pairs short. Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu earned ten points to finish in first place in the men's short, but Narumi Takahashi and Ryuichi Kihara only gained three more points for Japan in the pairs short. Canada and China finish the day holding the second and third overall positions, respectively.[3][4]
- Hannah Kearney of the United States finished in first place in the first qualifying round of the women's moguls with a score of 23.05.[5] The top ten move on to the third round, while the remaining 20 move onto Round 2.
- Canada's Maxence Parrot led the qualification round of the men's slopestyle with a best score of 97.50,[6] while Switzerland's Isabel Derungs led the qualification round of the women's slopestyle with a best score of 87.50.[7] The top four in each heat automatically advance to the final, while the remaining athletes progress to the semifinal.
Day 1 – Friday 7 February
- The opening ceremony started at 20:14 MSK[8] at Fisht Olympic Stadium, with an audience of 40,000 in attendance. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the games officially open, while Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak jointly lit the Olympic cauldron installed at the Sochi Medals Plaza in the Sochi Olympic Park.[9][10]
Day 2 – Saturday 8 February
- Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway won the gold medal in the men's sprint with a time of 24:33.5, while Dominik Landertinger of Austria recorded a time of 24:34.8 to win the silver and Jaroslav Soukup of the Czech Republic earned the bronze with a time of 24:39.2.[11] Bjørndalen tied the record for most Winter Olympics medals.[12]
- Marit Bjørgen of Norway finished the women's 15 kilometre skiathlon with a time of 38:33.6 to win the gold medal. Sweden's Charlotte Kalla finished with the silver with a time of 38:35.4, and Heidi Weng of Norway took the bronze with a time of 38:46.8.[13]
- On the second day of the team trophy competition, Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States led the ice dance short program with 10 points.[14] In the women's short program, Julia Lipnitskaia led all competitors by earning 10 points for Russia.[15] Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov also earned 10 points for Russia in the pairs free program.[16] The five teams that advanced to the final day of competition were Russia (47 points), Canada (41) USA (34), Italy (31) and Japan (30).
- In the women's moguls, Russia's Ekaterina Stolyarova came in first in the second qualifying round to advance to the final along with nine others.[17] Then in final, Canadian sisters Justine and Chloé Dufour-Lapointe took gold and silver, respectively, while Hannah Kearney of the United States finished third.[18]
- Women's tournament
- Preliminary round – Group A
United States 3–1
Finland
Canada 5–0
Switzerland
- Preliminary round – Group A
- The first two runs of the men's singles were held.
- In the qualification round of the men's normal hill individual, Michael Hayböck of Austria led all competitors with a score of 128.6.[19] He will join 39 others, and 10 jumpers from the World Cup, in the finals.
- In the men's slopestyle, Billy Morgan (Great Britain), Sage Kotsenburg (United States), Mark McMorris (Canada) and Yuki Kadono (Japan) finished in the top four in the semifinal to qualify for the final.[20] Kotsenburg then won the gold in the final with a score of 93.50 on his first run. Ståle Sandbech (Norway) won the silver with a score of 91.75 and McMorris earned the bronze with 88.75.[21]
- Sven Kramer of the Netherlands set an Olympic record of 6:10.76 in the men's 5000 metres to win the gold medal, while fellow Dutch skaters Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma recorded times of 6:15.71 and 6:16.66 to earn the other two medals, respectively.[22]
| Gold medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Biathlon | Men's sprint | Ole Einar Bjørndalen | [11] | ||
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 15 km skiathlon | Marit Bjørgen | [13] | ||
| Freestyle skiing | Women's moguls | Justine Dufour-Lapointe | [18] | ||
| Snowboarding | Men's slopestyle | Sage Kotsenburg | [21] | ||
| Speed skating | Men's 5000 metres | Sven Kramer | OR | [22] | |
Day 3 – Sunday 9 February
- Matthias Mayer of Austria won the gold in the men's downhill with a time of 2:06.23, beating Christof Innerhofer of Italy by 0.06 seconds, and Kjetil Jansrud of Norway by 0.10 seconds.[23][24]
- In the women's sprint, Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia became the first female biathlete to repeat as Olympic champion. Russia's Olga Vilukhina finished 19.9 seconds behind to win the silver and Ukraine's Vita Semerenko finished 21.7 seconds behind to win the bronze.[25]
- In the men's 30 kilometre skiathlon, Dario Cologna of Switzerland took home the gold medal with a total time of 1:08:15.4. Marcus Hellner of Sweden finished 0.4 seconds behind Cologna to win the silver, and Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway finished 1.4 seconds behind to take the bronze.[26]
- In the third and final day of the team trophy competition, Russia won the gold medal with 75 points, while Canada finished in second with 65 points, and the United States in third with 60 points.[27] For Russia, Evgeni Plushenko scored ten points in the men's free program, and Julia Lipnitskaia had ten points in the women's free program.[28][29] Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States led the ice dance free program with 10 points.[30]
- The two final runs of the men's singles were held. Germany's Felix Loch won the gold, with Russia's Albert Demchenko winning silver at 0.088 behind, and Italy's Armin Zöggeler winning bronze at +0.230 behind.[31]
- Kamil Stoch of Poland recorded a total score of 276.7 in the men's normal hill individual to win the gold medal. Slovenian Peter Prevc finished in second with 265.8, and Anders Bardal of Norway held third place with 264.1.[32]
- In the women's slopestyle, Šárka Pančochová (Czech Republic), Sina Candrian (Switzerland), Jenny Jones (Great Britain) and Silje Norendal (Norway) finished in the top four in the semifinal to qualify for the final.[33] In the final, Jamie Anderson of the United States won gold with a score of 95.25, while Enni Rukajärvi of Finland finished second with 92.50, and Jones won the bronze medal with 87.25 points.[34]
- Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands won gold in the women's 3000 metres with a time of 4:00.34. Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic took the silver medal at 1.61 seconds back, and Russia's Olga Graf came in third place at 3.13 back.[35]
Day 4 – Monday 10 February
- Women's combined
- In the downhill section of the race, Julia Mancuso (USA) finished in first place, Lara Gut (Switzerland) in second and Tina Maze (Slovenia) in third. In the slalom section, Šárka Strachová (Czech Republic) finished first, Michaela Kirchgasser (Austria) second and Maria Höfl-Riesch (Germany) third.
- Combining these meant that Maria Höfl-Riesch (Germany) finished the event with the gold medal, Nicole Hosp (Austria) finished second, and Julia Mancuso (USA) took away the bronze medal.[36]
- Men's pursuit
- Martin Fourcade (France) won the gold medal by a margin of 14.1 seconds. Ondřej Moravec (Czech Republic) finished second, with no penalties in the whole race. The bronze medal went to Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (France).
- Men's tournament
Russia 4–7
Great Britain
Switzerland 5–7
Sweden
Denmark 4–7
China
Germany 8–11
Canada
United States 4–7
Norway
- Women's tournament
- Men's moguls
- Alexandre Bilodeau and Mikaël Kingsbury (both Canada), as well as Alexandr Smyshlyaev (Russia), finished in the top three positions in the first qualifying section, to move on to the quarterfinal with 7 other competitors. Those who had not made it through competed again, with Patrick Deneen (USA) topping the leaderboard in the second qualifying section.
- In the first final, Alexandr Smyshlyaev finished highest on the leaderboard, followed by Philippe Marquis and Mikaël Kingsbury (both Canada). The top 12 athletes moved onto the second final, in which the Canadian trio of Mikaël Kingsbury, Marc-Antoine Gagnon and Alexandre Bilodeau finished in the highest three places.
- The best six athletes competed in the third final. With a score of 26.31, Alexandre Bilodeau (Canada) won the gold medal, with Mikaël Kingsbury (also Canada) and Alexandr Smyshlyaev (Russia) finishing second and third, a repeat of the top three positions from the first qualifying round.
- Women's tournament
- Preliminary round – Group A
- Preliminary round – Group A
- Women's singles
- Natalie Geisenberger (Germany) finished with the best time from the first two runs, with another German competitor, Tatjana Hüfner, finishing the day in second position (3rd in run 1, 2nd in run 2). Erin Hamlin (USA) was the only other competitor to reach the top three in either of the two runs, leaving her in the bronze medal position at the half-way stage of the competition.
- Men's 1500 metres
- The three fastest times in the qualifying heats were posted by Niels Kerstholt (Netherlands), François Hamelin (Canada) and Thibaut Fauconnet (France), in the 5th heat. In the semifinals, the quickest times were from Charles Hamelin (Canada) and Jack Whelbourne (Great Britain), in heat 3, both qualifying for Final A.
- In Final B (a classification round), Sébastien Lepape (France) finished first. In the medal round (Final A), Charles Hamelin (Canada) won the gold medal with a time of 2:14.985. Han Tianyu (China) finished second and Viktor Ahn (Russia) finished in third place.
- Women's 500 metres
- In the qualifying heats, Fan Kexin (China), Jessica Hewitt (Canada) and Liu Qiuhong (China) recorded the three fastest times, and were among the 16 to qualify for the next round of the competition.
- Women's 3000 metre relay
- In the semifinals, South Korea and Canada came first and second respectively in the first race, qualifying for the medal final. China and Italy finished in the top two in the second semifinal, also qualifying for the medal final.
- Men's 500 metres
- Netherlands again finished with all three medals in a speed skating event, with Michel Mulder winning gold with a combined time just 0.01 seconds faster than Jan Smeekens. Ronald Mulder finished the event in third place.
| Gold medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Alpine skiing | Women's combined | Maria Höfl-Riesch | [37] | ||
| Biathlon | Men's pursuit | Martin Fourcade | [38] | ||
| Freestyle skiing | Men's moguls | Alex Bilodeau | [39] | ||
| Short track speed skating | Men's 1500 metres | Charles Hamelin | [40] | ||
| Speed skating | Men's 500 metres | Michel Mulder | [41] | ||
Day 5 – Tuesday 11 February
- Men's sprint
- Qualification
- Semifinals
- Finals
- Women's sprint
- Qualification
- Semifinals
- Finals
- Women's slopestyle
- Qualification
- Final
- Women's singles
- Runs 3 and 4
- Women's normal hill individual
- 1st round
- Final round
- Men's halfpipe
- Qualification
- Semifinals
- Finals
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